skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"this important aspect of human life."

No denying the importance. But let's keep things in perspective too. Steve Jobs put it rather well: "Historical precedent shows that we can turn out amazing human beings without technology. Precedent also shows that we can turn out very uninteresting human beings with technology."

Full quote here:
"The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t. That’s going to break people’s hearts.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that. But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

[…]

Lincoln did not have a Web site at the log cabin where his parents home-schooled him, and he turned out pretty interesting. Historical precedent shows that we can turn out amazing human beings without technology. Precedent also shows that we can turn out very uninteresting human beings with technology."
Thanks! I really need to read up on my fallacies.
How is the bot tailoring the replies, for example

> Hello,
I have wired the funds you asked for. Could we please proceed to the next stage?
Daniel Wong
CEO, MNesty, LLC

Is that a canned response? This happens later on in the thread (does it recognise that the topic of the conversation is "funds" rather than say "product")
There are more like four segments.

Musical toys - things like Guitar Hero. Instant gratification, very limited musical content.

Entry-level instruments - cheap-ish, poor quality, fine for beginners, basically disposable because they're (ironically) difficult to play and don't sound great.

Prosumer instruments - some minor compromises, not particularly affordable, but not so insanely expensive they're out of the reach of anyone who really wants/needs them. This notch covers a range from good enough to rather fine.

High-end professional and collector instruments - no compromise, nicely finished, often insanely overpriced. The good ones can raise production values a notch or two over the prosumer level, but they're utterly wasted on anyone with average talent. The silly ones are just for show and bragging rights.

The MI firms love collectors because they'll drop five figures on instruments they can't really play. And they'll do it over and over.

Meanwhile name professionals tend to get handed prosumer or sometimes collector instruments for free as part of an endorsement deal or even just on the off-chance the item will appear in a photo. (I used to know a film composer before he moved to Hollywood, and he was always getting offered the latest gear for nothing, even before he was that big a name.)
How: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4zuO1XSxQ

Who: Aside from Yosemite, the answer is "it depends", a lot of these are just set up by enterprising enthusiasts, often technically illegally, but few care enough to bother them.

In some parks & locations they're set up by whoever manages the park / owns the area to attract climbers & the business that comes with it.

Some people in the mountaineering / climbing community don't like them since they leave a permanent trace ("take only photos, leave only footprints"), and prefer to use removable versions of these for just the duration of the climb.
I guess count me as an outlier. I still plug in to backup. I mean, why not? My computer, phone and cable are literally sitting right there next to me.
> That is precisely the job of responsible management: to stop technical teams from using expensive technologies, that are not only unproven, but hardly have any actual anecdotal information at all. The precise difference between management and developers is that management sees the bigger picture.

In most cases management isn't qualified to make technical decisions. Managers rarely see the bigger picture.

I've worked on a Haskell project that worked, never crashed, was lightning fast and was meeting deadlines for new features without a problem. Then higher management decided to throw away probably around 7-10 man-years and rewrite the whole thing in Java, quite literally "just because Java". We even had a consultant from FP complete come over to take a look at our codebase and talk in front of management about the advantages of a mature codebase in Haskell. Management didn't even come.

Abandoning Haskell, in my case, had absolutely nothing to do with its technical merits and everything to do with incompetent management. When I left one year after they started rewriting the project in Java (I was staying to help maintain the Haskell code while the transition was happening) everything was buggy as hell, slow and unmaintainable. Not to mention that half the Java guys they hired had already left again.
I believe you are missing a link to "This!"
Don't leave those ikea bags out in the sun, they fall apart rather...quickly....
> Why not just have /bin etc. ....

Surely there's a lot of horrible software out there that Makes Assumptions.
There is an option to defer upgrade in Windows 10 Pro.

> Some Windows 10 editions let you defer upgrades to your PC. When you defer upgrades, new Windows features won’t be downloaded or installed for several months. Deferring upgrades doesn’t affect security updates. Note that deferring upgrades will prevent you from getting the latest Windows features as soon as they’re available.

From:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/20a98a29-...

http://www.howtogeek.com/223083/what-does-“defer-upgrades”-i...

http://superuser.com/questions/923186/how-can-i-defer-update...
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I don't know, probably not. Art is more subjective to begin with and I have a bias towards supporting art anyway. I'm not going to try arguing the position is consistent.
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How could I get more people to the search on my website
Every year cars are required to have more and more safety features which raises the price.
Ask HN: Using fb/twtr login to show users as “verified” on our platform legal?
> "There's almost 4 billion people who don't participate in this important aspect of human life."

And yet there are almost 4 billion people who don't know the mental clarity of spending a day with someone they care about devoid of the glow from a screen. Grass is always greener...
I signed on in 1996 when I was 12. There were ~36 million people. In 1998 that quadrupled. And now 20 years later we're at 3.75 billion. From cowboy land to megatropolis. Things feel more crowded, more busy, and more annoying.

But the internet is still magical. Sometimes you jump around and next thing you know you're up at 2 in the morning wondering what's the big deal about pizza shops and Wikileaks and Hillary Clinton or why this girl is smooshing her face into bread.

God bless the internet.
Ha! ture, i feel like the sport trifecta for developer types might be climbing, cycling (road and/or mtb) and ultimate frisbee :-) Am I out on a ledge here ? (pun intended)
Good points. Getting metrics that cover underemployed and apathy would be difficult.

Where I was going was that it appears looking backwards to want to bring jobs back that were outsourced for mostly cheaper labor. If US companies could do those things here profitably, they would.
They aren't as competitive as they appear.
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> Spammers will usually realize they’re talking to a bot (or at least to someone who isn’t interested or not going to give them any money) after around 3-5 messages, but some have sent up to 15 messages before giving up in frustration.

So it passed the Turing test?
This is seriously cool, in my opinion. In fact, I've been working on something kind of similar in Go with more support for network monitoring and vulnerability management that would feed into GrayLog.

Are you guys hiring?
I have a few domains you could borrow? I can at the least offer you 5 domains for half a year, shoot me an email if you're interested.
Yes. Look at how the labor force participation rate has changed over the last ten or twenty years.
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They had 2 Pull Requests last month, closed 6 tickets and created 4 new tickets. To quote the "Pulse" section:

> Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 2 commits to master and 2 commits to all branches. On master, 4 files have changed and there have been 64 additions and 15 deletions.

This is not the kind of activity I'd expect in the project under active development. Compare to Emacs[1]:

> Excluding merges, 39 authors have pushed 227 commits to master and 260 commits to all branches. On master, 352 files have changed and there have been 6,143 additions and 3,732 deletions.

...and that's Emacs main repo, excluding all the development happening in plugins.

But well, that's actually not that important; what matters is that LightTable badly needs a serious refactoring, because reportedly there is just one person who actually understands the codebase (and it's Chris). Such refactoring is not going to happen, though, because people who actually could do it abandoned the project.

Perhaps it's not even a refactoring that's needed, but a rewrite. Even if using the same language - ClojureScript - the project would be supposedly written in a totally different way due to the changes in the ecosystem. Switching languages would require an immense amount of careful weighing of pros and cons, but it may be worth considering.

Still, this is not going to happen, the code and effort that went into LT are essentially wasted now, possibly with the exception of the learning experience for the authors.

I'm writing this much about it because I really hoped LT to be a modern incarnation of Emacs, as the latter was starting to show its age. Instead, however, LT is dead. On the other hand Emacs got embeddable xwidgets in the last release - which means that (in time, it's not very usable as-is) we will get the in-buffer, full web browser.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/pulse/monthly
Interesting as a DIY project, but I would strongly advise not using this for anything where functionality matters (camping, hiking, travel, etc). For just going to work/school it is a great fashion statement, but there are serious concerns

1. no chest strap to help distribute the load. I see a waist strap which is nice, but chest is generally the bare minimum

2. Those seals (stiches) aren't waterproof

3. It is only as durable as the stitching

4. The reason you pay for a "real" bag is for durability. That doesn't look like it would survive narrow trails that well. I am also sceptical as to how it would hold up on flights where you are forced to gate check all your luggage.

And before someone cites the ikea rope bag: Rope bags are generally what you use when you are climbing an hour or two away from the car/camp, at most, over fairly simple terrain. Farther or more strenuous than that and you are going to want a better more hands-free way of carrying that in addition to your gear.

Like I said, this backpack is cool and a nice fashion statement. But don't rely on it.

And if cost is the issue: Keep an eye out for sites like ebags. Can usually find great discounts and coupons throughout the year to get a solid Osprey (or whatever brand you prefer. I like Osprey) for on the order of 100 bucks. And while that is expensive (it actually isn't), understand that it should be lasting you at least 2-3 years, if not more.
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I really appreciate the Google feature that tells you how busy a restaurant will be at different times of day, and how long people typically spend there. It is like road traffic but for everything else in life:

http://i.imgur.com/JGlcIQ8.png

And coming into the Black Friday/Christmas season it may be useful for other types of businesses too. But restaurants are where it really shines.
If anyone audits the settings page under update they can find an option to defer upgrade. More people need to know about it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/20a98a29-...
Seems like something that would make you suuuupersweaty on the back
> Haskell developers are self-selecting

This is not going to change.

I love Haskell, and I appreciate the effort many are making to evangelize the language, but I am experienced (ie. cynical) enough to believe that it's never going to become truly mainstream.
What i mean by above is , if a verified user registers with my platform with fb/twitter. Can i use the "verified status" to show the user as "verified" on my platform?
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He paid $6 for the bags, so it may have been cheaper this way and/or more convenient.
Is that true?
1-2 years without critical infrastructure and you think the billions in big cities entirely dependent on next day deliveries of groceries and without access to fresh water for miles wouldn't descend into some post-apocalyptic warlord movie with 90% of them dead?
"Roughly 25 hours of work" wow!

still, the bag looks pretty great. nice job!
Ask HN: Are startups victim of DDoS attack?
I am a DDoS security specialist trying to sell IT security services for businesses against DDoS attacks. It doesn't seem that anyone need that.

Is it me or no one is really being DDoS'ed or the Business just don't really care and wait for the attack to move on?

I'd like to hear your feedback on this.
No, the Turing test requires that the interviewer not be trying to extract money from the interviewees :P
I totally agree with the author on the importance of the motivation, though in my experience money as a motivation in the creation of a local group or meetup is not a very good idea. Not profitable or easy to get money at least.

I prefer to focus on side benefits like community improvement, a point of meeting for professionals and so on.
I've read it "Know before you go with Google", skipping the comma. Then read "blog.google" and thought Google had gone honest, talking about how much data do they have from me and that I should not use it...

Then I woke up.
http://avoidhumans.com/ has been doing this for a while. Don't know how well it works though, never used it myself.
Oh, it was obviously cheaper. But he spent 25 hours stitching. If I were doing that, I'd spend $25 getting the properties I wanted.
Regarding on-host filtering (edge analytics), my experience has been it's because of performance, and I agree with the security angle, too.
Hi Anil,

I did not said only right approach :)
I think this thread which I started this last weekend about Haskell productivity vs Rust might be relevant here:

https://m.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5dtfp2/haskell_more_pro...

(Tried to ask on HN first, which once again proves the value of subreddits, as small focused communities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12989041)
This reminds me of my workplace these days. A director has heard that JSON is the best thing ever so JSON has to be used. Other decisions like using on premises or cloud hosting are secondary. The scary part is that there is this whole layer of project managers and other managers that take this as gospel and have endless meetings about it.
But why can't the people living on earth create their own functional economy?

In Elysium (the movie you are referring to) the answer is clear: Earth is full of sick children, Mexicans and lovable criminals. For reasons I didn't quite understand, those Mexicans are unable to build a functioning economy (perhaps because the lovable criminals cause too many problems).

Do you believe that this is an accurate reflection of reality, namely that the non-rich can't organize themselves into a livable society without the aid of the rich?
Interestingly I can see a case where a drop in labor force participation is a positive thing, it depends on who is dropping out. I can see more senors retiring and more voluntary stay at home parents being an indication of more general financial security among the population. More people who can afford not to work.

However if the drop is in people who want to or need to work that's obviously bad.
It has various categories of replies, which right now you can specify when you forward a message (it sends you a management URL back). Later on, when I have enough data, I'll do some simple ML to have it pick a most likely category as a default.

Each category comes with its own set of responses, but you can see where the category changed because the bot will start talking about a product and then switch to talking about funds.

The code is here if you want to see:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/
In case anyone is interested, I can help you with SYN flood, amplification attack, volumetric attack, rate-limiting botnets and also against spoofed attacks.
No. You have to enable location reporting for Google to track your location.
Point taken, although a minor counterpoint is that I do all that I can to share my knowledge whenever people ask. Last Sunday, I had advised a complete stranger on how to get cheaper cell phone service. We had started talking after I asked if it was alright if I joined his table at a crowded food court. Upon finding out that I am a software engineer, he started telling me about his problems and I did what I could to help him. It was a nice use of part of my Sunday. :)
Thanks your your insightful feedback.
For some comparison here's Adam Ondra climbing another route. And no, this photo wasn't rotated 90°, it is really an overhang :)

https://www.8a.nu/images/news/large/636002137114161240_13320...

A famous bouldering problem, "Witlness the Fitness" that inclues a cieling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PP1AK1Aqis
Even at 300 dollars a month if he throws in a decent hub or terminal it could be a net savings for any NGO, research team, or rural government or village. Especially on the last two if they're allow to resell a portion of their access to cover their costs. I hope the 100 dollar price point becomes viable, though. That would probably increase the market for them and just would be a boon for many more people.
If your code is really so much better than that of the other developers that they will be unable to read or maintain it, you should train the other developers on how to read and maintain it. That spreads the expertise around, it will make them better coders, and it removes the single point of failure.

Of course the expert coder who has now gotten the new responsibility of training others, deserves a raise.
And a problem with workers rights, our citizens are not fighting for a better working environment.
Isn't this feature disabled when you disable Google Location History?
> The article assumes an existing team which is a bit problematic when talking about time to market. If you start the analysis earlier (two people discussing some ideas in a coffee shop) then I'd argue that a language like Haskell can be problematic if your metric is time to market.

Well, the best language for an early-stage business is the one the founder knows, but that's always going to be true. There's no reason that language can't be Haskell.
It fits that criteria, although I should have written *nix.

Windows gets a lot of flack but it's honestly pretty stable. I haven't had a BSOD in like 10 years and I routinely have 100+ days of uptime without performance degradation.

That's 100+ days of heavy development, virtual machines, recording screencasts, etc..
That's some tiny font.
It's not awful. It's just hard. It takes a long time to get to anything like basic proficiency, and the first few months/years are spent stumbling around thinking "I am really shit at this."

If music was a video game no one would buy it, because the reward curve is so unrewarding.

At some point you have to accept that unless you're in the 0.01% of the population with genius-level talent, you will only ever make slow progress towards a distant goal. Because that's how it is for everyone who isn't a genius.

The people who can play are the ones who started as embryos, and/or are motivated to keep at it. Not everyone has that motivation or that background, and that's fine too.
jakarta 25 november 2016
Haskell forces you to think in a certain way. So if you want to learn about functional programming, then when you're searching for programming examples all those examples will be in a functional style. You can then apply those styles to Scala or F#. Personally I'd lean towards Scala (on the back of Spark) - there's the Coursera Scala Functional Programming course [1] which will give you a good start.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/scala
I hope I would find more time, I wanna do more on DraftJS and its approach for content editing. Its very powerful approach.
Funny but you didn't even bother to open the article, did you? The company went bankrupt.
Jakarta 25 november 2016
Lol. I used to bait spammers as a hobby, and after a few exchanges with one, I'd tell them how lucky I was that I had been identified as the real owner of $324 million in a lost government account. That I had to have been the luckiest person in the world, because not only that, just last week, I won the national Nigerian lottery, and the week before that, a distant great-aunt from Nigeria had named me sole heir in her will!
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Thanks for this. I've read that post before, and back then I just took the explanation to mean we're dropping the UI. I can see now that was not the meaning.

> we need developers to like it before end users will

While I can see how there is some separation of concerns as mentioned in that post, I think the above quote doesn't have to be true in order for Eve to succeed. It has the potential to contradict the whole programming designed for humans line. Developers can be quite happy with some pretty funky syntax/abstractions which won't seem remotely obvious/intuitive to non-programmers. If developers' considerations are put before non-programmers, Eve might end up a language for developers, as opposed to the intended audience. Personally I think that means that you can't drop the UI even for now. It has to be the only interface. Otherwise you won't get the interest from non-programmers. What developers might like and grok, non-developers might not.

Just one data point from somebody interested in this sort of thing.
From the downloadable example:

> org.apache.commons.lang3.AnnotationUtils

> The class is part of java.lang.Object package [...]

Interesting package name :)
Did you overlook the stifling, robotically enforced social control in Elysium?

Why didn't the people on Earth start their own farms? Because the robots came and killed them if they tried.