skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an actual, real job for actuaries and lawyers in insurance companies, and legislators which write civil codes.

Examples:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/weekinreview/09marsh.html

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1808049,0...

http://www.bolingriceatlanta.com/ultimate-guide-to-wrongful-...

https://www.millerandzois.com/maryland-wrongful-death-settle...

Interestingly, in the last link:

The average fatal accident or malpractice claim for an adult man is $4.1 million ($1.4 million median); for an adult woman, it is $3.1 million ($1.4 million median)

The average verdict for a minor male is $4.3 million ($2 million median); for minor girls the average is $3.4 million ($1.5 million median). No, we can't explain the difference.

The average verdict for deaths over 65 is $1.3 million.
To be fair, I'm positive that Skyrim's top 10 spot is due to mods. The modding community has done some crazy impressive stuff, up to and including complete gameplay overhauls.
+1 for VIEW support :)

I agree that the suggested method is more flexible (which means more performance in this kind of environments/problems). Mat views provide simplicity. I'd say not a must, but they may be useful for users who don't want to dig deep into these techniques.
«The Disconnect Is Still a Bit Shocking». Why HR Need to Embrace the Digital Age
Graphite was the original, but as others have mentioned, Influx, Prom, Cloudwatch & Elasticsearch are all first-class data sources.
Show HN: Merry Chris-morph
From the shift in Sulfur isotopes [1].

1. http://phys.org/news/2014-11-rare-billion-year-old-reveal-ho...
If you click into a logo, then click back out, it should un-stick.

I talked about the ML in a comment here and on IH.

And yes the site is definitely hurting right now :P
Please contact me admin [at] crazyctr (.) com with your ideas.

I had a few years ago a product that made banner variations, now I'm looking to revive it.
Do users still have issues full access to data sources, regardless of what dashboards they have access to? This is what keeps me from using Grafana to expose some data to clients.
Thank god for the military, America's backdoor to the middle class. Best decision I've ever made.
Were you lent money at a better interest rate than you could get otherwise? If so that sounds like financial help.

That said I agree with the overall point that the term is so vague/broad it's basically meaningless if not clearly defined. Does living at home after college count?
What are the privacy implications of this? Is there a duck duck go version?
Software is never done. At some point you have to ship something. As a .Net Core user I say that this is mature enough to get started, and to have feedback flowing to the developers to develop something the users actually want.

You may have more enterprise-like experience, thus expectations, but frequent releases based on feedback are usually better for the users than a project manager trying to guess the needs of the users by some magical, or other means.

I rather live with this kind of projects, but I have been a desktop Linux user for half a decade (when it was more painful), so I may be missocialized :D

As stated in another comment, I also think that the communication could be improved, but I'm hoping the best, the new more direct means of communication are really promising for me personally.
Not in today's entitled world. People don't have the time to fact-check for themselves... we need to make sure that everyone can just consume whatever information with no effort on their own part to think about or verify said information. We're entitled to that, right? From a private company? Right?
I remember Outcast being real good. How does it hold up these days? I am just wearing nostalgia-goggles?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13031786
Nicely done. It will be interesting to see if this impacts your robot score when using Google. There was a blow up a while ago where people used the completion API to fish for trending searches and front run the Google News API and get stories onto the news page.
Just watched the talk. The technique the author's discovered is called "supercompilation" (note: this is distinct from "superoptimisation", mentioned in sibling comments).

The idea is to use an evaluation strategy which works at compile time, reducing statically-known expressions whilst shuffling around unknown values symbolically to preserve the semantics. The result ends up folding constants, inlining, unrolling, etc. automatically, just like the examples in the talk.

Whilst supercompilation can be slow, the main criticism is that resulting code is quite large, due to the amount of inlining.

The main difference between supercompilers and the technique discussed in the talk is that supercompilation is provably correct: it doesn't rely on testing or placing exhaustiveness requirements on the user. I don't think it's necessary to sacrifice correctness; the speaker mentioned the use of guards in JITs, and how he avoids them for speed, but I think that since we're performing such extensive rewriting of the code anyway, many redundant guards can be supercompiled-away, and those remaining can be shunted to the start of the program, so that no branches appear in the hot path.

The allusions to the scientific method seem to be about properties/invariants, and potential counterexamples to them. I'm all for finding and sharing properties of programs, both conjectured and proven, although I don't like the idea of assuming the conjectures are true.

I've looked into this in Haskell, and found some great work, including:

- QuickSpec (v1 https://hackage.haskell.org/package/quickspec and v2 https://github.com/nick8325/quickspec ) which conjectures equations about functions by testing them on random inputs.

- HipSpec ( https://github.com/danr/hipspec ) which does the same as QuickSpec, but automatically proves the equations so they're guaranteed to hold.

- The GHC compiler's rewrite rule system ( https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Using_rules ) which allows programs to be optimised by replacing regular definitions with optimised versions in particular cases. This is how "fusion" and "deforestation" optimisations are implemented, e.g. https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/fusion-makes-functi...

I think there's definitely some low-hanging fruit there, for finding equivalent expressions, comparing their performance, and generating a list of rewrite rules which the programmer may want to consider adding to their code.

A slightly more ambitious project would use equations/properties about the program to generate a specialised supercompiler (maybe using something like a variant of knuth-bendix completion, ordered such that the normal forms are the higher-performing variants).
WebVR coming to Servo: Architecture and latency optimizations
I was going to say that I could hire a human designer on Upwork to design a logo like that for the same kind of money, but I guess I can't argue with your revenue numbers. Congratulations!
If you have your shell ready,

curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' \
| json_pp | sed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p}'
You're thinking of the 2000 supermarket study by Mark Lepper and Sheena Iyengar[1]. But it turns out that most attempts to replicate the result failed (but some succeed)[2], so there seem to be circumstances where too much choice is paralyzing, but they haven't been identified yet.

[1] http://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/345/345%20Articles/Iyengar...

[2] http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Donald-Marron/2012/0719/Th...
I work doing http://www.outpostcentral.com/english/index.aspx and http://www.mywildeye.com/wildeye/ which are battery powered loggers communicating over GSM. We get years of life out of our devices. But they limit their communications and we are super paranoid about current consumption in every part of the design.
Lol. The job of a CEO is to implement the will of the board, of the people who actually own the company. It is normal for startup CEOs to also be an owner, or to know them all socially, but that doesn't mean they aren't a CEO.

If the board wants to expand, the CEO works to expand. But increasingly boards fear rampant expansion. Some aren't looking to cash out via an IPO or buyout. That path is becoming exceedingly difficult. Some want to see profit much earlier. I know one startup with TWO customers, big customers, that is totally focused on them and isn't seeking to grow. That board places customer focus above anything else and instructs their CEO accordingly. He isn't happy. His dreams of rampant expansion and market dominance have been quashed, but he is still doing his job as CEO.
Before more people pile on, I thought I'd just ask: Do you not consider this to be help, or are you commenting on the article's failure to define it?
> ... people who have been in the system forever and are part of the problem...

Not everyone who works in government is part of the problem. Many of them are working very hard to solve real problems. No one's perfect -- that's for sure -- but I'm worried we're throwing out very talented and well-intentioned babies with our bathwater.

And the Trump administration, such as it is, has already proven that the government doesn't have a monopoly on corruption. The man's been "part of the problem" since the 70s and people seem to give him a pass. Weird.
Quite a few people are nitpicking the "$50k isn't a livable wage" comment, but nobody's really challenged the underlying point that $50k isn't a lot of money if it's the only money available to start a company with.

Even if a person does live in part of the country where $50k is a decent salary, it still doesn't leave them much left over to start a company. And living away from urban areas will bring its own challenges, like networking, marketing, advertising, etc.

Just an example, how do you think Uber would have turned out if they started in Pierre, South Dakota?

And good luck buying any kind of machinery, expanding beyond a lone developer, etc. with only $50k.
>having two parents who stay married, are not abusive to each other or their children, and are generally functional human beings is something of a luxury.

"Functional human being(s)" is the key there. Lots of people who were raised by a single parent, divorced parents or occasionally abusive households turned out fine.
While true, it wasn't always that way. The IBM PC with the BIOS was basicaly one of the first layers you'd have to be compatible with, and up to UEFI systems with CSM for BIOS emulation, it's been supported for about 30 years.

There was a time where the chipset did a lot more than it does now. Right now, it's the PCH or whatever it's called, and you even have those SoC's where you don't even need that anymore. You used to have the possibility of a standard BIOS with a chipset from someone else (SiS for example) and audio from someone else, as well as PCI controllers, PICs, RTCs, HBAs, UARTs, and CPU's. Or have an Intel chipset with a non-Intel CPU, also possible. You could even make a complete x86 system with no Intel chip inside (pun intended). Right now, that's something you probably can only do with an AMD system and that's about it.
For me the biggest issue is motivation, rather than old and boring vs. new and shiny. More than what I know, it's about what makes me happy. I'm sure people build awesome things in one Javascript du jour framework or another every day, but I'm just not one of them. I know Javascript and Node.js fairly well, but I don't find any joy in programming in them. Whenever I make the effort, my motivation always dies off and I either abandon the project, or rewrite it in something else. Anything else.

On the other hand, technologies like Elixir, Erlang, Elm, and Riak, for instance, are immensely enjoyable to me, so they keep my motivation alive. In my opinion, whatever makes you happy and motivated is the best.
I've used an Arduino to do more or less the same thing, well I mean a cheap knock-off arduino mini from AliExpress, and an NRF24L01 module for data transmission, I get about 6 month battery life with 4 AA batteries (1200 mAh each) using the devices outside (also in harsh conditions) so Arduino isn't that bad. I would like to the next level and use ATTiny's directly but I have no real electronics experience, how did you get started ?
As someone who is stuck with a Windows at work, I love how Google is listening to what developers have to say.

TensorFlow has the potential of being the next big thing. You'd never see other companies (Microsoft for example) port their crown jewels like halo over to other systems. They begrudgingly port products in which they've lost market share to other rivals, mostly in an effort to appear relevant.

I do think the "Don't be evil" mantra is still alive.
What is your culture? America is a melting pot of many different cultures. One dominant culture, and many sub-cultures. When the dominant culture is not curtailed we see all sorts of problems, which academia has enumerated. So the dominant people in the dominant culture feel powerless. Because when they are not in this position, according to academia, bad things happen. Take that how you want to take it. Governments are okay with this because they want to dis-empower people, in order to control and manage them better, and this is but one way of doing that.
yeah, getting a lot of negative feedback on that. Will definitely be testing it as an optional signup.
Are those users paying you? That's a ton of users compared to my side project (0 users).

The only advice I can give is that you don't gain anything by taking it down (and it looks like you are gaining traction with almost 3k users). Scale back if you aren't using that $80 to a smaller instance in the cloud. I'm paying $25/mo for mine. If you would rather sell, check out flippa.com

With 3k users, I would stick it out. Maybe ask for feedback, opportunities for growing, etc.

Edit: I see the beta is free.. I would grandfather those people in to a lifetime free plan (as long as they don't cancel) and start charging new users a per monthly price.
If you don't want to continue, try selling it on Flippa, perhaps? You never know.
While containers can't help against privilege escalation, they help against information leakage.

For example, even assuming privilege escalation isn't a possibility, www-user can read /etc/passwd, getting all usernames. Containers help mitigate this.
> What does same-sex marriage have to do with the article?

Read the article again; toward the end it discusses this. It'd be one thing if I brought it up and it wasn't talked about in the article - but it clearly is discussed...?
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Fun fact: while mainly dealing with insane precision machines, NIST have also designed a LEGO watt balance that you can use to determine mass based on the new SI standard in the comfort of your own home:

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/83/11/10.1...

(Open Access)
What if your kid came to you and said they wanted to live at home for a few years after college to save up $? Presuming that you all get along and they are progressing towards mutually agreeable goals. Related to this is what kind of care you expect from children when you are very old and infirm (and to say you have no expectations seems unrealistic).
I like using Emacs to create org mode files. I used o use One Note from Microsoft. But I had a huge problem and stopped using it.
> Running your own pub/sub service is easy

Yep, creating a barebones pub/sub service is pretty trivial (and fun!).

But then you may find yourself slowly adding things that a decent pub/sub service should have. E.g. connection state recovery, so that a client on a phone driving through a tunnel gets all their messages (in the right order) once they reconnect. Presence, and presence data. Stored history. A permissions system. Encryption. Smart push notifications. Decent multi-region federation, so a channel that happens to only have subscribers in ap-southeast doesn't roundtrip messages to us-east. Guaranteed message ordering preservation. And so on.

And eventually, you end up spending what adds up to quite a lot of effort, which could have been spent in ways other than slowly recreating the SAAS.

I think that's the case for a lot of SAAS products (that creating a barebones version of the product yourself is pretty trivial, but the SAAS is still a useful product, since often people don't just want a barebones version).

(Disclaimer: I work at Ably)
Disclaimer: I work on Metabase.

Another open source option: Metabase http://www.metabase.com/

We support most SQL databases and a bunch of others, plus upcoming support for Google Analytics.
Chain service objects like a boss in Ruby
Identity politics on the right (and pretty much the same brand of racial, religious, and gender-preferential identity politics as today) have been a thing since the policies of enfranchisement on the left were largely ideological movements within the white, mostly at least nominally Christian, male middle-to-upper class segment, and not even really directed politically at the groups that would be enfranchise by them.

In a very real sense, it is identity politics on the right that produced identity politics on the left, as the franchise spread such that the groups benefitting from the egalitarian impulses of the left actually became even paetially enfranchised and thus meaningful subjects of identity politics.
This advice seems to cover a corner case: If you might not be paid, don't put yourself under contractual obligation to complete the work. It opens up problems for both sides, though. I thought that proof of a signed contract would've been a given in this situation before any information would be shared and before the work would commence. It seems like a no-brainer.

The NDA itself? Well, if they aren't forcing you to sign that, I'm not so sure why you would.
> Given Schengen and free movement, why couldn't the legal team from Belgium just 'freely move' through the Netherlands to get to their area of jurisdiction?

I suspect this is because it involved official government business and police activity. For example, I don't know if Belgian police carry weapons. But if they do, I assume they don't have jurisdiction to carry in the Netherlands (and vice versa).

Folks downvoting @vacri's question: why? It's a legitimate question.
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Certainly, it seems appealing and, worse, people feel disenfranchised when they see polls that show the majority of people support something while the government rejects it (because people of a higher economic class or special interest side against it). This leads to them not participating in the system, which leads to further feelings of disenfranchisement. It is a negative feedback loop.

Democracy only works if people actively participate and make their voices heard. Not voting, campaigning, etc. only leads to further entrenchment of the lobbyist nightmare.

Further, rejecting democracy because "your side lost" is idiotic. When your side loses in a democracy, you get to try again in however many years when hopefully your side's arguments bear out in the negative impact of actions of the other side. When your side loses in a military dictatorship, if you try again, you go to jail.
They were aware of this problem presumably:

Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop

https://www.wired.com/2008/08/ff-starwarscanon/

His official title is continuity database administrator for the Lucas Licensing arm of Lucasfilm—which means Chee keeps meticulous track of not just the six live-action movies but also cartoons, TV specials, scores of videogames and reference books, and hundreds of novels and comics.
RISC-V has a head start - v2.0 was frozen in 2013, and j-core was first announced in 2015.
> Do you have an example of a distro that feels that way?

Void Linux switched from systemd to runit.
HN is crashing Logojoy lol!
You press the hot key, and a Google search is run.[0] So nothing too frightening. DDG compatibility should be easy. Just swap the endpoint (https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?callback=autocompleteCallback&q=Y...) and parse the JSON.

[0]: https://github.com/nathancahill/anycomplete/blob/master/anyc...
that was an ugly, unfair review against ruby.
I have learned the hard way never to type stuff like this into a shell because I might not like the results. It looks fine, but never again. ;)
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Very true. And the Army Corps of Engineers might decide to build some levees and pumping stations, delaying the reckoning indefinitely.
It's a good question. My understanding is that Schengen doesn't allow for free movement of police or military. You have to travel as a civilian.
3D Ocean Farming
This uses the Google Autocomplete API which seems a bit risky to use [0] and according to this Google blog post should be already shut down [1].
Do you have any newer information on how reliable the API is?

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6428502/google-search-aut...
[1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/07/update-on-autocomp...
OK, that was an unfair pick, other variables have longer strings. I just picked the example, because I thought it was cute how short the CPU status is, and because I couldn't remember what nmi ment, at first. Trying to talk about it brought it back to mind, so that worked for me, but I blamed the project in vain, because the decision was made elsewhere. Those electronic engineers!! Let's argue about better names for x and y. is anyone even reading this? I'm prolly not gonna come back to this either.
Almost no 100-year stakeholders exist. Real property owners will have the most to lose but even they have a much shorter time horizon. The solution is probably for some combination of Federal and State led remediation funded by raising the local property taxes by an extreme amount (200-300%) matched by Federal funds. You have to inflict enough pain on the locals that the rest of the country won't complain when they are helped (see Detroit). Whether this is politically feasible (or even Constitutional) I don't know.
Yeah I mean it's not like Microsoft has an open source innovative (more so than Tensorflow) deep learning toolkit...

https://github.com/microsoft/cntk
Node.js update makes JavaScript VMs future-proof
"Don't do that"
How is this not at the top of the board? I can't wait until more people start applying these ideas to figure out optimal apply parameters in all these data mining and machine learning algorithms. Maybe actually put some science and reasoning into the field.
Can you explain that further?
Had this idea a while back: I really enjoyed auto complete in my IDE and configurable expansions and I wanted that everywhere. I threw together an app to run in the background to keep track of the last word I typed and manage suggestions when I hit a hotkey. Read from a local dictionary, used basic usage frequency and levenshtein distance to recommend, pretty straightforward hacked together in an afternoon project. I could see Anycomplete using a more local suggestion list instead of relying on Google.

Ideally it showed a drop down under where you're typing much like most IDEs would, but support was shotty at best.
I really wish there were more OS level hooks for this sort of thing, or a more standardized way to understand what the user is typing and where, but that's not something I ever expect to happen. My app was basically a keylogger while the one in the post is more like a separate entity altogether.
I'll add Flexeez (US name) or Wammy (European name), a geometric construction toy originally from Japan, I think. My 10yo figured out all of the Platonic solids using it, and then moved on to hyperbolic shapes. Also made lots of hats and belts and bandoliers, etc.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/558/