skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unelected bureaucrats become nonviolent totalitarians.

I for once am grateful to the faceless bureaucrat at the FDA who demanded that Theranos submit their device to FDA for appproval. This unnamed fellow is the Stanislav Petrov of medicine.
In projects with centralized build scripts, like most projects, hopefully they have -Werror or its equivalent on by default. I was speaking about the case were a group has systematically ignored warnings and they are already beyond fixing. This is a depressingly common state for many shops. The best fix I have seen to enable as many warnings as possible and treat them as errors as early in the project lifecycle as possible. For whatever reason C++ shops are much more likely to do this than C shops in my experience.

If the compiler isn't the "language" enough for you, then please explain how to write a buffer overflow in Javascript?
As a student, I attended every class with pen and paper and scribbled tiny illegible notes on almost everything the instructor presented. I rarely referred back to them, but when I did, it was invaluable.

As an instructor, it is painfully obvious how little attention some students have for lecture material. Taking notes at least forces you to continue listening, even if you are just writing them down on autopilot.

Edit: Bonus content. Here's a sample page[0] of notes from the first Computer Science course I took. I knew all of the material already, but still wrote down almost everything presented. Notice how there is very little structure, just filling the page up as densely as possible. This was very typical for me.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/btviZRH.jpg
It's hard not to think that democracy could be on the way out. People losing interest in democracy qua democracy, rather than what they can get out of it; the hero-worship of entrepreneur barons like Musk and Zuckerberg. Maybe the best we can hope for in the future is a benevolent corporate-style government.

For all the current furore right now about whether we're "normalizing" fascism, note that communism (as practised in China) is already pretty well normalized. Other countries are judged on how friendly they are, not their political systems, so China and Saudi Arabia are okay.

It would be great to see some real willingness to repair democracy in the US. Ditching the electoral college would be a small but significant step. Almost nobody likes it, after all! If we can just keep the discussion clear and calm, and separate the proposal to improve the system from the result of this election, maybe we could make progress. I'm not holding my breath, though...

I would also love to see experimentation with really radical forms of democracy. For example, Arthur C Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth has a fun aside about random selection of leaders. The Venetian Republic apparently used multiple rounds of lotteries and nominations; incredible to think that such a complex system was used successfully for centuries. (Excellent writeup in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/07/26/win-or-lose)
You do know that OpenBSD just recently introduced a hypervisor, right?

(From the "(historically)", I'm guessing you do but others reading this may not realize that OpenBSD now does ship with a hypervisor. It's very "early", though, FWIW.)
Trump Campaign Built an Identity Database and Used Facebook Ads
I guess the grass really is always greener on the other side. Android and W10 people always complain about buggyness. I think we've reached the point where larger software has become too complex for today's development and testing methods.
Easy. Have someone on Wall Street create a derivative for you that increases in value as Miami Beach real estate value declines, and be willing to pay the premium for decades. If you wanted to speed things up, find a way to force saltwater into the water table faster without being caught by regulatory agencies.

Sulam's sibling comment nails it.
I'm assuming you are talking about US election topics? Please keep in mind that the readership of Hacker News covers a much larger base than the United States. Technology is not bound by geography as much as politics, and therefore is often more interesting and relevant to the whole world.
In my opinion, the best note taking system ever is the LiveScribe.
does this have cuda support?
Well, the C64 screen resolution is 320 x 200, so you should be able to do some awesome full screen emoji :)
I would be interested in a forum where we can discuss how to creeate "a fair, just, open, and economically robust society", but I wouldn't want it to be HN. I want those two to be separate.

As a side note, I'm sure fora like that exist already... anyone care to recommend some?
> but rather they believed that these substances would be a fertile ground to look for treatments

That's still based on a pretty bad misunderstanding of how the body works. The action of a virus or bacteria is usually pretty undetectable. If you had no immune system, you wouldn't even get a cough or a runny nose.

A runny nose, a cough, vomiting, and diarrhea are the body's response mechanisms. They aren't caused by any one disease in particular, they are the body's way of trying to flush out the infection.

If you look for the cure in something that also makes your body angry and tries to flush it out, well you're not going to get very far. You're just going to make the problem much worse, and weaken your immune system further. So the whole idea of homeopathy is flawed from the very beginning.

This is completely different to testing cures in rats before human trials. I don't even really see the connection, to be honest.
> He spent the night insulting them and they told him that no one cared, that's not rude that's response in kind.

That's not true. Asking, in one tweet, if it's "narcissistically gratifying" for MW to be the "chill dictionary" may be insulting, but not needlessly so, as I think that's the central point he's trying to make. Overall though, they are a meandering, somewhat pointless series of tweets, aimed at a company, and not an individual.

Stating that "No one cares how you feel." is needlessly insulting and isn't attempting to make any point. It's also directed at an individual, and not a large company, so it's always going to be perceived as more cutting.

That "No one cares how you feel." is, apparently, an expression commonly used in English teaching doesn't excuse it: the author, and the vast majority of Tweeters didn't get the reference.
The way I remember it, carburetors were finicky, needed tuning, and could fail in all sorts of interesting ways.
> and every other exciting, scary, new, hipster Haskell thing that exists in the web dev world today.

Ha ha! A fatigued JS developer complaining about hipster Haskell things!
Exactly. It reminds me of the "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" mentality of Wall Street in the mid-2000s. As long as these new developments are sold to buyers/investors now, the risk is transferred away from the developers and their incentive to build remains. And the demand isn't going to dry up any time soon with tons of cash from South America coming into Miami every day.

There will be a day of reckoning soon when the next major hurricane hits and all of these new developments are damaged beyond repair. Miami got very lucky with Matthew a few months ago, but the next one is really going to hurt today's buyers.
Can't the police/a warrant compel you to open a combination safe? That would be a case of you disclosing a passphrase/something in your mind, but contrary to your assertion.
The Need for Stream
Indeed, I learned CS on a 486 and the code I wrote ran mind-bogglingly fast on a Pentium.
I don't think docker supports GPU acceleration on windows. The linux subsystem doesn't have access to the GPU (CUDA).
> They have to make harder decisions about what work to prioritize

Priority isn't a design decision.

Analytics help, but the choice to not opt-in is not excused by "but we need them"
The UK government is in the process of doing this as well. Charities are not allowed to lobby government with raised funds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35509117
Do you have any evidence that Carlos Slim has any influence on the editorial board of the New York Times? Or Jeff Bezos influencing the Washington Post editorial board?
Phase IV is quite good too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_IV
While still a bad bill, that is not quite the same thing. The Flag Protection Act made it criminal to burn the flag for the purpose of inciting violence. Not just randomly burning it. It's the same idea as yelling fire in a crowded theatre, or holding a rally telling people to go riot.
It means security is hard. And yes, we keep finding security issues (in web specs, not just in implementations) due to two different people designing two subsystems and not considering their interactions, or not even knowing about the existence of the other subsystem.

Finding a sane solution to this problem would be wonderful; I haven't thought of one yet.
Ok.

There might be a shortcut. But the most straightforward path to getting hired by Facebook is obtaining the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience that Facebook is likely to hire.

Keep in mind that companies like Facebook are not just looking at the knowledge, skill, and ability that someone has when they are hired. Those companies are also making an educated guess about how much better the candidate will be in a few years. A lot of that guess comes down to a track record of hard work.

What are you going to do to make the best you have be among the best in the world?
Git has a very scalable solution for a large volume of changes and establishing change set as current (via SHA). What is different about the DNS registry than any other codebase that Git could not handle?
I use perl with find quite a bit...it's great for doing something with a list of files without spawning a bunch of processes via -exec.

Like, for example:

# delete a bunch of matching files and print the name

find . -name whatever\* -type f | perl -ne 'print;chomp;unlink'
It will probably take a single expensive disaster to change behaviours.
The guy lies and lies and lies. The only way to know what he is really going to do is to wait for him to do it. However, calling him the smartest, most powerful, and most beautiful person ever seems to go a long way with him so I would at least try that to try to get him on your side. Problem is, everybody seems to know that he is a sucker for complement.
I usually end up recommending Wordpress for the same reasons: it's the least awful option for writing a blog that has your own template.
Hackers target bank account in 'tax haven' Lichtenstein
I'm by no means an expert, and I may be wrong, but I personally don't think that it's possible to achieve superconductivity at room temperature and normal pressure using this approach at the current state of the art.

If you take a look at the phase diagram of the water [1] you could notice that the pressure required to crystallize water at temperature near 105°C is something near p_freeze = 2.5⋅10^9 Pa. However, the water is inside of the nanotubes of radius r = 0.5⋅10^(-9) m (the article says about the tubes being of diameter 1.05 nm). Such small radius creates significant surface tension (the same force that allows soap bubbles to exist) which is expressed by equation [2] as Δp = γ/r. According to
[3] the surface tension coefficient for water at 105°C is γ = 58⋅10^(-3) N/m, so Δp ≈ 1.2⋅10^8 Pa. The required for crystallization and the actual pressures differ in just one order of magnitude.

But the reasoning above used the macroscopic physical laws, and of course one could expect deviations from them when thinking about diameters as small as 4 water molecule diameters. Of course there is still no theoretical model that describes this configuration and calculates exact values of p_freeze and Δp precisely for it. But such model don't have to change the orders of magnitude in the problem, just estimate factors of order of 1, and we could use rough intuition gained previously about the process even without such model.

So if you try to apply these intuitions to the superconductivity you immediately meet difficulties because all known superconductors are in solid state, not liquid. It could be overcome by putting it to the nanotubes in liquid state and then letting it crystallize. Let's assume that this is possible. Evidence [4] suggests that to get a superconductor at high temperatures it requires to have pressure of order 10^11-10^12 Pa. This pressure is two orders of magnitude higher than the one required to freeze water at 100°C. That means that surface tension coefficient in such material should be two orders of magnitude higher than in liquid H2O to create pressure of order of magnitude required for phase transition to superconducting state.

I wasn't able to find data about surface tension in superconducting materials like like H2S mentioned in [4], but I doubt that it is 100 larger than surface tension in water. And it is impossible to significantly increase pressure by decreasing radius of tubes because this radius is already of order of molecules size. So I don't think that it is possible to get high temperature superconductors at normal pressure and room temperature using nanotubes and already known superconducting materials.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Ph...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_tension#Surface_curvat...

[3] https://srd.nist.gov/JPCRD/jpcrd231.pdf

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.08190v1.pdf
None of your negative statements here are supported by any evidence, whereas Apple replacing computers and rectifying the software issue does actually address the problem.
13 year old kids around here all call desktops laptops anyway
Cloud Computing in 2017: Get Ready for More Machine Learning
As nifitich said, contacts.

And this is why elite schools are worth it for the elite. You may or may not get a better education there, but you meet better contacts there. (You make contacts at a state school too, but the contacts you make are people who went to a state school, not people who went to an elite university.)

Also, knowledge about how to run organizations.
I live in a 130 year old house in Chicago. If you go in the basement, you can see the new foundation built on top of the old one when the house was raised, and how they added indoor plumbing at the same time.

That being said, even though Chicago had high-rises at the time, buildings were all pretty much held in place by gravity at the time. Raising them was just a matter of having enough jackscrews to support the building and making sure the building was raised evenly so that it didn't crack.

I suspect that the higher level of integration between modern buildings and their foundations probably means that it's going to be cheaper to just tear down the buildings and rebuild them. My best friend is a structural engineer, so it would be interesting to see what he has to say on the topic. If Miami is anything like Chicago, all the buildings are probably built on piles already, and burying them is one of the most time consuming and expensive parts of the construction process. If you could re-use the piles for a new building you might be able to get away with rebuilding buildings on the cheap.

I suspect raising the vast majority of buildings would still be eminently possible though. You see this all of the time in flood-prone areas already. The only difference is that you'd be adding fill up to your new front door.
What you've essentially discovered is the difference between someone's hobby and trying to support yourself by doing something.

People who do this sort of thing as a hobby just want to feel good and are looking for distractions. A tractor that takes 600 hours to complete and requires extensive access to manufacturing equipment and the knowledge to use it? Great! Think about how much fun I'll have creating blue prints and what not!

Meanwhile if I just needed an actual tractor, there is one rusting in someone's field I can grab off craigslist. It's twice my age but with some basic tools it will run again and will continue to work until long after my death.

It isn't just "farming" (more like gardening for most of these people) that this suffers. It's always cool to see someone's "make your own XYZ for your motorcycle" video on YouTube. But then you realize they just used a turret mill and a metal lathe to make a part you can buy for $100 on Amazon. Just the tooling they used costs over $100. And oh yeah, the part just has to be waited on for Amazon to ship it to me with free shipping via prime.

I build stuff in my free time, but I don't pretend it's cost effective or even a good use of my time. It's just a way to pass the time.
> And that is fundamentally what makes climate change so difficult to deal with. The economic incentives, which only really look 5-10-15 years out, can't respond to consequences that are 50-100 years out, and by then it's really too late.

On the global level (let's say 50-100 years out), do you think we as a species are headed toward an "Easter Island" effect, where we "whistle past the graveyard" and assume everything is "fine" - until it isn't - and at that point we can't do anything and have to deal with the potentially existential consequences?
Also, FTR there is no intent to boast here, merely sharing an idea and trying to elicit discussion about a problem which I admittedly do not fully understand.

I had hoped that starting with an admission of plausible fallacy would deter such judgements, but I guess you never can underestimate the power of HN to bring out the moral superiority of others.
What’s with weak AAA sales?
I am very worried about Apple, they seem to be focusing on the wrong things and damaging their brand goodwill in the process. The general attitude shift towards Apple and Apple products over the last year in particular has been dramatic and is overwhelmingly negative, while the company appears to be oblivious or unconcerned.
Please don't confuse our not seeing all the comments with endorsements of what we don't see.
> The fact that the democrats and republicans produced such like minded candidates is the more worrying aspect.

Except they absolutely didn't.
The inflection point, if there is one, is likely a decade or more away. Real estate losses will be unique to each area. So you're more likely to see a smattering of "Hurricane Katrina Moments" than a wholesale reversal in the financial markets a la 2008. Deep out of the money options on overexposed instruments is a plausible position to take here, especially during the ~6 week hurricane season.

Another thing to note is that it costs money to short -- you are borrowing the shares after all, so you need to pay interest on the loan. This makes a multi-year position shorting select REITs troublesome.

The position I'm taking (roughly) is to hold oceanfront property with excellent sea-level protection. Think cliff-front, not beach-front. A different play? Construction companies specializing in sea level mitigation.
Health Diagnosis Through Bio-Signal Measuring Electrodes on IoT Devices
Only browser based though, does nothing to stop all the other data being leaked...also, they haven't really given much detail on the security, privacy policy etc.
I don't have the link handy, but there's a good Youtube review that compares the two games. One thing that stood out from his comparison was how Obsidian put in farms with livestock and crops to show where food came from, while F3 didn't have anything like this.
Or maybe Miami will turn into a Venice-like romantic canal city, where travel will be done by jetski, tourism will flourish, and real estate prices will keep going up.
I'm not sure what the bouncers are doing is right, either, though for some reason I'm more comfortable with it. (Which I find to be a really bad answer, frankly: is this just pushing my "comfort" of what I'm willing to put up with too far?)
Ha! Yes, my shorted argument of "optimizing for laziness" doesn't sit right, but the core of it how much your choices matter in what you are _not_ building.

- Cloud-based apps used to mean managing VMs, keeping kernels up to date, setting security settings on server configs. It doesn't have to[0]

- Mobile dev used to mean compiling platform-specific code and shipping it to app-store review. It doesn't have to[1]

- Storing state server-side used to mean running your own DBs and worrying about their persistence and multi-host-scaling. Don't even need a reference here since there a so many choices.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-bluemixf...

[1] https://getexponent.com/
You're right. We were looking for an internal chat solution for our company. Currently we use IRC, but it would be nice to have an offline mechanism so we don't need to run IRC bouncers or CLI clients on our servers to receive messages when we're not in the office. We considered Slack, but decided it was too risky to host our internal communications on someone else's service. I'm waiting for the day Slack has a huge data breach.

We're currently considering adding some sort of backscroll support to IRC (maybe automatically setting up proxies for users), or installing Rocket Chat or HipChat on a local server.
When was the last time you spoke to people in towns of less than 10k people about their most serious issues?

It's so odd to me that Silicon Valley simply can't comprehend that their values aren't shared by the rest of the country. Literally the only explanation they can produce to explain Trump votes is that everyone must have been brainwashed by Facebook news (despite the fact that millions of voters probably don't even have social media).

There was a time when democrats represented the blue collar working class -- who have watched helplessly as their jobs and security has been outsourced to china and Mexico. Now it's Trump who represents their values and clearly they're not alone.
IIRC Caesar's Legion came from VB.
It isn't very likely that you will find much help here. This is a sign of a lack of initiative. So, if you didn't already, I suggest starting to look for jobs yourself instead of letting employers look for you. Just my two cents.
Nope. Issues have existed on all new computers released by Apple. None of them are widespread which is why the computers are not recalled and are selling more than ever.

The only thing that is different now is the piling on of negative social media commentary that adds no value. This is why we can't have nice things.
It's going to be a long time before it's widely deployed.
What happened to that idea that Google wanted to create it's own country?
What is the opposite then? You can imagine a lot, but I don't see how telling the very same people that were supposedly corrupted by capitalism to regulate it would change anything.
The Trump campaign as massively outspent by the Clinton campaign almost 2-1. It also received much less outside money - 60 million versus 190 million. [1]

According to OpenSecrets, Trump spent 56 million on his own campaign. [2]

In historical US election terms, that is quite the underdog story, even if it's still a lot of money.

[1] http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/
[2] http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00023864
We want to switch to something crossplatform and stick with it for all new projects.

C#, .NET core is cross-platform.
I think a lot of voters didn't take her as seriously on the proposal.
Latex typography looks vastly better than Word or LibreOffice, even when the font, margins and size are fixed.
> "From this point going forward, no single human being is ever going to have a completely full grasp of every corner of JavaScript, CSS, and Web APIs"

This. Reading the comments at HN and other places gives you the impression that there are people who do know everything, but that's not the case. There's just lots of technical people here who are experts in various fields, so there's always experts to comment on things.
Funnily enough, there's an "official" Fallout Bible by Chris Avellone :)

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Bible
Has there been any good news or sentiment about this new product?