skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The key to electric vehicles is a shift to buy-by-the-ride

I don't agree with this, I think the immediate market for electric cars is commuter transport for households with two cars. If you have a car with 120 mile range, and you commute 80 miles a day, you will save tens of thousands of pounds/dollars/euros over the lifetime of the car, and you don't have to worry about range issues because you can just use your other car for long journeys. That is an enormous market, and the technology is already there to provision it.
As an additional data point it's the same here in Holland, or at least with my provider. I've never bothered to go for only internet, but I've also never used the phone or tv functionality that is available to me. It's just there.

A few weeks ago I got scared shitless because suddenly our landline phone went off, which it never does. The caller was apparently from 'Microsoft support' and out to help me fix the viruses on my windows computer, despite the fact that every single device on our network is Apple...
That's kinda close to "I'm not going to pay you for what I bought. But I am going to transfer ownership of my wallet here which just happens to have cash in it to cover what you were asking for. But be clear, I'm giving you the wallet. Not paying you."
Hey, free markets FTW!
I think this exchange (pulled from one of the other threads linked in the comments here) perfectly captures the general argument: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/800061052964651008

Tavis Ormandy: "Kinda like how a lightbulb that sets things on fire is still high quality, so long as you only measure lumens?"

Vess: "It's certainly of better quality than a lightbulb that doesn't light the room at all."

I think I know which lightbulb I would prefer.
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No Python support?
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Osmotic effect on cell walls. Does not matter for chocolate or already dry pastries.
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illumos / SmartOS. And we've had lotsa help from our friends in the FreeBSD camp, bless their hearts.
Nice writeup, "Engineers shouldn't write ETL" and "Every analysis or data pull that we do, we will need to update or repeat eventually". Good stuff.
Can you please please please use the etcd implementation[1] of raft and not the normal go-raft or consul raft implementations? They've done some serious business fault injection and integration testing with etcd as part of google's hosted kubernetes (GKE). There are still some lingering issues with consul at scale that make me a bit gunshy. Mesosphere did some of this work themselves: https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/26/etcd-mesos-kubernetes... , but I know that Google engineers have done tons of work on this as well.

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Hey, cool idea. I like the first few minutes of play. I like the retro/wargames/hacker look :)
So... we got so used to being coddled we can't do the smallest amount of due diligence (per a comment above, "will just hop into the first taxi they see").
Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again in the Italian squares." Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances — every day, in every part of the world.
Thanks, found it. Actually, I like the possibilities of web fonts quite much, but there are always people who just do it badly. Also, icon fonts are great to get somewhere quickly, even though not really best practice.
> News articles are saying that the sugar will be "hollow" ...

So... jet-puffed sugar?
Honey is pretty much nothing but sugar yet absolutely no bacteria can grow in it - there's basically a point where there's too much of it.
AngelList Buys Product Hunt
AWS Pinpoint - Targeted Push Notifications for Mobile Apps
Ask HN: What is your full stack web development?
I've been saying for years that AWS has secret DDOS protection. Never confirmed, but I'm pretty sure the basic level is just them admitting that they've always had that service.
I think the proposal people are making is better thought of as indexed monads and effects rather than indexed monads or effects.

Normal extensible effects looks like:

data Union :: [Type] -> Type -> Type where
...

data Free :: (Type -> Type) -> Type -> Type where
...

type Eff fs = Free (Union fs)

class Inject f fs where
inj :: f a -> Union fs a

data File :: Type -> Type where
Open :: FilePath -> File ()
Close :: FilePath -> File ()

send :: (Inject f fs) => f a -> Eff fs a

-- The inferred type would be more general
openClose :: Eff '[File] ()
openClose = do
send (Open "foo.txt")
send (Close "foo.txt")

You can then generalize this by also indexing everything:

data HList :: [Type] -> Type where
Nil :: HList '[]
(:>) :: a -> HList as -> HList (a ': as)

data Union :: HList fs -> HList is -> HList is -> Type -> Type where
...

data Free :: (is -> is -> Type -> Type) -> is -> is -> Type -> Type where
...

type Eff fs = Free (Union fs)

class Inject f i o fs is os where
inj :: f i o a -> Union fs is os a

data FileStatus = Open | Closed

data File :: FileStatus -> FileStatus -> Type -> Type where
Open :: FilePath -> File 'Closed 'Open ()
Close :: FilePath -> File 'Open 'Closed ()

send :: (Inject f i o fs is os) => f i o a -> Eff fs is os a

-- The inferred type would be more general
openClose :: Eff (File ':> 'Nil) ('Closed ':> 'Nil) ('Closed ':> Nil) ()
openClose = do
send (Open "foo.txt")
send (Close "foo.txt")

Does that help at all?
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Either get rid of the sounds or have some in the beginning with a chance to turn them off. Playing a sound on step 5 of the tutorial when a hash fails is not cool - I almost jumped out of my chair.

I might come back when it doesn't take 15 seconds of thinking every time I click a button.
I am not going to do your homework. If you refuse to read it, it is not my problem.
Please do elaborate
Strictly Sam wise should probably have used black country dialect given where JRRT grew up - its the Rural version of a Birmingham (UK) accent.

But I suspect they would have had to subtitled it :-)
Thousands of years? Who knows how long before the Wright Brothers people have been attempting flight?
New cars, specifically.
The virtual Holocaust survivor: how history gained new dimensions
Most of the black and white book scans in the sciencemadness library use JBIG2 compression since it produces considerably smaller files. I keep thinking that the in-browser PDF handling of Chrome/Firefox will support that eventually but it seems to be low priority.
Ed Ou's message about his ordeal:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1010462428012239...
Worse than doing nothing? I simply don't believe we'll get enough people to change their lifestyle, so nothing or Geoengineering are the only options.
Which drivers? I just looked at a document of theirs which details how they ripped out a whole bunch of drivers on the i86pc platform. For example, if I were crazy enough to upgrade to Solaris 11.3, my cadp160(9D) wouldn't work any more because they ripped it out. All of a sudden, my system could no longer talk UltraSCSI 160. IPFilter - gone. They ripped out a whole bunch of libraries like libpng out. Paravirtualization has been ripped out. Cheap UltraSPARC hardware support like the M3000, T1000, T2000, T5220, T5240, T3-1, all ripped out. /etc/defaultrouter gone. zone archive formats gone. Adobe Flash player gone. sysidtool(1M) gone. smdiskless(1M) gone. SmartCard support gone. lx-branded zones gone and they tell me to use XEN on Linux, no way! PostgreSQL - gone.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/end-of-notices/eon...

No thanks.
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imho his TL;DR is better than yours, but your improvements could be made to his. In my education we was taught that in science and business, the abstracts should tell the whole point of the story; the "spoiler" should not be saved till the end even though that makes for more fun; this is to allow a busy person to get the takeaway quickly and assess if they need to read all the detail. Whether anybody agrees with that or not, it's been burned into my way of looking at the world, so even when reading this article, all the way through I was gritting my teeth thinking "I wish I had some clue as to what I'm reading about."

so to add in your point, to his TL;DR I would put in "the intial dataset included only the trains that had suffered the fault, but as the fault was caused by a functioning train, a more comprehensive dataset was necessary to find the problem; had it been provided initially, less detective work might have been necessary"
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He is not wrong. Here's a good, and only slightly exceptional, example from early this year: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39218/ (And the relevant Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882563)
Hooray, hosted Zipkin. Would be really nice to have a opentracing backend that sends to AWS X-Ray.
This is the most plausible hypothesis I've heard since it's already been done with ice cream, and people actually enjoy and prefer the experience of it(despite the obvious downside of getting less Stuff).
State of Mozilla Annual Report
Are you serious? That's a really odd way of implementing that accounting trick
Better photo:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRP5vxx...
Or Bobby from Supernatural
Like salt, it takes up all the water, which bacteria needs.
Technically, that's a logical fallacy:. A&B->true does not mean !B->false.

But, really, I'm not trying to prove or disprove your point. Just noting that there was a situation for us where disk made sense, and we were satisfied with the outcome. Spending 4 hours of person time to save a thousand dollars was reasonable for us in a way it probably wouldn't be for many real companies, because we had comparatively little money and we're willing to work for peanuts.

(Note that I actually share your bias in this one. I both use GCP for my personal stuff and I'm writing this from a Google cafe. :-)
It's worth noting that Monument Valley is an excellent game, product placement or no. It's often the first thing pointed to in the whole video-games-as-art debate.
Yep, this is it. AV is fundamentally a security product. If my music player is insecure, it's still playing music and I'll lose that feature by uninstalling it. If my AV is insecure, there's really no downside to uninstalling it.
Still no way to build iOS applications.
Unfortunately China seems to be engaged in exactly the same sort of behaviour. 1 in 7 cars has to be electric (fair enough), but the electric car has to be manufactured by a company owned by Chinese citizens. It's a pity that Donald Trump is going to dismantle the multilateral attempts to make China play by the same rules as everyone else.
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Yeah, James Hamilton discussed this in his tuesday night keynote.
Is there really only a single configuration available in Canada?
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If AV was so vulnerable, we'd see nothing but exploits in the wild going after AV. Yet we aren't seeing that anywhere.

If you read the notes you'll see scary terms like "buffer overflow" but "probably wont work on windows because windows uses /GS." I think Tavis does good work but the interpretation of his work is often hysterical. Finding an issue with AV doesn't invalidate the concept of AV. AV is just software. Bugs get found and patched like any other software. I think accepting that isn't asking too much here. Defect-free software is so far humanly impossible for non-trivial applications, let alone for complex security applications. Heck, how many security defects has the linux kernel and openssl had in the past couple years alone? Dozens, or more, and all have been weaponized and trivially exploited. Yet we still use that stuff.

Grandma's PC, the PC of a random staff person at work, etc without AV is taken down near instantly. With it, she can avoid many of these security issues. The idea that some defects means AV is without value is a fun and popular opinion with techies, but in the real wold, it does far, far more good than harm.
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Switching to isomalt will drop ~50% in the caloric content, but change mouth feel and water retention a lot. A different confection will be the result.
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Makes one wonder what exactly they fear.
Thank God we've still got HPUX.
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100% agree and the main reason why I don't go on product hunt at all. I am glad for the founder, but the site in general is manipulated and controlled by people with influence and the rest sit on the sidelines.
I think PH is different because it seems that if a superuser/mod will not upvote an item, it will be practically dead. On HN/Reddit/Medium you will always get at least 20-50 views. On PH I got 5. It's even more stark when you count the fact that top PH submissions get many more views than on HN/Reddit/Medium.
But to do that you have to shoot a monkey dead and take all his bananas

(I may have just come from another, less logical subthread in this topic)
Very cool.

I always feel an itch for this type of notetaking. I've played with using gists and whatnot for notetaking and it works somewhat well, but this hits the mark.