skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aye-aye sir. I'll be following the new rule with enthusiasm, actually. It'll be nice to have fewer discussions of $POLITICAL_THING_RUINING_THE_WORLD and more about interesting stuff like OpenAI.
What facts do you think I don't possess? Does etcd have an ACL capability yet? Does it possess auditing capability?

AFAIK etcd only supports TLS client authentication, which is arguably a fraction of what it needs in order to be considered a secure store in any meaningful sense. Consul is miles ahead in this regard.

By all means, correct me if I'm mistaken.
The Cato Institute has an uncanny ability to take even good ideas and make them horrible.
Cool, should be very useful...thanks for posting!
For example, Mycin [0] [1]. From the Wikipedia page:

MYCIN was never actually used in practice but research indicated that it proposed an acceptable therapy in about 69% of cases, which was better than the performance of infectious disease experts who were judged using the same criteria. [...] Some observers raised ethical and legal issues related to the use of computers in medicine — if a program gives the wrong diagnosis or recommends the wrong therapy, who should be held responsible? However, the greatest problem, and the reason that MYCIN was not used in routine practice, was the state of technologies for system integration, especially at the time it was developed. MYCIN was a stand-alone system that required a user to enter all relevant information about a patient by typing in responses to questions MYCIN posed. The program ran on a large time-shared system, available over the early Internet (ARPANet), before personal computers were developed. In the modern era, such a system would be integrated with medical record systems, would extract answers to questions from patient databases, and would be much less dependent on physician entry of information. In the 1970s, a session with MYCIN could easily consume 30 minutes or more — an unrealistic time commitment for a busy clinician.

Given that the systems integration problems should be soluble now, if not already solved, it does seem a little surprising that there isn't a modern version of such a thing, far more sophisticated, in general use. I guess the ethics and liability problems still loom larger than the above quote suggests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin

[1] http://people.dbmi.columbia.edu/~ehs7001/Buchanan-Shortliffe...
Just got hit by layoff – web dev years ago but lately a PM. What to do next?
Ok, so I was a web developer (classic ASP, IIS, Sql Server) and a touch of a sys. admin (you might say almost a precursor to devops) from 2000 ~ 2006 for a large, 100 year old enterprise, then moved to tech lead of the small group (still in same company), then moved to different technical project manager roles (at different, though still large enterprise-type companies), and last few years have been a technical product manager (and project manager) in the digital marketing group of one of the world's largest real estate companies. (I oversaw their back end products of their consumer web platforms, their real-time api, etc.)

I haven't touched much (industrial-scale) code for years, except for the occasional personal bash script, Hugo-powered static website, tiny php-powered web application, minuscule flask-powered micro-blog; the sorts of things people do only to play around, or for personal convenience. I've been "lucky" in my almost 20 year professional career to have never before been hit by a layoff...until now. I know I've had a good run compared to many people, but I really have no idea what to do next (professionally speaking)...

I figure I have 3 choices:

* Do the conventional thing (for me historically anyway) and start looking for the conventional sort of job as a Product/project manager (or something similar) at a typical enterprise/company.

* Dive into some hard core code bootcamp, and go back to being what kids used to call "a coder"...and look for jobs as a developer (or devops, or even sys admin).

* Go off and start my own one-man internet/web consulting company (at this point my most used skills revolve around digital product management, digital marketing, technical project management, etc.).

Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?
I'm not entirely sure that'd work very well, since the Chromecast mirroring function has some pretty high latency.

If you want to stream Dolphin to your TV, a cheap option is to use Steam's in-home streaming feature. The Steam Link is a dedicated piece of hardware for this which I think is about $50 and will work with existing controllers or the Steam controller. You can also just use any existing laptop (windows, mac, linux) with a sufficiently powerful cpu for stream decoding and use it as an in-home streaming client. I've messed around with a lot of solutions for streaming from my PC to living room TV, and Steam's solution blows just about everything else out of the water.
Flash fabs are different than logic fabs (that's about the extent of my understanding so I won't try to explain why). Also, logic fabs may not have much idle capacity either.
I disagree. I think if there was ever a time in the history of the world where more political discourse needs to occur, it should be now. I think this is especially true with such a smart group of individuals trying to change the world in many different arenas.
Copying the surface structure is normal. Every generation that follows the previous tends to copy the surface structure of its predecessors until they develop their own culture based on that generation's realities. Do you really think the culture of Silicon Valley of today is a facsimile of the culture of the 70's and 80's?

The thing to pay attention to isn't whether they're copying it exactly right, it's that they're copying the spirit and adapting it to their own circumstances.
Good reporting of a simple idea that me and my under-graduate colleagues discussed 30+ years ago!

This is not a "new" theory -- rather it is simply new reporting of an old idea.
this could easily be used by YC as a tool to say, silence criticism of YC for not disavowing Peter Thiel

Is there anyone here who hasn't read that criticism yet?
Not overuse, just abuse. If you'd like to flag some more but are worried about that, just send us an email at hn@ycombinator.com and we'd be thrilled to take a look and give some feedback.
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Most of the politics on HN has been significantly less than previous years. Previously, I could go to HN and get knowledge about various topics related to election results, polling bias, etc. Now, it's pretty limited, literally I saw/see zero items related to politics most days. Honestly, I think politics has as much to do about "hacking" as just about everything else.

Also, who decides what's political. I'm sick of hearing about socialist ideology, and I consider it politics, but I'm guessing that's not what you mean...
What would you say the reason continues to be for that?
> The customer is always right.

This adage only works when marginal value of a customer is high, and monetary preferences aren't utterly dominating customer's thought process. Business dealing with necessities, or ones where demand outweights supply, aren't like that - that's why in a grocery store, customer is trash. There's plenty more where he/she came from.
Asking "what's the ulterior motive" is assuming bad faith. It is equivalent to accusing someone of lying.
Not to argue with the rest of the work insanity in your comment, but perhaps teachers should be paid as much or more than software developers - they might just have that part right.
We all share a responsibility to behave like adults. Is this really the way to deal with some people being quick to anger? What's the difference between people debating over the best political theory vs, say, unproven quantum theory, or lay speculation on economics, or on history, or on aesthetics, or on evolutionary post hoc rationalization, or on predictions of the future?

And as per the US-centrism aspect, personally, I can't see how muting political debate will shift the average discussion away from US-centric politics, in general..
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Learning perl 6, the book
The tour groups are funny. Hacker Dojo used to get them, back when they were more open to visitors. Silicon Valley tours are kind of lame. The high spots seem to be a few museums (Intel, the Computer Museum) and Stanford. Driving by Google HQ, Intel HQ, and Facebook HQ is usually included but not very interesting.

Hacker Dojo used to get some very attractive Asian women who were very interested in the details of what people were working on, and understood the technology. They had business cards with vague titles. They disappeared, presumably after the Second Department of the PLA had found out whatever they wanted to know.
I saw an article on the BBC this week, strange timing but maybe someone knew about the Amazon announcement: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38174011
Do you have any savings? If you don't have at least a year of savings in the bank, it's better to just go the traditional route and look for a job.
Agree, it's not easy. Learning the basics, for example projecting a rectangle with 3d coordinates to 2d coordinates, then feeding the 2d coordinates into a NN and ask for the (depth) third dimension. Can you teach the NN a perspective transform? Can you rotate the rectangle and recognize rotation. Can you add other rectangles to the scene and detect each? Can you add color and lighting to infer more properties and get better results? Shine some more info on the problem ;)

These are like unit tests of AI (basic shapes and transforms) and I agree physical reckoning is at the top, one of the big tests that is a capstone and something beautiful to behold in nature (eg. sports). Maybe the a virtual soccer game at the end?

From my lidar experience, I wanted to reach for a model rather than deal with noisy sensor data. I want to generate the output (3d world) with my model, then the NN learns the inverse (eg. the scene graph used to generate the scene).

I enjoy thinking about this stuff, though it really makes my head spiral sometimes when I relate it to my own reality. It's easy to feel like you're losing touch.
What's considered political and what's considered non-political?

Can we discuss ethics? Is saying "racism is bad" political?

What about facts? "Torture is ineffective" or "carbon emissions harm the planet"?
I need to preface this by saying I voted for Jill Stein.

You're right that HN should be a place for intellectual curiosity and substantive comments. But here's what I've seen in the past year:

* Flagrantly allow anti-prop-8 posts and submissions to assist in the smearing of Brendan Eich.

* Flagrantly allow pro-clinton posts and link submissions to thrive on HN.

* Never step-in to stop downvoting brigades on pro-conservative/libertarian/tea party posts.

* After unpopular (with silicon valley) president is elected, ban political conversations on the site.

I won't call you biased, because you've been a damn good mod, but this is probably your worst decision, because it looks like sour-grapes-in-retrospect.

Perhaps you're doing it because the pro-clinton camp is actually becoming too toxic to tolerate. Perhaps you're doing it to avoid the 4chan brigade from promoting Trump. Either way, this is a site full of people skilled at reading between the lines, and, correct or not, this action doesn't look like a way of promoting reasonable discussion.
Agreed, this is hard. My personal benchmark is: does this article have information that would change a political viewpoint? If so, then political talk feels like fair game.

Story where the NSA creates a practical quantum computer? Let's talk about what this means.

Story where a researcher makes incremental progress towards a quantum computer? Let's not talk about how long it will be until the NSA can break all crypto.

It's definitely a grey area, but I do there there are tiers of political talk. The best discussions have reactions to new information, not re-hashed and pre-established opinions.
I'm working on a headphone stand that has a USB DAC/headphone amplifier built in, along with circuitry to detect when the headphones have been hung up, thereby switching the DAC output to a line out (to drive speakers, or whatever).

It's a shameless amalgamation of a DIY post on Reddit[1] and some design aesthetics from an existing DAC/headphone amp[2] that I really like. I'm currently at the point where the internals are close to finalized enough to order boards and do integration testing, and starting work on modeling the enclosure, which will involve some mix of CNC milling, mandrel bending and welding.

I really like throwing away money, apparently.

Blog here: https://nuclearfurnace.wordpress.com/

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/529qyp/smart_he...

[2] - https://www.jdslabs.com/products/151/the-element/
I have almost zero interest in politics. I can think of one politically-framed piece I posted recently because of the GIS content and it was flagged to death promptly. I wish I could have found a non political write up of the project, which I believe predated the political situation that the article spun it around. Perhaps I shall look a little harder today to see if such a thing exists.

I am totally cool with this experiment. It is hard enough to foster good discussion online even without politics.

Best.
The comment chain is too deep, so I'll reply here.

> You claim it's a personal attack, and then you do exactly what I said you would; take the evidence, and do your best to dismiss it.

I claimed your specific statements were personal attacks, because they were.

> My favorite part of your post is how you acknowledge that you knew about court cases related to predatory pricing (Arkansas Supreme Court), while simultaneously pretending you didn't know about Wal-Mart being accused of it, and demanding evidence to prove it anyway.

There's a big difference between an accusation and a proven fact.

> Combined with your clearly detailed knowledge of the history of Wal-Mart, you can't even properly accuse me of throwing out an ad-hominem without contradicting yourself.

My father-in-law retired from WalMart after working there for thirty years - as a sales clerk, basically. My knowledge of the history stems from my being close to it and having been interested in the topic for a long time. In fact, my interest in the topic is why I asked if you had evidence of their driving competitors out of business and raising prices, because that's something I'd love to have.

I also seriously considered suing WalMart a few years ago. I worked there as a freight unloader in 2002. They had a policy of not allowing employees to wear steel-toe boots and I was injured on the job as a result of it when a furniture box was dropped on my foot. The nail on my right big toe is permanently disfigured as a result. I went as far as paying an attorney for a few hours' time to prepare a case, but in the end it became clear that pursuing it would have been a bad financial decision.

> Thanks for the laughs. I had karma to burn. :)

Again, I didn't downvote you.
It wouldn't necessarily surprise me to learn that my account is one of those latter, although it would disappoint me a little and cause me to question my approach, since "battle" really isn't a good characterization of what I'm after here.

One of the things I've found most impressive about HN, in fact, is the fashion in which people disposed across the full width of the US political spectrum seem able here to discuss potentially divisive subjects in a civil and perhaps even constructive fashion - I can't speak for anyone else, but I can say that comments here have given me pause for thought, and on occasion to significantly reconsider opinions that I've held - not all of which I still do. This isn't to say that I'm politically progressive or at all likely to become so, but I have found uniquely valuable some of the political discussion which has occurred on HN, and the degree of dispassionate consideration and tenor of general civility I've seen in such discussions here are unique in my experience.

The point I raise isn't that I think the "political detox week" is a bad idea. (Or a good one - time will tell.) But I do think it would be a shame if political discussion were banned or severely curtailed on HN in future. Such a decision seems to me as though it could only be a deliberate effort to invoke the "echo chamber" effect which has redounded to such cost throughout US politics in recent years and especially in recent months. That's something I've seen happening to a broad extent on both ends of the political spectrum lately, and especially since the election. No one on either side seems willing to hear anything from anyone on the other - except here, and I think there's value in that.

Perhaps I'm alone, or nearly so, in this opinion. But perhaps I'm not, too. And even if I am, it still seems worth throwing out there. In an increasingly polarized political environment (and I say this as a veteran of the 2000 election and all that followed it!), HN seems as close as anything I've participated in, seen, or heard of, to a demilitarized zone where parties on both sides can meet and interact in something approaching a constructive fashion. I realize that's not HN's intended purpose, and I don't blame the mods here if they decide that's not what they want to run. But I do think it's something that'd be a shame to lose.
Of course. But most of the time users are not paying the maintainers whereas with government employees you are paying them through your taxes.
haha no I've never encountered such folks. I was being sarcastic when I put "patrons" in quotes, because the GP seemed to imply the only people to socialize with at a grocery were the cashiers.
when one of the most significant figures in politics right now uses twitter as their platform for communicating with their support base, for better or worse, the idea of being politics agnostic just seems silly.
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They probably don't have RFID sensors on the shelving, and if they did they would only be able to detect when you walk several feet away from the shelf, and would have huge problems if two people were standing right next to each other at the shelf.

It looks like they have a row of cameras along the top of each shelf that will be used to detect when you pick up and place items back down.

The RFID tags are mostly useful at the gates to confirm the visual data and feed back into the machine learning algorithm.
See https://hn.algolia.com/?query=passive%20income&sort=byDate&p...
> Even if you don't come away agreeing with the conclusions of Marxist economists, etc., understanding it is worth the time it takes

Yes! It's a useful lens – just as Hayek is. No-one has a monopoly on absolute truth in the social sciences, so understanding (and empathizing with) all the framing narratives, most all of which have some kind of a point, is crucial to being able to navigate these kinds of discussion.)

Understanding Marxist (and Hayekian) thought has been very helpful to me in framing my own politics – which, ironically enough, wind up being moderate market/social liberalism in the European tradition.
Does this include local bay area news (housing discussion etc)? A lot of that can be borderline political but still very relevant to startuppers.
Agreed. We shouldn't accept this dehumanizing assumption that our social interactions are or should be a component of a larger commercial interaction.

That the majority of comments in this thread seem to imply or at least tolerate this assumption is quite saddening.
This is a site for "hackers", which is an intentionally vague term, and it's not supposed to be limited to just CS and startups, although that's obviously the main audience.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Oddly enough, my experience was quite opposite of yours, but it sounds like the scope of your system might be a little larger than ours.

The key to cleanliness (from my perspective) was to create versioned plugins for any build functionality that was required in more than one subproject. This simple rule prevents spaghetti task dependencies and maintains sanity for everyone. It gives us the best of both worlds -- a little bit of flexibility when needed for one-offs, but then a well defined DSL via plugins for anything that is done more frequently.
I work in central London. There's a supermarket below my old office (Sainsbury's opposite Holborn tube) which is around 1/3rd tills. There are around 30 in total, of which around 20 are self checkout. Nevertheless, at lunchtime and rush hour, you still have to queue.

This technology would be extremely valuable to a shop like that. More choice, more customers, better shopping experience. And employing staff for 3 short-lived peak periods must be expensive.
I understand that it's required, and that organizations often follow processes long after they're revealed to be foolish.

But it's been a decade now since the housing bubble revealed that appraisals are meaningless.

Why has no one eliminated them?
Amazon can puch those through the app instead. Hey, you don't even have to be at the store!
No. Industries where trade is blocked and instead copied.
So I assume Hacker News will think its just a debate when members of the community begin helping Trump make a Muslim Registry or facilitate deporting humans?
I assume we need to detox from politics because without folks might not remember that grab them by pussy is what Peter Thiel supports?
This is bullshit.
Silicon Valley is no better than the gutters of Wall Street despite what your branding tells yourself.
So basically you're saying that you let your kids run rampant through stores, pulling items off shelves and placing them randomly around instead of back where it should be on the shelf.

So your bad parenting and bad kid behaviors will suddenly be a nightmare for you, since you'll be charged for this misconduct instead of simply ignoring it like before?

Sounds like a win for everybody, except the problem maker.
I think you're falsely equivocating the British-inspired American Common Law system with a fundamentally, institutionally different Chinese concept.

No. I'm just observing a few factual items, like the New Hampshire law that defines a brothel as 5 or more unmarried women living together under the same roof. There are also many more laws in the US than are enforced in practice. Our Supreme Court does get around to invalidating some of them, and they arise from a very differently structured system, but the US clearly has these too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_Stat...

The "false equivalence" was only in your mind, not in my text. It was only in how you imagined my motivations must have been to write such a comment, not any content of the comment itself.
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Zero-downtime deployment with Docker and HAProxy
Nice idea in the current climate. If we now also stopped talking about religion, we'd have a freemason-like room for open conversation.
Something that I've learned is that technology will change everything. If we would've put excuses to all technology that is here today, we'd still be living 30 years in average. We are evolving, and so is the way of living and the definition of humanity.

Generations that are being born today won't see a supermarket as a social place at all, and those are the generations that will be accepting and shaping how humanity interacts, so you better adapt to their "normal" life.
Good point, thx for that!
Grades, not IQ or test scores, is what predicts future success
Viewpoints Research Institute (Alan Kay's group) is working on solving some of those problems. They have published some interesting papers although I don't know how practical their ideas are.

http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm