skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote something similar in bash and put it into a docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/simplepush/alerta

Just running this docker image on a server you want to monitor is enough.

Instead of Twilio it uses Simplepush (https://simplepush.io).
I liked you more when you were a role model for Ruby snobbery. :( (Said, like, 95% in jest. I think. I think I think?)

But, yeah, I don't often stump for people around here but Pete is good people to work with if you're looking. I would rather have fire ants poured in my pants than do web work, but I'd jump at the opportunity to work with him again and if you're looking, you could do a lot worse.
If they go "hand in hand", they are inextricable in all ways that matter. Yet somehow, here is a very healthy discussion thread where it isn't brought up, at all, ever. That tells me that they are not as inextricable as people seem to think.

Again. Do we really to relitigate "what about the jobs?" any time an AI or deep learning framework comes up? What if there are sites that are not Hacker News that are better for that kind of discussion?
>Whoever isn't fascinated by the modern power grid is slightly dead inside. The same applies to a ton of other "mundane" things, like road and rail networks, sewage systems, garbage disposal and recycling, and so on.

I feel like the vast majority of people have absolutely no interest in learning about these things, even in a calamitous context.
There is. Set "showdead" to "yes" in your profile. You can "vouch" for comments made by banned users.
The current top comments all say what you said without the unwarranted snark.
Perhaps singularity?
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Funny how that works!

I'm also amused the fact that in the parent comment of this thread FT_intern says: "I can barely tell the gender or race of anyone here." Like, um, sorry you're not very perceptive, dude? (I would bet money i don't even have that FT_intern is a dude.)
There's no such thing as a "non-political" story.
> Nothing to do with supplements, that is nonsense but we're talking about very low levels of certain nutrients including vitamins and various minerals.

I don't know how to interpret this. You're saying that supplements are nonsense but the deficiencies are real? So the deficiency causes mortality but from fixing the deficiency doesn't reduce mortality?

> Low levels of vitamin D have been directly linked to increased death rates from cardiovascular conditions that doesn't mean the swallowing pills would help."

Vitamin D deficiency is correlated with certain cardiovascular conditions. "Directly linked" doesn't really mean anything and is misleading because it could easily be interpreted to be causal which is definitely not established. If it were causal then supplements would fix it.

> And so on and so on, eventually you can tie a lot of medical causes to poor diet, not getting enough X which causes or makes condition Y worse leading to death.

This is the sort of statement that I don't think is supported by the science, but is so vague that it's difficult to meaningfully discuss. What is "a lot"? Is it some small fraction of a percentage? My understanding is that in the western world, vitamin deficiencies are fairly rare and clinical evidence doesn't indicate most conditions are clearly tied to deficiencies.

Obviously what you eat will impact your health but the area is so complex that the contribution of minor deficiencies is basically impossible to separate from the noise. An implication of this is that recommendations of specific supplements or specific foods for correcting deficiencies are generally not scientific.
By end-to-end i mean that you can:
(1) read data from SQL or NoSQL DB, excel file, csv, JSON through some REST service, etc.
(2) process it in R
(3) display it to the user through some interactive web interface e.g. using Shiny

It is relatively easy if your app fit the whole loop. I would recommend with some Shiny tutorial to get you started: http://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/

But if you need e.g. some stream processing or more complex guis, then R might be not enough I guess.
Exactly. I would avoid using calloc simply because I don't know what it actually does.
What kind of SSDs were these, and how much writing had they been subjected to? If the flash was really wearing out, I'd expect read performance to also suffer significantly as LDPC soft decode error correction was required to recover the data intact. If only write speed was degrading and if you weren't thoroughly hammering the drives with writes around the clock, then you might merely have filled up the drives with a RAID configuration that didn't pass through TRIM commands.
Rocket men: why tech’s biggest billionaires want their place in space
I don't understand your reply. How is this not a non sequitur?
It's a problem in SoCal. They mitigate it by using injection wells in coastal areas as a seawater barrier. Orange County's initial efforts of using RO treated wastewater were for seawater barrier injection wells.
Because they reasons they were required were still valid, so instead efforts were directed at the factors that made them ineffective at addressing the need motivating them.

Whether those efforts were successful or not is another discussion.
> I have a notion that one of the major ways people will be spending the time they otherwise would be working is by consuming entertainment.

Where are these people getting the money to spend on entertainment if they aren't working? I don't think this will happen.

What I do see happening, however, is that people have less free time between juggling more than 1 job and a side gig with Uber/their ilk.
And yet everyone who wants to develop in JavaScript does have to interact with various hubs of the JavaScript ecosystem. Why can't they be exposed to positive influences there?
I manage about a book a week reading for a half hour or so at lunch time. It's not usually heavyweight stuff - fantasy, historical fiction, sci-fi, on my kindle. But hey, it's my lunch break, right?
The world is analog.
As an experiment it is interesting, and there certainly community management is hard. Also, I think that better community management is maybe some of the problem on Facebook and Twitter, so there is quite a bit of irony in me arguing against it.

But...

The media and technology revolution that we are both living through and shaping with the technologies that we deploy should be something that we actively discuss and wrestle with. I've recently been reading more history of the impact of the printing press (scientific revolution, monarchy => democracy, reformation, and a lot of war).

"This is not a new issue and it is not something that the people who read this site are responsible for."

I could not disagree more strongly. The web is quite new, and we don't understand its impact on society. Certainly the people on this site are not entirely responsible for it, but I think that we should feel some responsibility for it. I certainly do.
Econtalk. Russ Roberts is a fantastic interviewer, with only a few weak performances in his decade of weekly podcasts.

He probably skews a bit libertarian for the typical HN'er to agree with, but he gives voice to a lot of points of view, and he brings on good guests. At least half of the podcasts have sufficiently interesting titles that they could be easily voted to HN front page, and the depth of discussion is good for the hour each guests receives.
I remember using Firebug years ago and it was absolutely awesome. It made developing on Firefox about 100 times easier than on any other browser.

Then, of course Chrome came out and Firefox added built-in dev tools, so it makes sense to stop development.

Still, such a good product.
Middle-Market Woes Inspire Starbucks’s Bet on Luxury Coffee
There's a big gap between being discriminated against and being oppressed.
idlewords recently organized a meetup to discuss exactly those questions: https://sfbay.techsolidarity.org/2016/11/28/meeting_notes.ht...
Ask HN: Is Xamarin.Forms ready for primetime yet?
I've played with the Xamarin samples and build a really simple app about 12 months ago. I found then that the app felt slow. This is obviously an abstraction layer and there are performance penalties involved there, but is Xam.Forms ready for use in commercial apps?

I found the framework to be a little bit buggy then, is that still true now? Has the speed improved? Is there anything obviously missing?

Thanks!
This is a big concern in South Florida. A number of wells had to be moved inland due to salt water intrusion in the aquifer near the coast.
That's what "hide" does for a submission, though you have to do that on per-submission basis.
Pentagon buries evidence of $125B in bureaucratic waste
audio books work great for me! :)
The port holes will be acrylic windows in a window frame with O-ring seals. The O-ring will be placed on the side facing away from the water such that when the pressure rises on the window, the pressure on the seal rises as well, making it even more water proof. Same idea for the hatch.
Sorry, I edit my post, so the answer to the relitigation problem is above :)

As for other sites, no, absolutely not. Politics is unavoidable. You can enforce a silent acceptance of the status quo, but that's in itself a strong political (reactionary) position.
How many of the lost hundred cantatas do you think contained new (unknown to us) music, as opposed to music that was parodied in a surviving cantata?
I'm sorry you had a poor experience. Our downtime was very unfortunate. FWIW - It was quite some time ago and we have not had downtime since. Of the three occasions we had downtime two were due to our infrastructure provider taking our network down in error over invalid takedown requests and we had to fend of a DDoS the other time. I hope we can earn your trust again and you give surge a shot again in the future.
So it would appear the most interesting data point on these records is the date and time of the breach discovery, or using that to estimate a breach date? Correlating that with some other publicly available data sets (e.g.: historical routing data) might yield some useful results?
It's not impossible to say "this is a technology site, here we discuss technology" which would make it much less arbitrary which things are politics and not. You might not want to do that, but it's certainly not impossible as an alternative. "Technology only week" is probably even an easier sell for an experiment.
Cool! Yeah, I know of that workflow. I've seen some neat stuff done with that. Thanks for the follow up!
A spline/splinelike curve question: is there a smooth spline-like curve which can be "consumed", that is, you can move an endpoint along the curve without changing the remainder of the curve? This is useful for path planning. A sequence of arcs has this property, but a smooth curve with control points through which the curve passes would be convenient.
The first time it snows, everyone inexplicably forgets how snow works, and how to drive in it. It's terrifying to be on the road that morning.
Matching CVV depends on the underlying bank.
This is great. More of this and less mud slinging on HN might actually move the needle.
And then there's of course when calloc returns non-zeroed memory once in a while, which causes... 'interesting' bugs.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293976
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5229
Firebug is the reason IE lost it's dominance. Once it was easier to test on firefox rather than IE (which was ~99% of browsers at the time) the compatibility problem solved itself.
Here's my favorite essay from String Theory that really sums everything that book is about: http://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david-... This version is a bit of pain though since the footnotes are collected at the end and you would have to swap back and forth to read them; the book allows space on each page to make it much more convenient. I think I'm in the minority, but I really wish Infinite Jest handled footnotes in the same way.
I thought Hassabis said he was seriously trying to build grounded AGI based on some type of system with deep learning-ish stuff. I think it will work within around a dozen years or so.

How do they know that they can't take their current deep learning-type techniques or some variation/enhancement of them and apply them to more demanding and general circumstances?

For example, they have the agent that goes around trying to score in a 3d first-person-shooter with the pixels as input. Has it been determined that there isn't a way to gradually train that system to recognize words, phrases, or even sentences that would give it hints about how to score better, maybe by associating words with other (spatial/navigation) parts of the model or more general association between aspects of the learning system in different domains.

To me it seems like some type of deep learning (or maybe a variant using spiking neurons since those can reportedly learn with fewer examples?) when grounded by integrated sensory inputs of different times and incrementally trained, may be able to already exhibit general animal/human-like intelligence, or will be able to with one or two minor 'breakthroughs'.

I'm still going with 2029 (as suggested by Kurzweil I think).
Reminder that unions have negotiated and continue to negotiate compensation plans from employers that automate away or move jobs overseas to workers that are replaced.
they are perhaps predictably problem threads

Thank you! That felt like pulling teeth, and I didn't think was controversial at all. I'm not trying to score points.

[Edit to add: For me, this is part of finding common ground, and "they are perhaps predictably problem threads" is perfectly in keeping with your earlier statement about the existing guidelines and policies being "near optimal". No human social system is going to be perfect.]

I think that detox week (note: week, not permanent forever) is an attempt to reduce the problems these threads represent. You obviously disagree that detox week will do anything to improve this, which is fine. I think it's understandable that the mods would want to reduce these types of threads if they can.

You've also said that the current guidelines are near-optimal. Does that mean that any attempt to improve on the guidelines shouldn't be attempted? That's a legitimate position to hold. I think it's also understandable for the mods to try to improve the behavior on the site to more closely cleave to "civil and substantive". Hard to fault them for trying.

Thanks again for your contributing to this thread. I appreciate it.
Why would Amazon invest its profits in cancer research? Wouldn't you expect a drug or biotechnology company to invest their profits in cancer research?

Amazon is in the business of creating a marketplace that efficiently matches buyers and sellers. It provides a distribution infrastructure for sellers and provides a high level of service for buyers.
All censorship is done with good intentions. Things are censored because they are somehow against a certain set of values or they threaten the well-being of the establishment.

So this move is on thin ice.

But I also think that politics and politicians in particular are getting a lot more media exposure than they deserve or need.

Politicians are the new rock stars... but they shouldn't be. They should be spending time working on actual societal problems - the things they've been elected for.

All the rest of us, too, should give them a lot less attention and focus our attention on issues rather than people.

Political affiliation is a very subjective thing, similar to tastes in music or art or sex. There's no perfect solution to all the problems we're facing and that's why we disagree on things.

So often political discussion is a futile attempt to convince the other side that the worst (their point of view) is the best (our point of view). Which is a waste of energy and time and should be avoided.

Considering all of these factors, with a shade of worry I think this is the right thing to do.
It's not gone; it's built-in to Firefox.
Green name means relatively new user
I'm in the same boat as you. The Zillow estimate in my neighborhood seem to be about 15% higher than the sale price on any particular property. It's kind of academic for me, since I don't plan on selling any time soon, but it would be a mistake to do financial planning based on those estimates.

The funny thing is the estimate doesn't change when a sale closes. I would think the surest indication of what you can get for a property is what it sold for last week.
Maybe that's a good model for sponsoring open source apps?
Have you seen Linux's own IP over USB support? No need for an RS232 layer. http://superuser.com/questions/593757/the-best-way-to-do-tcp...

You could even combine this with multiple cables to multiple ports (eg. 2x cables to 2x ports on each node) using the bonding driver.
Did you think talking about SOPA on HN makes sense? Talking about the legality/morality of NSA snooping?

What about Uber's woker policies? Facebook censorship/curation? Data privacy?

Hiring and firing policies in tech companies?

How to manage rogue IoT devices? ICANN domain policy?

This is just a sample of topics that feel pretty "Hacker News". They're all political (or at least have strong political angles), and they're all pretty popular topics of conversation here.

Now I've felt the moderation here has worked in good faith, and is likely trying to reduce flamewars here. But I'm a bit worried that the things that get marked political will mainly be around discrimination issues.

And considering the amount of SV "leadership"(scare quotes but you get the idea) on Hacker News, this is a _very_ effective forum to talk about the difficulties of certain people to get work, get funding. Talking about it here can jumpstart more ways of tackling these issues, and thinking about what the community as a whole wants to do
We also had a rainy season last year - these reservoirs were significantly filled relative to 2015 levels throughout summer/fall of 2016
Why not use a plate/skillet for BGA desoldering?
> By the way, shouldn't msys_tty_on_handle be marked 'unsafe' too? I'm wondering if what happens I pass in some garbage as a handle...

Possibly. How would you construct said garbage? Would it require unsafe?
I get that there's a lot of attrition, but less attrition would be nice.
This surprised me. Microsoft was started in the mid-70s. I'm in my early 30s and wasn't aware software was getting used in business much until the late 70s/early 80s.

I guess there were mainframes and not minicomputers? Still, surprising a high school kid would get a coding job in the early 70s.
Im a junior salesman at a mid level paper company. My day-to-day is pretty standard. Ill meet a few clients maybe close a sale or two. I do have to stay vigilant though because some of my coworkers are very unprofessional and like to waste time on pranks. Fortunately though, my boss is a great guy, and my personal mentor. Ever since he named me assistant to the regional manager, our branch has dominated the northeastern regional paper market.
All in all, it not a bad gig. I have a 50 acre beat farm which I run together with my cousin, so that keeps me busy and entertained.
And yet the other thread somehow managed to discuss the technical nature of OpenAI without touching any of this other stuff, absent any enforcement (the political cooling-off period was started after that thread was submitted), or obvious attempts to not touch it.

These two views are mutually exclusive. Either technology discussion can be separated from politics discussion (and given the other thread, we have evidence that it can), or it can not.

You're telling me that I can't discuss a topic without touching this other topic, and yet here that is happening right in front of us.
Or mklink, which has been available since Vista.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(v=ws.11...
Economics of Fermentation
Google still has the 7.48. But this does appear to be bogus. If a 10% jump were real, there would be news stories on all the major financial services.

XE has some explaining to do.
I'm not arguing for a free for all, I am arguing that the proposed ban on politics for a week is too broad a brush, because it catches several relevant conversations, and the serious offsenses are already against the rules.
Hacker News is OVER
Well I won't be surprised at all if VC's like Peter Thiel invests primarily in China someday if he finds it more profitable, but that would have no implications on that he also wants to shift his lifestyle or culture in anyway. It'll just be one more foreign largely unknown to China making some money there.

Masayoshi Son made lots of fortune investing in Alibaba in its early days, and Warren Buffett has long known to be investing in China. It's not unprecedented. Chinese companies like Baidu and Alibaba are also investing a lot in SV companies. Neither of these activities really have further implications.
AnyPerk (YC W12) is looking for AEs with 4+ years closing experience
Scientists Battle in Court Over Lucrative Patents for Gene-Editing Tool
Elasticache disabling SLAVEOF is the main reason why I don't use it in production.
How? This isn't photovoltaic. It's just a solar-powered heat engine. That's a mature technology.
Thanks for doing this Michael! Any advice on getting people to pay for something before it's built? I think a lot of people will say they will pay a certain price for something but when it comes to signing up once they can enter their credit card, that doesn't end up being the case. Are LOI's the main way, and does that work for smaller projects < $100/mo?
This!

HN is one of the few places where informed discussion is actually possible and even opposing views (as long as they are objective and well reasoned) are adding to the discussion (and often upvoted). Shutting that off just because of some unfounded downvotes or trolling in times where such discussions are extremely important is cowardly and a very sad move in my opinion. HN is better (and more important) than you think.
I was just talking to my California-raised daughter about flying her back to my home town of Chicago just so she could learn how to drive on snow and ice. I'll start the instruction with this video.
For comparison, you can view how these very notes were discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085270
Thanks for reporting in Dwight!
Yeah, I hear you. Snow plow is the only commercial one I've heard of that allows self-hosted. It makes sense but you need a new billing model then (e.g. services).

The bigger the data the more self-hosting will make sense for you, but the less for your customers.
i definitely blame investigators. ask what you want to know, otherwise be prepared for false positives.

the most concerning part is that they dont care about the false positives.
What is the difference between "No politics on HN" and "No tribalism on HN" in terms of enforcement and compliance?
yeah, and in that case about pornography, censorship was shot down.
"Good thing there are millions of other websites with book suggestions which work just fine with ad-block turned on..."

That's how I interpret pages that don't work at all when I have adblock turned on.

Seriously, if a website is so crammed with tracking shit and advertising that it can't even display text when I have ad-block on, then good-riddance.
It seems the opposite is happening. For a while LA was promoting water saving but it seems they have stopped. a lot of my neighbors also have restarted their sprinklers. I think things have to get much worse before there will be action.