skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wouldn't you want the police be able to intervene when they hear or observe shouting or fighting through an open door or window?

Different things. In a closed room, there is expectation of privacy. It is not the same for what can be seen from an open window.
Also, there is no assurance that LE won't misuse this to crush any dissent or silence somebody they don't like. It is easy to take something said at home out of context or doctor it to sound like something else.
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You're correct on both items.

Gitpay are not required to address the PR, as in reviewing the code and merging. It's code being introduced into their product and they must take their time into it. So no issue there.

There's no reason for an urgent response.

However, the matter here is:

1) They should not have been doing this in the first place

2) Initial contact, as stated in the pull request, was Dec. 21st, so Gitpay had plenty of time before the holidays to address the concern of the information being available. It's not difficult to remove information from a database.

Also, submitting the PR was a gesture of "good-will" in the sense that "Hey you guys should have this feature, so here you go" but the owners of the repo met this request with a bit of hostility which was unwarranted.
But you don't know what audio data the local device itself is storing as an implementation detail.
I have read many monad tutorials. I acknowledge the elegance.

Would someone meet me halfway though and describe to me a specific pragmatic task that a monad accomplishes...and, most crucially, why it is better than the dozens of other options that are out there in programming land?
I tip 15-20%, have lived in the States and Canada my whole life, and this has never happened to me.

Just adding that to provide perspective of how common this is, for readers outside of North America.
They might be OS/2 --- in text mode, it looks just like old fashioned DOS. Apparently lots of ATMs still run OS/2.
As someone who worked in the restaurant industry, and who's immediate and extended family worked in the restaurant industry, this feels like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

I've worked at pretty nice restaurants and while attitudes like yours were pretty pervasive, the only real difference between bussing and waiting was that wait staff was over 21 and thus able to serve alcohol.

I can also tell you from years of experience that waiters are the most stuck up classist poor people I've ever seen.
There are lots of new party games coming out too. Codenames is one that is simple and seems to be getting more and more popular.
Your post has motivated me to blog some details about the difference between AWS EC2 Spot Instances and Google Cloud's Preemptible VMs:

https://medium.com/@thetinot/google-clouds-spot-instances-wi...

(work at Google Cloud)
Yes, I couldn't help but feel like they were very well rendered video game characters surrounded by live actors, and I had to force myself back into the movie. I still have no idea what happened in the first scene Tarkin appears in.
Thank you. And honestly if you look at wikipedia's notable deaths and IMDB's, 2016 was actually a light year. 2015 and 2014 both had more per day.
Ubuntu Manpage: purge-old-kernels – remove old kernel and header packages
Where most economists advocating the policies behind automation and globalization have lost the plot is they map the relative resilience at the macro level of nations that they observe to the micro level of individuals. The map is not the territory, and I've yet to see solid evidence in economics literature that rigorously tests the assumption that what is good for the nation at the policy and aggregate level is automatically good for individuals as well.
Thanks to Google Street View, we don't even have to take a few days: http://bit.ly/2hKM8Yi
Just for correctness' sake, and to engage in utterly unnecessary and ultimately meaningless pedantry, it's the "Joliet" that should be in quotes. "Joliet Jake" was Jake Blues' nickname, taken from his frequent home away from home, Joliet Prison/Correctional Facility.
Even ignoring real hardware, finger trees are only efficient in an amortized sense where more specialized purely functional data structures offer better real-time guarantees.

(0) Asymptotically optimal heaps: Worst-case O(1) insert, merge and findMin. Worst-case O(log n) delete.

(1) Asymptotically optimal search trees: Worst-case O(log n) lookup, insert, update, delete.

(2) Asymptotically optimal deques: Worst-case O(1) cons, head, tail, snoc, init, last.

etc.

Another downside is that they require somewhat fancy language features (namely, polymorphic recursion) to implement in a type-safe way.
I, for one, do not want the police coming to "shouting". Talk about a nanny state.
Given an opportunity and a mechanism to retrain or switch careers, people can do that

But most people don't.

Offer retraining of entirely different work to 100 truck drivers whose jobs don't exist any more, and maybe 10 of them will go through on it.

We should do what we can to help those 10 do it, but most people will want to stick with something at least related to what they know. And they don't want to be on direct welfare, even though someone typing out code would think that would be nice.

We can make labor cheaper to ease the pain on people's lives. Raise my taxes to boost the EITC. Make employment cheaper by reducing payroll taxes and all other business expenses related to employment.

And these are tunable fixes. Once you put otherwise employed people through long periods of unemployment, they become very very hard to get back to work. If you keep them working, even part time, it's easier to restore them to full employment should the need arise.
Ask HN: In-depth posts on interesting topics?
I usually spend about two hours every day doing research. Mostly, I do books; spending a few weeks or months on a topic. From time to time I have a free day, or I want to dip my foot in the water and see if I like the temperature before jumping in.

I’m looking for in-depth tutorials, posts, and even short books, that can be completed in less than a day (or two), and offer a decent exploration of the topic they’re dealing with.

Some examples I liked:

- ANNs: http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/

- Music Generation: http://teropa.info/blog/2016/07/28/javascript-systems-music.html

- Logs: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying)

- Encoding: http://kunststube.net/encoding/
I can see games being an impetus, but are they really the blueprint, as opposed to just another application, but one that the public at large can appreciate?
the gitpay site also lacks a posted privacy policy, making the site illegal in CA https://consumercal.org/about-cfc/cfc-education-foundation/c...
You can take a look in stackshare.io and see what others are using. You will probably want to look at small companies, not Twitter or GitHub.
Ask HN: How far did you go with customer development?
How many people did you talk to?

What was your ratio requests to talk : actual people talked to?

What'd you learn?
>Stars are not in short supply because media is good at finding extreme talent and injecting them into our special moments.

Not as much these days and not of the same magnitude. When Carrie Fischer was made a star there were like half a dozen tv channels, movies and music releases were major events, and almost everybody heard the same songs on the radio or MTV (or Ed Sullivan etc before).

Now a song can be in the top 20 and most of the people might still have not heard it (being in top 20 takes much less units and attention is dispersed in micro-genres and 20000 different media outlets). We have 100x as much of everything on demand (including from other decades), internet, gaming, youtubing, social media, etc, all of which were not a thing back then.
Except the chi-derived 'X' in English is pronounced /ks/. As is true in Latin, from which our word 'archive' comes. If you really wanted to use a Greek chi, it should have been αρχείο.org...
Previous releases (0.10.something, maybe even 0.9?) already had H265 support, IIRC, two years back or so.

And yes, great team.
Yes, they are hired less because hiring them has more risks - they can go shitpost on facebook about how you are a racist for firing/demoting/<insert anything they might not like>. Or they can harass you with media or even sue you, where a white person would be instantly laughed out of court

Also, thanks to positive discrimination their degree might actually be less than exactly the same degree of a white person (The sweet irony)

It's exactly the same mechanism thaat keeps people from hiring young women in child bearing age - it's illegal and despicable but it will keep happening because doing so means an advantage in business
When I started University in 2000, I quad booted Windows ME, Windows 2000, Slackware Linux and BeOS (all using the BeOS boot manager, because it was the most colourful at the time).
I don't disagree with the negative connotations of the name, but it's not named after the Turkish people, but rather after The Turk, a chess-playing machine invented in the 18th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk#Overvie...
There are a ton of card-based games that are fast and easy to play, without complicated rules, such as Cards Against Humanity, Red Flags. These require minimal explanation and are quite portable but are still fun and social.
This Tiny Supercomputer Is the New Wave of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Unless the conversion costs less than the annual cost of a human worker. For example, just picking randomly, a truck driver.
The devs are somewhat hostile in this case. It's a matter of introducing the feature to help out mitigate other requests to take down information. They have the entire user base of github as "inactive users" so they might get more requests.

But, the fact that the first comment from the dev came out sort of hostile is the major concern.

That's why the attention is brought to the community to decide which argument is right.

It's not pushing for action... it's deciding if/who is at fault and whether gitpay should have been doing this sort of thing in the first place.

It's a question of ethics in the bigger picture.
Well, no ops is not really no ops, but more "Google/Amazon is paying ops people for me".
Apache Kafka documentation is an interesting read even if you do not plan to use it: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#design
Which is why I find analysis of this nature to be very frustrating. I wish they could expand on why they did this.
This is a misapplication of "zero cost abstractions." The slogan, taken from C++, means:

> C++ implementations obey the zero-overhead principle: What you don’t use, you don’t pay for [Stroustrup, 1994]. And further: What you do use, you couldn’t hand code any better. - Stroustrup

Everything has costs; that's engineering. But "I chose the wrong data-structure for my task" is not what the slogan is addressing.
I noticed that George Michael died of heart failure. As far as I understand it, this is a generic term for death. Perhaps the actual cause will be revealed at some point when it is more appropriate.
> If we had solid safety nets, this wouldn't happen. People wouldn't be worried about being homeless, hungry, and without a support system. People would embrace automation.
But that's the problem. The Technologist's Libertarian Outlook. Disruption is okay, just help yourself to some bootstraps, and if you die in the street you weren't valuable enough.

You present the "liberatarian outlook" in a bit of a caricatured way; "disruption is good" does not need to be paired with let people die in the streets and assume they weren't valuable enough.

There are some fairly intense tradeoffs though, it seems all of the best places in the world when it comes to social safety nets are generally not the places the innovation is coming from. Where they provide a social safety net, they seem to somehow lack the incentive structure necessary to foster really new ideas.

Without jumping to either extreme, since such policy decisions are definitely not "all or nothing" -- I'd just suggest that it's a matter of where you focus your resources. Focusing on social safety net leaves other things unaddressed. Focusing on innovation and individualism clearly leaves some people's needs unaddressed too.

Ultimately, the best (for me) is to have a wide dispersion of countries who make different choices, with the freedom to move between them to find the fit that's right for you.
We all have a bunch of organs which are single-point-of-failures to our lives. It's crazy, I know.
>Which is a good thing, because today's world allows for us to be exposed to so much more talent and genre that the movie and music industries would have previously ignored.

I think whether it's a good thing depends on whether the important thing is to have access to some better art, or to have shared access to art, even if it's slightly less good.

In other words, art as a shared cultural discussion, vs art as individual consumption. I believe that even the best of art (from a technical standpoint) losses artistic power if it's just consumed by fewer people -- and I mean that it loses it even for those people that do consume it (e.g. they don't get additional layers of meaning/feelings etc by being exposed to the interpretations of the same piece by people and other artists).
For new projects on hardware that supports the Rust compiler, there are few reasons to choose C over Rust.

That said, take the kind of lifelong momentum that PHP has, and multiply it by a few orders of magnitude, and you have C. It will be a very long time before C is replaced by anything.
I noticed it during his first scene, but either my suspension of disbelief won out of they got better tech as the movie progressed, because it looked totally natural later.

Of course, I was expecting to notice it. If I hadn't known about it, maybe it would have gone right by me.
But if almost everyone that lived there loved it the the the label is accurate. You think it's misleading because it doesn't convey a population density component?
I really doubt "getting fitter" increased the likelihood of a heart attack! If anything that probably gave her more time...

As an aside, she played a character who had forgone the luxuries of "being a princess" for a life living in the field with the troops, fighting or training every day. I am not into this Hollywood body-shaming crap at all, but a character who lived that lifestyle would look tough and lean.
> It's really hard to kill off C.

While I totally agree with C's longevity, Rust has something special going on.

You know that long bets website? I'd be happy to place a ten year bet with someone that Rust starts taking a big slice of C's pie. For kernel development, embedded systems, you name it. I'd be happy to qualify my bet with metrics based assertions, too.
Thanks, yes, I mis-typed. And originally, I think the names are related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_Army_Ammunition_Plant in Elwood, south of Joliet, Illinois.
some places will auto add tips to your bill, regardless of party size
For me, art (including poetry) can be described like this:

1. Your brain is some mesh of neurons that is approximately structured to process everyday information (normal vision, standard language, etc)

2. Art is non-everyday information that flows through your brain in an atypical way.

3. This atypical information flow can trigger mental states that would be hard to achieve with typical information flow.

That said, whether that achieved mental state is valuable to the observer is a matter of taste.
I've been writing my own ground up stuff. Nothing really on the hardware side for me to publish, but I have been writing a few articles on my DNS project which I have some plans for in the small device realm at some point (not free of allocations yet though).

There are many articles by others out there for getting going with Rust on baremetal, and with Rustup it's now easy to cross compile from your Dev computer to the tartget device.
Better Road, Grumpier Drivers and the Logic of Discontent
Eh, that's not true. It's more of an issue that there are more famous people now. I'll be honest, I don't know most of the people I see pop up on sites about them dying (I suck at names), all I know is they are a star. I notice there are more are coming up in media, though.
Relevant previous incident with another git tipping site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
Are you against the WW2 retaliation bombing of Japan by the US? If so, please, from your office chair, inform us on what the course of action should have been.
Technology's all very nice, but she died* during a long-haul flight. That severely limits options.

*I hold the theory she's been braindead since then, and the family made a decision today. It sounds cold, but it also means she hasn't been suffering for four days.
Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96
But those have to be mapped a slice at a time into virtual addresses.
Otto's self driving truck system is designed as an add-on package for existing semi tractors, not as something that has to be built-in by the OEM.

Passenger cars have a short enough lifespan that I doubt those sort of retrofits will be especially common.
Same reason CAs exist for signing certificates: trust.
I find it odd, and rather suspicious, that within a few minutes of this being posted there are three comments, all from brand new accounts which have submitted no stories and have each made exactly one comment.

Personally, I've glanced through the paper and find it at a minimum confusing. It might be a great advance, but I'm not well placed to judge. How it has achieved 21 points I really don't know.
Actually not true :) You can write your docs using "description" field, it works in types, endpoints, query params, etc.

And the best thing - it supports markdown
But she was an actor; this was the thing that she chose to spend her life doing, and something she loved doing. She wasn't collating expense reports - she was doing something very creative, with like-minded people, to create something enjoyed by millions of people world-wide.

I bet there are plenty of actors who said, on their death bed, "I wish I had spent more time on stage".
When you don't need persistence, a search tree data structure with fatter nodes (e.g., B-trees) is almost guaranteed to perform better on real hardware. But when you do need persistence, red-black trees become competitive again.
PCs, cell phones, and cordless phones have all previously been tapped or hacked on behalf of law enforcement and other actors, so people generally know and understand what they're getting into there.

These microphone devices are new. People, even HNers, mistakenly think that these devices are not listening until a magic word is uttered (full stop). Many people will not realize that the connection to the internet is bidirectional for data AND code (updates). That's really bad - it means that people don't understand the capabilities of the device they've brought into their homes.

There is a problem here and the evidence is plain: (a) wide spread ignorance about how these things work, and (b) the hot mic combined with the network connection imply a capability, even if currently unexpressed. Device manufactures are not adequately informing the public of the possible side effects of these products.

Therefore, I believe that LE should gain access to these devices with a warrant under the Third Party Doctrine, and that these warrants should be published on sites like HN so that people may become aware just as they are aware of taps on phones.
I think recruiters shouldn't have access to my email address and my email address should never be public on any service.
I thought Tarkin looked a bit creepy (in a bad way; the scriptwriters captured his ghastly Lawful Evil personality beautifully, and the voice actor (Guy Henry, who I've never heard of) did a masterful job).

But Mons Mothra looked fine, and I didn't get to see enough enough of Leia to tell --- and the other CGI actors I didn't know were CGI and completely failed to notice.

So it's definitely getting better. This was no _Polar Express_.
Find find intersecting points, paths, and shapes from UIBezierPath
You keep saying "tip". I think you mean "bribe".
Ask HN: What is the Kubernetes end game?
Hey,

Kubernetes is gaining a lot of traction, and is being declared by some as the future of container orchestration. However, to me it seems that the scale at which Kubernetes operates is beyond that at which most tech companies operate, and as such, the hype needs to be explained.

Hence the question: Is Kubernetes ultimately trying to be the choice for scaling apps out of the box, even if the apps are just starting? In other words, would the end goal be for any tech team to start with kubernetes out of the box, and hence never have to worry about scaling? If so, I can't find a explicit articulation of this goal online, and it certainly does not seem to be a intermediate-term for the K8s team anyway, given that setup costs alone are prohibitively expensive, based on a short survey of various tutorials online over the last few weeks, excluding packaged solutions such as Google Engine.
> There hasn't been anything particularly special about this year.

For you, perhaps.
Unemployment has the potential to be very misleading. It is a count of people who are actively looking for work but not yet employed. It doesn't count people who have dropped out of the workforce but would prefer to be working or people who are underemployed or working less hours than they'd prefer, for example.
Unless she was taking stimulants to lose weight, it would prevent here from having a heart attack. (Dumb idea to do but they're used for that)

Viseral fat is the biggest issue with being overweight. Organs have to work harder because of it.
The idea of transemployment (work that is not needed, but is created to prevent unemployment) is a terrible idea. Have we really become so brainwashed that we have forgotten that the entire purpose of work is to create value?

Simply letting people not work doesn't remove incentives to perform: the incentives that we have are already broken. We don't live in a meritocratic economy: the Monsantos and Blackwaters of the world are rewarded for destructive behaviors, while advertising allows inferior products to drive superior products out of business. If we have enough surplus to support these massive inefficiencies, surely we can spare enough to support the unemployed.

Further, transemployment actually costs us. It requires infrastructure to create fake jobs.
I'd rather have one C++ compiler that works great on every platform than multiple ones that only work on one (or two) platforms.
I personally didn't realize he was fake until after. Possible because Tarkin was so stoic his face barely moves. Leia looked a but unnatural but it didn't ruin it for me.
jc4p, you're totally on topic. The issue here is very similar to recruiter sites. Gitpay is doing essentially the same thing where they are scraping data and creating in-active accounts.

This is sometimes annoying, in the case of recruiters. However sometimes it can be useful if the product has potential.

Gitpay possibly originated from a good idea.

Regardless however, they should launched with an opt-out feature. Many such website that scrape content and create accounts _for_ people have an automatic opt-out feature.

You do open a really good question though if this should be allowed in the first place.

Say if I deleted my github account.. by deleting my account, it doesn't get deleted off of this website.
Ctrl-F "team"...

Actually, fewer matches than I might have guessed, but even so there seems to be a great deal here about teams and interactions and very little about letting smart individuals get on with things in private spaces.