skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that part was hard to read.

But Macs work similarly IIRC; if someone has access to your iCloud account, they own your machine as well.

I think this is more of a comment on the cloud-centric-everything-must-live-in-the-cloud-now mentality than anything else.
The new spec library is being applied to clojure.core and will provide more precise errors at the point where an invalid value is introduced, rather than several layers down the stack.
I feel the same way. I made http://www.simplefin.org
Come come, we're all adults here! Surely as Americans we all believe in the Laws of Supply and Demand. It's quite simple: increase the supply and prices go down. Decrease supply, or increase demand, and prices go up. Basic free market economics.

No matter what official rationale for H-1B visas exists, the primary purpose is to increase supply and lower wages. And it's worked marvelously! Unfortunately, it's not Pareto Efficient, so there will be complaints.
I thought the story sounded familiar - Jered Kenna - this story's lead, claimed to have lost 800 BTC in 2013 (1)

That story got him quite significant press at the time, I found thousands of deviations of the original Bloomberg story - people LOVE the "darwin award" story category.

I was going to crack a joke about this being a Paul Graham submarine strategy (2) but it's just too sad and I believe him, 2FA is a mess.

(1) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-10/meet-the-...

(2) http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
expected an article about scientism
Part of the reason actuaries make so much is that they are certified and legally required to sign off on analysis, similar to the way civil engineers put their signature (and reputation) on their work. But you would be surprised how many decisions come down to "actuarial judgement", having good business sense, intimate knowledge of insurance rules and regulations...and not doing anything special with the data. Hell, some actuarial methods are the same as they were in the 70s. Data science is slowly eating their lunch in predictive modeling areas, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're still around after data science itself has been automated.

I work on a team of actuaries in a more data science-y role. Believe me, I had the same impression initially: "Can't we automate some of this stuff?". But I've since come to see their value.
I think 'implementation details' are important though. What was Rosling's vision for Sweden in particular or the UN in general to do massively more help right there in the Levant? Don't refugees flee because of direct threats to their life an/or because their lifelihood got obliterated? Wouldn't 'help them in their home country' basically mean a ground invasion as a first step?
Thats very different from having 95% success buying and selling. He isn't stating a 95% return, but that the algorithm works 95% of the time. This is unheard of, let alone from someone who started learning finance 5 months ago.
Does it matter if it's evil or extreme incompetence? Grey's law applies - they have the same result.
Hey, just wanted to say I really appreciate all the in depth posts you put out on your site in hopes of educating others and helping them navigate the waters of distributed systems.

Curious, is there any single book you would say you've found to be the equivalent of say CLRS but for the fundamentals of distributed computing paradigms?

My current plan for deep diving into distributed systems theory has just been to go through resources like "Distributed systems for fun and profit", and aggregated lists/overviews like https://henryr.github.io/distributed-systems-readings/ and your distsys-class notes and then just DFS into certain topics from there - compared to the approach I've been taking with deep diving into OS and database theory which is just to go through text books like Operating System Concepts and Database System Concepts while applying the theory in side projects.
Be careful about this though. We generally place a higher value on human life than on a dogs life. If the x-ray used on your dog sometimes kills a dog it is not the disaster that it would be if a human was killed. Thus we spend a lot more on quality control for medical devices for humans.

You might not agree, but that is how society see it.
It's a shame that 2FA is often implemented via unsecure SMS.

The apps are actually more secure.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer! As a fan of Zachtronics games, This definitely sounds like something I might like.

>so much of modern modded minecraft consists of building a single pipe and attaching appropriate outlets to it (AE2 being one of the worst offenders).

That is one of the things I really hate about AE. It just sucks all the fun out of things, as does any other mod that makes things too easy (cough cough EE2 cough cough). I miss being able to leak items, screwing up your machines because you needed a stepup/stepdown on your power supply, and blowing your reactor core. AE is like liquid anti-fun. And I really miss RP2...
>As a corporate client of GS, I don't need data. I need advice.

Such as: "Buy these sub-prime assets that we've bundled into CDOs. By the way, we're actively betting against you and stand to make a ton of money when they tank."
For the hacker types there are things like bug bounty programs where they could make money in a legitimate way. The story I linked to though is just regular extortion artists with no discernible skills. I'm not sure how you address that.
Exactly my point. How do you pay for social workers in a poor city, how do you pay for the welfare state now? Surely you can't expect a social worker to carry around a cash register, their clients don't have money after all.

I'm not sure how the back end will roll out but I know for sure the front end will roll out as a cultural shift in how we view most of the economic transactions we perform today.

We can't slip "universal welfare" or "socialized medicine" past politics today, the concept of basic income is unacceptable to too many. Because we need it anyway it'll be rolled out as the death of the shopkeeper transaction economy.

I'm sure someone pays the snowplow driver, somehow. I don't wave $20 bills in his face before he plows the street in front of my house, nor does he threaten to kneecap me if I don't pay up after he plows. He doesn't send me a bill either. And god forbid in red blooded America we have "socialized plowing" or "basic plowing" or "universal road care". None the less somewhere in the back there is a massive shell game going on with prop tax revenues and budget and somehow that plow gets filled with diesel and 99.99% of the population pays it no attention while simultaneously obtaining completely communist street snow plowing services based solely on need. Just make sure to never point out in polite company that we have "socialized plowing" or a "universal basic snowplow".

A lot of people talk about end user UI which is not going to happen in the USA. 100% change we will have socialized medicine and the only thing 100% certain about the scheme is we will not call it socialized medicine. It'll be like "medicine as a service" or "public utility medical services" or "One of many benefits of living in this fine city much like the free public parks"
Econ 101 says lower price means either not enough demand or too much supply. Lower wages imply lower demand for employees, i.e. fewer jobs. Or maybe too much supply of employees.
Socratic, Spunky NYC Edtech Company, Hiring Head of Design and Android Lead
We have separate teams working on frontend and backend.

Here's a list of performance issues which we intend to work on: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...

Most of them are scheduled for 9.0 or 9.1
good point, I had never heard of that.
For the first, the occasional postmortem isn't that useful. I hoped to know when things go away as easily as I can find out when they're coming out. There's a massive push on creation that takes care of the first one, but after only occasional breathless praise slowly turning into dead silence for almost everyone. Maybe 1/100 writes a postmortem and that goes too deep too narrowly. Or they are silently successful. "Gets to front page of HN" is not a great filter.

Second would have to be "Who's Looking" or something, I guess it's done the other way around so candidates don't get hammered with 10k recruiter emails.

There haven't been great responses on this Ask HN, and looking back on the previous one it was also worse than I remembered. I've accepted that this isn't going to work out in practice.
> I think the point of this project is to replace the people

No. Not at all.

The point of this project is to create trust; trust that healthcare consumers can get the services they need, and trust that government will spend healthcare dollars judiciously.
My guess is that it's Irish emigrants carrying the placards. It's sort of an in joke.
I can't speak for everyone but the main difference between American popular comedy and European comedy is that the European comedy is drier requiring more thought and understanding. Thus making it more attractive to me as I enjoy that level of effort.

Disclaimer: I run a comedy group and am a software developer.
I don't think this is at all the mechanism at work. It's much more accurate to think of trollers as spammers -- and the effect they can have on discourse is almost akin to violence as they attack the means by which the mediums they troll could otherwise support meaningful communication.

You suppose that variations in response to trolling from Religious communities vs liberal communities has some fundamental relationship to the intrinsic properties of those communities. In reality, I think trolling is a weapon and the difference you see in how these communities respond reflects the difference in the amount of ammunition spent on trolling those communities vs the size and efficacy of any agenda that tried to counter the influence of trolls.
Which set of Minecraft mods would you recommend? I've played a lot of vanilla, but haven't ever done much with mods. I've always enjoyed building redstone mechanisms like secret doors, automated mob harvesters (when those worked well), and Factorio definitely scratches my automation design itch, but I think it would be a fun addition to MC, too.
The Battle for the Soul of San Francisco
yeh you can't send a robot of an on site visit to look the management in the eye
Those are all British comedies/comedians, and the Economist is British as well.
> Marra and Santella make some attempt to appeal to cat lovers by suggesting that cats be kept indoors and allowed to work off their excess energy on feline versions of hamster wheels.

Huh? A cat isn't a hamster, no way they will run in a hamster wheel. If you want your cat to run, you'll have to play with it.

> “they can get a leash and walk their cats as tens of millions walk their dogs”

Well.. cats can walk on a leash. I happen to do so on a daily bases, but it certainly is not comparable to walking a dog. The cat walks and sniffs around. It is the cat who determines where we go. Not the human.
It is more often standing still as it is walking. Spending half an hour on walking 200 meters is not uncommon.

For the rest I'm not sure what the title on the article has to do with the content of it but OK. :)
If your society deems it inappropriate to have people die on the streets from disease or injury then charging for basic parts of the system won't work.

The US has a (admittedly obfuscated) fee based health care system. However, if one necessarily needs medical treatment, you can go to an ER it will be provided to you. You might end up with a debt that you can never pay but you won't be turned away. These emergency visits actually account for a large amount of the US government health care costs.

So if your society accepts that all people will be treated regardless of their ability pay then you might as well start looking at better and cheaper ways of doing that. Waiting till someone is so sick that they need the ER is a huge waste and bogs down the entire system; even for paying users! By comparison, simple doctors visits are considerably less expensive and produce better outcomes than waiting until people have no other option.

As for socialism, your society doesn't want to let people starve either and provides plenty of mechanisms to prevent that too. Socialism is automatically baked into any society that won't let the poorest or the sickest simply die.
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/testing-apache-cassandra-wi...
Its a common cross cultural snark about obnoxious authoritarian leaders, personally I was thinking of good old Xerxes but it just keeps appearing everywhere ...
As someone whos knows almost nothing about 3d graphics and its APIs, how does Vulkan play into all of this? Why should this new API be used instead of adding Vulkan's API to the browser?
So is this supposed to be like a WebVulkan?
Sorry, you never will! By 'crude' I really meant it; and not just the UI, but the code. I thrashed it out as a kind of spike and it won't ever be seen by anyone but me (and even I only look reluctantly).

Writing a proper Android version is currently tying for first place with a micro.blog (http://micro.blog) client for my next project.

Should you really be interested in a Linux version, Quiver's author has written up the json format: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format. It seems simple and sane.

I also like the general notion of "Standard Notes" (https://standardnotes.org/), but can't see text-only notes becoming 'standard' in the 21st century.
I don't believe in an efficient market response when it comes to improved accuracy of models and ultimately AI. More jobs will be destroyed before they are replaced. The volatility that results will decimate wages one industry at a time (assuming applications are gradual). I would be curious to see % of population employed over the periods where productivity spiked.
As much as i love IPFS, it's a shame to me how slow IPFS and Filecoin appear to be developing.. from the outside, at least.
Meh, most of us have been on the receiving end of this at some point... and many (including myself) have been on the 'doing' side. It is nothing personal, none of us can expect a job for life anymore.

Seeing where organisations are contracting is both interesting for a view of technology in general, but also where to concentrate our hiring (or sales) efforts.
Much more informative than the Uber post itself.
The 'rapid iteration' of the web platform strikes again. In this case, getUserMedia has been replaced (edit: I should be precise, "is being replaced") [1] by MediaDevices, which provides a promises-based method for MediaDevices.getUserMedia() [2] to get similar functionality.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/g...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...
Could this be adapted for graphics virtualization, e.g. allowing several VMs to securely and performantly render 3D workloads on a single physical GPU?
Page 13 of the CII annual statement clearly places NTPSEC in the short term category. Who knows esr was under the same impression.

https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/sites/cii/files/cii_annua...
"Though I'm a techie, I'm in a situation similar to a fine artist because the market has not figured out how to value and reward the work I feel called to do."

Keep jackin' it to the market, dude. "The meddling of the ACA destroyed my life! By the way, no one will pay me for my labor."
Seems like he was very much targeted. Someone knew this guy and knew he had a LOT of bitcoin. If they actually remoted into his computer, waited until he mounted some external drive with the wallet and then acted. It's clear this was a targeted act. Poor guy.
Yeah, I figured that out as well, but thank you for finding the time to analyse the code and write an answer. I appreciate it and may be on my fourth attempt at actually learning Rust :)
This is a time-tested way to make people fix broken things that work by accident.
Agree 100% (see my top level comment for more incriminating evidence) and while this is the worst one yet, I feel earlier indiehacker articles have had similar problems -- exaggerating success and achievements for personal gain. If indiehacker wants to save their reputation, they need to editorialize more IMHO.
I too salute CoreOS for doing the right thing for their customers and the ecosystem. Kubernetes was something that was hard to predict, it didn't grow organically but was suddenly released by Google.

Right now I believe Kubernetes is the project with the most accepted pull requests per day. This came up in a talk from GitHub at Git Merge 2017. It shows that k8s is on its way to becoming the default container scheduler platform. It will be interesting to see how Docker Swarm and Mesosphere will compete during 2017.

The container scheduler is becoming the next server platform. The fifth one after mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, and virtual machines.

While configuring GitLab to run on k8s we learned that much of the work (like Helm Charts) doesn't translate to Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. I think there might be strong network effects similar to the Windows operating system.
MicroPython also has an ESA sponsored port for their space hardened architecture and RTOS. And even more impressive, I'm writing my thesis about evaluating MicroPython for CubeSats.
This comment demonstrates a lack of familiarity with how health insurance pricing in the US works.

0 - One medical, which charges an annual fee, makes preventative care more accessible? How do you possibly draw that conclusion. (I say this as a happy subscriber).

1 - purchasers of insurance, mostly still employers, do care about costs

2 - insurers aggressively negotiate with hospital groups, so you do see pricing power differences in action. Fewer hospital groups and condensed ownership in a geographic region gives hospital groups more pricing power. See eg Boston public employees insurance group attempting to cap payments at 160% of medicare [1].

3 - It's well known that for many common procedures, regional hospitals vs teaching hospitals can offer 3-4x price differences with no (or even better!) outcomes at the regional hospitals. It's the insurers choice not to pass any of those cost differences, except in the broadest sense, ie narrow vs wide networks, on to insurees. Insurers also exercises unilateral control over that decision.

4 - People aren't incentivized to get into med school? That's news to the many applicants. The admissions are capped, in many ways, by government choice: see medicare resident limits.

[1] http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/01/23/state-health-...
I recently ran into a similar case of idealism: in this case, systemd assuming that a laptop's lid "button" (and its S3 state) actually works correctly and assuming that the user wants the laptop to go to sleep if the lid is closed (regardless of power management settings).

For context, the laptop is an old one running openSUSE 13.2. User hands me the laptop to take care of routine updates. All of a sudden the screen goes blank, even in non-graphical modes. I was eventually able to read through 'dmesg' long enough to find out that the system was being told to go into standby exactly three minutes after boot.

After some WWW searching, I found out that systemd (or maybe logind specifically) does this as a "safety measure" (so that your laptop doesn't burn up in your backpack). Never mind that there are plenty of legitimate reasons for closing one's laptop lid besides putting it to sleep (for example, plugging into an external display). This wouldn't have normally been an issue if it weren't for the incorrect detection of the lid state; despite the laptop lid being wide open, it was mistakenly detected as closed. Further, the laptop has never really cooperated with Linux when it comes to standby, so instead of going to sleep, it'd end up just hanging at a blank screen entirely unresponsive, requiring a hard reboot.

Like, I appreciate that systemd wants to have my back, but I feel like they're overthinking things. I was thankfully able to edit some config file to tell systemd to ignore laptop lid events, but it's still rather silly.
I'm not at all an expert, but from my limited perspective this looks like a problem that blockchain could potentially help with in the future.

It seems like someone could implement an open source system of smart contracts that automatically pay out healthcare costs and distribute expenses in a transparent and agreed upon way. The organization could have an extremely decreased overhead compared to a physical company because it would need almost no staff or infrastructure, and if everyone can see the source for how money moves as well as the distributed ledger for how spending works it would be highly corruption resistant while still allowing for security of doctor-patient confidentiality due to the encrypted nature of blockchain.

Of course it would by default being extremely susceptible to external abuse, would have a ton of complexities in interfacing with the healthcare system, and wouldn't be viable until/unless blockchain and related tech matures and gains mass market acceptance.

I could be totally wrong about the approach, but I'm really hopeful for the tech world to be able to make a dent in this mess. Hopefully some people with more experience have better ideas.
> with that logic, don't get mail sent to the office because your employer has every right to open and reseal the envelope.

I don't have things sent to the office unless they comply with my employer's policies (e.g. I'd never have a weapon mailed here), and unless I'm happy with my employer having information about my packages.

I'm curious what line of reasoning would justify me doing such a thing and expecting privacy.

> You know who also has that right? Prisons.

You know who also has that right? You, on any network and hardware you own. My employer owns my laptop and the network it's connected to: of course it has every right to inspect its own property.
Coinbase offers FULL digital currency insurance against theft, underwritten via a Lloyds of London Syndicate:

http://www.coindesk.com/facebooks-ben-davenport-leaves-bitco...

Lloyds isn't getting involved unless they have an incredibly high degree of satisifaction in security processes, in fact they stripped Elliptic of their first ever "vault" insurance shortly after awarding claiming they didn't like the "publicity".

http://www.coindesk.com/lloyds-back-bitcoin-insurance-deal-e...
Bitrot has to be fixed. Think of systemd as your friendly LSB header linter.
I've seen that happen to FX traders, and some fairly straight-forward automation. No AI was required.
In this article, the opening paragraph actually tells us why Jane Jacobs is culturally relevant. without all the irrelevant digressions. I mean what the heck does her boss being unable to attend a conference got to do with urban architectural planning.

https://www.pps.org/reference/jjacobs-2/
[JavaScript] 3D Framework for Web Games / Apps Development
I see many people say that Mongo is unfot for a production db, but it is actually used in production by many companies.

Obviously this is true of many products, but how serious is it in practice? The criteria for 'good enough' can't be passing Jespen because very few db's do.

Storing schemaless json is a very valid use case. And the fact is there aren't really many proper NoSql alternatives, other than RethinkDB, which I hope becomes popular, and maybe Couch. e.g. Cassandra is often touted but its a k-v store, not a document db.

There's a reason Mongo became and continues to be popular. I still think Rethink is superior in every way.
Not arguing at all about being skeptical, but regarding 'cat' it's entirely possible they just had the wrong file extension on that ascii art chart. I've definitely given some plaintext files incorrect extensions if I knew I'd be wanting to open them (or quicklook them) in some program that usually ignores the correct extension.

The general vagueness of the post is a much much much stronger reason to be skeptical, imo.