skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that seemed really odd to me, but I thought maybe it was due to diesel vs electric-with-regenerative-braking, which can be disturbingly efficient. Trains should be vastly more efficient than any individual transport.

The only US commuter train I've seen was the SFO Caltrain, which was very not electric. Are there many electric trains there?
Products aren't for people yet
My company recently hired a young student right out of high school. What made him stand out was a few apps he had published on the App Store. I believe he had a couple of games and two or three utilities. All of them were free, but they all had quite a few reviews and 4 to 5 star ratings.

I believe you can achieve similar results by showing the work you've done on OSS projects. Just share your commits with potential employers.
I have a list I have been keeping here.
https://github.com/dakaraphi/development-resources/blob/mast...
You clearly didn't just 'try' Vodka if you were vomiting. You drank to excess.
I love thinking (noun) like this. It's perhaps clichéd to call it out-of-the-box, particularly as it's likely common knowledge within the community, but breaking down the situation, looking at the characteristics of the plane on the ground versus in the air, and how the characteristics and options are different in each encourage me to similarly challenge assumptions when I approach other challenges.
We've had quite many issues due to using RHEL with the devicemapper storage driver. But overall I like the concept behind it.
I don't drink either, but I can see the benefit of something that lowers inhibitions. Especially for professionals, we kind of learn to be somewhat guarded and uptight all the time.

I know when I'm very tired (from being up late or exercising a ton) I get somewhat loopy and it seems to have a similar effect on my inhibitions.
For what it's worth, I had to draw two dedicated electrical circuits up to my home office because my custom PC was simply too much load on its own, let alone the four monitors and assorted other equipment I have.

Granted, my computer is about $10,000 of hardware with four GPUs; my point is that I'm not sure it's poetic license. You can definitely build a computer, even a custom laptop, that would at least strain typical circuits and maybe trip them with other peripherals attached.
Maybe it was 50% law enforcement and 49% journalists?
Adam Savage once said he distrusted anyone that hadn't failed, and I share this sentiment. It's likely that, if you haven't failed spectacularly, then you've not had the opportunity to internalize the lessons that come from failure: humility, caution, compassion, self-awareness, respect for evidence.

If you've already hired talent without this experience, then you'll either need to carefully craft an opportunity for them to fail or wait for them to do so all on their own. The latter is, for me, intolerable, and I would rather provide the proudest among them vague architectural tasks that pit their design sense against that of their coworkers. Being in charge of a design that's perpetually torn apart by your fellow implementors is good practice, and it may even reduce the total hubris of the group.
http://www.businessinsider.com/middle-class-in-every-us-stat...

"In this analysis, Pew defined middle class households as those earning 67%-200% of a state's median income. So ... how much is that?"

... < $150,000 in all states.
So by a "tremendous boon to cryptocurrency mining" you actually mean completely disastrous to all known cryptocurrencies.

It will be interesting to see if someday the prospect of effective quantum computers has a definite economic effect on the value of bitcoin or its successors. I don't imagine currencies work very well when they have an expiration date.
A lump sum of money and an estate built around extracting wealth from economic processes are two different things. The typical lottery winner doesn't have the social connections or technical skills necessary to create such an estate themself. Having money quite obviously is different from having investments.

If the lottery winning family does not focus on wealth accumulation, then their wealth will regress towards the mean for their lifestyle. If the lottery winner puts all their winnings in an index fund, that would be a good start to creating such an intergenerational estate.

However, surprising perhaps to many people, not everyone is interested in turning money into more money. People who try to make money, surprise, have the skills, connections, and desire to do so. Of course, wanting to be such a "self-earner" doesn't mean one has the means or the luck to become one.

The key point is this: if your estate is currently extracting wealth from investments, odds are that you inherited that estate. Your family having money in the past is a precondition of such a state, but it is not sufficient to sustain it. Wanting to be the first generation of your family with wealth extraction privileges does not mean you'll succeed and most such aspirants fail.
>>It's a lot of fun.

I quit drinking about 6 months ago and I couldn't feel better. I have a lot of fun with my drinking and non-drinking friends.
That's a wonderful quote echoing some of my thoughts regarding the post-work economy. Does one need to read the entire "Hainish series" to enjoy this book? Or can I just jump right in?
Would be interesting to see how this would translate into a memristor-based CPU in the future.
Go was inspired by both C and Oberon:

https://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide#17

https://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide#29

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReKdcpNyQg

Rust is too complex to be compared to C. It's more like C++ plus ML.
Ask HN: Good Support API recommendations?
Hi HN,

Has anyone got any recommendations for good Support desk API's that can integrate into iOS apps?

Thanks
Plenty of CP hunters. I'm hunting it right now on the Candid App, not like you need to hunt it there since it seems to get blatantly advertised by all the idiots. Funnily enough, I've told the CEO several times and she doesn't seem to care that it's happening, as many of these groups on Candid are still operational, and she's dead silent on the issue.
> Our world resembles a lot from each of these books. Much like in 1984, we have devices and companies constantly monitoring us (iOS, Android, Facebook, etc.), we have “news programs” and websites seemingly modeled after the “two minutes hate”, and we clearly have some Ministry of Truth-like misinformation getting spread around while accurate information gets lost or ignored.

Is this a joke? Having recently reread Orwell's 1984, you can't seriously believe our society resembles Oceania in the slightest. The world may have some problems today, but the world in 1984 is war-torn, totaliarian hellscape from which no one can escape.
If you are predisposed to some genetic condition (say cancer), healthy living (excersize, eating right) can help delay the onset and improve outcomes. (s.o. is nurse and sees that stuff all the time, fwiw)
I loathe this kind of headline, claiming to have the authority to tell me what to do or what is good or bad for me. How	presumptuous.
A lot of research has shown supposed health benefits of alcohol, but it all has something in common: it's based entirely on observational data, with no intervention performed. Observational studies have an extremely poor track record in health and especially in nutrition, and are not experiments, but they get reported as though they were science. So we get reversals like this one. (Which was entirely expected.)
We are also using the uWS C++ library in production and have been extremely pleased with the performance. Integrating it was trivial and we haven't had any issues.

Alex has always been very responsive and helpful and his focus on performance is always extremely refreshing in the wake of the webdev world's "eh, good enough" mentality.
IPFS clearly does a lot more than storing and fetching files. Seriously, go have a read. A single hash can represent an arbitrarily large subtree of data (Microsoft's entire repo). Using an IPLD selector (in its simplest form, a path beyond the hash) an arbitrary sub component can be addressed. This can be used to avoid scanning entire subtrees (maintaining your O(changed files)). To commit your modifications is O(changed files + tree depth to the root of your modifications) you never need to do anything with the rest of the repo.

For tracking changes (i.e. mutable data) you can use IPNS and create a signed commit history. This will be built on IPFS eventually so it's only a matter of time.
Yes, agreed. If we were discussing hypersonic airbreathing configurations, for example, no one would be making those kinds of statements. Once you get into the realm of high speeds, the integration between the propulsion components becomes necessarily deeper and tighter, and trying to parcel out that kind of credit is really more of a basis for engineers to rib each other over during happy hour, rather than a rigorously defensible position.
have you seen sqlprovider and sqlcommandprovider?
Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
Nobody is saying you should start drinking if you don't want to, but there are definitely some benefits for social drinking. Lower inhibitions, feeling more relaxed, getting rid of anxiety or just enjoying a good drink. Again, not for everyone, but it works for a lot of people.

Replace alcoholic drinks with a good pizza, and you might answer your own question.
All of those response are incorrect. The correct answer is "I can call my network and have five offers inside of a month that pay me as much or more than I'm making here."

If you need a union to push back for you, well, sorry but most likely you're not keeping up with the average for your profession.
You specifically asked how you could use your technology skills to help people.

First though, there are two kinds (at least) of depression. One is the normal kind where you feel blue when things go wrong in life. This is normal and it should fade. There is another kind related to an incorrectly functioning brain. For this medication is needed to help correct that problem.

When a malfunctioning brain combines with things not going your way in life... you get a high probability of a downward spiral and suicide. It's a terrible self-feeding cycle.

Back to technology: Having a sense of meaning and purpose is quite possibly the most important component to a healthy human experience. When you are completely down in the dumps, just going down to a local soup kitchen and offering to volunteer for a day can recharge you and spark understanding of the human condition.

What you can do with technology is endless. For instance, I have never encountered an app or site where I enter a zip code and see everywhere I can go and help other people that day, right then and there. If such an app or site could list close by "AA" style depression sufferers meetings I could drop into anonymously on my way to they metaphorical "soup kitchen"; that would be even better.

You won't ever understand depression through tech, but understanding it through the human side will allow to you to envision how to use your tech skills to help.
Next time you go to a party at a friend's home, offer to bring some spirits and mixers. Most people stick to beer/wine at self-hosted parties because anything else is a PITA, not because they don't like spirits.
Yeah, I also enjoy a good beer and also a nice glass of wine with a meal. Wine in particular does a great job at complementing food.

I also have the self discipline to have one beer or one glass of wine, while many do not. If one beer always led to a 6-pack I would stop drinking.
Minimal container runtime in erlang
The article reads better than the book, which is unfortunate because all of Michael Lewis' work has been fascinating.
The android app Yr, from the Norwegian met centre will give you an up to date basic meteogram for most of the world. They (yr.no) also have an API if you want to download just the image for your own uses.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562999 and marked it off-topic.
I think your parents may have made a conscious choice to keep cable out of the home for other, non-financial reasons (as did mine).

By the mid 1980s only about half of households had basic cable.[1] In Chicago, there were complaints about a price hike to $13/month.[2]

Housing costs are the problem. The move to dual-income households, the drop in interest rates, and the population boom caused certain real estate markets to appreciate at a level far above incomes and inflation. The coastal home my parents purchased in the early 1980s has appreciated 10x in value. A similar home in the mid-western state capital of their youth has appreciated 3x over the same period. This is why I called the scenario with 4 kids doable in some (most) parts of the country, but certainly not all.

[1] http://www.tvhistory.tv/Cable_Households_77-99.JPG
[2] http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1985/12/30/page/15/articl...
You don't spend a lot of time traveling do you? I upgraded my Macbook about a year ago, and shaving off those 1.5 or 2 pounds saved my back so much. When you're moving cities every few days, walking through massive airports and hiking windy side streets to find the hotel your colleague booked that was "right on the main drag" but is actually 200m up the hill you learn to really love even that little extra weight being gone.

The extra space in a bag when you're completely carry on is a huge benefit as well since everything fits under the seat in front of you a bit easier, so you can board faster and sit down quicker.
Did you ever try to disable permessage-deflate with ws?
It will never be as lightweight as uws because ws is built on top of `net.Socket` but I think you hit this ws issue https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/804 in the WebTorrent tracker.

I think ws will use 3/4 times more memory than uws with permessage-deflate disabled which is a lot, but far different from 47 times as advertised.
Microsoft's H-1B Workers Cited in Motion That Blocked Trump's Travel Ban
With all the qualifiers I am tempted to interpret the study as, you can be as healthy as a moderate drinker even without alcohol. (I am only half joking, there are just so many variables and number-of-variables-squared trade offs involved in these health and food studies that one wonders how they ever established a link between arsenic and poor health.)
Oh, right. Also, lie on your resume.

Thanks for the life hacks.
It sucks to have to re-architect things, but quite frankly, a better running browser will actually bring me back to Firefox—I fled to other lands after I got sick of the UI locking from a single tab. Now that's fixed a bit, but it's not perfect. Similar problems exist across the entire codebase—would it be more palatable if they released a new browser entirely and cut off the naming of "Firefox"?

Every other major browser either cut ties with it's previous lineage or got to start relatively recently (Edge, Chrome, to some extent Safari—hell Opera if you want to count that, but I wont). Firefox needs this ability too—they aren't exactly picking up new users. When User growth is the metric, I'm not sure what they are doing is wrong.
Learn GIS the easy way
Len/Mathematics: A computational algebra system in Smalltalk
Thank you, I hadn't known there was a distinction between "observational" and "interventional" studies, but now it seems like an important idea I could use to parse all the pop science that people talk about all day.

http://www.isupportresearch.com/whats-the-difference-between... (short definitions)
Why You Didn’t See It Coming
You rarely have Tabula Rasa developers - average developer is probably proficient in Java and/or C#.

I would say HM type inference is a non-incremental "hard sell" improvement, but it depends on the target audience :).
Hubble captures brilliant star death in 'rotten egg' nebula
I'm currently reading Neuromancer again. Still doesn't feel dated.
Not a great article. It doesn't really say anything; certainly nothing new or insightful.
There are suggested reading order guides.

I think it doesn't matter a great deal, the plot of each individual book is usually pretty freestanding, so it's a question of whether you want to watch the characters develop chronologically or not.
I cannot disagree more heartily. $1 million is really not that much money. I would immediately start squirreling hard currency away in the walls or burying mason jars of it in the back yard if idiocy like that were made law.
Keeping the Creativity in Code
I agree that Mozilla has been doing that from the developer side of things; however, I would wager that most users not in Bugzilla/on the dev mailing lists are unaware of the coming changes and how they might be affected.

I'm a programmer and use FF daily. However, I'm not super involved on the FF dev side of things, and so have never even seen those discussions you linked. What I'm hoping is a) I'm not the only one in this boat, and b) that this discussion can be raised to the level of say Mozilla/Firefox newsletters, Twitter, and blogs. Everything I've seen coming from those channels so far has been communications re. "This is what we're doing - yay us!", never, "Hey, we're thinking about doing this. How would it affect you?"

If I'm somehow totally out of the loop and have missed something I apologize. However, when I see something like this [1], then I start paying attention. I suspect I am not alone.

[1] http://fasezero.com/addons/
>Are there many electric trains there?

Yes. For example, Amtrak's Northeast Corridor is electric as is light rail for the most part (entirely?). There's also an electrification project underway for Caltrain. I'm not sure about how much commuter rail in the US is electric in general.
> (between 2005 and 2015) 301,797 people in the US were shot dead

Somewhat misleading, given that most of them shot themselves.
Not sure where you live, but if you head on down to the south nearly everyone has bourbon.
And I forgot to add above: I am sorry for the loss of your friend. When a friend dies in a freak accident, there is at least the comfort that you probably could have done nothing. When someone commits suicide your mind turns endlessly looking for sign and signals you missed and you always wonder. I hope you find peace.
Harder in what sense? There is nothing (or very little) that makes OpenCL significantly harder by nature!

OpenCL developer tools and libraries are however a disadvantage compared to NVIDIA's CUDA stack. That's partly thanks to AMD's rather poor tools (I still hope that their OSS initiative might change that). Intel's half-assed attitude towards OpenCL support didn't help either. Most importantly, NVIDIA's attitude of intentionally crippling OpenCL on their hardware by providing piss poor dev tools, only v1.2 support, no extensions that would allow making use of their hardware's features etc. has surely contributed to successful​ly holding back the adoption of the OpenCL standard.

I hope the community wakes up sooner rather than later.
> child porn "Hunters"

You make it sound like they are hunting for porn. Child porn producer, child porn distributor, rapist and pedophile are all different things.
It leaves a bit the impression of Amos being a rather unpleasant power-hungry person, letting no one beside him come up. Was he known for being supporive to his students even when they challenged him?
Is it really that fucking hard to check if your package name is unique?

Here is another virtual filesystem with the exact same name: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs

Debian package for it: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gvfs
The odds of tripping a circuit-breaker with a phone charger are near zero; the odds of tripping a circuit-breaker or fuse with a vacuum or electric heater are excellent. I live with weak circuits, and only those two items that can be "the last straw," here. (OK, maybe an older, honking PC I used to own.) For a laptop to be in that sort of range is pretty darn impressive. Something that won't happen again, as CPU and GPU circuits and voltage are now shrinking.
In Just 5 Moves, Grandmaster Loses and Leaves Chess World Aghast
5 small cups... i don't think it's excess.
but maybe because it was my first time, i was worried of losing control (i remember i did 40 pushups to prove to my friend i still in control).
Anyway never tried again. i hate it
$1800/month to host a foreign kid while they're in school? That sounds unlikely and dubious, maybe 1/3 of that amount is more realistic.

But if it were true, poorer families who are struggling financially should be made aware of this, you'd have millions sign up to host. It'd likely be a good cultural experience for both sides too.
Ask HN: How to find someone to post your product on Product Hunt?
Hi everyone,
We have launched a platform few month back and are ready to launch it on product hunt. As I recently joined PH, I don't have access and followers. How can we find someone to submit it for us?
On the download page there is a bunch of demo scenes that you can simply open and render to see all of the gears and knobs turning and watch your CPUs light up.
Here are slides linked from that page with a reformatted version with 202 lines:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8g97JkuSSBwUENiWTJXeGtTOHF...

Here's the source from those slides (I don't know who put it there).

http://codepad.org/ZWbF9yrY

I had to remove these two lines to make it compile.

double M_PI = 3.14159265358979;
double M_1_PI = 1.0/M_PI;
2015 Interview with the lead developer: http://blenderdiplom.com/en/interviews/607-interview-francoi...

Seems like it's in around the same place, although the plugins are getting better and the renderer is starting to support complex scene features (not quite there yet).

Overall though there are 100's of ray-tracers and scene renderers (seemingly all in C++), so it's not clear if it has any compelling advantages.
Who do they pick when they conduct these surveys? I don't live my life any differently regardless of the relative threat of terrorism vs vehicle accidents vs any other violent crime vs getting struck by a meteor.

Am I really that much of an outlier?

Edit: For those that are downvoting me - I live in a large urban area with large urban area related crime problems that actually has had a terrorism related incident. Mind providing an explanation?
I was just watching a documentary on the 2000 Concorde crash in France the other day. It had some really good history and technical breakdown of how it worked.

Apparently it was an unusually safe aircraft with no accidents for 30yrs until this incident. I won't ruin it but what caused it is also interesting from an engineering perspective.

https://youtu.be/nKu_IoJ65gw
Electron-Proton Dynamics in Deep Learning
Under the hood of a GPU database and how to improve performance further
>The only way to prevent this from happening is to ban inheritance, which would be all sorts of bullshit.

Shifting the tax and legal system to favor earned rather than unearned income would easily prevent it.

One example of this would be a land value tax. Another would be watering down patent enforcement. Another would be strengthening bankruptcy protections. Another would be strong enforcement of anti-trust law.
Ask HN: How to Improve My Team's Security Awareness?
I'm your average developer in your average IT firm that makes your conventional products. But these days, we have a customer who has security as his TOP requirement.

I heard the summary of the first meeting with our project manager. He seems OBSESSED with security. He even wants us to use specific technologies that he believes is secure.

I'm worried a bit about that, because an earlier technical discussion with my team rendered us not so security-aware (in my opinion of course). Worse, except for me, the team seems content with their background and knowledge.

I thought of asking for a security consultation service. Another thing is me self-studying, and by Socratic questioning, we get to acknowledge our lag.

Any additions is welcome.