skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christ, the pedantry is reaching unprecedented levels.

The wording of the title is just fine. This is just a case of someone trying to show how smart they are by nitpicking on insignificant details and feigning non-comprehension.

In doing so, the discussion is no longer on the substance of the article, but rather on insignificant semantics.
> fall outside of the bell curve

You know that Gaussian distributions specifically include outliers.
The author does list shopify in one if the alternatives whatever that means. WordPress is not just a blog but a platform.
The Cult of ‘Zelda: Majora’s Mask’
Maybe it's a coincidence, but the smartest guy in the room is often also the loudest and most dominating guy in the room.
Pleistocene Park
Also, if you choose a really great host, you shouldn't have any security issues ;-)
The site shows a radio, as appropriate to the time period of the show. The controls let you select between three audio channels, or you can tune and find other channels.

You have DJs who comment and music played.

Here is the description from the site:

"Resistance Radio features stories and points of view from its DJs along with classic 1960s songs reimagined by noted artists and producers Sam Cohen and Danger Mouse, along with some of today's most popular indie and alternative artists for the world of The Man in the High Castle."

This is not unlike the radio stations in the Fallout series.
Oh growing up this was fun. My neighbor school district was right on the DST / Not DST line. So half the year the entire school district was in the same time zone. Half the year they were an hour apart.

Thankfully this was mostly straightened out in the last 5 years. NW and SW corners go central, the rest go Eastern. Seems mostly more sane. I still think it would be a small benefit for the entire state to go Eastern, but I do understand why the counties very close to Chicago want to stay on the same time zone.
Recently read somewhere, instead of "feedback", ask for "advice", who does not like to give advice? :)
I will never understand this argument. Noon should be when the sun is roughly directly overhead. And there will be no increase in daylight compared to businesses adjusting working hours to open an hour earlier.
I would prefer 7-5 and only work 4 days a week.
Seems a lot more complicated than Wordpress for not a lot of gain?
Introducing Citizen – realtime 911 crime alerts near you
Automatic voice transcriptions has been a technology for greater than two decades.
In other words, the Bitcoin network consumes about 5-6 orders of magnitude more electricity than would be required to maintain a similarly-sized ledger using more traditional database techniques.

Yes, the feature set is a bit different, but it's difficult to see how Bitcoin can remain competitive in the long run. I guess it can help push down overheads elsewhere in the financial system, so at least that's a good thing. And it's always been a good educational experience.
Nobody's lying to you. But nobody's going to tell you every time they are harassed. If you know more than five women, one of them has been sexually assaulted, and if you know 10, at least one of them has has had to deal with inappropriate comments or unfair treatment at work. These are of course statistical generalizations but they usually hold true - in the USA, at least, I haven't studied other countries' figures.

It's easy to come up with examples of why this whole story might not be representative of a trend, but there is a trend of these stories, which gives them more credence when they are backed by the real names of people and their allies who corroborate them.

And whether a certain type of customer or company or employee/employer mix makes this happen more often or not is not important. It shouldn't happen in any situation, to anyone, and in order to reduce these instances, we have to continue to say that until people change their behavior. This is how social norms are adjusted - not by ignoring or working around a social problem, but by specifically speaking out against it publicly, time and again.
The country is also suffering because of its state, whose ongoing policies (unlike it's recent history) is not a function of regional events.
The article simply doesn't meet the standards of HN and only spreads popular misconceptions.
The weird names the CIA gives its hacking tools
> How am I comparing apples with peas if this is exactly the point made above — that even for simple services I should use AWS?

That a single instance of something simple outperforming something complex does not mean anything when it comes to statistical reliability. In other words, if a million people do what you do in general more of them will lose their data / have downtime than those same people hosting their stuff on Amazon. The only reason you don't see it is because there is a good chance that you are one of the lucky ones if you do things by yourself.

And that's because your setup is extremely simple. The more complex it gets the bigger the chance you'll end up winning (or rather, losing) that particular lottery.
Ask HN: Voice Turing test passed, built a prototype. Anybody needs it except me?
Hi,

I've built a prototype that passes voice Turing test in a sense that people don't understand they've been talking to a non-human. Currently my brother and I use it to acquire new dealers for our family company. And it shows ~30% cold call to signed dealer conversion (we got 80 new dealers out of 270 cold calls in under 8 hours). And nobody noticed they were talking to a non-human. Now I'm thinking on opening an API (and IDE), but I'm not sure if somebody else is interested. Would you like use the system and if yes, what are yours use cases? Just curious. Thanks.
I think that is a side-effect that ruby in rails was ruby in the mind of many, and python was weak at first in web (before django).

In the meantime, python get a lot of love for scientific computing and other stuff, but ruby (and others, I think no even java or .net) not and then get behind in this area.

So now, when the web side have more viable options and ruby is just one of many, the effect of web on ruby is felt more, but python have a good fallback on the rest.

Python have a more diverse portfolio of options ;)
You know it's just an expression right?

If we change it to "fall outside of 2-sigma", will you allow us to return to the actual point, or will you continue with your passive-agressive hair-splitting?
> WordPress itself is an inherently insecure platform.

Linking to regular security updates for a system is proof that that system takes security seriously, not that it is insecure. I'd worry about an open source project that didn't have regular security updates.

Also, "inherent" is silly to use in this context.
> even if you always use an ORM in practice.

I seldom use an ORM, I rather leave the work for the database engine.

My knowledge of PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, PL/pgSQL is way better than trying to make an ORM perform better.

Something like Dapper.NET or jOOQ are good enough for the remaining part of the work.
There is a major programming shift happening. In the last few years there has been major advances in program proof technology. The magic words are the "Curry-Howard Isomorphism". Having lived through structured programming, CLU modules, Pascal strong typing, Smalltalk object-oriented programming, distributed programming, functional programming, and other such trends I can tell you that proving programs correct is "the next big thing".

I predict that within 5 years you'll be expected to write proven programs. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is toast. It doesn't work and it wastes time. Prove your program and generate code from your proof. That works today. Why aren't you using it?

Your car will be "brake by wire" where the brakes are applied by computer after you step on the brake pedal (if you have one). You REALLY want to PROVE that the brakes will be applied within 1ms. Your life depends on it.
This always sounded like fun to me. I wouldn't expect to get rich but seems like a nice reason to get outside and enjoy nature like looking for nice shells on the beach.

How do you go about finding prospective sites?
(I consult on topics like this for startups)

A lot of the comments are focused on figuring out price points, i.e. how much.

You should also spend time figuring out the right pricing metric, to make sure that as your customer gets more value out of your product, you continue to get a fair share of that value.

By pricing metric I mean things like per user, per server, per API call, etc.

Take for example a SaaS app that helps you create project proposals.

If you charge per user at $10/month, and one user generates 1,000 proposal a month, effectively that user is paying 1 cent per proposal.

In this case the proxy for value for your product is number of proposals.

The user is getting a lot of value from your product, but you're getting a flat share of that value. Regardless of how many proposals the user create, you still only get $10.

So in this example, it makes more sense for you to charge by proposal first and foremost.

Gets more complex as you think about secondary metrics but that's the principle.
I think there need to be a compromise between the desire to let people work in their field and knowledge to spread and for companies to not just invest in new technology, but also not locate themselves in jurisdictions where they can enforce strict non-competes.

Some of our goals are in conflict, and the answer is not always to come down on the side of one of these goals, but seek some compromise that tries to get the best of both worlds.

But this case seems much closer to a clear case of theft, rather than corporate legal overreach.
Why is this named "Npm"?
+1 Netlify.

I've really liked it for https://blog.statusok.com and https://statusok.com

GitHub webhook deploy flow, one-click SSL, 301 redirects and other rewrite support, CDN seems pretty good.
I was indeed afraid that it would look too static without using "random" phases. Using seconds would be great (I could try to make them look smaller too).

Looking at my source of inspiration (http://www.humanssince1982.com/a-million-times/) you can see that the random phases are way prettier than mine. But it would make the code uglier with a lot of "setTimeout"s, and I wanted to keep it clean.
Hello, I'm Tim and I built this app that lets users create their own channels to chat in. It's a bit of an homage to IRC and Slack, things which I both love. Looking forward to getting some feedback and having a discussion about it.
So what you're saying is that to engineer a system where clients pay me to do work for them, all I need to do is engineer a system where clients pay me to do work for them?
Well, let's say they provide products. Let's not say they provide 'excellent products'. After all, Check Point is one of those companies that suggests to do SSL MITM 'to provide security'. They sniff your SNI to make sure you don't look at XKCD. They randomly cut your connection if you try to download the SHAttered pdf's over http. They are what makes corporate life tiring.
I think it's kind of the point that they don't.
They do, but Dropbox controls the key and their services can decrypt customer data, so the value of the encryption is limited at best.
According to http://progopedia.com/dialect/smallfuck/ re. Smallfuck: "The memory tape is limited, so the language is not Turing-complete."

Edit: ah, further down in the article: "Smallfuck is a minimalist programming language which is known to be Turing-complete when memory restrictions are lifted."
All About Daylight Saving Time (Congressional Research Service Report)
Pony language 0.11.0 released
University students want Plato and Kant removed
Towards an understanding of technical debt (2016)
They make the assumption that unprofitable hardware has been retired. But this assumes that the person profiting from the mining is also paying for the electricity.
Of course he threw profitability out. An alphabet, probably the CIA, has underwritten him for the foreseeable future. Jeff Bezos is what's known as a NOC, a Non-Official Career officer in the CIA. And they do as they're told. Other examples: Valerie Plame, Eric Schmidt, billg, Eric Braverman.
Its Passwords Are Broken Not the Rules
I've noticed this too, I don't think this is specific for people with a depression though. If I have about 4/5 hours of sleep I will be less smart the next day, but engaging with others or completing tasks despite the tiredness results in a huge boost to mood and a feeling of exhilaration and happiness. That is not to say you don't feel tired, especially when the work has not yet been completed, and the day is just starting. YMMV, N=1 and all that...
I took Abstract Algebra course at a local university couple of yrs ago. I learnt how to do proofs first from Spivak's calculus, learning to do proofs felt very similar to writing code. I really enjoyed doing Abstract Algebra proofs. Got top score in the course and promptly forgot everything about it after a couple of months. Back to the day job fixing garbage collection on poorly written java apps.
The burst-height compensating super-fuze
Well, ok strike that. Make it 'pretending to fly close approaches to solid objects without much in terms of alternates when things go pear shaped'.

There is a fairly good reason why proximity wingsuit flyers tend to have a limited life span.

Whether or not you wear a parachute is not very important once you impact a tree or a mountain at high speed.
Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles for Public Operation
And nobody in your field will hire you anymore.
To add to that in regards to web development: you're going to need JS anyways much of the time, so learn it. You Don't Know Javascript and Eloquent Javascript are respectively good starting points and good but tough starting points.

But as of yet there's nothing in the JS ecosystem that compares to Ruby on Rails or Django for back-end stuff, so it's worth learning one or both those two as well.

For finding work: learn both, or pick the one that is more popular in your desired field, geographic location, etc.

For improving yourself as a programmer: go for Python first but learn both (good introduction to how programming languages are both different and alike). If you can't be bothered by or interested or learning both, reconsider your field of work, because both are fun.

For anything else: if you're capable of weighing the pros and cons of either in regards to support (hiring coders), project size, level of complexity needed etc.: Python strikes me as the slightly safer / more robust choice, especially in academia, but I'm not confident about recommending either one primarily.
>If you treat the software as a black box and only study run time behavior, you have no idea if you have tripped a countermeasure that silences the malicious behavior; if you study the control flow directly, you can look for such countermeasures.

It would be great to find such a countermeasure, and be able to trigger it reliably, or assert the behavior on a permanent basis. Considering that particular weakness of such countermeasures though, wouldn't the safest [for the attacker] default countermeasure likely be to simply crash the device?
My #1 advice on pricing (esp for bootstrapping SaaS/software) is to think about your Customer Acquisition Cost (=CAC) first, as in: how many customers will you reasonably be able to acquire given your marketing/sales plan and at what cost? Don't cheat here, but consider the fully loaded cost of doing sales+marketing and divide that number by the number of customers you'll be getting within the same cost period.

That'll give you a lower boundary of what you absolutely will have to charge to break even + an idea of the multiples on this you'll need in order to become a successful business.
Dover book is the best if you are just getting started (i.e not on a path to specialization in group theory/ algebraic geometry ect )

I found a pdf link to the book googling for its name

http://www2.math.umd.edu/~jcohen/402/Pinter%20Algebra.pdf
The only encryption I truly trust is one-time pad. Discrete log may be NP-intermediate (if P!=NP, which is open), and we know from the Snowden disclosures that NSA was working with U Maryland on a quantum computer which will be a reality at some point (Shor's algorithm). With 'collect it all,' today's ciphertext is tomorrow's plaintext. Always be skeptical.
Let's Talk Tech: TruckIn – From Code to Kubernetes
Clocks should be a means to measure time, not manipulate when people do things.
You Have Discovered Product/Market Fit. What about a Moat?
Build a digital clock in Conway's Life
I wrote a fairly similar library that additionally uses data from last.fm and pandora, and supports compiling by track similarity as well: https://github.com/gwicke/compilation

I'm using it to power the auto-playlist feature in my fork of https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin, a node music player.
For a counterpoint, read Shafarevich's "Basic notions of algebra". (Beware: author's meaning of "basic" may differ from own.)

It's a book that explains all those abstract algebra concepts by introducing motivating examples for each one of them. It's the next best thing to finding the natural setting for them yourself.
A human is more complex than that. Even with granola-eating compost-gardening flower child parents, you can still end up with a hitler youth. The opposite is true as well. Why? Because parents are not the only influence (thank Bob) on a developing person.

One of the strongest influences on a person is their peer group. Parents provide a model, but the peer group is where a lot of people get their core social values from. It's where you learn how to dress, how to talk, what sports to play, what music to listen to, and how to treat other people.

But to say "eh, things are getting better, don't worry about it", is completely antithetical to the idea of not writing personal stories, or protesting, or affirmative action. Things are getting better because of these things. You didn't grow up in the era of desegregation. You didn't grow up in the era of women's suffrage. These things took many, many generations to defeat, and they required long, protracted battles and getting in people's faces because most people didn't want things to get better.

Yes, we need to raise smart, empathetic children. And we need to bring them to protest rallies.
There is no burden of patient care placed on medical students in the US. Medical students start clinical duties their 3rd and 4th years of medical school but have little to no actual responsibility. They are not allowed to write orders or perform procedures without resident supervision. Their primary role is to learn. Don't get me wrong, they are very useful and can help a ton doing small tasks and collecting information.

The argument returns to a lack of man power. There are simply not enough residents for us to work 40 hours a week and get 8 hours of sleep a night. Call that broken, or what you want, that's just how it is.
I think that counts as analog, because the hands of the clocks are a continously variable indication. Even if they move in increments of 90 degrees, what's happening in the clock involves measurement, not just counting. That makes it at least partly analog.
Idris does not have one exclusively.

Allocations can be removed just like in Rust thanks to uniqueness types:

http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/reference/uniqueness-ty...

Also funny that you mention ergonomics, given that improving the current state is one of the main goals of 2017's roadmap.
> Breaks JavaScript

That's a feature, not a bug. JS is super useful, but only when used correctly. It's rarely used correctly anymore.
Hey all, we are organizing a small tech meetup for startuppers in Berlin to discuss a real life tech examples from the team at TruckIn.

Will try to stream it online, so whoever is interested in the topic of Kubernetes join the fb event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1418869104813122/

Questions and requests are more than welcomed. Share them here on the thread.
It just occurred to me that motion blur not some gimmick, but temporal rather than spatial anti-aliasing. It's fundamental to accurate sampling.
Lawyer of tech startups: could he bring case against planners of 2002 war?
> Willing to find projects for a small team (2-4 members) of developers/designers should I look for larger projects in a different way?

Selling yourself as a team is to ultimate goal, but initially you may need to focus on leveraging your experience as a freelancer. Sell the same way you sold as a freelancer, but twice as much and contracted through your company, and expect your partner to do the same. As you gain relationships with customers, look for opportunities to pivot into larger projects or staffing two freelance positions with the same client. This base of work will keep you afloat while you figure out how to sell larger projects or build up a software portfolio. Ideally you'd find an anchor customer willing to commit to an extended contract to take some of the pressure off.

> How do I identify that a company might be in need of a team like ours? I don’t want to spam everybody trying to catch a project.

Same as above, this is something you'll need to learn from experience. Start with the skills you know from freelancing and the connections you've gained. Don't worry too much about "spamming" people, your hardest job now is marketing and selling yourselves. You may be surprised how willing some people are to help out a fledgling company.

> Should I prioritize our online sales channels over local ones?

Sell any way you can and keep what works, ditch what doesn't.

> Should I partner up with firms like ours? Contact them and show our offer so that they could be interested in subcontracting with us?

If you have opportunities to partner with a larger established consultancy, then yes this is a good way to grow while letting the bigger guys do the selling for you. This works especially when you have relationships in the industry you can leverage and/or specialized skill sets that other consultancies need to backfill. Otherwise, consultancies generally try to avoid subcontracting so it may be a difficult nut to crack.

> Should we have mentors/coaches?

Absolutely.

> Should I hire a salesperson to look for projects?

If you and your partner can't sell yourselves then your company won't survive. You shouldn't worry about dedicated sales people until your quite a bit bigger. That will be you and your partners job for the time being.
It isn't, it's called singlespotify. I think the submitter was thrown off since it's installed using npm.
Open Worm: virtual nematode