skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reason Foundation (obviously coming from a market/privatization point of view) did a series of videos about these types of problems.

TL;DR:

Tolls make sense in the situation of "only highways" regardless. You can make high-speed toll lanes/highways on/along side the existing highways (and put buses there too).

Those who can afford the tolls pay for the speed feeding more money into the system. Those who cannot pay more than they already do through gas tax and such, deal slower traffic, but that traffic should be lessened due to people paying for higher speed and hopefully on more buses. There's additionally higher funding available to spend on increasingly

Current highways are effectively the tragedy of the commons, which is where semi-private/public-private partnership toll roads could alleviate the problem. Certain transit systems have pros and cons depending on area, and for places like LA it is likely that at least for now highways should be the focus of additional spending.

I'll leave the arguments to the videos, some are quite long (45+ min talks by policy experts). Mostly passing along in case others are interested, particularly those who might have strong opinions to the contrary (e.g.: the 'rail or bust' folks) I've enjoyed the rail system in Europe, but the conditions here are very different so its important to not let one's perfect ideal be the enemy of making something failing significantly better in a bang/buck sense.

Highways vs. Rail (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIG0M4WT0s0

Toll vs. Gas (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrh8W2IFQ04

Funding/allocation problems (2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUULDlMPFYU

Market success in China (2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUPRlrVTd2g

LA specifically w/ tunnels, over/under pass, and that LA has been building "rail" for 25 years so far (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry852YXH53U
Or large organizations called corporations - though one might argue to include them with "individuals", I think they are sufficiently different, and wield enough power that they should be accounted for separately.
> Rather than asking people, if you can, try just changing the prices and see how customer acquisition changes.

This is essentially the best advice you can get.

IF you have to be safe because you're e.g. in Germany and you can't just change other peoples contracts after they signed up. Just keep the old contract/subscription types and then offer them a migration path sometime in the future.
Hardware is a means to an end. I've got plenty of it but at the end of the day what you do with it should be balanced by what it costs.

For companies that have instances running long term it can very well be cost effective to own the hardware. My email server, web server and DNS server are on my own hardware with a co-location facility that I trust.

But for experimental stuff where you need to spin up a hundred machines for an hour or two you just can't beat the cloud (and that's my only use case for the cloud, though I can see others go much further).

I don't like the monoculture any more than you do, but to see this as me having given the 'keys to the kingdown to Amazon' is several steps too far.
Very, very good reply, I'm glad I skipped past the unnecessary point-by-point at the beginning to get to the real meat of the reply.

There are a few weird and irrational biases I see going on amongst techies who frequent HN. I'll just talk about one of them because bias is a tough topic to talk rationally about.

The one I want to discuss that I see a lot of hackers doing is creating a need to do everything themselves. This leads directly to the delusion that side projects are things to take Really Seriously.

Sure, if I wanted to, I could chunk out all the work it takes to build a product, take it to the market, refine it, then finally build a company around it to take the load off.

But unless you're a real honest-to-god genius, then you're going to make mistakes, and those mistakes can add months, or even years to the time when you can Call It Done and go back to spending the time with your wife and kids.

If you're not absolutely strict about not letting it override your personal life, you will end up sacrificing your life to the jealous God of the Market.

You might try to respond by moving the goalposts, saying that the real goal here is learning, not achieving some kind of outcome. But do I really need to ship a product to learn?

There is a class of activity that is actively distrustful of the market, which insists that all learning comes from the creator's own mind. It's called art. If Picasso thought that the market was worth listening to, then we wouldn't know his name today. Artists by their nature listen to other artists, and not you. That's what makes it art.

Side projects should be considered to be more art than business. Art doesn't fuck with your personal life. Art informs your personal life. Whether you're creating it or enjoying it. If I'm sitting there hacking out a weird new concept for accessing databases and my wife comes into the room and wants to talk about our son's baseball game, I put down the text editor and listen to my wife. I do not tell her that I'm currently in flow right now and jeez could you really just come back later after I'm taking care of this Really Important Thing.

If you're bleeding your professional life so far into your personal life that you are even for a moment taking it more seriously than your wife and kids, you have fucked up your priorities. I would never ever ever even dream of doing this. Everything else is noise compared to my personal life.
That wasn't a swing in the value of the dollar, that was a swing in the value of those goods.

The price of a christmas tree drops precipitously the ~9PM on christmas eve every year, that says nothing about the value of a dollar.
Unless they were storing that value on MtGox or one of the many other early exchanges that were robbed. Or if they themselves got hacked as happened in many cases.

I suspect you could probably put all the people in the world that got rich from buying at $1 and holding in a school classroom together for a chat and not be very crowded.
Elixir – different kind of promises
I am running http://selfracingcars.com/ in three weeks.
Never? Their infrastructure is cool but it's only around half of what a public cloud would need.
Very different actually, the stock markets are highly regulated. If you get caught dealing with penny stocks or insider trading you go to jail. One of the reasons the SEC didn't approve this ETF was because of the lack of regulation on exchanges.
Well maybe you could have an expert identify when that file was placed onto your computer. If it coincides with when the Geek Squad member worked on your computer, then that guy will (hopefully) go to jail for a long time.
Well, there were more deaths by overdoses involving an opiod then deaths from car accidents in 2015, the last year a quick search can find more data on. And to be clear, deaths from car accidents are growing, likely because of things like cell phone use.

Here's a business insider article, and the data sources I used.

http://www.businessinsider.com/heroin-vs-opioid-overdose-sta...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm655051e1.htm
http://www.newsweek.com/us-traffic-deaths-injuries-and-relat...
It's also a rather important security feature.
I don't mean to diminish your experience... but "pure unadulterated hell" is having a SO that loves you, a stable place to live, sleep, and eat, as well as a stable career?

If all of that is what "pure, unadulterated hell" looks like to you, I think your life really hasn't been as difficult and full of "hardships" as you would have people believe...

I think the thing that would help you most would be to stop feeling like a victim. That's what helped me! Best of luck to you.
That's true, but someone certainly has to raise them and like poverty, bigotry depends a lot on your parents.
Europe-wide raids against cybercrime networks
Every website you use -- especially every Google and Facebook site -- is doing data-driven development where security and UI updates are made on a continuous basis. So are a lot of other programs, including browsers.

Welcome to the modern world.

> Windows 10 Enterprise is essentially a different product.

Windows 10 Enterprise is essentially the same product. The timing is slightly different.

> I wish you luck in finding any large corporate IT department that will adopt an OS as their standard platform without the ability to control exactly what gets updated and when.

Try the US Defense Department, Accenture, and Bank of America.

Adaptiva Names Surge in Windows 10 Adoption Among Major Enterprise IT Industry Predictions for 2017
http://www.adaptiva.com/blog/2016/adaptiva-names-surge-windo...

100% Windows 10 Adoption Rate by 2019; 50% by 2017, Say Gartner and Citrix
http://1reddrop.com/2017/01/05/100-percent-windows-10-adopti...
http://imgur.com/a/czfbC

This was etherium, which is also very interesting; etherium and BTC have been highly correlated over the last few months. I suspect that the crazy dip is just bots trading on that fact and the immediate correction is humans.
Read a better article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/if-a-best...

There are details missing in the story posted here. For one, the Louisville facility is a large service facility where at least some employees specialize in data recovery. This isn't a case of the whole service department in a BestBuy being deputized.

BestBuy also specificly stated that they do not condone employees accepting payment.

I'm not justifying what is or isn't happening. Just pointing out that there are a lot of holes in the story.
House Republicans would let employers demand workers’ genetic test results
You don't need line continuations to split comprehensions because the delimiters already allow you to split lines.
Show HN: A Library to Read Web ARChive (WARC) Files in PHP
At work, I'm using Consul's service discovery to stitch together an Akka cluster.

At home, I hack on a roguelike using Clojure. [1]

[1] - https://github.com/aaron-santos/robinson
Buy coins, create positive news & watch the price go up, sell coins at the new high.

Sell coins, create negative news & watch the price go down, buy coins at the new low.

Same as what unscrupulous people have been doing since the beginning of commerce.
People like you who throw the word "addict" around willy-nilly like that have no idea what addiction truly means.

You got sick once and now you march around proclaiming "I was an addict", despite the opinions of nearly every medical professional you've discussed it with?

Get over yourself, man. You aren't as important as you clearly think you are...
It's all about incentive and opportunity. The Geek Squad employee has a good incentive to do so as it means a $500 payday. Considering these guys' likely pay, that's a decent chunk of change. They also have plenty of opportunity to do so, they handle computers all day long.

The police on the other hand have less of an incentive to do so, unless they were specifically trying to hurt someone. They also have far less opportunity, as they would've already needed a reason to have said computer in their possession.
Well, they could double it then and reap the benefits of scale.
A nice reminder how self-employed people got screwed over by Obamacare, and no seems to care.

It is the "little yellow box" in the first graphic.

Also, no mention of the real reason none of this really works. There is no attempt at controlling costs or even identifying the transparent pricing problem.
You say this, but I've noticed "servalince-fetegue" on (surprisingly) non-tech people. I think the general populace are starting to wise up to what is happening; perhaps not on a large enough scale to effect anything, but it's happening nonetheless.

I think the future might not be as bleak as it currently seems. Talk with people. Explain what's going on and why it's bad. Despite the common rhetoric of people not caring, many do.
The Memes of the CIA Deep State
"swap sword" is a pretty neat recent ios game where the character/enemies inhabit a match-3 grid
Razer Project Valerie – First Triple Screen Gaming Laptop
I work on a benefits enrollment app (think TurboTax for your Open Enrollment). Most of our value proposition is providing an e-commerce style compare option for different plans.

Pair that with our upfront survey and recommendation and the 4hr paper process turns into 20mins.

It's pretty crazy that 95% of the insurance industry still relies on paper enrollments where you have to fill out your own address (which your HR already has) ten times.
This comment is startlingly similar to the parent above, wonder why?
I think the author is referring to Quant jobs here. They are not 100% software engineering/Developer jobs. One needs to have command over financial mathematics as well. In that sense, it's hard for a pure CS background candidate to get.
Why have them at all then?

If the argument you want to make is that they are of no consequence, then you need to answer why your proposal of still doing something is warranted.
My wife gets frustrated when I set aside a side project or a hobby for a while and pick up a new one or return to an old one. She says she finds it difficult to support my new hobby knowing that my old one is languishing. But the way I see it, the day I have to work on a hobby, the day I need to put hours into a side project, that's the day it stops being a hobby. That's the day it stops being a side project. On that day, it officially becomes a second job, one that likely isn't paying me anything.

I have two half-finished Rails projects, a half-finished Arduino robot, and a guitar that hasn't been played in a couple of weeks. And you know what? They've all given me some joy, and have been set aside temporarily when that joy started to feel like work. That's the reason I switched majors away from computer science. I like programming. I don't like being forced to program. I don't like making software for someone else. It's a hobby for me. Not a job.
It entirely matters what the app is trying to do. One of his apps Jettison lets you control disconnecting external drives by adding keyboard shortcuts. That is not something you can reasonably do from a sandbox. You have to be able to query arbitrarily which drives exist and then interact with them.

Otherwise you have to do the hack he was talking about where you download and install the helper from the internet and the controller is installed from the Mac App Store.
Filters and ternaries aren't the same kind of thing (ternary if/else are analogous to SQL SELECT-clause case statements, filter if is analogous to SQL WHERE-clause; the positions in Python conditionals, which are very much like SQL SELECT statements, follows that analogy.)
Four: their metric for success is web volume:

"Its Web traffic ... far outstrips The New York Times (and even BuzzFeed) in the number of online posts its reporters file every day."

And

"Today, the office has the feel of a tech startup well-blessed by the VC gods. Video screens scrolling Web analytics hang above the newsroom."

Not news alerts. Not stock tickers. Web analytics are the coin of their realm.
Now that all Apple devices and computers can display DCI-P3 [1][2][3], you should expand this to support/include colors from that wider color gamut, and in Extended sRGB and 16-bit formats, especially since the preset examples start with red. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3

[2] https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/

[3] http://www.astramael.com
No, that was another spin. He also gambled on the timing.

Seriously, who in their right mind takes out an option with such a short life?
Trio: async programming for humans and snake people
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers
A lot of them already are:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=open+compute+server
> I simply fail to understand why so many people do drugs in the first place, and I have little sympathy for addicts.

Do you know one? If not, don't judge. Try to have sympathy. Try to be a decent empathetic human being and understand that people have different life circumstances than you, and the fact that they are addicts does not make them undeserving of sympathy.

> If you do drugs, you'll probably ruin your life. It's simple cause and effect.

Nope. Because you have the cause and effect backwards. More often than not, people doing these sorts of drugs already are in a tough spot in life. They do drugs BECAUSE their life is already in shambles or because they're already suffering from a mental illness. This is not to say that the drugs won't continue to cause people to spiral downwards (because they often will), but it is to say that the kind of person who chooses to inject a substance of unknown purity directly into their bloodstream is most likely NOT the kind of person who has their life together to begin with.

And I know plenty of people who do drugs and their lives are just fine. Because they're normal, well adjusted people who choose to do them because it's fun and _not_ to escape their problems, which is unfortunately the case for a lot of people who become addicts.

So is it really so simple?
The SEC decision very clearly has real world impact on how Bitcoin will be used in the future.
But what about apps that you are downloading that are SUPPOSED to do things to files outside of the 'sandbox'? I can think of a million use cases that require access to arbitrary files or system functions - a backup app, an app that compresses infrequently used files, a network analyzer, etc. The blog post talks about an app that needs access to things beyond the sandbox - the jettison app requires the ability to eject disks. Sure, there are a lot of apps that CAN work in a sandbox, but not all of them. There should be a way to grant apps permissions beyond the sandbox.
When OSX and iOS merge, there won't be any options other than the App Store. Might as well bite the bullet and make the necessary revisions, or just decide to abandon the Apple market.
Half a billion here, half a billion there, soon you're talking about real money.
> I think hackers justify it to themselves by pretending it's a commodity like electricity, but it's far from that. If my utility goes out, I can turn on generator and get exactly the same electricity. If Amazon goes out I have to build again on another cloud from a (hopefully recent) backup or just sit dead (like the recent s3 outage).

What's your use case?

Are you just futzing around at home? Sure, use a server in your bedroom. Who cares?

Are you delivering a service to other people? Then owning hardware is probably a bad idea. If it's in your house, your users are hosed if you lose power or your internet cuts out. Putting it in a DC just means you're handing the same keys to someone else, but your self-managed hardware is definitely going to be less reliable than Amazon's infrastructure.

Owning hardware is a bad deal for everyone involved unless you're big enough to build your own HADR infrastructure.
Easy to forge creation times.
What do you think that interpretation is?
"Why Star Wars is a terrible documentary."
Pretty and seo friendly urls in wagtail
Can we please not cater to this kind of anti-intellectual dumbing-down of things? Lowering the bar to spoon-feed a TL;DR of the article's content into the title - it's just getting ridiculous.

Maybe for every complaint about article titles, I should respond with a demand to simplify them even further with "Up-Goer-Five" talk[1]. After all, if we're protecting people from having to think, we may as well lower the vocabulary requirements as well.

[1]https://xkcd.com/1133/
Disk blocks aren't timestamped, and the FBI is even looking at disk free space, so there may not even be a directory entry that can show when the image was placed there.

Besides, a "smart" Geeksquad employee could just backdate the comptuer's clock or manipulate the file creation time directly to make it look like the image was placed there when the owner had the computer in his posession.
If an official decision from the agency that regulates financial assets for the most powerful economy in the world doesn't count, then when does "something about a currency actually change"?
Unhealthy diets linked to more than 400,000 cardiovascular deaths
Also this, from the interview:

"When Jeff bought us, within about six months, he threw (profitability) out. Now there are three other criteria. It’s basically: How fast do you move? It’s very subjective. The second one is that there are no sacred cows, to push experimentation. The third thing is debate, but commit. So you can argue all you want, but once we agree, then there’s no undermining."

In other words, "we've chosen the narrative; don't you content producers DARE to go outside it."
I've long had a question that might be a variation of the third concern listed: couldn't diagonalisation just show that considering all real numbers to be an infinite sequence of digits is a flawed representation? Not necessarily that they don't exist somehow or that they are necessarily countable, just the diagonalization argument seems flawed to me.

Edit: Actually maybe this is just the first concern mentioned :/.

Edit2: Maybe clearer explanation: you can produce an infinite sequence of digits from many real numbers, but it doesn't seem to me to be valid to consider that infinite sequence to actually be the real number.
It is and it isn't. Simple is hard.
> 18atcskd2w

> 3rjs1la7qe

I wonder what these two mean.
I just want to add another story, albeit second hand. My wife went through surgery three times. The first times, pain relief (after the initial nerve block) was mainly via a Norspan patch. The patch was great except it took so long to ramp up (maybe they should have applied it 12-24 hours before the nerve block wore off). There was also no real withdrawal even after two weeks of patches.

The third time (for chest surgery) was via a fentanyl pump, but when that was removed she had severe stomach pains, and soon was in the routine of IV morphine once a day as the stomach pains came back like clockwork. She had the option of coming home but was too frightened of the pain and not having a nurse nearby to help immediately.

I could be wrong but it seemed to me the stomach pains were withdrawal from the painkillers. I'm glad they were effective for her pain but I wish there had been a better path that avoided all the nausea and sleepiness.
UPS moving a box from right to left. If you are moving boxes left to right you either in the wrong spot in the warehouse or just doing it wrong.
I'd say this is just a correction from over bought levels. Even better the correction is based on actual negative news, which is a sign of market strength (vs going down on no substantial news).
At first I was confused about the url but then I realized I think you meant https://www.cronalarm.com

Anyway.. nice idea! Any chance you're willing to share rough MRR?
I would have thought unhealthy diets cause in the order of 99% of cardiovascular deaths.
Is the main plot a little confusing? At least, I'm a little confused: the x-axis is labelled "% change from 2016 to 2015", and for example ReactJS has gone up by over 150% from 2016 to 2015...which means there was more ReactJS demand in 2015, right? except the article says it is the other way.

Am I missing something?
Australia would be a good place though. Compulsory superannuation
The ranger [0] file manager is probably my most used app -- it's fast, extensible and has VI bindings.

[0] http://www.nongnu.org/ranger/
No. Your parent's comment is correct: fingerprints should be usernames, not passwords. An MFA device is still warranted.
New rule. Any sufficiently advanced type system is an ad-hoc re-implementation of Prolog. Once you have unification and backtracking you basically have Prolog and can implement whatever Turing machine you want with the type system.
How is this supposed to be installed? Or did new version of python change up how pip uses requirements.txt

https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis/blob/master/requirements.t...
Paper on first use of CRISPR in normal human embryos