skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The speculation on /r/Rust is that since they now base popularity on pull requests, the fact that these languages are developed on Github is a significant boost to their numbers. Both of the projects have 100+ PRs open most of the time.
not arguing against there being value, but there are credit rehab companies that would have probably cost you a lot less than the realtor's commission. Many basic credit consulting services are free.

I bought a home recently and work in the mortgage industry. My opinion: the buyer's agent should be a flat negotiated fee, maybe an hourly rate. There is very little that most do that the buyer can't do themselves. If the buyer doesn't want to do it themselves, then that's a choice they make to pay, and for items like inspection reviewing and negotiating, I'm not sure I see why it's significantly different if I'm buying a $200k house vs an $800k house. I don't agree with their fees being a percentage of the home prices.

Seller's agents on the other hand...those guys are salesmen. I can see way more value in incentivizing that person to get maximum value for me.
GPU API for the Web: Obsidian API Proposal
True, but this isn't a problem for the hardware and software that will be produced in 2037. The problem is all the stuff that will be built today, and last for 30 years.

We're already bordering on it being a little late. Y2K sucked for the developers of 1999, but they had few computers to worry about. They where less interconnected and all the Unix/Linux based system wasn't at risk. Imaging trying to patch or replace just 20% of the embedded devices when we get to 2036.

What fascinates me is that we didn't start addressing the issue right after Y2K. Perhaps we would have if more computers had failed.
There are opinions, and there are qualifications. We are dubious of the Go team's opinions because of their lack of qualifications.
It taught me that simplicity and good tooling are more important than purism about types.
Lyft acquires and shuts down Q&A startup FinitePaths
There is a lot of crappy code out there, it doesn't surprise me at all.
Sounds interesting, but still misses the point of having a modern nation where every single citizen has free health care. Sigh.
I don't know about that 1/3 figure but I do know it's getting easier and easier to produce complex hydrocarbons through organic processes like genetically engineered algae. The costs may be high now but for some high-margin products such as cosmetics, algae hydrocarbons are already profitable.

And this is something that could conceivably work anywhere, without having to buy a mountain and several tons of mining equipment first.
This guy's whole point was that not everyone learns language in the same way. For him, watching TV shows in English got him there. But for you, reading books or listening to radio or using flashcards might get you there.
AI is not a magic wand, just a tool to perform some tasks in a quick and hopefully more efficient manner than humans. What is it going to be then in the real world? As with any tool, it will depend on the humans using it: medicine and science might be good, military and finance might end in tears.
I have a hard time seeing taxation as always theft. In a democratic society the public either is or was part of the decision on whether or not to fund things like the LHC. If society agrees to pay for it then by definition there's no coercion.

I think the LHC has over a dozen participating countries, each of which volunteered to be part of it. Ideally there should be checks and balances making sure a project of this scale is free from corruption.
As others have said though they aren't holding out on basic security. They are holding out on custom domains with security. They provide SSL for free if you don't use a custom domain.

It's unreasonable because they provide what you are asking for at a free price point and you're complaining "Not enough!".
New critical vulnerability found in LastPass
The only thing you can say in JUnit is that this test is part of that suite. My tests have several aspects that I'm interesting in using for triggering. Sometimes I want to run all DB tests, regardless of which suite they're in. That's what I mean by strict hierarchies. Part of the point I'm trying to make here is that once you've written a couple of test suites, you probably have a pretty good idea what tools you would prefer; and it's totally OK to dive in and have a go; there is nothing sacred or magic about test frameworks that rules out rolling your own. When it comes to test frameworks, most of what I've seen so far is over-engineered crap in my eyes; that is my authentic experience from 32 years of writing code in umpteen languages.
It's unfortunate the IT had to find out the hard way just how broken their site security was. It's worse that this isn't the only site out there that is that broken. It's common, they just happened to publicize their lack of knowledge of security and then users went poking around. "Oh hey, SQLi works." and that's that...

Here's hoping they manage to give proper disclosure to their customers/users (hah...doubtful).
Cloud doesn't have to mean virtualised and shared. There are plenty of operations that run on dedicated hardware.
fwiw http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646 a laptop bomb blew a hole in a Somali plane last year
>Are people really so desperate to live in an expensive city that they'd be willing to live in a box?

Isn't near every apt just a box, with slight changes around the frame? The question is how you carve up space within the box
I agree Google has a terrible track record with naming products or services - although not as bad as Microsoft - but you're exagerrating a bit.

The step from Nexus 6 tot Pixel isn't that difficult to understand (and you even forgot the Nexus 6P, the successor of the Nexus 6!). Car manufactures launch new models all the time, without much problems. If someone gets confused by such thing, maybe that person is better of with a feature phone.
All this needs is a "This is good for Bitcoin." and we've reached full success-fail.
Well, it's not like Intel CPUs don't have similar bugs.

See Skylake for example - the list of known errata starts on page 27 and continues on through page 63 : http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
They weren't true then, but yes they continually become less true.
Tillerson to go to Russia but will skip NATO meeting next month
Consider adding a demo account to http://productivity.netlify.com/. I don't really want to sign up/create an account to try out a demo instance. You'll get more feedback here without that barrier.
Very true, and I'm wondering now why this wasn't a Thing in the old days. The obvious answer is "no distribution mechanism for shipping libraries separately from the machine/OS/compiler/interpreter", but that's not entirely true.

The pre-internet Amiga had a thriving public domain and shareware scene where volunteers would advertise in the magazines and you could pick and choose apps/demos/games for the price of postage and a floppy disk. But it was all binary, no source, and I don't remember any libraries ever being distributed that way. Maybe dev tools were too fragmented for that to be practical.
This should be interesting for the "tax is theft" crowd: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
Goldman to move hundreds of staff from London pre-Brexi
right thats something to consider

there's just so many ways around it and I'd LOVE to get some case law made just to get some unknowns clarified. Like when I contribute to an already existing open source project on company's time/resource/IP-appropriation-regime, do they get to rewrite the Apache license because one contributor had signed a contract? when running this open source software that happens to generate a transferable token with a liquid secondary market with no proof of ownership, is that the company's?

would love some broke startup to spend time on that case
I'm not a Buddhist but I was curious about whether Buddhists thought Mr. Rogers was a Bodhisattva. From what I could find the answer was "he doesn't use Buddhist language, but other than that he totally is."
I don't know if this bug affects Phenom II chips, but I've been running a Phenom II for 8 straight years in my primary desktop with nary a hiccup. Rock solid reliable. Guess I haven't been running the "correct conditions" for a crash?
Don't forget the (other) f00f bug in the Intel Quark![1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark#Segfault_bug
You're right. Holes in basic SSL stuff, custom domain or otherwise, leading to insecure defaults are "not enough".

People need to really start demanding more from their hosting providers. Then again, this is the Heroku that sent Rap Genius on a months long troubleshooting spree and tens of thousands in expense due to poor documentation, so perhaps I should just mentally file them in the same bucket as Godaddy and be done with it.
It's exactly because we're on HN we are not aware of this need. It's a big world out there.
Thanks, saved me the bother of saying this as well.

That section on "Reliability" is pure comedy, the only time I had SQL Server "crash" was due to faulty hardware. And despite the best efforts of our previous data centre company (who we've since ditched) dropping the ball and losing power across the site multiple times over two years our MS SQL servers never lost any data, despite the rug being pulled whilst under some fairly heavy workloads. I should add that neither did any of the MySQL fleet, even the ones running replication.

One day when I get time I'll get around disembollocking this flawed article. I don't say that as a MS SQL "fanboy", but as a DBA with coming on for 20 years experience managing and programming SQL Server in banks, blue chips and ISP's (yeah I know, "appeal to authority"-fail, but who the hell is this anonymous author, and what are his credentials?).

Edit: sorry I should add I quite like PostgreSQL, and I'm hoping to roll it out as a service offering to our client base in the next few months, so no axe to grind from me with regards to its features and capabilities.
I can't disagree that there is a failure​ of communication as you note. Or at least a deficiency.
Ask HN: Has anyone had experience of getting a partner a visa for the UK
I am a U.K. Citizen but we have no been together for the requisite two years which would enable her entry via that route. Does anyone have any other advice?
My job isn't my life, but it funds my reasonably comfortable life. While it's true that I spend 8 hours a day doing work for someone else, I also have 6 hours a day of time that is entirely my own, and my real life thrives there.
Barring the off chance that this uncle is Uncle Scrooge. He will be eyeing your startup as only a few more gold coins to swim through.
Because providing goods and services to poor people is evil!

> Tobin Charney makes $400,000 a year out of his 131 trailers, some of which are little better than hovels.

That monster! Charging about $3,000 a year in rent per trailer! Of course his actual return is lower than that, because he has to pay for the mortgage and taxes on the underlying property, as well as upkeep. Say say more like $200,000. But still! Earning about as much as a programmer managing a business that houses over a hundred people. Monster is the right word for sure.
you know what's funny though...i don't think it's that hard to implement... best i can tell, every framework already has what it needs.

there's just no boilerplate code for people to start with yet.
I think that the difference is that people are generally good at remembering the details that judges are normally interested in. People are notoriously bad at remembering passwords.
PG Admin 3 was lightyears better than PG Admin 4, for what it's worth. For some reason in 4 they opted to update their UI to be an extremely error prone, buggy, inconsistent experience.

For basic querying I use SQLTabs, for DBA-type stuff I use PG Admin 3.
They could grow as you get my listeners, and therefore increase the ad sales.
These companies rely heavily on science that has in some part, usually some large part, been funded by government funded research programs.
It's an obvious missing case, and one that they are clearly conscious of given the constant insertion of the word "paid" in front of "dyno" throughout this announcement post.

The mentality of holding out SSL as a paid addon needs to end. It needed to end years ago. It had no excuse to not end the moment LetsEncrypt went live.
YouTube also just had a big pushback from the LGBTQ+ community because they quietly instituted a feature that (unevenly) blocked videos having anything to do with being LGBTQ+ as "objectionable."

http://teneightymagazine.com/2017/03/19/youtubes-restricted-...

They've walked it back with "our algorithm went overboard," but I wonder when people are gonna stop buying this excuse. If the automated system you put in place serves extremist ads or deems a whole class of people as objectionable, that's on you.
You could also have a BIOS update with the workaround already baked in, or a chip that has the later silicon without the bug...

(I also had a Phenom II for many years without any mysterious crashing problems, even though the chip was the correct revision and there was no BIOS erratum workaround enabled.)
Agreed, I was being bitter/sarcastic. I meant to say that they incorrectly profiled the other person who was stopped.
The list of things I absolutely can't do on an iPad is fairly small these days. (This is distinct from things that I would prefer to do on a Mac/PC, but there are things that I would prefer to do on the iPad, too.) I think Apple may need to do a better job of showing, well, more utilitarian tasks that can be done pretty easily on the iPad.

Having said that, I do wonder if one of the unspoken stumbling blocks is that even if an iPad is a great portable computer in many respects, it's only a portable computer. A lot of people "dock" their laptops to get work done. (Or to write comments on Hacker News when they should be getting work done.) I love traveling with my 9.7" iPad Pro and keyboard, but even if future releases of iOS address all the nitpicks I have with it, there are times I want to be sitting at a desk in front of a big monitor. I don't see that coming to iOS any time soon.
The effects of Buddhist meditation practices on basic wakefulness (2013)
If the seller stands to pay your agent 3% of the sale proceeds, the seller will typically be happy to reduce the price by 3% if you don't have an agent.

I just sold a condo in Minneapolis using a flat fee company -- fantastic experience and will never use a realtor again, save for maybe if looking internationally in a very unfamiliar area perhaps.
all of that you either could have done yourself, or your inspector would have done for you.

I don't begrudge anyone who wants to pay someone else to take a task off their hands, I do it all the time with various things like my lawn service, housekeeper, etc. But was the time they saved you worth the commission they made? When you're making 7% of the selling price, the answer to that seems likely to be no in many cases. There's a price point where it's no longer worth it to outsource the work, and I suspect many home buyers run over it without realizing it or considering they have a choice.
I miss that too (90's for me). Honestly I don't enjoy programming much anymore for this reason. I remember when it was normal for people to write their own data structures for their programs -- and while not "practical," there's a certain joy you get debugging your own sorting implementation that you don't get, say, copying and pasting frameworks' error messages into Google.

One problem with today's coding environment from an enjoyment perspective is that if something is fun, it will probably be written and packaged into a library. Data structures, algorithms, visualization libraries, abstractions on top of OpenGL, mathematical functions, data stores, neural networks, etc. -- all these things are great fun to actually try to write, and all of these things already exist in better forms than we'll ever write as individuals. Sometimes practical programming today feels more like gluing everybody's fun code together with your not-so-fun code.

Programming when I was growing up: https://www.toysperiod.com/images/lego-parts.jpg

Programming now: http://www.toysrus.com/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-1912094...
I pretty much see iPads as family devices these days. Sure, that's not to say they can't be fun to have as personal "I will be the only person using this" devices, but since the original iPad:

(1) phones have gotten a lot better (and optionally bigger);

(2) laptops have gotten a lot more portable.

If I had kids, I could easily justify a family iPad. But I don't, so the device just feels like an expensive, mostly redundant luxury item.

Another thing worth mentioning is that we now live in a world where a company like Nintendo is making a serious gaming-oriented tablet with proper controls. This is something I've been wanting Apple to embrace for years, and they never did. If the Switch takes off (and it seems like there's a good chance of that), it makes a lot more sense for me to invest in that than an iPad.
Companies who aren't in the business of selling TLS [0] certs themselves have little excuse to not offer free TLS via Let's Encrypt. It's an advantage over any competitors who haven't set that process up.

If your company does hosting - your company should provide TLS certs via Let's Encrypt automatically.

[0] Can we start dropping the SSL part now? Generally SSL v2/v3 is disabled so it is all over TLS anyway.
> Flops is only affected when the SMT is enabled, so disabling the SMT can be used as a temporary work-around (until the actual fix arrives).

Does this mean disabling SMT will also fix the bug, or is that specific to this app?

I've heard that some things improve performance on Ryzen with SMT off, but I've heard that's because OS level task schedulers need to be optimized better. But I still wonder if Ryzen's SMT implementation is on par with Intel's first implementations.
6000 dollars a week !?

Just curious. What kind of work do you usually do for that kind of money?
Yeah, this looks less appealing than a single-wide. Since the real value in these not-mobile-home small housing thingies usually seems to be letting people live in a mobile home without compromising their sense of where they sit in the class structure, it needs to at least have a veneer of "superb craftsmanship" or whatever.
Ok, we changed to that from http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-carlsbad-license-pl....
Ask HN: Why didn't programmers prepare in advance for the Y2K?
I do not understand how people could, what it seems, forget about the new century calendar, especially since PC became widely popular just in the 90s.
I'd almost pay a premium just to AVOID branding associations with Bono.
Given your apparent unwillingness to pay for any of their services anyhow I'm guessing this mental filing will only serve to save them money.
Composing Programs: Modern SICP in Python
The fact that the author just dismisses columnar indexes because he doesn't use them leads me to question his credibility as a serious critic of tools for typical analytics workloads since columnar indexes make a huge difference in performance on many of those workloads. SQL Server has them built in and they're available as extensions for PostgreSQL.
While those are the most remembered bugs, almost every CPU have some kinda of CPU errata that can lock up the system in really weird and specific ways. For example, my Intel Ivy Bridge CPU running Linux:

$ dmesg | grep -i microcode

[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x1c, date = 2015-02-26

[ 1.415548] microcode: sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x1c

[ 1.415665] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.

The fact that most users does not hit those bugs is because modern OS already patches those microcode before execution (like the case above).

Of course, if AMD can't fixes those bugs without performance regressions (remember the infamous TLB Bug from earlier Phenoms?) it can be pretty bad. However I don't think the majority of users needs to be too cautious about it.
The question is: could you take the $100 to a wholesale distributor, buy a bunch of cheap things, and then go and sell them at a market stall for more than $400. My guess is yes, especially if you have 16 days of selling to make your $400. That operation would scale about as well, possibly better, than the one described in the blog post. This idea ignores the pay for labour, but so does the blog post.
Financial systems that deal with bonds already have to deal with maturity dates on 30-year bonds that are past 2038.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924269.
As somebody else who started coding in the mid 80s I feel this is one of the disconnects of the interview process: interviews evaluate you on the basis of an "80s programming model" where if you needed a red black tree library, you likely had to write it on your own.

It would be a lot more representative of today's work if you were asked: given these 3 github repos with packages that all purport to do X, which one would you pick for this set of requirements and why? and how long would it take you and a team of 3 to get it done? Then you have an hour sitting next to the interviewer that can see what you are looking at in the code, what you are googling, how you are estimating and so on.

You could be the best algorithm writer in the whole world, but these days when do you ever have the luxury to write greenfield code? It's all "let's leverage open source" and "we don't have the budget to write our own frameworks" and "why do you want to spend X months writing this, when I googled and in 5 minutes I found 8 packages that do it" and "estimate how long it would take you to do <insert fuzzily defined huge task>" etc. etc. etc.

Personally I do miss the days where I felt that all I did was coding, as opposed to putting together a collage with code found elsewhere.

I sometimes feel like doing an Ask HN about "how do you find a coding job where you actually code most of the day when you are 20 years into your career"
Sold my apartment myself without involving realtors. They wanted what amounted to 10% of what I made on the sale.

It was a bit of work getting everything right, but it was well worth it.
Extract Date and Time from Hindi Sentence, Built in Python from Scratch
How to upgrade from OpenWRT to LEDE
The physics community does not consider finding the Higgs new physics. Not finding Higgs would've been more exciting, or a more massive / lighter Higgs, etc. The Higgs showed up exactly as predicted with the predicted mass, so we're stuck with the Standard Model - i.e. no "new physics".
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Do you have a link to more photos of that house?
I haven't used CreditKarma's tax product either so I can't speak to its accuracy, but from my understanding they didn't build their own product, they acquired a company called AFJC which has been in the online tax space for a while.
everyone, please, read the following blog post before using any 'wow!'s in your next exclamation:

RAFT Explained – Part 1/3: Introduction to the Consensus Problem http://container-solutions.com/raft-explained-part-1-the-con...

"While Paxos can be described with a page of pseudo-code, our complete implementation contains several thousand lines of C++ code."
Could you elaborate? For instance, which god did he have faith in?
It's actually a core and well supported part of capitalism - people hire more when firing is easy, lenders are more willing to lend in industries with repo men, etc. It's kind of morbid, but rich ecosystems like the Amazon mostly exist because dead stuff is rapidly recycled. The economy is no different: slowing down the cycle is incredibly distortionary.