skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very interested in this show, and gave Season 1 a try via Amazon streaming. Unfortunately I found it to be too dry and plodding to sustain my interest. The characters were underwritten, and the storylines the show wanted to put front and center were its least engaging, which is just fatal.

Maybe it got better in Season 2, I dunno; I wasn't interested enough to find out. And I haven't read the books, so I can't say if the problems stemmed from the adaptation or from the source material. But I'm the kind of person who should be in the core audience for a show like this, so it doesn't surprise me to hear it's having ratings problems.
"John Oliver: Edward Snowden dick pic". That's how you explain it to the public.
Chuck and Serenity come to mind. The rabid fan base used their dollars to indirectly influence the studios to renew and greenlight a feature film; respectively.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949044

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13951092
I love the books, devour them as soon as they come out, and I think the show has done a fine job adapting the story.

I didn't love the books because too many of the sentences are weak, obvious, or clichés: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/04/28/briefly-noted-leviathan-w... , but I gave the show a shot and hoped for something better than what it is, or what the first few episodes showed. Still, I think the cash shortfall problem is probably real and accounts for some of the show's challenges.

I'm reminded of SyFy's making of The Magicians, which is a lovely book (https://jakeseliger.com/2009/08/28/the-magicians-lev-grossma...) and a TV show that I really wish HBO had made.
My comment was not entirely sincere; I'm very optimistic about rust's future.

The grain of truth is that, if you grant that rust is immature, then it's unfair to say that's the only criticism because a lot of problems can be hidden behind immaturity.
When Wolfram said he was working on it for >10 years, he meant that his minions (with signed NDAs that prevented even acknowledging the existence of a proof for rule 110) had been working on the research for >10 years. He did, however, work on writing the book. I read it, too. Didn't enjoy it at all.
I'd argue that Van Gogh isn't such a great example in this context...
Ask HN: Is there a “product launch as a service” company?
For example, I think I have a good product, but I want to hire some help to get it launched, acquire initial customers, and hopefully build momentum. This would include social media, promos, press, etc.
> as much as Hawaii (or even Alaska) is part of the United States of America.

Hawaii is a terrible analogy to use. Hawaii was annexed by military force on behalf of the American pineapple and sugar mafia (Dole, etc). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hawaii , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_sovereignty_movement

As far as I can tell, Andaman and Nicobar islands are part of the fascinating historical migration route between India and South East Asia, and no military force was used by India to have ownership of those islands.

I admire the way Indians have dealt with those islands ( leaving them un-interfered with ) versus how my own culture dealt (and deals) with less technologically advanced populations.
Thats a discussion we can have its certainly not domething i am alone of thinking nor does it warrant downvotes.
"Tried and tested" cannot be sold for money (as it's already known).

So in order to create demand for consultants the ecosystem repeats history and willfully messes up... and we all know where the consultantocracy finally ended up goes looking at Enterprise FizzBuzz
Violations of this "crap" are one of the reasons we're in such a divided time politically. Outlets like Fox News make heavy use of many of these fallacies every day. Only when we understand these fallacies and how to stay away from them will we actually get back to reasonable discourse.
One more point is that in your monolith you actually have the option of crossing module boundaries. You don't have that luxury with microservices unless you want to introduce XA (God bless you). So you better get your boundaries right. :)
I beleive that there is a place in the world for a new search engine. People say that Google is good enough, but I find it hard to use Google to find the things that I search for. Here is how I would upon Google:

I often find that I search for "vegan pancake recipe" and end up at a page with lots of images and it is very hard for me to find the ingredients list. Google does a poor job here. They should give preference to simpler sites where it is easier for me to find the information I'm looking for. Instead, they seem to actually give preference to complex sites. If their job is to help me search for the information, then they shouldn't give links to haystacks. They have tried to improve upon this with their answer feature where they quote websites. This is, IMO, the wrong way to do things.

Instead, the search engine should be a desktop application which is more pervasive than a website can be. It needs to run natively, and not be cloud based, both for privacy, performance, and for the ability to integrate well with the system.
When I search for "vegan pancake recipies", if the search engine is going to give me a result which contains 3-5 pages of text and images before the ingredients list, it should automatically scroll the web browser window down to the actual recipe.

This desktop application should also build a context profile based on what I am doing on my computer. This context profile shouldn't be uploaded to the internet, but it is still usefull. For example, I should be able to select a string in my terminal and press the search icon in the sytem tray. This should bring up a stack exchange question containing the exact text of the string I selected.

I should also be able to select a set of websites which I want to use as my search "domain". I might give my search domain as "the documentation to Python3, the Docker API reference, and stack exchange". This whould make it so that those "feeling lucky" links would work much better.

The search engine should also present image results which are NOT WATERMARKED before ones which are!

I should be able to write a markup for things I need to search for, and then enter a "search engine research wizard". The makup would look like so:

"We had a great time at [Park on that hill in prague???] park. It was so sunny! The temperature was [Prague temperature on 27th of march ???] which is [Average Prague temperatures in March ???] for this time of year."

The search engine would then, when shown this text, would allow you to right click on the bracketed areas, search for the text in them, and then, by selecting parts of wikipedia articles, fill in the blanks.

The search engine should use accessibility APIs to record the text of the windows that I have open. I should then be able to use the search engine as a kind of memory store which I can search. If I want to know what that awsome new tiling window manager written in Rust was called, I should be able to search full text of my browsing history and open up the previous HN page where the tiling window manger was presented.
Interesting, I had no idea. I wonder if they have or ever had plans to index themselves? The wiki link mentions they have do their own crawler.
if you're a programmer, you can move anywhere in the midwest and get a job easy and the hours are chill too compared to east and west coast
In theory yeah, if they clearly didn't do their due diligence and knew/should have known. Probably won't in reality.

They've been fined lately a bunch of times for improperly shipping hazardous materials that have injured people.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/amazon-fined-shipping-hazardou...
Unless you conduct a study where you divide peer groups blindly and send some early and send some later, it is just a (educated) guess this is the reason.

Otherwise, you can just walk trough data sets until you find one that meets your conclusion.
The first vulnerability involves using the camera’s Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) – always on by default – and pinging Wi-Fi SSID with a really long parameter. This causes a buffer overflow in the camera and prompts the device to crash and reboot. The second vulnerability also involves a buffer overflow crash, but this time caused by an overly long Wi-Fi password.

If a burglar can do that, he can definitely make better money elsewhere. His burgling career can officially be retired.

Because the smart camera has no offline footage storage capabilities, this attack would give a burglar a window of opportunity to sneak into the house. Considering the attack could be repeated indefinitely, the burglar would have a lot more than 90 seconds to move about the house, without fear of being recorded.

Technical aspects aside, the scenarios painted in the article are almost comically far-fetched. In 2017, a spy scenario might even be less so.
The argument put forth in this article is not being entirely fair.

Although there are many people who are instantly dismissive of Davis, I've seen others give him a fair engagement on his ideas. They bend over backwards to give him some credibility. How does Davis respond to this? He stubbornly refuses any and all crticism, no matter how leveled it is.

I've watched him go in circles for pages in forums where people modestly suggest easy improvements to his design. As always, it's a little hard to separate out the mental illness from the person. But to say people don't attempt to engage Davis fairly is flatly disingenuous, and I think the author ought to try it before making that claim.
It is easy to play russian roulette when the gun is pointed at somebody else's head isn't it?

You say you would rather risk climate change than let go of your current comforts. How awfully convenient for you that the main effects will not be felt by yourself.

Rich people (most HN posters included) both benefit most from globalized goods AND are able to shelter themselves from the effects of climate change anyway. You probably won't have your home and rice fields permanently flooded or crops more and more years of drought, you probably won't need to find a new home. A lot of poor people will. And judging by politics today, when that happens, the rich countries who have benefited the most from burning fossil fuels will shut the refugees out rather than welcome them in.

Climate change is a terrible thing, but the effects will be felt very unevenly.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2FhmpoHMiQ

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VYCqrCM0gI
It's not impossible. As a sibling comment says, it usually just requires a bunch of ad-hoc scripts to make sure everything is running. This does get increasingly complex, especially as microservices are written with different stacks, but that's part of the tradeoff.
Murder is, by definition, an unlawful killing.
Sorry, late to this party, but Gentoo/Funtoo Linux. Funtoo has git-based portage, simple to install, up and running quickly. Yes, there are still compile times to deal with, but with fast machines these are pretty minimal. I find Funtoo/Gentoo the only distribution I can maintain long term.
I don't know what the Canadian system is, but the example points to it being street/block level:

https://www.google.com/search?num=20&q=postal+code+N6C+2B5

As far as I understand zip+4 is for a given sorting route, so it won't necessarily have nice spatial properties. The USPS anyway considers zip codes to be collections of addresses, so it's sketchy to use them as areas.

The problem with the parcel data sets is getting access to them in a coherent format without spending money. I actually came across this link on a the twitter feed of someone behind Openaddresses (https://openaddresses.io/ ). They often get addresses from parcel data, https://usopendata.org/2016/06/07/parcels/ but don't restrict themselves to it.
Pretty much all the larger non-Chinese companies sell pretty secure cameras. The safest way to use IP cameras is to isolate them so they aren't connected to the internet.

IPVM also keeps a public up to date list on known vulnerabilities[1]

[1] https://ipvm.com/reports/security-exploits#post_111311
True, but this does show a buffer overflow, which is one path to get to a remote hack. Well, remote as in wifi distance remote.
Yes, I'm sure skin color and gender seem really "unimportant" when you don't have to worry about being discriminated against on that basis. People like Susan Fowler might feel otherwise though.

Instead of trying to fight over race vs gender vs age vs income diversity, how about we accept that they are all important and we should strive to avoid bias on all fronts.
It's nice that the rest of the loss can be carried over to future years.
Wow, great project. I worked in a place that uses pgAgent heavily, and this address all major pain point with it, aka, parallel steps and max parallel job.
>harder to find great snowboarding clubs, demolition derbies, Baptist churches, bass fishing, tacos, and BBQ places

Harder to find than where? A number of the things you mention are limited simply by geography (snowboarding, bass fishing, etc.) I'd wager that you'll also find a decent amount of taco and bbq places compared, to say, Utica. There appears to be a number of Baptist churches in NYC according to google.

When I talk about LA, I'm speaking more generally about the county and its surrounding areas...There are mule rodeos around a half day's drive from LA. You are right that some culture typically requires lower population density, but you usually find some form of it in mega-cities due to emigration.
Not a knitting needle but a bodkin, at least that's what I heard. A bodkin [needle] is for threading and has a rounded end. As I heard it he was investigating the action of the eye rather than colour per se and managed to induce visual artefacts, possibly by contacting the optic nerve.

Citation with corroboration/correction appreciated.
Nest cameras work over WiFi (as far as I know). Presumably you can defeat them with a spark gap or a microwave you've jimmied to run with the door open. Vulnerabilities against technical hackers sending hand-crafted artisanal Bluetooth packets are laughably irrelevant.
I just started a new gig at a place that enforces a 35-hour work week. I get just as much done as I did working 40+ hours, but I'm way happier and just generally more relaxed. It's really amazing what walking out of the office at 11:30 every Friday will do for your mental health.
Notice how you off handedly scapegoated Fox News (not that they deserve acquittal) but no "leftist" media outlets in the context of political divides. I think that would be a sort of fallacy.
I've spent a lot of time around Stanford and Berkeley CS grads. The main difference I would say is not that they are particularly more intelligent than anyone else, but that they are filled with an incredible amount of motivation. They tend to be extremely driven, focused people who are capable of putting in tons of work to "get shit done". They also tend to have a million different things going on at once (clubs, side projects, jobs, etc.) and have every moment of their lives scheduled out.
> don't need as much virtual memory protection because that's handled by the language.

This is true at compile time. But what does it do for you at runtime when bad actors will be trying to break any and all assumptions? The guarantees in the kernel need to be vigilant against attackers, so while the kernel itself might be simpler, the boundary with processes still needs a lot of constraints at runtime.
Could it be that rather than the impact of the school, you're simply seeing how people who are capable enough to do well at these schools approach problems?
Solus is a rolling release linux distribution aimed at desktops. Its really very impressive. Its starting to feel a bit like a game-changer for linux desktops. Its run by Ikey Doherty who works for Intel's Clear Linux.
This looks nice, with a much more legible syntax than LaTeX. I'd love to use this, e.g., on my blog. The reasons why I won't:

- No server-side rendering. I don't want to burden my reader's browser with Javascript. (With MathJax, you can do it server-side, I explained how here: https://a3nm.net/blog/selfhost_mathjax.html)

- The project looks dead: https://github.com/asciimath/asciimathml/pulse/monthly
Is this relevant to HN? I normally kind of like the off-topic stuff that ends up here on a sunday afternoon, but this seems especially reddit-worthy.
I think the point was not so much about a RDBMS, but from an architectural point of view, you have a central data thingy that similar to a central RDBMS data thingy in that all parts have to point at the central thingy for their data needs. Not so much about the pros and cons of RDBMS
Keep in mind that LastPass is the only one that Tavis has seriously looked at so far. I'd be willing to bet he'll start finding similar problems with Dashlane or 1Password once he starts digging into them.

With that said, KeePass + iOS port + something to sync the database (Dropbox, Drive, whatever) should be good enough.
There are couple of tribes on those Islands (Andaman and Nicobar). Some of the tribes have been contacted, some have never been reached (and are off-limits) while some tribals have moved mainland in search of jobs and have mingled with the mainlanders.

One of the tribal language went extinct because most of their tribe moved mainland and learnt Hindi/English/Tamil
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1964610,00...

This article should talk about specifically the Sentinelese tribe (but they are mixing up Bo and Andamanese tribes with Sentinelese). As far as we know there has been no contact with them ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

The rare sighting of them was during the boxing day tsunami and they had enough knowledge to predict it few hours before and move to higher ground.
Someone should package this exploit in an iPhone app and market it as an anti-peeping product for Airbnb customers.
Each time I've lived near a harbor, there was a nonprofit sailing club where you could join for $100/year or so, take classes, participate in friendly races, sign out boats for a couple hours for fun, and volunteer maintaining them. Usually had full scholarships for underprivileged kids, and totally affordable fees for middle class families.

It's kind of concerning that when I talk about sailing, people read that as a signal that anyone in my family is rich enough to own and maintain a boat.
One of the most basic facts about dinosaur family trees might be wrong
The meaning of the compound words isn't predictable in general -- a library is not in fact a picture book museum. And remember that many multisyllabic words in English are composed of morphemes with a distinct meaning, with varying levels of compositionality. E.g. we would not say that "airport" is two words just because its meaning has something vaguely to do with the meanings of "air" and "port", or that "return" is two words because it can be split into "re" and "turn" (again with each component contributing some element of its usual meaning). But of course, you can imagine a parallel universe where the orthographic conventions of English are such that we write "air-port" and "re-turn", and such combinations are referred to as "compound words".

As far as I can see I'm not saying anything controversial here. As the article I liked to earlier points out, there are at most a few thousand distinct syllables in Mandarin Chinese, and it would be absurd to suggest that Chinese is limited to a vocabulary of a few thousand words.
A package to manage authorization for Lumen
The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase
Yeah - but if you're interested/curious, copy-paste the link into your browser. Moxie weighs in in the comments on jwz's blog there.

The "interesting" bit (to me) of Moxie's explanation of what happens is that Signal sends "truncated sha256 hashes" to the Signal servers so it can compute the intersection of all the numbers it scrapes from your contact list with everyone elses.

Seems to me there's just not enough entropy in phone numbers to make that nation-state secure.

If Moxie gets served a warrant (and a NSL) it wont take _too_ much effort to reverse out all those truncated SHA intersections into a social graph...

But then Moxie's POV seems to be "those people would get that same info from your telco records if you use SMS, and at least that's the _only_ metadata we leak, your telco probaby hands that over without a warrant along with at least the date/time of every SMS you've ever sent or received and quite probaby the contents as well...

I lean a lot towards jwz's argument that they're _way_ overselling the privacy-preserving nature of Signal. Especially if one of your adversaries is someone who knows your mobile number and would benefit from knowing you choose to use encrypted communication (like, say, everybody in the UK right now...)
Not sure about those particular schools, but my experience of CS is that it is completely separate from the going ons of the commercial market.

I believe most schools stick with traditional tools for educating, using Haskell and C for projects, although some are moving towards python.

I'd be surprised if any of them teach any javascript whatsoever unless you took a course specifically on that topic.
In my opinion, these problems and situations should always be put down to failures of management and leadership. Even if the team is low-performing, why did management give an unrealistic deadline for something to be finished by a low-performing team? Why are they putting together low-performing teams in the first place? Is it because high-performing people take one look at the putzes in charge and get a new job? Going the route of looking into the hearts of team members without looking outside the team is a bad idea.
It's going to be difficult to draw a generalization because I have mostly my experience from MIT, but I can't tell how that's the same/different as others from MIT or other schools.

For me, MIT taught me how to think more than it taught me anything specific. Sure, I learned a bunch of engineering, but mostly, I learned to be skeptical, to think through and quickly identify the key aspects of a design, a business, or a model and zero my efforts in on the sensitive areas and ignore (or minimize investment in) the routine parts. (Part of it is you get this secondarily from having such a firehose of work and interesting opportunities around you.)

In industry, it has made me skeptical of the framework flavor of the week, but I also don't want to be forever stuck in K&R C, so there's a balance to be struck.

I also wouldn't be overly impressed with an MIT grad just based on that fact. Getting into MIT is hard. Getting out of MIT mostly takes determination.
Ask HN: Sites and resources for designers learning tech?
A friend is a talented graphic designer, specializing in packaging, but after reading the latest "Design in Tech Report" wants to learn the tech behind web and mobile sites.

What are some good recommendations in that regard?

[1] https://designintechreport.wordpress.com/
I think pretty much every "social media" (ugh) company will do that for you
If anyone is looking for an alternative search engine then please go for https://www.ecosia.org/ who plant trees with their ad revenue.
A couple of ideas:

- Keyboard shortcuts, like for diacritics on european keyboards.

- On screen keyboard, like for phones and tablets.

But entry is not the important part - rendering is.
A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution