skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very excited about the work Zeit[0] is doing in the deployments space. Their flagship product, now[1], does deployments with a single command. What's even cooler is that each deployment is immutable and gets a unique URL that you can then alias to your canonical URL after testing.

They haven't been around for long, so some important features (teams) are still missing, but all of the things they put out are of the highest quality so I'm expecting a lot of great things in the future!

(note: not affiliated with them other than being a huge fan and happy customer)

[0]: https://zeit.co
[1]: http://now.sh
In many post-apocalyptic works of fiction it's a disease that wipes out much of humanity; what if instead it was a bacteria or pest that rapidly consumes all our plastic that causes civilization to collapse?
Can they attach a helium balloon on top to reduce the left requirement?
"it breaks down in air in about ten days, and in water or soil in a few weeks."

That is probably the best bit.
We have them on the "about" page – https://clean.email/about – but we are actually working on a separate page right now. as I said above – we can and should do better putting our policies front and center.
I recall his biggest qualm with his current synthesized voice is that it did not come with a British accent. :-)

I'm not sure how sentimental he is but he does seem quite tied to that voice since there have been lots of advancements in voice synthesis since he originally got this and yet he's chosen to keep this one.
Second simplification characters are pretty cool. Every once in a while you'll see them on handwritten signs.
A large number of Indians are employed at staffing companies which are not "Indian companies". These come in two flavors:

(1) large consulting firms like Cap Gemini, Accenture, IBM Global Service etc. These are American or European competitors of TCS, Infy, Cognizant[1], Wipro.

(2) "desi body shops" which are typically run by American-Indian business community.

#2 has a long tail - there are lots of firms, and each gets a small number of H-1Bs each year. Also, fraud is much more rampant in this sector [2][3][4].

[1]: Cognizant is HQed in Teaneck, New Jersey. It started as an in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet.

[2]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/couple-pleads-guilty-20...

[3]: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executiv...

[4]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/virginia-immigration-atto...
It's slightly unfair to use this argument in a thread asking about smartphone recommendations, IMO. He/She needs to be connected a few more hours a day.

We also survived thousands of years without fire/pasteurization/hospitals. Doesn't mean life was good.
Great! Thank you for sharing this!
Interesting... is this why I've never heard any issues with the amount of windshield washer fluid that is used? I got through many litres every winter.
Primary/secondary, master/replica depending on context.

"Replica" is actually a lot more meaningful than "slave" in terms of databases.
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
I'm not in devops so I probably shouldn't give advice. I'm just thinking of the time I had to help with a Wordpress plugin and it was pretty easy using Docker. The company I contract with uses Docker in production and they are a very well known host so I would imagine you would have all the tools you would need but I don't know specifics.
> You can often guess who the review was performed by too, since the program committee is always public.

This must vary across disciplines. While in your field the pool of reviewers might be public, in my own field most journals keep confidential their set of preferred people to turn to for reviews.
Beta test Tinder for Android
Suppose your cost for an event goes from $5,000 to $500,000. Do you think you may make different choices to try and prevent this event?

That is the difference in how many guns there are among the population.
Coin washer keeps Westin St. Francis' change shiny (2010)
The obvious counter, I think, would be that Social Security, unlike the sun, is a system of human design, and susceptible to human redesign - which the sun isn't, not yet at least.

(For clarity, I'm not espousing this position, and will not defend it with any energy should it be attacked. I post it because I'm as curious what a supporter of the "Social Security is racist" claim will think of it, as I am convinced that it's the most obvious consistent response to your point.)
Modern JVMs are pretty good at optimizing away the overhead of boxing primitives. So don't throw away the advantages of type checking unless you have hard evidence of an actual performance problem.
Thanks for feedback! I edited the article to remove those sentences, as indeed I can see how it can be seen as aggressive (that wasn't my intention, and Ben's interpretation is correct).

Regarding the motivation, it wasn't to defend any decisions. I'm sorry I didn't make this clear enough. The motivation for replying was to highlight some factual inaccuracies that have started to gain traction. I see posts like this every other week, and I've noticed a few incorrect points shared between them, so I felt this is a good time to jump in and help clarify them. I could've done it in a better way though.

I added these two paragraphs:

>Your post includes some misconceptions commonly held in the React community, so I wanted to take a moment to clarify them for everyone else who has the same concerns.

>That is not to say that React works well for everyone, or that the issues raised are not valid. But there are a few facts that I think are important to get right before considering those problems.
Spiral galaxies tend to have regular rotation, but elliptical galaxies are much more like a globular cluster, although globular clusters aren't thought to contain dark matter. It's just a lot of stars going round in random orbits. They would have to lose angular momentum in order to collapse into the centre. They can get stripped, however, by tidal gravitational effects.
> This disparity in receipt of SS benefits has been known about by the people who run/regulate these things since its inception.

The "disparity" is a change from 1980; the whole article is comparing the current state to that of 1980. The charts show that the absolute surplus of benefits over contributions was highest in the lower quintile in 1980, and the surplus since then has dropped in that quintile and raised in the other four.

I'm fairly sure that at the inception of Social Security in 1935 it was not known that changes after 1980, including a growing discrepancy in rich v. poor lifespans, would drrive a greater share of social security benefits to wealthier retirees than had been the case in the past.

Note that Social Security has measure built in that mitigate the advantages of wealthy contributors that were known in the past, including benefit caps and "bend points" in the calculation of benefits from contributions, which give wealthier retirees (that is, those with higher lifetime covered income) a lower proportion of annual benefits to wage-indexing contributions.
The cap on social security contributions is fairly low. After $127,000 you stop contributing to the social security. That means that plenty of middle and upper middle class families are contributing exactly as much as the rich, while probably not having access to as many of the things that improve life expectancy.
The thrust of the article used this merely as an illustration of distrust, manipulation and outright lies from all sources of news/information that we have.

I'm deeply interested in "fake News" and I suspect, like many do, that Facebook is merely an enabler rather than the source (ie. Facebook tells us what we want to hear, thus amplifying confirmation bias). I recently exposed the New York Times for being a cultivator of divisiveness and manipulation (but they are not alone). The NYT are far more likely to be a source of the problem than Facebook.

The article, for me at least, was a recognition of system-wide manipulation, misinformation and intent. It was also a recognition that things are dire. It was also a recognition for unity.

The challenge we face is that we are divided. Not just on national boundaries, but on our essences of self-identity which have become extremely fragmented and extremely hostile. I believe people need to pull together more than ever, yet, we are tearing apart. We are being manipulated on so many fronts that we can't see the wood for the trees. The discussion on Syria was merely one example of this confusion.

The article calls for recognition of the importance of truth. Excellent. However, the root cause of problems is squabbles over power leading to division. You're never going to stop squabbles for power. Truth can always be re-packaged until it suits. No matter how we try to bring people together, there will be more to gain through differentiation and divisiveness.

This rabbit hole runs deep. I am grateful to this article for challenging my views on fake News and social fragmentation.
Not to mention that is a parasite of bees...
That reminds me of a certain thing the Puppeteers did in the Ringworld books.
I really hope more people read this. It echos a lot of my own experience and I"m sick and tired of being classified as a "rent seeking" evil capitalist just for providing the service of renting out a property I own.
Jordan Peterson – The Curse of Creativity
Not more than they would if they weren't persecuted. I am certain neo-nazis would much prefer to spread their hate as publicly as possible through Sunday morning cartoons and flyers and ads, and the fact that we as a society have restricted them from doing so has weakened, not strengthened them.

Maybe some people find a morbid attracting to them as a result of them being forbidden just for this reason. But for the large majority, this has not happened.
It is perfectly possible to write bug-free secure C code,

https://cve.mitre.org/data/downloads/allitems.html
As I said, it's not good if they're "the truth squad", but it's unavoidable for them to be "a truth squad". I think Google Search is a net benefit to society even if it's run by an advertising company, and its entire purpose is to filter information. It cannot function without being a truth squad.
>One fellow in his late 40s was a security guard at the college, and so classes were inexpensive for him. He was particularly drawn to my class because there were a number of Perl related jobs in the area at the time.

>During my office hour after the class, we sometime chatted and I discovered that he had been working at a local manufacturing facility for almost 20 years. That facility had shut down some years earlier and all of the jobs moved overseas.

There is a concierge in my building who was the lead engineer in a textile factory for about 20 years back in Poland. When he immigrated to Canada, he was unable to transfer credentials and had to take the concierge job to make ends meet. He once said to me, "This job has turned out to be a lot less temporary than I hoped." He was only half-joking.

Seems like I meet a lot of middle-to-senior aged people in security in the same boat as him, which I find both fascinating and distressing.
I just learned which vendor I'll be avoiding.

Key cutting is exactly the job I least want ex-convicts to do. It is low-skill, so anyone can do it, but high-risk (you are literally giving your keys to the person, asking them to convert them to a numeric code, easily retained, and produce copies...)

(Obviously, I'd prefer an in-house locksmith or resettable locking system, but instead, I use a vendor I've known for 20+ years who uses PGP to authenticate orders.)
Ah, but how many outs are actually on balls put into play? A strikeout per inning is a pretty good ratio for a pitcher. Also, batting averages tend to be a lot higher at lower levels. But mostly I was thinking of fielding here.
Dedicated Game Servers with Kubernetes: Part 1 – Containerising and Deploying
It's almost childish how people use the same tired arguments about fringe activities that maybe 0.001% of the population enjoys (like minor porn) and which are violations of the law in their own right to do anyway, as examples of why we should censor speech and videos.

There's a law to take down child porn already -- we're not discussing that, and we don't need an extra law with vague and unrelated powers to censor stuff, to tackle that.
The Stanford Daily's article is a much better source: http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/02/28/cs-department-update...

This quote stands out:

> The computer science department has cycled through several languages over the past decades. When Roberts came to Stanford in 1990, CS106A was still taught in Pascal, a programming language he described as not “clean.” The department adopted the C language in 1992.

Moving to C makes sense, but the rest of that statement is extraordinary and needs examination. In 1990, Pascal was widely used, as many Hacker News contributors can attest to. In fact, it was designed for clarity, with teaching one of the design's use cases - the other being clarity for a pro coder - and was widely used for many years by many CS courses for exactly that reason. Some schools still use it in its modern OO form Delphi.

Javascript is widely regarded as a less than ideal language. On HN this is preaching to the converted, but: http://www.javascriptgotchas.com/gotchas/common-javascript-e... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12694530/what-is-typescri... both contain good material.

So the same person who considered Pascal - a clarity-focused and teaching language - unsuitable for teaching, considers Javascript - an unclear and confusing language with lack of type safety and many widely known gotchas, such that many people move to the Pascal-ish or C#-ish Typescript - as suitable?
> Somebody spins a story at a gas station about how they're trying to get to Cincinnati and they just spent their last $5 on money for their sick kid and can you just help a guy out, and they manage to con some poor sucker, do we focus our ire on the con artist or on the sucker?

That is just ridiculous. You're describing a lie. This situation has transparency that people have simply chosen to ignore. Fine print isn't a crime.
The rich pay everyone's share. [1]

SS benefits are a really bad deal for those who would otherwise save. [2]

Ergo, forcing the wealthy to participate in Social Security benefits the rest of us at their expense.

[1] https://www.aei.org/publication/cbo-study-shows-that-the-ric...

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-miller-socialsecuri...
Language and writing systems are not just tools of utility. They bear cultural and historical significance too.
Just because the Chinese writing system has a steeper learning curve does not necessarily mean it is bad. It is remarkable that a hieroglyphical system survived on a globe dominated by alphabetical language systems.
A Flying Car Prototype from Silicon Valley
Do you believe the author would have been able to expose the lazy and dishonest behavior of a journal like this with a paper that was plainly satirical to a layperson? It has to walk the line in a way to show that the journal purports to contain real papers, but that the staff has no capacity or interest in the veracity of its content, just making money. The fact that the author published the expose gives me everything I'd need to know about how conscionable it is.
I'll say this, my friends with/getting psych PhDs didn't even blink when I emailed this to them. What a mess.....
Swarms of Autonomous Attack Drones
I've never heard anyone else mention this - thanks for making me aware of it!

Something that sometimes works for me is to imagine something that's emotionally flat, but complicated enough that it pushes other thoughts out and it's not boring. An example might be: I imagine myself building a model train in my backyard. I'll kind of 'drift down' to thinking about how to set up, say, the grain dispenser, then how to paint it, then how the colors work together, etc, etc. The next night it's something different.
Leadership and Cultures
There are multiple paths to Rome. Successful leaders be it Satya, Bezoz, or Mush found ways to inspire, motivate, and if necessary impose their views and drives...the very definition of leadership ... Align goals of the masses and bring that joint energy to bear to bring fruitful results
Moving between days seems to be broken; I moved from April 23rd to 22nd and then tried to go back to the 23rd and didn't work. I couldn't advance beyond that either.

Despite this; great idea and looks beautiful. Seems to fill a bit of a void among task trackers I've used.
Privatizing it still doesn't address any of the systemic issues regarding ageism, classism, sexism, racism which have impacts on longevity.

This argument is fundamentally absurd. It's like saying that public schools in predominantly rich, white districts are better than schools in predominantly poor, black districts so we should get rid of all public schools because poor blacks get a poor education so it's racist.

No, we should address the problem of the schools and opportunities themselves, not eliminate it (though that may still be part of the solution). Here, with pensions, they serve a need. Eliminating them will actually hurt the poor, and minorities, more despite the discrepancies in payouts. The focus should be, why do they have worse life expectancies and what, if anything, can be done to address that. Why do they have worse savings rates so what can be done to increase their savings rates, or increase their wages so they're more able to save.
Python does, and C++ "does". Python has Django and other frameworks, C++ has CGI...but people usually avoid using it if at all possible. The most commmon languages for web development are: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and Java.
So if they made the entire search algorithm customizable and 98% of users kept the defaults, would you be satisfied? Regardless of how realistic that idea is, Google would still be an arbiter of truth. There is no way around it.
Kitty Hawk
New Study Links Yelp Ratings with SF Restaurant Closures
One of the most dramatically psychoactive chemicals known to mankind, so naturally the top comment on HN is the placebo one. Which is always the top comment about things that are thought to have real effects.
These claims by Musk and the FB exec are pretty outlandish. Any type of surgery is very high risk. Brain surgery is incredibly dangerous. There's a reason why so few surgeons specialise in it. The article even mentions one of the human trials which used implants was directed at people who were already paralysed.

But all that aside, developing sensor technology that could get accurate measures of brain activity in a non-invasive and non-destructive way would be quite a breakthrough (and really the first step to anything more substantial. Until we invent nano-robots, implants will simply be way too dangerous).

We have no real idea of how the brain works. It's so vastly different from any machine we've ever designed, filled with redundancy and not only electrical signals, but chemical signals that combine to create all kinds of inputs and feedback. Trying to read our stream of consciousness is not an easy task, as it may not be represented in the brain in a way we could recognise with instruments (or even in one discrete location in the brain at all).

Brain research is always amazing, but it also shows just how far humanity is lacking in our own understanding of the world. Advertising/Propaganda, the Stanley Milgram Experiments, conformity experiments all suggest brains may be more deterministic than we care to admit. We have hundreds of thousands of inputs (skin, eyes, internal pain/nerve cells, hearing) and there's no way we could raise twins in a lab and control all those inputs to see if we can get two humans to always do the same thing (ethically).

I wonder if we ever do create machines/AI that have connotative abilities and that can understand self-awareness; if they may end up telling us that they (and in turn us) don't actually have the free well we think we do.
Perhaps there is no evidence so far regarding these particular leaks from Shadow Brokers

And right there, GP is correct. Either there is evidence to suggest that these were planted backdoors (difficulty: patched out long before the leaks), or there is not.
Hard to decide if your comment is meant as a joke.
hosting ROM's like this is extremely illegal with respect to IP
> The one big objection I have to this article is the emphasis on how "opening a person’s skull is not a trivial procedure".

And that article seems to me like a direct response to an article in which Tim dedicated thousands of words trying to explain how intrusive the current methods of scanning the brains are in order to support the claim that Musk is planning on coming up with something little less intrusive than opening a skull.

In fact, here's a direct quote from the Wait But Why article:

> This is a major topic at Neuralink. I think the word “non-invasive” or “non-invasively” came out of someone’s mouth like 42 times in my discussions with the team.

I have a strong feeling that the author of this article had a strong feeling about the subject before reading the Wait But Why article and dismissed some of the claims because of his previous opinion. Otherwise, I have a difficulty believing that this was his opinion after spending a considerable amount of time actually consuming the article and its claims.
"A chance discovery occurred when one of the scientific team, Federica Bertocchini, an amateur beekeeper, was removing the parasitic pests from the honeycombs in her hives. The worms were temporarily kept in a typical plastic shopping bag that became riddled with holes."

What a great accident.
...or maybe you could decide what you wanted as 'breaking news', so if you did not want to know the football results because you are watching the game later, then you could un-tick 'sports'.

This could be really useful for onboarding people, once onboard they could set up alerts for topics or tick 'follow this story' if for instance they read about someone being brought to trial and they wanted to know the sentencing or even what crimes get committed five years hence once the culprit is out of jail.

Things in the news and the weather could then be pushed/pulled from an app.

As well as topics for 'breaking news' there could also be a colour coded level so if you don't really care about some unknown unknowns getting droned out of existence in far-off-istan (in a 'yellow' terror threat incident) then you don't get an alert for it. Meanwhile, if you are British and some idiot kills people outside parliament then that one pops up as 'breaking news' with no hesitation.

Tsunami alerts are probably handy as 'breaking news', it would be annoying to die in some massive flood due to having turned off the 'breaking news' wholesale just because you had no interest in the French election or 'Frexit'.

I think that they need to just be a bit more imaginative with the feature so that it works for all stakeholders, the editorial department, the reads and everyone in between, up to and including No. 10.
We have lots of ideas how to do that!

We're just not very good at it. But placing a more sensitive EEG inside the head and then using stimuli mapping to reverse enough of the signal-information map to read intentional output seems a fine research path.

(And we already know you can get some output woth that method.)
I'm genuinely surprised to learn that sobriety checkpoints are considered to violate 10 states constitutions, including Washington's. I wonder if this has any impact on the rate of impaired driving in these jurisdictions
Just like almost every form of insurance. The healthy reduce the costs for the unhealthy. The safe drivers reduce the costs for the bad drivers.
I was a contractor at a Fortune 500 company in 1999. We had a six month code freeze. We couldn't even make changes to development. So I was very bored. Taught myself PalmOS development while I waited.
It's old, but i thought _Sneakers_ [1] did a great job.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)