skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before reading it I assumed it was about John Mann from 'Spirit of the West' a Canadian band from BC he has early onset alzheimer's.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/intimate-documentary-explores-s...
Yes it has, via unsafe package.

Which ANSI C example should I write for you in Go?
I would miss Xcode for sure. Linux unfortunately has nothing that compares, unless you think a bunch of xterms running vi is a development environment. Don't even get me started on Eclipse (yuck!)
Yes, you can buy this from Cambridge Associates, and a few other "consultants." But it costs more than you would be willing to pay out of mere curiosity.

Generally speaking, the institutional limited partners (LPs; pension funds, endowments, family offices, etc.) that invest in venture and private equity incur pretty significant costs to get third-party information about actual performance by managers (i.e. VCs). From largest to smallest, LPs might generally: subscribe to Cambridge's data and use it in-house with full time staff, or hire a consultant (like Cambridge) to assess and help select their managers, or pay a fund-of-funds a fee (on the order of 1%) to do likewise.

The point of all that is: figuring out who is actually making money in VC, and guessing who is likely to continue doing so, is very non-trivial. It can't be done with publicly available, Crunchbase / Angel.co type data, much less a VC's own statements or portfolio listing page.
I don't know enough about these systems to suggest a language, but I imagine within the "a few years of development" is budgeted some time to figure out what tool to use. Surely you're not telling me that mainframes running COBOL is the best tool for the job. What languages do younger banks use?
What You Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (And Never Dared to Ask) [pdf]
I suspect there are large numbers of fashion bloggers/instagrammers that have already ordered one.

In contrast with the HN reaction, ]the younger target audience will have no issue with sending their photos and videos into the cloud.
> This is easier said than done when your own self-worth and ability to see your own value is diminished due to stress, when you have a mortgage and financial obligations and a family to take care of. Not many people are financially independent enough to just quit a job the moment they feel it's become "toxic".

Well, I never said it was easy.

To elaborate more, it is incredibly important to have contingency plans in place, to prevent exactly this sort of situation from happening. One of the first things I did when I started working professionally was to have enough liquidity to last at least a year, which I was able to do only after 3 years of saving aggressively. Which really came in handy after I was laid off a job and had to spend 3 months looking for another one.

I really don't understand how one can get married, have kids and not have such plans in place? IMO it seems kinda irresponsible, especially if one is working in tech, where saving money is much easier than in other professions.
I am not the target customer. However, I really want to show this idea off to a bunch of people and see what they think.
People want to look good and having an automated system that can give you a "once over" seems nifty. Yes, it sounds vapid and for insecure people, but people waste time on being anxious about how they present themselves.
Its early days for us and we would value any feedback
Is it any riskier than a cell phone or laptop computer with a camera?
Chris Sacca's background story is little known and he talks about it at length with Jason Calacanis. The part about him losing millions while still at university is as shocking as his recovery from the setback is amazing. Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VOQnK7O2To
Google Strategy Teardown [pdf]
Fails on iOS safari for me.
There was a lot of activity in this space when Mandrill "died" last year.

This comparison was a very good overview of hosted options: https://www.metachris.com/2016/03/free-transactional-email-s... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11328631

And the discussion there linked this detailed sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nb1YqYJq9eWm6ojLDRXd... | https://sendyhost.com/mandrill-alternatives-245/
I was looking for something like this but in the form of a mirror and it would give me feedback as to who is the fairest of them all.
Already a better idea than most SV startups
I think it's rather brilliant. It is the manufacturer's responsibility to ship secure products. Here a consumer with a bricked product will demand a replacement/refund, putting pressure on the manufacturers to not ship shitty products. It's directly applying market pressure to sellers of insecure hardware, and that's a great thing.
Mainly Natural Gas.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2...
>We finally have a realistic shot at migrating a lot of security-boundary services on Unix-heritage systems to code written in languages not particularly prone to buffer overflow attacks.

I'm not that optimistic. There have been languages surface in the past that were "not particularly prone to buffer overflow attacks."

I really think that hardware bounds checking will need to be prevalent in the hardware ecosystem before we can really be rid of buffer overflows. It has to become cheap -as in almost free- to check bounds to stop buffer overflows from being a problem.

Just my opinion.
No, he's not squandering anything. He's placing a higher value on time with his kids and wife than on time with an "ambitious" founder. No one deserves anything or is required to do anything.
Canon 80D Giveaway (Full Kit $2K value)
Per "Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151487

The Sendy codebase is horrifying. [...]Just lots and lots of rough PHP _vs_ This isn't software to be used for analysis. Sendy is f-in awesome!

Amazon SES rocks from a pricing standpoint but deliverability isn't its strong suit _vs_ I find no difference between SES and MailChimp regarding delivery

I would stick with Sendy, but I could never get the unsubscribe links to work _vs_ there is a version 2 of Sendy, which appears to fix all these problems

lighter version of Mailchimp and super cheap [...] Configuration is a bit painful

I have been using it for almost 1.5 years and really like it.

if you are taking all the trouble to install Sendy you should look at Mandrill (2 years go) _vs_ Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account (1 year ago) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713

Also self-hosted: https://github.com/bevacqua/campaign | http://directmailmac.com ($100)

Hosted Sendy: https://www.sentopia.net/

Other/creative alternatives: http://tinyletter.com/ (5000 free) | https://domain.yandex.com/domains_add/ (500 outbound/day) | https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html
I should have included natural gas.

Yes wind/solar/nuclear aren't going to fully replace coal but any share of energy production they pick up is share that coal can't fill.

That plus improved efficiency and automation reduces the need for 'coal jobs'.

I get that it's not a straight forward as miners plugging their ears and closing their eyes while chanting 'coal is here to stay' but the necessity of coal is shrinking and it is hard for me to attribute the refusal to agree with that to anything other than ignorance.
In the US, most retail investors are limited to 2x leverage for new positions, and 4x leverage for existing positions. This is the "Reg T" margin system. If you qualify for the "Portfolio Margin" system (usually offered to customers with account values greater than 100k or 250k), you can do up to 6.66x leverage in a stock-only position.
Yeah, the problem was letting people get the expectation that it was an autopilot when it wasn't. Decades of Human Factors research in aviation had already established that people can't maintain focus on a sufficiently-monotonous task.
I feel like it would have to be much more frequent than that (at least monthly with perceivable consequences) to get a typical user to care.
OK, see, I can actually understand the utility of this and it seems like a good idea! As opposed to just the plain Alexa, which seems quite a bit less useful. Very interesting for Amazon to go after the style/fashion set. I mean it still has all the same privacy implications, I'm just speaking of the actual utility of the thing.
Ask HN: Is our emphasis on startups healthy?
Not trying to be inflammatory. I was thinking what if our next Einstein joined a startup to build a mobile app instead of working to further his field.

Today's news about Robinhood's fundraising got me looking into the founders' profiles. They're a bunch of Stanford trained physicists and mathematicians. I can't help but think there might be something better for them to do.

Just as well, the founder of our competitor is an MIT trained aerospace engineer who is now making a social video app.

What do you guys think?
Large parasitic losses are indeed an engineering challenge.

In theory, you are correct. However, you are making the assumption that efficiency is a static number. In reality, parts age, get dusty, out-of-alignment, etc. Let's say you are building something that makes 10 units of power, but 8 of those units are needed to keep it running (when working as designed). Say that the part that uses the 8 units of power is nominally 90% efficient, but after you've run it for a few months it drops to 80% efficiency. Now you need 9 units of power to keep running, cutting your output in half. This is not just a problem in terms of dropping output; it is also an issue from the standpoint of understanding your machine. It's hard to engineer something when small changes have large effects. Your output just dropped 30% - is something broken, or is the fan just dusty again? How long do those electrodes really last anyways? Did someone use the wrong cleaning fluid? Maybe the pressure gauge is just off by 1% again.

All those things add up, just like coding a big ball of mud can make debugging difficult.
No one I know is opposed to renewable energy, but advocates really do everybody a disservice when they try to argue that an intermittent power source without storage is a reasonable replacement for base load power. As Bill Gates said in an interview "…They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s. And that’s one of those misleadingly meaningless statements. What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what? The reading public, when they see things like that, they underestimate how hard this thing is. So false solutions like divestment or “Oh, it’s easy to do” hurt our ability to fix the problems. Distinguishing a real solution from a false solution is actually very complicated."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need...

(Gates is investing in 4th gen nuclear and energy storage companies so he is putting his money where his mouth is.)
And fortunately, we've got those covered.
Your link is about early childhood development and doesn't support the idea that any amount of time in Europe will change anything. A structured environment helps ADHD sufferers cope with symptoms, and quieter children (as the article claims French children are) are more likely to go undiagnosed, so a large part of the difference could be under-diagnosis. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyp... The article also claims that stimulants are the "preferred" treatment in America but it gives no source for this claim. On the contrary, Wikipedia cites papers showing that behavioral treatments are preferred for young patients and for mild cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...
To be fair, we don't know that the malware doesn't have a whitelist of devices approved to attack.
One that sticks with me the most early on was very simple but inspiring. Using a hole punch to turn a single sided floppy disk into a double sided at a time when double sided cost more.
> Exchange [...] with IMAP disabled there

This saved my bacon in a similar situation back in the day: http://davmail.sourceforge.net
Personalized travel planner Google Trips gets better at handling reservations
What are returns like on "boring index-tracking ETFs"?
>> I mean, i love all these tools, i just don't want them to have any form of internet access.

I've come to the realisation that the only way I will have a 'home of the future' is if I build it myself and keep it offline. I love lots of the IOT products and when they eventually come down in price they would be no brainers. But my privacy isn't worth the benefit they provide.
A cursory search for the briefly-mentioned Tools of the Mind program does not make it seem "promising". However, social science and education research is terrible and lots of organizations conducting research and pushing meta-study-backed recommendations have an agenda ($$$). Anyone in the field willing to offer some insight?
The Hacker Handbook 2017
I'm writing an ebook and I could used as much help as possible.. Backers, Test Coders, Shareing on social
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Actually, if your investments fall in value to the point where it looks like your account is in danger of becoming insolvent, they'll likely immediately sell as many of your assets as it takes to make up the difference, locking in your leveraged losses. This is known as a margin call, and it's very unpleasant to be on the receiving end of one.

The actual risk to the broker is minimal -- they just have to make sure to trigger the sale at a point where the value of all of your holdings (not just what you purchased on margin) is still greater than what you owe them.
My only phone number that people have is a Google Voice number and it's really funny when I have five five-second silent voicemails every day. Because none of them ever go through to my phone...
I laughed for a solid minute on that one.
There's one problem with nuclear that probably will never be overcome: it takes around 20 years from commissioning to the eventual connection of a nuclear power plant to the grid.

You can have an equivalent in solar, wind + storage in less than three years. That's 17 years of not producing electricity.
Does Glimmer mean the death of Ember?
When you go back and pick up a language you haven't used in a while, you find yourself magically much improved because of the fundamentals you improved on in other languages. I find that very rewarding.
I don't know about anyone else, but one reason I wouldn't get into COBOL is I wouldn't want to be that guy who thought he could learn an archaic language but lost the banks millions because of programmer error. I suspect a lot of people simply don't want the kind of responsibility that working with bank mainframes entails, even if they know COBOL.
Yeah, it already exists in fact: http://lookbook.nu/

I wouldn't buy this, but thinking of how many friends seem to have a near-constant Snapchat stream of "what do you think about this hat?" photos makes me think this is going to sell big.
Broadcast Design Studio
Curl is perfectly capable of resuming a download over HTTP unless the server is doing something stupid. Blame Baidu if you like, but HTTP is not the problem here and there is no benefit to FTP.
Sorry, what? Not doing anything may result in a false sense of satisfaction?

> seem to conjecture that refering someone to a hotline raises the chance of that person commiting suicide

I don't conjecture this at all.

> all the evidence points towards suicide hotlines being effective at reducing stress and suicidality.

What evidence? The entire point of this subthread is that we don't have any evidence that this is true. Or do you have some evidence we don't know about?
It's absolutely incredible to me that a device made to drive sales can itself be sold for $200. Furthermore, people will actually pay that much.
Hi, we've been seeing problems like this with Mailgun for about a year (with the support ticket record to show for it) and I'd love to get in touch. FYI your email address is not currently visible in your profile (should be in the 'about' section).
But even if you pay the $9-$15 for their Gold account, you still can only get on margin the amount of capital you have in the account max ie: if you deposit $5 and have $5 of cash on hand in your robinhood, but own ~$1200 of stocks, you can use < $1200 of "Gold" which is what they call margin money. It is explained quite well here:

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/213262686-Ro...

Note that I am a robinhood user and do not use gold or any margin investing. I use it for speculation for long term stuff and have the rest in boring index ETFs / funds primarily. I think the entire idea of investing on margin as playing with fire when you lack fireproof gloves.
I replied to every single thread in the Dropbox forums pushing my new app that would help solve their problems. Seemed to work well enough!

I then also left comments on every blog I could find talking about the problem. A lot of manual leg work that definitely paid off.
Ask Jack Bogle... I'm sure he'll have a lesson or 5 for you.
Hawaii’s online gaming curse
It's not usually recording you while you are changing.
Oregon man fined $500 for criticizing traffic camera files lawsuit
How to Kill Someone in NYC and Get Away with It
thanks for sharing :)
Investor Chris Sacca is retiring from venture capital
This is a good time to trot out that old tech company adage: if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.

How does Robinhood make money? By selling order flow to market makers. Why do market makers want Robinhood's order flow? Because Robinhood's customers are, collectively, unsophisticated investor with no particular knowledge about the future performance of a stock making them the perfect customers for purchasing liquidity a penny at a time.

Worth keeping in mind as you trade stocks every day.
Indian schools using WhatsApp to enslave mothers and children’s independence
"I don't know enough about these systems to suggest a language", so how can you say "Surely you're not telling me that mainframes running COBOL is the best tool for the job."?
Indeed - it would work great for training a neural net for recognizing the human form (or specific humans' forms) from any angle, instead of relying on conventional social media images which seem heavily front-oriented. Now when you happen to be walking away from the camera or trying to hide your face, ML will recognize you anyway!
Yeah, it's a force to be reckoned with, but that does not mean it's ethical.
>no better way to create technology than startups

How did the Koolaid taste? You certainly must have drunk enough of it.
cool! I loved this!
No mention of the Windows Subsystem for Linux? Seems like the obvious choice for a gamer.
There is zero chance of this becoming popular. Zero.
Yes. In fact, I'm going to start stealing bikes that have insecure locks.
Amazon has had great success with some of their stupid products in recent years. Maybe for you and I We just want to throw on some clothes and get out the door, but for some getting dressed is a ritual. They don't want less steps, they want more. I've had GFs who'll spend hours trying on different outfits.

And the next logical step would be a virtual dressing room, that uses an augmented reality overlay of the sort we see with Snapchat's funny faces toys for trying on virtual clothes, which would convince people to buy more shit from Amazon.
Yes that does make your ass look big, to a 90% confidence level.
Is it April 1st again?
> so... they've got a great guarantee they can take it all back.

And what of the case where the value of your SPY position falls below your $5k+interest debt to them?

Edit: derp. A margin call would cover this.
Oh, they know they're being conned, they're not stupid.

It's just that they believe that both sides are conning them, and they vote for the most appealing set of lies.
Know: Python (daily) C (enough to avoid the dragons most of the time, not enough to slay them) C++ (only the bad parts) x86 asm (rusty, did real-mode asm for thrills in a bygone era) BASIC (because I'm old)

Want to learn: Racket (for the parentheses) one of the MLs (for the types) Lean (because theorem provers are magic) Rust (at least enough to respond intelligently to "just rewrite it in Rust!")
Amazon’s new $200 camera will judge how you look [dupe]
Amazon.com
We've seen your wiener.™
Anti-Putin protesters get a smart phone app to help get out of jail
There's only so much of the hardware rat race worth keeping up with anymore

My personal data point of Moore's Law slowing down: my 8 year old Core 2 Quad is still half as fast as a modern i5. For it to still be usable would have been impossible in previous decades. With an SSD and modern video card I still game on it.
Running on AWS and doing it correctly so that one of the many regional outages does not cause you an issue is really hard and is a software problem. On the other hand using a system of tested proven code that runs on a system that is redundant by design at the lowest level of component (a mainframe cluster) where the software does not have to have knowledge of the redundancy is a bit simpler.

I really think people miss this very important point. Redundancy is transparent for 99.9999% of the software you run on the old big iron systems. For something like a modern application on AWS you have to know, understand and code for the infrastructure.
I'd say sleep/wake is vastly better on "real" Macs than any other platform I've seen. Though I think I've heard reports of issues on the latest MBPs, is that what you refer to?
But I am not sure of the outcome - I would like others to defend me when I am accused or picked on for no good reason.

Right, and by providing a explanation than just posing the question, you're doing a better job of doing exactly that—showing why you think it shouldn't have been downvoted—while also contributing to the conversation. In my experience, the people who are responding to such questions are not the people who have downvoted—they're doing some version of what I've outlined above. If you have no idea why something might be downvoted, it likely would be good for you to stretch a bit and imagine how someone else might read or take the comment you're referring to. It'll likely make you a better comment writer and reader.
What kind of stupid person would think that we could have a cooperative, functional society where I can just be careless with my bike, right?

What's the problem with these people?

Sarcasm aside, I live in Brazil, ask any Brazilian who stayed on an European country what was the biggest difference: "I could feel safe anytime, without worrying about my stuff".

That really shapes the mind and behaviour of people.
Amazon’s new Echo Look has a built-in camera for style selfies
> When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, the marginal cost of that electricity is essentially free

The marginal cost for additional GW is essentially free. The marginal cost totally ignores capital cost and just involves operational costs, which are (?)nothing for solar and (?)low for wind.
Paying inordinate attention to the limit means not paying as much attention to driving.

I have never paid too little attention to the speed limit being 25mph. I have always been very well aware of being in such a residential zone.
Sketch integration, audio functionality and Master events
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14203594
But they're perfectly content to bankroll their incarceration down the line.
And Fidelity is at $4.95 which is the lowest for big brokerages I think https://www.fidelity.com/why-fidelity/pricing-fees