skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When problems/lack of it influence life(life != work) of many people.

- If power grid goes down you are facing riots.

- If systems on your new shiny Boeing go down you are facing deaths of dozens of people.

- If your military systems goes down you are facing russia ;)

If employees of government agency works less efficiently(is it even possible?) for some period of time (few days, months?) - nothing wrong happens. That's why it is possible to change those systems every 25 years. They will be less productive after software change, they will face new bugs in transition period. A lot (but not all!) of work those agencies do exist only because of some stupid laws (example: in my country you have to have special permit to cut down a tree on your land - I know someone who had to start building their house year later because they couldn't get permit to get rid of one tree, another one: you cannot inherit some types of parcel if you are not a farmer - you have to either become farmer[of course virtually - but it takes few months] or change parcel's type [it's not always possible and it's also few months of fighting with bureaucrats ]).
clickable, https://web.archive.org/web/19961226193255/http://www.redhat...
What was your first “hack”?
Right? This was my second one, too as I had one at my previous job (also a start-up working with the same folks). My first one was apparently incredibly minor because I thought I just had some labored breathing and soreness but that last attack...I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

I too always thought an anxiety attack was someone just freaking out because they can't handle something and they're being a little bit of a baby, etc. Boy did my attitude change completely. I had no idea!!
The NHTSA and the Insurance Institute for Highway safety estimate that stability control could prevent 1/3 of fatal accidents.

Studies show it's effective. Of course it depends on the car, but I've never found it to be a problem unless I'm driving like I'm at the track.

Also where are you turning right onto a road with a 60mph speed limit with no merging lane?
Sudden Coffee (YC W17) created a new process for blending coffee. Instead of brewing the blend together, each different bean is brewed and dried separately, then combined after the fact.

The main benefit here is being able to customize brewing parameters for each individual coffee. But I'm also excited about what this means for creating custom blends on the fly in smaller batches. Being able to tune the balance very well post brew. Different combinations could be A/B tested with a much faster iteration cycle for instance.
I can easily see this selling like hotcakes. I can see a lot of fashion conscious young people loving a history of what they wore every day.
Tunneling Specific Traffic Over a VPN with PfSense
This is a more in-depth source for the same story: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/brickerbot-the-perm...
You know, if Amazon made an Echo that hung on the wall and had Hal's red "eye", I think I would have to get one despite myself.
>This seems like a solution looking for a problem.

That would characterize most of consumer IoT. Industrial IoT is more interesting, but who needs their bathroom mirror ordering more razorblades for them. All sorts of problems with that. Yet it's nevertheless being pushed by big co's desperate for new revenue streams.
Every 25 years? COBOL's only been around for about 60. You make it sound as if it were something we've had happen far more frequently.
Same here. On the flip side, there is a bra-fitting app called "ThirdLove"[1] are doing this kind of computer vision/machine learning AI to help women for years. So Amazon Echo Look is not completely out of the line here.

[1]: https://www.thirlove.com
I'm going with the forgiving, more capitalistic explanation and agreeing with you. This is about reducing returns on clothing.

>just focus on simple rules every stylist knows

Do you have a list of these simple rules somewhere? ;)
I know C++, Rust(I'm comfortable using it, but I still find out new and better ways of doing things than what I know) and Python. I want to learn Haskell/Ocaml.
> Two way data binding [...] is a very good option for small applications or POC. But for very complex UI you should consider using one way data binding and explicit state updates/mutations.

I don't agree with this. Two-way data binding is a powerful tool that can make composing components very effective when used correctly in any size application.

If you have a number of custom generic input components (sliders, color pickers, value inputs with popup sliders, etc...). Being able to compose them into a custom ui just by binding with v-model is remarkably efficient for the developer.

Having said that this is only good when you compose dumb or generic inputs. Once you are in a component that is a bit more high level then yes, absolutely Vuex is the right way to manage your state.

The problem is that to bind components with v-model you have to deep-clone your data, and watch it. This is far from ideal. I raised an issue related to this because I think Vue is kind of missing something here.

https://github.com/vuejs/vue/issues/4373
First guess: people with a high degree of paranoia tend to both think it worthwhile to encrypt their e-mails and incorrectly diagnose security problems where non exist.
FlexiSPY Hacker Reward Program
India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste – Bill Gates
It's a pity that pg drifts off in the end assuming that the medium blog would be more serious just because of its existing. It's just that the main text content market hasn't hit the internet yet at the time of the writing. Or maybe it was part of his PR campaign to bring HN to life, who knows.
X86 oddities
I was initially a little bit confused by Amazon's attempt to disrupt the mirror industry (and it seems like others in this thread are too). After reading through everything, my best guess for the motivation is:

> Echo Look helps you discover new brands and styles inspired by your lookbook

This feels like a marketing vehicle for high-end clothing and accessories. Maybe it's a way to leverage the reach of their Alexa ecosystem to compete with the likes of Polyvore?
The US covers a lot of land, but the American population does not. And there is no real reason it even needs to occupy as much land as it presently does. It's bad urban planning and dubious tax incentives that makes us sprawl. Most people in or near major metros shouldn't need a car to be a functioning member of society. It's a major policy failure that it is presently so.

I don't know how you just pulled "25%" out of the air. Most people could be trained to drive better, they just never bother learning because the standards for licensing are so lax that there is no downside to doing so. There are lots of areas where you can get a drivers' license without even knowing how to parallel park.
Alexa I said send him the good news!
For $200, it should always say "you look mahvellous dahling"
> changing the speed limit does not change the speed of cars relative to the speed limit.

Studies [1] have shown that not to be the case.

[1] http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel/
Still a lot, but TD dropped their fee to $6.95 https://www.tdameritrade.com/pricing.page
I definitely searched around to see if this was some late April fools thing, or something like that. I just completely and totally do not understand this product. Plus all the privacy concerns of it...
Eh I don't consider it a new credit vehicle, margin trading is available in every trading platform. It doesn't make a huge difference for Robinhood; they'll issue a margin call if you're undercapitalized, so the likelihood you would lose any of Robinhood's money is very low.

As for the investors, the percentage rate is very reasonable; given standard market conditions you'd make good money using robinhood gold and putting it in SPY. It's a pretty smart move to charge for it IMO.
I find that books are still a far superior way to reach proficiency in almost anything, technology included. The Internet certainly has many good features for learning things, but I'm not sure efficiency is currently one of them.
Thanks for the heads-up, I fixed the link to point to the Kindle edition!

Amazon has indeed gotten called out for these types of shenanigans in the past but that was a long time ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies#Diffe...

I missed this related discussion last month: The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13963743
I didn't know the answer, but I just did a bit of Googling to determine that one of the reasons that pass-by-value can be preferred is because it makes life easier for the garbage collector.

See golang escape analysis: http://www.agardner.me/golang/garbage/collection/gc/escape/a...
At the end of the day, you can't live in a stock.
*Dangerous if unlucky, but greatly increases your returns if lucky
Are you sure? This is a recurring theme in your arguments but I don't necessarily agree with you.

What are the reasons for you to think that?
This company has been doing it for quite a while with an amazing toolkit for language work:

http://www.semanticdesigns.com

http://semanticdesigns.com/Products/Services/LegacyMigration...

They also have a proprietary, parallel language I'd like to see go FOSS:

http://semanticdesigns.com/Products/Parlanse/index.html?Home...
People just have different interests. Why do you think only 1 person would leave if it was topped out as you say? All the other ones just want to waste money?
And it is a point that so much of Linux userspace continue to ignore to thus day...
Maybe this would be more appropriate...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-culture-of-narcissism-ch...
if you think COBOL is bad you haven't seen RPG yet.
Growth Hacking VS Digital Marketing
It's all fine and well until one of those improperly configured devices are a medical device or something critical. Yes I understand that's part of the problem, but proving a point with risk isn't the right answer either. Every Dialysis machine i've seen runs windows xp, which any security professional will tell you is game over, but given the market hasn't provided an alternative, it's becomes a necessity to figure out how to protect these improperly updated / configured / designed devices.

Fandom of actions that impact others in a negative way is bad, and one day someone will do something they feel is right that impacts you and you'll say.. well that's not fair.
From Ubuntu to Fedora or what distro?
I used Fedora a few years ago. Moved to the Mac. Moved to Ubuntu. Back to Mac. Back to Ubuntu. I might move back to Fedora. Any recommendations?
They're totally equatable, as is 4chan-activism, when you consider that Comet Ping Pong was shot up by a terrorist who believed the pedophilia ring lie.

Reddit and 4chan activism have spilled out onto the streets often enough to make them serious considerations.
Heh, my WebGL renderer "ANGLE (AMD Radeon (TM) RX 480 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)" is unique. And character sizes o_0
Half the value of Disqus is that it hosts the server API for you. Any viable alternative to disqus or other commenting engine needs to provide hosting too. Otherwise, it's not useful out of the box for static websites and blogs using shared hosting. The challenge is integrating comments without the ability to control the dynamic server backend.
An happy?
BTW, if I open a page from disqus.com (1) with theirs comments I don't see those strange requests but if I open a page from someone's website (2) they are there!

1: https://blog.disqus.com/how-spoilertv-built-a-community-of-1...
2: http://www.thedailyreview.com/news/2017-04-26/Today%27s_Top_...
The response as I explained this to my coworker is classic:

"So it, like, judges you?"
Is Amazon even a serious competitor in fashion in the US? Here in Germany I think they are dominated by other retailers as far as I can tell (it's about the only vertical I can think of where that is the case)
Nice, thank you a lot!
This is a lot of finance works. You offer a consumer product full of awesome features and freebies that is a loss-leader, and make up for it on interest. Cash back when you finance a car, credit card miles, discount stock and RE brokerages, etc.
In the order of fluency: C#, C++, Java, Javascript, Python. I know each enough that I have pet projects in each language, not all the tricks and syntax shortcuts. I use C# almost exclusively at work. I'd like some chance to learn functional language, F# may be a start.
When people feel the need to write blog posts discussing the various alternatives to binding data to a view, its probably a sign that the framework didn't get it right.
Budgeting Basics for Teens – PersonalMoneyService
Why shouldn't I believe them? Assuming they are pointing to the datacenter equivalents of wind/solar/nuclear energy as the reason why datacenter use is shrinking.

Edit: Did you mean to imply that Coal is not actually going away because the 'cheaper alternatives' are fake?
machine learning..of course.
I have a fairly large sample size, and I've had zero issues with sleep/wake, except one: rarely, when I used to use a 2014 MBP for my desktop (external monitor, keyboard, mouse), about 1 in 30 times I would disconnect it to go to a meeting, it wouldn't wake from sleep and required a hard reboot. It seems to be related to losing the monitor/keyboard, as it never happened other situations.
For better or worse, SV is home to a lot of incredibly high-risk investments, and a large of early startups.

Startups with a lot of money on the line and no path to revenue will do crazy things that frequently lead to toxic work environments. Raise $10 million for a product that doesn't have a market fit, hire 10 people, provide them no clear vision for your business or product, tell them to make money, and watch as your business gets pulled in 20 different directions, employees fight, and people stress out. It's not likely to end well for anyone.

It's definitely going to be more common in places where riskier investments are more likely to happen. Uber, as an example, was last valued at nearly $70b and loses nearly $800m every quarter. I would imagine that kind of cash burn with no clear path to profitability is incredibly stressful on everyone. It's almost certainly the cause for many of the horrible decisions that seem to have been made there, and the same thing can apply at smaller scales to earlier businesses.
> Professional traders presumably make their living trading, so their returns far exceed 5%.

In theory, sure. But most do not "far exceed 5%", and instead have the fees of their employing funds to subsidize their strategies.

For traders who are working independently, or in prop shops, I suppose it might be true by definition (if they last in the market they are either re-upping and gambling, or at least profitable). But that's still not the rule.

More importantly, retail investors are not professionals, and Robinhood is basically catering to /r/wallstreetbets with this sort of product offered to them.
Sounds like a certain HAL.
Explain please?
People watch margin interest and amount of margin buys very closely. They can be indicators of over heated or bubble markets (especially in emerging markets). China has basically endorsed margin buying to prop up their insanely overvalued stocks. They're about to enter their own too big to fail territory, but I digress.
The big old reliable elephant: talking about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens
This is true. Back at Fiat Lux when we designed our D-D reactor, we intended it to sit inside a pool of water and borax. Since we didn't need to regenerate tritium, just absorbing the neutrons with boron was the cheapest solution. As far as I know, Borax is the cheapest effective neutron shielding known. We would have liked to have built our vacuum chamber out of purely Al (since Al-28 has a two-minute half-life), but we went with steel for cost reasons.

Unfortunately, we never made enough neutrons to activate anything worthwhile. Nevertheless, it is certainly possible to work around neutrons through design decisions.
I'm a pedestrian. Many roads around me have been made more useful to you, to the point where they're useless to me. If they're all made useful, then I'll be the one who has to stay at home.
"hey guys! lets take a model that has been proven effective by many years of fierce market competition, and disrupt it by doing for free!"
How would that not directly contradict "We do not sell data to anyone."?
6% is about the best we can do with a closed cycle. Extra-terrestrial sources could push those numbers even lower by running up to a pure D-He3 reaction.
I know C++,python and some F#. I mainly learn new language to leanr to think differently is so, I want to learn a lisp (probably racket/scheme) , a term rewriting language probably 'Pure'
I mean, i love all these tools, i just don't want them to have any form of internet access.

It's why i'm building my home cloud and automation system, but only doing so if the devices don't leave my firewall. I enjoy the tech, i enjoy the complication (to a degree), it's fun gadget stuff, it's nifty. However i do not trust them to keep my information safe, even if i trusted them to not misuse it themselves (which i don't).
I think the argument here is that they were forced to sell the competing product to a new vendor (due to stifled competition) whom are now pricing at $4500, which they weren't.
I prefer Collossus's readout myself.

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/colos...
Watching that video semi-inspired me to become a person that had clothes worth caring about and looking half-way decent on a day-to-day basis.

But then I looked down at my go-to fully-remote attire of a t-shirt and gym shorts and thought "Nah..."
yes, but as someone who's worked on the sending of emails side of this i can assure you that the techniques for fighting spam are TOO effective. There are many legit emails that go into black holes before any standard idea of spam filtering comes into play. I wrote an embeddable smtp server so that you could have an app that sent email without ever asking your users to put in their SMTP server info... it was USELESS because of SPF filtering. The blacklisting of whole IP ranges means that no app could use it on a home computer because all those IPs are banned.

we definitely need a better solution to fighting spam.
"The idea that large corporations are simply going to move on from COBOL is out of touch with reality"

Thank you. So much internet arm chair analysis falls into this category.
And how do you change that? You release a product like this.
>"I don't have any children, why do I have to pay property tax to fund my towns schools? I'm being ripped off!"

We hear a variation of this in FL all the time from retirees. Their children are grown and they've already paid for schools in their previous state!

Ok, thanks for moving here, then.
I've been using Amazon Product API for Booknshelf (www.booknshelf.com) by passing "category => book" in the search to query only on Amazon Books. The book search by title is quite relevant. I thought this might be useful!
For anyone who wants to understand the mindset underlying poverty (whether cause, or affect, or a mixture of both), I recommend "Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass" by Theodore Dalrymple. He's British psychologist who spent his life working with the poor, and came away with some insightful observations about the culture of this population.

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Bottom-Worldview-Makes-Underclas...
I saw the same. Should be possible to retrofit a 9000 series grille on the front and embed the whole assembly in a wall.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/f29d_hal_9000_...

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5900b7980ba0b86a1d8...

I used to run the HAL Project screensaver, pity it was flash-dependent. It's all fun and games until your personal digital assistant decides to murder you in hibernation.
Sure, activation in itself isn't necessarily a big problem, but I believe that embrittlement of the blanket and other plasma-facing surfaces due to the high neutron fluxes is one of the major engineering challenges for ITER and similar tokamak designs.
Trip planning: Remaining 2017 robotics-related events
Knowing how people on the Internet can be those poor fashion specialists are going to see some horrible horrible things.
There is: http://cobolcowboys.com/
The real solution is how do you get the people being conned to recognize that they are being conned and quit voting for the people conning them. If there wasn't a payout (e.g. people being (re)elected), then it wouldn't be happening.
This seems like it is designed mostly not for the stated purpose, but rather to solve some data collection problem that Amazon has. Note the emphasis on full-length photos and photos from all sides including the back, something they couldn't get simply by scraping, say, http://lookbook.nu, because normally most people in sites like that don't take photos of the back.
I believe that most people, if prevented from suicide, are glad to have been prevented. You might want to read http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-tre...

Personally, if someone told me in advance that, if they ever attempted suicide, they'd like me to not interfere - then I'd accept that. But I have a friend who's alive because she hadn't told me that, and I did interfere, and she's glad I did.
I don't think they lack the political will, they just realize that paying lip service to the coal communities keeps them as their constituents, rather than letting those people come to the realization that their needs would be much better served by the other guys.
I assume you mean rarely receive spam that ends up in your inbox. Or does your email someone not receive any spam at all?
TBH I did once and they were angry and rude.
Know & use: (these days) R, most of the time.

Wish: I'd like to explore rust, Scala, (oh yes) JavaScript​/typescript, C#/F# for writing extensions​ for my R code when R is too slow or fragile. I'd like to avoid C++. I'd be interested in comments on/experiences with that.
We have no real evidence of that other than it's what Brad Spengler says.
And this is why the kernel is "everywhere" while "year of the desktop" never happens. Because Linux userspace is all to happy to break itself again and again and again...
I'm just curious how the fashion advice works. Is there an active human component? Or is it purely ML based.

I'll be quite impressed if ML can give meaningful feedback for the subtleties of what is considered flattering.
The "money" banks create when they lend is the same sort of "money" you create when you deposit cash into your checking account. The problem with money conspiracy theorists is that they conflate different types of money (M0, MB, M2, etc) into one pile they call "money".
This is the most dangerous thing about stability control - if you've learned how to drive without it, your instincts are going to be all wrong when it tries to compensate for what it thinks is happening. It's the same problem with ABS brakes, which can be terrifying if it's a little icy and you're expecting them to lock up properly.

I also wonder what's going to happen when those sensors get a little screwed up and start to fail. Or when you put different tires on, or make any modifications to the suspension.
Ah yes, joining the 5% of startups attempting to recreate that scene from "Clueless." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNDubWJU0aU
I would do something like this:

1. Get a few thousands book titles that are "long enough" so that the probability they appear in a sentence without meaning the book is low

2. Search these spans in HN comments and use this corpus to train Stanford's CoreNLP NER

3. Run the NER on all comments

4. Check on Openlibrary or another book DB that the extracted spans are real books titles