skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What gives you the impression that NSA is not under harsh review?

There have been many instances reported publicly about US tech falling into enemy hands. I've included a few from recent memory. This is something that happens, and I share your concern. It is a bad thing that happens, among many bad things that happen in war.

But to optimize away from it, would be to sacrifice the technological edge that keeps Americans safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/isis-captured-...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/15/us-helicopter-...
Given the work being done in .NET Native and the planned features for C# 7.2, the language is starting to look like the spiritual descendent from Modula-3.
Organize your ideas
Perhaps the title of this post should be amended to something like:

Google Cloud Prediction API deprecated in favor of Google Cloud ML
Taking Zero-Downtime Load Balancing Even Further
True. I have an iPad 4 that I only use for reading iBooks, occasionally browsing the web, and watching YouTube / NetFlix occasionally. I find I'm using it less and less because it's unbearably slow. When I first got it, I used it at work as a laptop replacement to take notes in meetings, manage my calendar / email, etc. I can't imagine doing that on the same device now. It takes 20-30 seconds to launch Safari, 10 seconds to switch between apps, etc. I'm going to try and reset it back to factory and just load iBooks and a couple other apps to see if it restores it back to the speed it ran prior to iOS 10.
Apple loves to demo 3D games at WWDC, but I think most people stick to casual 2D gaming that doesn't require high-end hardware. From looking at the App Store charts and accidentally shoulder-surfing on the train, Candy Crush and Farmville clones seem to be the most popular. Some games like Clash of Clans claim to still support iOS 5.
How is Rust simpler? In terms of cognitive complexity on the part of the user, Modula-3 is much simpler; it is easier for a programmer to learn to write new Modula-3 code and correctly read Modula-3 code than it is for Rust code.

In terms of implementation complexity, Modula-3 is also much simpler, despite the existence of a GC. A Modula-3 spec would be a great deal smaller than an equivalently detailed Rust spec. Many people have independently implemented Modula-3, whereas an independent implementation of Rust is effectively impossible, due to all of the unspecified implementation-defined behaviors. If you told me I had 1 year to implement either language from scratch, I would much rather choose Modula-3.
I don't know how that would solve the problem; Apple is hardly a great friend of user choice compared to Microsoft.
Assuming no dups in file1, this outputs lines in file1 that aren't in file2:

sort file1 file2 file2 | uniq -u

(double file2 is not a typo :)
>To put it another way, the alternative is not that the NSA would have Microsoft about EternalBlue years ago, but that the underlying bug would have remained un-patched for even longer than it was (perhaps to be discovered by other entities like China or Russia; the NSA is not the only organization searching for bugs).

False dichotomy. The choices are not only:

a) NSA pays lots of money to identify exploits and then hoards and uses them, vs

b) NSA does not identify exploits, leaving it up to China or Russia to do so and leaving us vulnerable.

There is a third choice:

c) NSA recognizes that only State actors have the money or time for this kind of thing, and should invest the money to detect and report exploits because China and Russia are probably doing so.

In fact (a) doesn't actually provide defense against China and Russia having the exploit: we were undefended until the exploit leaked, and without the leak, China or Russia could have executed an attack at any time. They didn't.
Same for me. On Southwest, my knees fit exactly (slightly touching) without the person infront of me reclining. Luckily I'm fairly wiry and usually angle my butt to the left of the chair, and knees on the right (or vice versa). Or I can put my feet and shins under the seat infront of me.

But a normal "feet on ground" sitting position doesn't work if someone infront of me reclines their seat.
Cheap beast gaming under 750$
For me, it's very uncomfortable. There's a reason why office chairs are not all fixed in a reclined position.
Wikipedia says no. It's too far from the building, and too small.

The Grande Arche de la Défense just outside Paris has similar problems, and glass panels rise out of the ground during high winds to shield pedestrians.
Thanks, just filled it now. I indeed managed to miss the survey link when reading the post.
> I never had problems about knees getting closer or not

But other people do, that's the point.

I'm only 6'1 but with long legs, if someone reclines in front they're literally on top of my knees the entire flight. When turbulence occurs they bounce up and down on my knees.

I try to book exit rows and Economy+ when budget allows, but for all other times I take painkillers and just have to let my knees get damaged by the 4' woman in front of me who's comfort is more important than my pain.
Nice how you make an article about printing books of photographs and the person who does this into class and culture warfare to top it off with the SA - Grass obviously was the easy bridge to go over - as he always is - how else could you have written a comment about Steidl and the SA only separated by one paragraph. Bravo!

Plan b would have been to go the Lagerfeld, Chanel, Nazi route - but then this is French territory and surely not as satisfying as only using German bricks to build this up.

I like that one though,

"but really only the small portion of the city's educated and well-off will tend to visit the museum and the exibitions."

one of the dirty little secrets in Germany, how the majority of people pay for the subsidies of museums, exhibitions and opera houses and a small portion of the public profits (artists) or enjoys them (upper class and rich people). Just like with our subsidized universities - but I'd rather not go over that bridge.
I don't think you should have been down-voted but I don't think you understand.

Craigslist is so popular because of its simplicity. It's quick. It's light. It's easy.

It works and it works well.

I don't think there are many potential customers out there thinking "You know what the world needs? Craigslist for web 2.0 with AJAX, JSON, HTML5 and Flash elements."

If you think I'm misreading the marketplace, please feel free to launch your own competitor. I'll happily check it out, at least once.
Try installing Classic Shell. Brings back a sensible start menu without Cortana et al.
If you try to say what MSFT is doing is the same as Apple and Google then you are being hugely disengenous.

Ads for apps are ads, no matter how you spin it. People don't pay for android, they pay for windows. A pay OS/platform shouldn't force you to disable ads. Gmsil/Chrome are free apps.

Apple doesn't track you. On installs it asks if it can collect usage info, but you have to agree, and it's one time. They don't show you ads in either OS. They don't track your personal info. They don't give government agencies backdoors like MSFT got caught doing. They go to court to fight illegal searches of your devices.
Really cool idea, but I'm really missing the WHY section in the Readme file.

Thinking about a use case is quite hard. Anyone?
You could use an alias. They're case sensitive so SELECT could be mapped without impacting the built in "select".
Might help with the suicidal pilot problem, but not with hijacking, which is more common. They can threaten all the passengers to vote 'yes' to let them into the cockpit
JSONbin.io – Simple JSON Storage (Beta)
Does it keep everything local?

I couldn't find anything on the FAQ and I remember a similar tool posted here on HN and people complained that it called home for some search functionality.
+1 true. I only grouped EU together for simplicity. It also makes sense since they, by their own political and economic admission, are a unified trade bloc and should share some responsibility for EU-wide economic indicators.
WannaCry ransomware shares code with North Korean malware
> Could be it had been sitting down there for years without any incident.

Well, sure, and if they ran a critical machine with no backups whatsoever it might have also been fine for years, but that hardly makes it reasonable practice.
Regulation often has the dangerous side effect of making it impossible for smaller players to stay in the game, while, as you note, the big players can weather the storm for a couple of years until they've got no competition left...and then they can raise their prices without competitive pressure from the little guys. That doesn't necessarily mean the regulation is bad, but as someone who has always owned their own (small) businesses, I'm sympathetic.

And, of course, there is a tendency for those who support regulations to see the negative side effects and address it with more regulation. Also a potentially dangerous response (though also not always wrong).

I tend to prefer regulations be applied more lightly to very small businesses. The dynamic of "faceless evil overlord that doesn't care about their employees vs. powerless peon" doesn't usually apply to a bookstore with a dozen employees. But, that's probably not tenable for a minimum wage; even if smaller businesses weren't required to comply by law, they'd likely have a hard time hiring people if they weren't paying the same as the big chains.

Then again, this is not just a story of the minimum wage increasing; all bookstores are facing pressure from online sales, and have been for years. Employees are expensive and it takes more of them per-sale for a brick and mortar than for a shipping warehouse. They're all having to innovate their way out of obsolescence or die trying.

I guess we'll see how this plays out in SF. The economic disparity in SF is so high, it's probably a good thing that there's a people-driven attempt to rectify it.
https://github.com/murarth/rusti was the start of one; it's not particularly maintained these days.
We ended up with a pretty different design this time around as we iterated on our highly available load balancing setup, so I figured that it was worth sharing out.

I think there are some useful lessons learned and tips/tricks in there even with the announcement that HAProxy will be supporting hitless reloads soon, but I look forward to the feedback!
It's not farfetched in the least to have one entity approve the drugs based on roughly $1 billion dollars over 10 years[1] worth of research.

What's more farfetched to me is allowing private, profit-motivated corporations the unfettered ability to produce this expensive research.

Fortunately the all-but-oppressive regulation of the FDA from GLP and GMP to insanely rigorous science-based four phase system of testing is IMO the greatest achievement in science-based regulation in human history.

People simple do not understand or respect the awesome power of the scientific method being the basis of government regulation.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470403587.ch1...

or go to https://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Discovery-Approval-Rick-Ng/dp/0... and use the "look inside" feature to see page 4: "It is estimated that, on average, a drug takes 10-12 years from initial research to reach the commercialization stage. The cost of this process is estimated to be over $1 billion USD" (2005)

Another fun tidbit you'll find in the book: On average, for every 10,000 NME's that begin research, 1 NME will receive FDA approval. (where NME is a new molecular entity, a novel new drug).

So you've got a market where you have to begin development on 10,000 products to get 1 product into the market, on a 10 year runway. Could you imagine that in tech? 9,999 pivots per product!
and scala
How is that different from any other online retailer?

What sort of concierge service is Amazon providing you?
Lives too. Our already financially crippled NHS was hit extremely hard.

They are not allowed to upgrade automatically because their software will break. The cost to upgrade the software isn't feasible when you have a multi-billion wide gap.
That's just a lemma in the wider theorem that every sufficiently complicated application evolves to have ad-hoc SQL reports exported to Excel.
There are two alternative implementations of Rust in the works; one is _almost_ able to compile rustc at this point.
SQL is the standard language for querying relational data, so why not.
> I was wondering how they got that number; basically they use a $690M revenue guess from a third party, apply a valuation multiple from eBay and then multiply by the 42% Newmark owns.

It's not that dubious. The methodology is as simple and straightforward as it gets:

> AIM's Zollman, who called his company's Craigslist revenue estimate "conservative," said the AIM Group counts up listings for each category in various markets and then multiplies that by the known fee associated with that listing. (Fees can range from $7 to $75 per posting, depending on location.)...As the founder of 3Taps, Kidd built an interface for programmers that pulled classifieds data from Craigslist and was able get an accurate picture of the total number of listings on the site. He published a 2011 white paper that pegged Craigslist's annual revenue at $300 million, a number he said has certainly risen as Craigslist has increased or rolled out more fees.

This is hard to screw up, and if anything, counting listings ought to be a drastic underestimate - crawls of a hostile large high-turnover website will be incomplete, and Craigslist has other potential revenue sources like selling feed data to hedge funds or real estate or HR agencies.

This makes it all very puzzling. As the quoted employee says:

> "Eventually we realized we were making a lot of money and it was more than we needed to just cover costs," the employee said, noting at one point in the early 2000s Craigslist was making $40,000 a day on Bay Area jobs ads alone. "We could all do the math, and we'd wonder where all the money would go."

So CL is making at a bare minimum $300 million a year by 2017, of which a large fraction is profit; the few employees say there are no major capital investments a la Amazon (and no one has ever pointed to major software or hardware investments attributed to Craigslist that I've ever seen), and you never hear of Craigslist billionaires or millionaires aside from Newmark, so the profit isn't simply being spent on datacenters or employee stock compensation; thus, around half would go to Newmark if it's distributed as dividends, so he could have an income of easily >$50m a year over the past 7 years after taxes or >$350m on top of whatever he earned before 2011 on that increasing revenue. The Craigslist Charitable Fund is disbursing $10m/year or less (and donations to that wouldn't be taxed), so that leaves >$300m (7 * 50-10). But Newmark claims to be worth much less than $400m total. So... where does it all go?

It's hard to see how two different groups counting listings could be high by an order of magnitude, what Craigslist could be spending it on, or what Newmark is spending it on, unless he's making huge anonymous donations every year through other nonprofits (but why avoid his own CCF?) or simply lying (for privacy to avoid the attention or maintain his self-image, or just in order to make look bad "a fake market intelligence group who I won’t name").
> in what manner does it inconvenience you?

The seat will literally sit on top of my knees the entire flight, full weight. It is more than an "inconvenience" it is damn painful.
Ask HN: Good curriculum/guideline to teach your employees how to code?
I am looking for a good curriculum/guideline to follow when teaching the non-technical teams of an organization how to code. It should focus on web technologies, so start with HTML + CSS, then some light JavaScript, then a backend language or (maybe more practical) JS as the backend language as well. Ideally it should have a bigger scope and potentially also include challenges or projects so the class can run over several months and/or employees have some guidance after the class how to keep going.
I will reflect your outrage back to you now:

Why on earth would you NOT assume that institutionalized greed affects the results of medical science?

Who is funding the science? What are their financial motives? Who conducts the research? What are their financial motives? Are incentives aligned to produce quality medical research with the patient's best interests in mind, or the bottom lines of medical companies (pharma, medtech, even hospitals, etc.)?

I'm shocked and surprised at your shock and surprise. I don't think your arguments are irrational. I simply think they are naïve.
You would also have to consider whether the drug companies would choose an alternate route for validating safety. I think they would care at least some amount about their reputation for safe products.
Not to mention there's a risk-benefit thing going on. Serious side-effects are something to really care about for a drug that treats allergies. But if it's meant to treat terminal cancer, then you're more likely to let the potential of adverse side-effects slide.
I get that, completely fair use case. There's Jet.com as well and no memberships and free shipping (opposed to the 5.99/box) prime pantry charges. Target does some things on a subscription basis that beats out amazon pretty much across the board too.
Are there any times of day where the light coverges on a point in space above the street? Could a bird flying through this space catch fire?
A beloved cafe closed in Seattle recently for the same reason (no crowdfunding campaign was forthcoming).

I still support raising the minimum wage, but we shouldn't expect to have our cake and eat it too. Making labor more expensive will make goods and services more expensive, and it will make some businesses non-viable.

Now that I'm thinking about it, is the minimum wage a regressive tax in disguise? In low margin businesses, one would expect the additional labor costs to be passed along to the consumer in the form of higher prices.

Therefore, the extent to which a minimum wage raises your "tax" burden is proportional to the % of your income spent on low-margin consumer goods and services.
Every so many years there is a push by the industry for tort reform. They want to be legally protected from any damages as long as the FDA has approved the drug.

Bookmark this article to remind yourself next time they make this push.
Yes, I've not tried submitting pull requests or forking code so I don't have any experience of the etiquette or protocols needed like developers must have in spades.

Very interesting point about inspirational mockups, definitely food for thought!
Flying is pure torture to me (being tall).
Illegal math?
A good explainer from Kaspersky: https://securelist.com/blog/research/78431/wannacry-and-laza...
The total number of posts used to be so low, the "social" aspects wouldn't have mattered much. Not everyone used to use the internet for that sort of thing (manuals and books), and there are far more people writing software now.
in 1997 it was 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=UPA1-sKZniQC&lpg=PA36&dq=m...
I always thought it would be interesting to set up a slightly convex mylar sheet at the base of the Vdara. Perhaps innocently as a 'shade' under the extra sun. The results of which would be an extended Schmidt-Cassegrain type mirror arrangement that would deliver somewhere around 10x the solar insolation into the unfortunate condo at the focal point of the sheet.

It would be irresponsible to say the least, and have terrible optics, but it appeals to my darker side.
I'm surprised that more successful people don't do this? Is the drive that lead them to absurd success what leads them to continue well beyond needing to?

I find it hard to imagine hitting $10 million and not just dropping everything and spending the rest of my life on random hobbies and traveling. Maybe that's why I don't have $10 million?
Ask HN: From Batch to Streaming architecture using a Graph is this a good idea?
Trying to query users from a TB scale cloud table. Based on thousands of different segments and generating a daily feed for each of these segments. At the end of every day we query the table to say for e.g.
Create a subset of all users living in USA and generate a file for it.

We use to query the database every night but the number of segments have become so huge that its no longer feasible to batch query this data every night and populate segment feed.
I am thinking of moving to Streaming architecture where users are assigned to the segment as they come in. For that I am looking to load segment definition into a graph data structure and determine which user qualifies for which segment. Any ideas if a graph will be appropriate. Vertices will contain filters e.g. country:USA, and segment_id. And edges will represent AND case between filters.

I do realize Amazon Kinesis has a continuous query model on its stream. Due to some condition/limitations I am limited to Google cloud for this use case.
I will be attempting to do this in Google cloud dataflow pipeline.

Any critique/suggestion will be appreciated.
Correct, both MSFT and Apple force you to pay for your OS as part of your purchase, but Apple doesn't force you to disable ads.

That was the only part that was correct. Apple reminds users of critical updates, doesn't force. Apple allows every publisher to upgrade their apps (I'm an IOS dev), just don't try to link with outdated APIs. I have iOS 6 apps that still run fine without changes.

And you don't know what MSFT sells to advertisers.
Ice Shelf Waterfall from Helicopter in 2014 by Won Sang (KOPRI) [video]
Ever? What if they had a 10 year deprecation policy?
Eo meaning executive order. I dont think a president has cared to try an eo for the usps, but anything is possible with him.

He could possibly eliminate the monopoly the usps has on the mailbox and the monopoly on first class mail.

In reality nobody (the majority) don't need mail 6 out of 7 days. Not even 5... Or 4.. Informed delivery is telling people "i dont need to go to the mailbox today." so delivery frequency may be looked at again.
I love this. It's both the epitome of anti capitalism, while being so completely fundamental free trade, that it almost makes my head explode (as a university trained economist). I especially love that many who espouse capitalistic ideals will have a hard time wrapping their minds around this too. It's so easy to forget that any time money changes hands without extortion involved that's capitalism at it's finest. And the fact that the store is looking to the future, and using the patronage (in it's most classical sense) to increase it's capital to help stabilize itself in the long term just really makes me smile from all the dichotomous ideas at play.
As a big and long time user of AWS I thought it was pretty obvious that SimpleDB was deprecated when DynamoDB came out, and am surprised you think it is somehow bad to maintain a service in a "zombie" state is somehow worse than killing it... the way AWS plays this allows customers using the service to decide to move to a new service because it is better or cheaper, and on their own time scale (!), rather than being forced to drop everything else they are doing to go back to some old project and plan a migration.

I am so sick of companies thinking "a year (or even two!) to migrate is long enough for anyone": do you realize how many services I use? Do you realize how many random products I have built? If every service deprecates their API once every five years and gives everyone two years to update, and you use 20 services (this is common!), that means that every few months you are having to go back through all of your projects you have ever built to rewrite them against some new API. That is absolutely insane.
Sure; in general, a file system endowed with extended/extensible attributes can be naturally seen as a relational database (in which the files themselves are BLOBs).