skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Healthcare system damaged the Healthcare system. I am ashamed of the people that had access to my data.

While the people that did this caused pain and cost to the industry, I am looking forward to them inducing more pain until the "health professionals" stop harming patients by being wreckless and cavalier with their patient data. The real patient harm has been occurring all along, you just didn't know about it until now.

Also, your analogies are off track.
Top 5 Reasons for Choosing S3 Over HDFS
Not saying you're wrong, but I've done 6 conferences and the 6th wasn't any easier for me to get than the 1st.
Fascinating development, but Ars's writing is just plain awful. Is there a more academic article on the subject?
gram positive only, but it's still a great idea.
Is that the right link?

It takes me to a "subscription required" page for an article titled "What's new in gnuplot 5.2"
Ghost to Hugo – Cave Confessions
"If the token is tradable on public markets"

Why would they be? And if they could do that, why bother with the added complexity of that, and just make their stock tradable on public markets?
Kubernetes, Deis and open source are changing Microsoft Azure
Enjoying Deploying: Using Ansible and Capistrano for a Smooth Process
Personally what I really want is some sort of randomly generated pokemon adventure based on your local landmarks. Just take a bunch of linked quests, scatter them around landmarks that are a good distance away from each other and let me walk to and from collecting mcguffins. Turn parks into Safari Zones. If I live in the middle of nowhere, then make up some virtual landmarks and put the quests there.

There's so much you can do if you think of it as generating a roguelike on top of the landmark, road and park data they have.
The Plot to Steal Soviet Planetary Data
Show HN: Freelance Finder – Filtering the freelance web so you don't have to
Why would ARM, AMD or Intel even bother with the RISC-V ISA, though?
And the algorithm used has weaknesses and undesirable properties (nothing-at-stake-problem), which is why it's not used elsewhere.

Here's some introductory reading: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
So facebook finally has a massive income ? How did they manage to turn the tables around ? Last time I heard of them they were having a very hard time making more than pocket change and almost all the revenue was limited to the US.

They were steadily losing users in the very significant 13-17 years demographic, had a CTR one fifth of the rest of the web. Several reports of brands quitting facebook or advertising on facebook because it is expensive and does not seem to be effective on a background of unstable rules and "quirky" system with some overcharging and ads not displayed.

Facebook built itself on investor story time, with promises of better targeted ads in the future, and up to now is still selling the idea that at some point in the future it will succeed at this. It has yet to deliver on this promise in a consistent way.
What an interesting time to live in, when one can stock and even loose 400k in one email / text file!

Good luck anyways, hope you find them back.
@kpowerinfinity, how are the chefs chosen? Are these from any local restaurants?
Indeed. Both he Chevy small block 350 and Dodge Slant 6 are both considered legendary designs.
If you listen to the technoliberterians on the respective subreddits, BTC and ETH will destroy all fiat and central banking. The realists realize that is highly unlikely.
SMS Passwordless Authentication
> quant's often walk out the door with their models

Do you mean they leave with the knowledge of the models they worked on (impossible to leave behind), or they take something more concrete?
It's important that we separate the concept of a language and its implementation. You cannot define a pure language using an impure language, but what type of language you use to implement a pure language is up to you.
More generally, Kubernetes is an abstraction layer between your application and hardware/cloud that allows you to declaratively define what your app is, how it runs, where it runs and what dependencies it needs. All in a standardized format that allows versioning and easy modification.

As opposed to the old-school method of having to describe all that in words to an ops team (or not and just expecting them to figure it out): "This is a Java app. It needs JDK 1.6 and at least 1GB of RAM. It expects to write logs at /var/log/foo.log. It needs a MySQL database and Redis and Elasticsearch at configured hostnames and ports. We need to run at least 6 instances horizontally scaled behind a load balancer."
I really wish TeX would prefer underfull to overfull. So many times I've read two column documents where the author ignored the warnings and the columns overlapped, making things pretty hard to read. (Well, actual overlap is rare, but uncomfortably close is common.)
Oh... Now I understand. You're right. Disregard my previous comment below. Thanks.
You sure it isn't zero downtime deployment? But I thought Github runs infrastructure globally? I remember some outage were caused by DoDS, and some were software bugs / bad config.

Probably good idea to do rolling deployment. I will be surprised if they haven't for the kind of top engineering team they are running.
let's hate on these white people who decided to work on diversity because they saw none around them.
Anything ("real" or digital or anything at all) can be assigned a value by anybody. This value is also self assigned - if you don't think a laptop is worth 700USD like the maker says it is, you might not want to buy it.

A US dollar bill is at the end of the day just a piece of paper - that is assigned a value (that constantly changes) by the market.

The real question is if the currency has any value to a substantial amount of people. Obviously currency is useless if only two people in the world can use it. However as BTC is now over 2000USD/coin and you can use many payment processors (including stripe), I'd be inclined to say that it does indeed have value - and a use; your assignment of value to BTC may be lower.
Ask HN: Ex-blockchain engineers, why did you get out?
I'm trying to understand more about blockchain technology, but I struggle with seeing where it's useful and where it isn't. Would love to hear from people who have actually done some work in the area.
I've had so much trouble playing the port on console. I know it was made by a contractor but ugh. I want to love this game but it's total masochism to play on console right now. Hopefully this leads to something good.
Great point, I hadn't realized that purity must be performance-agnostic to make optimizations valid.
There's a chap I know in the Ferrari owners club who works at GCHQ. I'll ask him if he knows anything about unclaimed wallets. Oh wait...
Some js apps need to work with database.

eg: I'd like to build an expense tracker with html/css/js/sqlite but I want it to be offline and the user can choose to save their db file in their dropbox/gdrive folder.
Same here. At some point I had more abandoned game engines than actual games in playable state...
Ask HN: Could you please review our product – an Online 3d Try Toom?
Hi!

Even in 2017, only 10% of total apparel sales happen online. We are trying to increase this number by addressing few areas that we believe could be the reason. Cloths can be tried online and the whole experience can be made fun and interactive to bring more engagement.

Please take at least 2 mins from your busy schedule and review our product. Please do not forget to share any feedback that you might have. It will help us.

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I lost countless hours trying to replicate the DHTML effects from ziggen.com (Sigurd Mannsaker) - that site repeatedly demonstrated an utter mastery of Dynamic HTML (without making your mouse cursor have a trail...)

Some similar era sites that evoke memories...

* k10k.net (http://www.cubancouncil.com/work/project/kaliber-10000)

* http://www.chapter3.net/imperium/

* http://www.zeldman.com

* Joshua Davis' Dreamless.org and Praystation
The difference is between "less" as a stand-alone word, and "less" as a suffix.
Performance matters a little bit - most of the time we don't make perfomance improvements. Really in a context where performance was of serious importance I would want to have an explicit model of it to be sure I could reason about it compositionally.

I find any single effect is easy to reason about in isolation, it's the interaction that gets tricky. Viewing purity as isolating performance is just one perspective on this - you can equally view it as isolating state mutation, or isolating async transitions.
We use it to write little applications for communicating with embedded devices for factory testing, calibration, etc.

Generally PyQt for the little ones and then full C++ for the mode complex ones.
"Tales of Avarice and Cupidity"
It also relies on centrally signed checkpoints in order to survive stake grinding attacks. I'm pretty sure such a solution would not be considered acceptable for Ethereum. https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/alts.pdf
> these guys got a reward of sorts.

Of sorts. The games industry is not exactly known for its humane working conditions.
As someone who stepped out of the devops world for a minute and is now trying to convert my companies infrastructure to use these tools, this is very useful and I'm reading through the whole thing.

However, I'm still confused by how the tools in the ecosystem interact with the capabilities of various cloud providers. That is, we're using DigitalOcean and Docker and I want to get our infra to a point where I can easily spin up a brand new staging environment (staging-2 say) with an isolated postgres node using an attached volume which also say runs redis, a proxy node, a couple of nodes for application servers, and a couple of nodes for background jobs, all w/private networking, secure, w/non-root access, and run a quick task to seed dbs.

I just can't seem to find guides which put the whole thing together, just pieces and I'm lost in researching an overwhelming number of tools from Ansible to Terraform to Kubernetes to Helm, etc, etc, etc.
Draft: Making Container Development on Kubernetes Easy
Improving Linux Security with DevSecOps
Make Way for Digital, On-Demand, Always-On Supply Chains
Draft – A tool for developers to create cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
A marketplace is not a party.
Downside is that Ethereum doesn't have a cap on number of coins, which means it has high inflation (20% a year right now). Also, Ethereum uses A LOT of disk space, over 1GB is added every month.
Interesting, but hardly an adequate/relevant comparison since there are probably a million custom solutions involved, especially in the interconnect/IO parts.
If there is market and enough demand, they will enter it and try to dominate it.

Intel is already manufacturing ARM ships. Why would Intel leave the markets to Samsung and TSMC.
people who like expensive watches (ie other rich people) can tell that his is expensive, so he's part of the ingroup. it's an impractical amount of money to spend, even at his steep discount, on something that is also functionally outmoded for most people by smartphones, and thus acts as a high-cost (honest) social signal.

some people also like sophisticated physical mechanics (likely including GP, since he can repair watches), but i believe that's typically secondary.
This is a great! Thanks Openshift team.
Choosing Between AWS, GCP and Azure
That time I met Andy Rubin
I think hindsight is 20/20. They obviously did not think they needed to find a competing service; nor build one as they were paying for one. Given that they have been inconvenienced by downtime they may switch or make their own.

> Feel free to make a better one

The GitLab team did that already so I use their service. ;)
I know The world has been odd for the past year, but I assure you that we aren't in the EA buys DF time line.

We may be in the DF eats EA timeline though.

Edit: I wonder what the Adams brothers would do with "fuck you" money
If you are interested in this, consider reading 'The Shallows' by Nicholas Carr. Ironically, I have become a worse reader due to distraction, so the book took me about a year to finish - but I definitely recommend it! You will come away from it vowing to quit Facebook/HN/The Internet.
They're working on a memory consistency model. Presentation from the recently concluded risc-v workshop: https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Wed1000am-Memor... (slides), https://youtu.be/E5s54AVGV2E (video)
KSP is nowhere close to the limits of Unity, though, as proven by the modding community which (~1 - 1.5 years ago when I was last playing) provided better textures, atmospheric effects, better particle systems, and even shader-based atmospheric scattering. It would be entirely possible to incorporate all of that, in a more polished form, into the base game, given enough development time and will.

I mean, this is how my modded KSP looked back in time of 0.25C: https://i.imgur.com/yBahDMr.png. I could name AAA space sims that look worse (esp. in terms of immersion).
GitLab's public service had a major outage a few months ago:

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...
Agreed! The documentation is sparse, mostly blog posts and frequently out of date. I am finding some success with terraform style kubernetes cluster setups - there was a good one I came across for DigitalOcean that helped me trying to provision to Scaleway
>...epiphany about binary and what it meant about the nature of numbers and how we represent them.

Would you please expand on this thought?
Maybe when the feature was first introduced but I wonder how many people actively rely on it so that they can save time / be lazy. I do sometimes at least. I can type "seahwsk schd" really fast (maybe I'll get the ks/sk in the right order, maybe not, depends which hand or finger wins today), faster than "Seahawks schedule" and know Google will figure it out. When Googling simple stuff I frequently abuse the slight extra speed gain from not caring as much about making sure the character order is always right, or from typing out just the start of a word instead of the whole thing.
Space Engineers isn't made in Unity, it uses their Custom VRAGE engine.

Unity can do far better graphics than KSP has e.g. https://unity3d.com/pages/adam. The fact that there are numerous mods which vastly improve the graphics of KSP is pretty good evidence of this!

Where Unity can be blamed for KSP problems is the constant stutters due to GC - Unity uses an ancient garbage collector. Hopefully that's going to get better soon - apparently there was some licensing problem keeping Unity on an ancient version of Mono, now that MS own Xamarin that's probably not a problem.
Come on co-op mode!
A better analogy would be bacteria in your mouth.

For years, you had billions of bacteria in your mouth, slowly disintegrating the enamel of your teeth and slowly burrowing cavities into your teeth. They consume the food you eat, then urinate acidic waste that destroys your teeth and gums. They do this so slowly that you don't even feel the acidic damage.

Then, one day, you use a very strong mouthwash that contains alcohol. The alcohol instantly kills billions of bacteria, all of whom urinate instantly all at the same time, in excruciatingly painful death. The acid level is so high that it causes a burning sensation in your mouth, you are like, "damn, this mouthwash burns, I'm not using this crap again!"

You saw the mouthwash as the bad guy. In reality, the bad guys were there all along.
Kind of. Due to some internal politics, we have an 'architecture team' being formed, by someone who I don't want to work for (but who wants to poach me). Meanwhile I've been the de facto architect for a year and a half for software development. My actual title is 'backend tech lead'.

As to approach, it depends. Occasionally I've written and hosted a solution, and given endpoints for people to test with, before then walking people through the specifics and bringing devops on board to move it to production, and then will still actively take a hand in making changes/fixes/etc. Other times I've basically just POC'ed it, and then suggested to a team "Hey, this looks like it will solve a problem you're facing, here's some POC code, maybe play with and evaluate this approach, see if it'll fit your needs?" and they have, and in the process have learned more about the particulars than I knew, so that they're in a good place to do the real evaluation and decide what direction to head in. And still other times, especially common with juniors, when someone hits a roadblock, I'll sit with them, seek to understand the problem, and either explain the nature of the problem, and some possible solutions, and leave it up to them to pick one (since they have the most domain knowledge), or work/talk with them to work to and understand an ideal solution (if it doesn't require domain knowledge I don't have).
Storing the entire state history isn't really needed though. I'm not sure how much inflation is a concern given the volatile exchange rate of any coin. It can't arbitrarily change either, so it's not quite like fiat money.
Posts such as this still don't address a large concern:

What assurances are there about the "political" (for lack of a better term) controlling entities around the coin? For instance, Bitcoin is susceptible to a 51% attack to destroy opposition, and Ethereum has already shown they will do so in the DAO use case.

For this reason, I stick to fiat, even though I look forward to cryptocurrencies maturing even more.
I agree I seem to have a smaller attention span for certain things. But, there are other contributing factors. If I want to tune out of everything I usually do this in the car while I am driving and put some music on. The reason while I work I have a shorter attention span is usually when I am stuck on a task. By distracting myself I can get back to the task relatively quickly. Also, working in my department and helping others is a contributor. On the other hand if I have a firm grasp of what to do and I am sufficiently motivated I can get in the Zone and focus.
I agree with the article that our attention spans are shorter due to the over stimulation that society has created through new technology. On the other hand the tasks that we do have also increased in complexity so I think its a yin and yang thing. Due to the fact we have been steadily increasing worker productivity we have created ways to overstimulate ourselves to keep up with that productivity.
Shouldn't the title be "Why Our Attention-s- Spans Are Short?"

Short attention span on the author's side? ;-)
Venezuela cannot print USD and needs USD to pay coupons/principal.
Managing Secrets in Docker Swarm
Thats a pretty good explanation! Thanks!
No Laptop Ban on Board Flights from Europe--for Now
I've been told that competition can be a good sign.

If nobody else is doing what you're trying to do, it may well be it is a crazy idea with no legs. If somebody else is doing it, it means there really might be a market.
How We Save $30,000 a Year on Contractor Payroll–and You Can Too
Overview of top cryptocurrencies
Most people here (including myself) will have the same feeling. Would be great if it was open source.
Fans of Cheap Drugs and Printer Ink Just Won Big in the Supreme Court
We have a combination of caterers and authentic restaurants on our platform. Amongst those, we choose the ones who represent the cuisine best.

One of the challenges we see customers face is being able to find the really great authentic dishes that go well from a cuisine they are not familiar with - which is why we put in a lot of effort to curate the menus and ensure a high level of quality in the food.
I started doing four hour workdays about eight years ago. Every day is a potential workday, and some rare workdays are two! I don't find it burdensome to have a month-long streak of working every day at this pace. And if I "miss" a day (or week), it isn't the end of the world.

I have a seasonal side-hustle that includes the occasional 12-hour workday and even multi-day 24 hour stretches. Funny side-effect is an increase in code quality and productivity during the season.
Inside the quietest place on Earth
That does seem impossibly low. I happen to know that electronics manufacturing techs in Mexico (assembly line work) get the equivalent of $50/week for the lowest rung. To pay the same for high-skill developers/content-creators seems like something has been mis-communicated or maybe a typo.

Kerbal Space program has been doing well. I wonder who, exactly, has been raking in all the cash?
Read up on the reality of the KSP team. It's not pretty.
I run XFCE Fedora, but I've used all of the 'buntu derivatives. I think Lubuntu/Xubuntu are great suggestions. The Lightweight Desktop Environments are less 'convoluted' in my opinion, in the sense that the just seem to work the way people expect a computer to work. (Think Windows 98 vs. using OS X or Win 10).

Ubuntu is a good choice because Apt and dpkg are both easier to use then DNF/YUM, and Ubuntu has basically everything in its repositories. On top of that, the package groups make things really easy to install if you want to try another desktop environment, etc. Plus most of the help you will find when you Google linux problems are from Ubuntu derivatives, which is another good reason to choose one when starting out.
Transaction fees are the equivalent of taxes in Bitcoin, and until the final coin is mined in 2140, everyone pays a tax in the form of inflation.

I know this isn't what you meant -- you're almost certainly asking a rhetorical question intended to point out a limitation of cryptocurrencies in general -- but participants do pay taxes to keep the Bitcoin infrastructure running.
More details please
What scaling are you referring to when talking about "linear"? Did you really get 2x absolute performance going from 128-bit to 256-bit SIMD (regardless of the uarch, e.g. both with SBE and HSW with the former having a relatively poor cache performance). I'd be surprised, but if your code is in the >>O(10) flops/byte regime [1] and especially friendly instruction stream too. Otherwise, I'm skeptical.

Putting aside the "scaled almost linearly" statement, I'm not surprised that AVX-512 did not give the expected benefits ootb, you suddenly need double the amount of data loaded into the registers for every 512-bit instruction. You'd also quite like want to make sure masking is used effectively. [2]

[1] http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/cs258/lectures/lec...
[2] https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/523777
For reference; MRSA, which seems to be typically associated with "superbugs", is gram positive.
Imzy Obituary: Here lies our last chance for human decency online
Isn't that what advertising and marketing companies managed to do decades before the internet ?
Yes. How is $48K even in the right ballpark?
"RISC-V is just an ISA"

tgragnato wasn't clear enough to be certain about what he/she has in mind, but the RISC-V ISA specification -- as presently written -- has been shown to have memory consistency flaws. This emerged in April when Princeton published their TriCheck findings. RISC-V foundation has since responded by promising revisions to the ISA specification to close the holes.

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/open-source-engineering/ri...

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/eda-and-ip/ris...
What stops you from doing the same, then taking out the hires camera you carry around in your pocket to do the verification from the booth? This concern gets brought up every-time remote voting comes up, ignoring the fact we already have remote voting (mail in ballots) and ignoring the fact it's not really changing anything. You can already buy the vote (in the US) legally through massive campaign spending.
Here are the negatives of Ethereum:

1) Inflation rate is HIGH, 15% a year right now and it has no cap on the number of coins that can be created.

2) Ethereum's blockchain takes up A LOT of space. Over 1GB is added every month.