skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually thought about this idea before and really like what they are trying to do. But I do not like the idea of installing one more app and adopting one more platform.

Why not just use existing infrastructure of emails and integrate with that nicely? The channels on Twist could be folders on gmails (with google integration at first) and users could reply to threads from their favorite email client. If they want to use a dedicated app they could easily install the app.

I think this would help them with growth a lot more since it would use the existing infrastructure of emails. Of course, it doesn't solve the notifications problem that they are trying to solve but that's what the app is for.
You've strawmanned me into a black & white cartoon character, sufficiently that my views can be labelled "jealous", "fucked up", "insane". That is way out of bounds for HN.

Recognizing the flaws in a system is not advocating tearing it down, or even shifting direction.

For instance, you can simultaneously believe that the carbon emissions of countries lifting themselves out of poverty will be an ecological disaster, while also cheering them on because the alternative is a permanent human tragedy.

If the mere suggestion that there are problems with the inequality capitalism brings is enough to kill your civility and launch you in to a tirade, I'd suggest taking a step back and avoid commenting on the topic here.
As a non-American and occasional visitor the most obvious class distinction is Teeth. The American middle-class have great looking teeth, bought and paid for. What's funny is they talk about other countries having bad teeth, ignoring the fact that all you have to do is walk into some other neighbourhood and see all the bad teeth you want...
No, and I didn't say it was, I was just commenting on a very interesting piece of tech that I haven't seen use at this scale elsewhere.

It most probably is a combination of factors. The crown is supposedly their tech to get constant location with minimal battery impact.
Seems like there is a wave of anti-slack/notification rhetoric right now.

Between this and the basecamp article.
Contracts aren't as powerful as you think. Lots of people are signed up to unlawful contracts (NDAs being a prime example).

The threat of a contract is powerful though, because to challenge it you have to go through courts, and a company like test had far deeer pockets than you do.
Google again attacked by another malware
I live across the border in SA. I don't think insulation is the whole story. If it is cold I just put more clothes on. We spend nothing on heating the house. I don't know that I would want to pay more for houses to get them better insulated in a country where housing affordability is getting beyond most people and the weather is mild most of the year.

We do spend a bit on air conditioning (we sometimes get several days in a row over 40C) but the difference between winter and summer bills is not that great. Our bills are still very high. We have just replaced our fridge and water heater and I am hoping newer, more efficient appliances will help.
The Luxury of Waiting for Marriage to Have Kids
I suppose you could have a point about the fact that (good) accountants know the work-arounds. And many of the bugs are annoyances and UI things rather than critical stuff. There are some that will really bite you (meaning, result in incorrect accounting) if you're not familiar with them. For example, the home currency adjustment in the multi-currency mode skips accounts with a current balance of 0 in foreign currency, even if the balance in home currency is non-zero, and so an adjustment is needed. If you know that, you can go in and do those ones manually (although it's a PITA), but if you don't, your taxes will be off. That seems like something that should not be allowed to persist in accounting software. It's the most glaring example I can think of, but there are others.

Ha, actually, one more - the only way to change the date format in invoices (from mm/dd/yy to YYYY-mm-dd for instance) is to change the overall Windows OS setting. That's crazy enough, but what's worse is, when you do that, it screws up the dates of many pre-existing, closed transactions in your company files. Fortunately in my case (iirc) it reset those dates way in the future, so I was able to find and fix them manually. But I mean, seriously...
It's worth noting, that they could use route53, and parallel deployments to get lower latency as well, with regional scaling. Not sure what this would do to request times, already over a second on average.
I much rather have window cleaning and fixing road pavement automated than looking after my kids and the elderly. I doubt that the machine or robot will be able to convey the empathy required for people interaction.
And here I am dreaming of achieving it by doing MOOC courses :)...So, not possible at all this way?

Theoretically, one would feel, that by just reading blogs, watching videos along side taking MOOC courses, and spawning GPUs on the cloud, should do it.
Viivo End of Life announced
This is a very paternalistic attitude toward the drivers, who are choosing to drive for Uber because they perceive it as being the best option available to them.

Ah yes. They obviously think this is the best of all possible worlds. If they were given the option to do something else -- say, work as high-paid software engineers -- they'd obviously choose not to, and continue driving, because they've rationally evaluated the plethora of fulfilling career options available to them and settled on driving for Uber as the one which brings them the greatest overall happiness.

Or perhaps they live in an economic system structured to disadvantage large numbers of people and leave them without many, if any, fulfilling options so that people like you can sit back and declare that a realistic choice was available to all of them, and they chose low-paying jobs (sorry, "independent contracting arrangements") with poor work conditions, thus making it entirely their fault and no-one else's.
Is it silly to want to be the best country on Earth? Do people from outside the U.S. share that same mentality or is it just some culturally-imposed ideal that the U.S. has?

Certainly wanting to be the "best" as defined by richest and strongest is limited to a tiny handful countries (Russia, US, China basically), but even Russia and China seem more willing to concede the many flaws in their county. Countries like Sweden on the other hand will happily concede that they'll never be the richest or strongest and so aim to be "best" along other dimensions like equality and social care. Then there are other countries again that would be more than happy to simply make into the next decade more or less in one piece.

The whole "We're number One!" attitude is pretty limited to the US (possibly because they're really the only country that could make a strong argument for actually being "number one").
> Why should the bar be any higher than the median actual human driver?

Marketing. The western world is mostly afraid of robots so they'll need to be at least 10x safer in a hybrid (human/autopilot) environment in order to gain adoption.
Oops! Will take a look into it and fix this right away.
Can't he just have a patch?
Can combo it with http://asciiflow.com/
Recover deleted files in Linux
We Have Launched Our Boltt Wearables In-Built with an AI Health
Mathematics is the art of highlighting the necessary consequences of a situation. That's all.

The situations that we mathematicians mostly consider are axiomatic constructs, because it's easier to then unambiguously establish necessity.

That this art, its methods, techniques and tools, happens to be so useful to other sciences (and in fact most of human knowledge) is an interesting phenomenon...
I am just curious what the actual list is, it is surely not possible to support every version of every compiler on every platform.
Cloud Quantum Computing Heats Up as Rigetti Launches API
Is that algorithm public?
My History with Web Development or JavaScript Fatigue
Maybe every Bank should provide its own, well documented API. Third Party is not an option imho. Also this reminds me of that root Bank i saw here in HN some time ago... https://root.co.za/
$6k for 600T fully assembled backblaze storage pod: https://www.backuppods.com (no affiliation, just pointing out that ~$12k isn't a massive amount).
I hope it will have retro-level screen quality (i.e. best in class).

(And, put those, at least as a consistent option, into the rest of your professional line, Lenovo. Really, it's become ridiculous, at this point.)

I really hope there will be no component/FRU lottery. I'd rather wait for the best part than worry whether I'll get the good LCD or the one that's washed out or with banding, perceptible PWM flicker, image-burn, you name it. Rather know I'm getting the right keyboard, than worry about squish, roll, etc. affecting my typing. Etc.
Any idea if "cryptomator" is a good alternative?
Even in a software house - I worked at a company where there were 11 other employees for each developer (most of them salespeople).
For engines like Hyperscan and RE2's underlying algorithms, alternation works the way you describe. However, for backtracking engines, alternation does not do a search in parallel for all the patterns. Instead, it winds up first looking for the first, then the second, etc., finds the first match, and declares victory. There are particular patterns and inputs where this behavior will be similar to parallel matchers like RE2::Set and Hyperscan, but the general case just won't work.
OpenVPN Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
It was not widespread, it was a fantasy.
I'm sure it would work, but you wouldn't get a lot of the benefits like a global distributed cache (API Gateway uses Cloudfront as it's cache), and you're obviously dependant on support from a very low cost supplier in the event of a problem with the hardware.

Would it be worth introducing that support dependency for ~$200 a month? Maybe, I guess it depends on what you're making from the service.
The belief that exact equality of outcome is more important than human progress is insane (and very destructive), and it doesn't deserve a polite response.

Feel free to advocate for politically motivated artificial poverty, and I'll feel free to object in very strong terms.
Is there some waste in school systems? Sure. But probably not as much as you think.

The cost of buildings, the maintenance, insurance, water, electricity all add up very quickly. Associated staff costs aren't cheap either - many schools have a nurse on staff to deal with injuries and illness, for example. Counselors/psychologists help troubled students. Learning specialists help deal with certain problems - as an example, when I was in kindergarten I was sent to a speech therapist a couple of times a week. Teaching assistants help care for the more severely disabled - some of them basically have a dedicated assistant based on their disability.

Buses aren't cheap either, and in rural areas, you might need several smaller buses to get everyone to school in a reasonable amount of time.

Schools in more urban areas often have security guards, and most schools have put more money into physical security as well with the perceived rise in school shootings (not trying to start a debate as to whether or not this is happening).

Administrators and secretaries plan and organize everything that isn't directly related to teaching, handle some disciplinary issues, and interface with other government agencies, the school board, and the board of education at the state and sometimes even federal level.

Education is expensive, and you can't start cutting out pieces of this without very quickly impacting the students.
Ask HN: What are the most interesting take home coding challenges you have seen?
We want to improve the coding challenge we give candidates as part of our interview process. The challenge is usually a take-home exercise in our process.

We are looking for inspiration on interesting problems that not everyone has solved already, where you can easily copy+paste the solution online and that can be solved in less than a days work.

Thanks!
I see what you mean with this. I think NNTP is still a great protocol for discussions, it's just that over the years it got a bad rap for being a warez/porn haven.

The server/client mechanism is robust and scalable. With a good client UI, it could be turned into quite a smart social/work platform.

I've been toying with attempting such a NNTP client, but it's way down on my list of projects.
He started a taxi service with a slick app to order rides. He was successful by willful criminality, disregarding inconvenient regulations and laws. His company can't retain employees and is burning cash. Their only viable path to profitability assumes no regulatory fallout or serious competition.

He did not change how transportation works. He got where he is through a combination of luck, good timing, and criminality masked as 'disruption'.
I thought Google just released one?
Probably using Node.js. /s
What's fascinating is that it shows here that Hyperscan is not matching the same (!) as the other engines. A piece of information conveniently forgotten in the Intel piece.

Also note that the rust regex crate now uses the same SIMD algorithm(Teddy) invented as part of Hyperscan, see:
http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ (also ripgrep is awesome, and you should use it.)
@CSDude you can check out this small tool i've written for debugging Lambda and API Gateway integration.

https://github.com/AlexanderC/lambdon (i know the name sucks)

Also @chetanmelkani as a hint: if you are using NodeJS runtime most optimal from the execution time and cost efficiency perspective is setting up 512mb of memory ;) it's about getting x2 performance boost over the 128mb configuration.
Characterizing IPv6 traffic load balancing
What's with that last picture?
There is nothing new or subtle about it. This subject has been thoroughly explored by the French school of sociology, most notably Pierre Bourdieu, some 60 years ago, with much more detail and academic rigor.

I understand that an article cannot show the same level of detaik as a sociology book, but framing it as new is either disingenuous or uneducated.
> Repeat revenue makes it easier for me to make a living as an indie dev

Of course it does! "And a pony."

You have to realize that most people are exceptionally leery of subscriptions as they are open-ended long-term commercial relationships with some random entity. There gotta be rock-solid clear benefits for a subscription to be justified. There are none in your case. What you have is a product, not a service. A subscription makes no sense whatsoever.

With regards to the fixed pricing - 3000 word pack is not the best option. What's more useful from the language learners perspective are packs that cover specific domain area - foods, kitchen utensils, car parts, body parts, weather elements, household tools, etc.

"3000 words" = "Unclear what you are getting"

"100 words, Garage" = "I may be able talk to the mechanic"

If you have smaller packs, you can sell them at few bucks a piece. You can try and experiment with discounted bundles of packs. And you can also try an all-you-can-eat option with a monthly access (yes, subscription), but as one of the options, not the only one.

PS. Have an option of switching off photos on cards.
Work locally.
Not really relevant here however.

And they call for more study to confirm or deny their finding. So far so good.

It's people that might overact in a way or another, this article is just a piece of data.
Corporate donors are also very important.

It is usually only way some programmers are forced to adopt new programming languages, in spite they religious beliefs regarding how programming should be.

Notorious example, game developers moving from Assembly to C/Pascal and later from C to C++.

Or systems programmers being force to move into C++ instead staying with C (e.g. IO KIt and UMDF).
A slightly older article, but here's 40M requests a day for $10/m

http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da...
Sounds a lot like he was forcing himself to do the work in order to succeed and to be "regarded honorably".
How to Get Your First Ten Customers
So how does it detect stack overflows past that limit?

Edit: Looks like a fix for LLVM being proposed (https://reviews.llvm.org/D9653) is just to probe every page that a stack allocation covers, rather than just the final one. Doesn't sound tough at all.
Construction tech company Aproplan closes €5M Series A
Well... that's the first I've every heard of seasonal time. That's amazing.

http://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/wadokei/huteijihou/in...
It was? I specifically searched HN for 'twist' and for the URL before posting - couldn't find it.
Untrue. People living in rural areas (outside major UK cities such as London) are against low-skilled immigrants coming from majorly east european countries (Poland and Romania). Do not confuse it with high-skilled immigration which the Tier 1 visas mentioned above are concerned. Immigrants are welcomed in major UK cities such as London where a vast majority voted to "Remain" in Brexit referendum.
Update: spoke to the nginx maintainers again on irc, and Christos Trochalakis promised me to work on the packaging himself this week! Really really happy about that!
No, I was responding to the questions asked, more or less. It is merely a verbose reply to point out that there are some legitimate concerns about guest workers.

I don't expect that to change in any meaningful way. I would say there are no reasons to expect any different. I'd not be surprised to see Company X 'invest' a certain amount in someone just to get a cheaper person here and then get their investment money back, probably with interest, while paying the imported labor very poorly.

Hell, it'd probably be even less expensive because said company will just use said startup as a contractor. I have no reason to suspect they will doing any additional oversight or enforcement.
Do you interpret that as positive or negative?
The high bar is there to ensure the system satisfies the "will they contribute to our economy" criterion.

Sure, that results in immigrants being more qualified and having more earning potential than the average native citizen. Nothing wrong with that. On the contrary, it means each immigrant will in average increase the country's GDP/capita. It also means the working class will be less likely to oppose immigration.

Where are you from? In middle-income developing countries (Brazil, India, China, Mexico, etc), educated, middle-class people typically earn well over $1000 per month. People who earn $200 per month usually don't fulfill the other requirements in the first place.
Garcinia Cambogia
The watchmaker is selling his watches for between $45k and $250k and producing one a year on average so yes, he'll need rich customers. I suspect that there may be a different market in Japan though - perhaps older and more traditional people.

Sooner or later he will need to take on an apprentice - it would be nice if he can start a school like that.

You mentioned electronics, and the Japanese tradition of craftsmen making the whole thing brought to mind the slightly eccentric electronics of Susumu Sakuma. He (was?) making retro audio amplifiers on his kitchen table at one point.

http://www10.big.or.jp/~dh/sakuma/index.html
This one is awesome! Thanks for this link. Really precise and concise.
This site doesn't load at all on Firefox on OS X for me. Loading your experience stays on indefinitely.
> Even beggars on the streets have given me AliPay codes to scan.

While I personally use either that applies, my observation is that WeChat Pay QR code is more frequently supported by grass-roots merchants like food vans etc. These WeChatPay QR codes are not for formal accounts that are supposed to receive purchase payment but personal accounts, rendering the payment a little shady, though AliPay also supports such transactions. I doubt some of these merchants do now own any AliPay accounts before they start WeChat Pay but they do have WeChat installed as it has been the dominant mobile social platform. An interesting rumor is that WeChat Pay is less ubiquitous in Hangzhou where the headquarter of Alibaba is located, and vice versa for AliPay in Shenzhen.
> No as Go has a GC.

So what, so do Oberon, Modula-3 and many others including D.

Yet quite a few production OSes were even written with them, e.g. Native Oberon for the Ceres Workstation at ETHZ.
Ask HN: Open source rules engine for categorizing applications by productivity?
As a user of RescueTime, I like how they automatically calculate your productivity by categorizing the applications you use, e.g., Facebook is classified as 'social' and 'unproductive', while sublime text is classified as 'development' and 'productive'.

What I don't like is that they have no way to associate time with individual projects, e.g., 2 hours 'development' on projA and 3 hours 'development' on projA.

After lots of research, I came across WakaTime [2] which claims to track projects, but only for their supported text editors and also ManicTime [3] which claims to track projects across all applications (Windows only).

Finally, I found Selfspy [4] which is free, open source, and tracks all applications. I figure it wouldn't be too difficult to track projects by querying the db. E.g., I could set up a basic rules engine to match window titles --> projects via keyword matching.

But in order to replicate the application categorization that RescueTime provides, I would have to implement an extensive rules engine for every popular application. Is there any publicly available data set with this information?

[1] https://www.rescuetime.com

[2] https://wakatime.com

[3] http://www.manictime.com/

[4] https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
How do you establish what the main account is? IP address?
Not sure of you are being cheeky but I think they mean eye patch.
Looking forward to that blog post since we need to solve something similar.
I guess there will also be some cost reduction if you can skip the server management. You will still have to monitor how your code is doing but no longer have to patch them.
slight tangent - anybody have a contact at SVB?

We are building a better front-end for any bank on top of Teller (or any other banking API) - http://bixtr.com.

I have some friends who use SVB but they all agree on needing a a much better front-end experience - so would like to help them.
Show HN: A Modbus protocol client tool written in C# and WPF
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586390
again? cut with the spam already
How is that an alternative? Both can and should co-exist.

Sure, but in countries that have a really good free public university system even the rich want to send their kids there. In fact going to to a private fee-charging university can be seen a sign that you weren't smart enough to get into a good university on your own merits.

That being said the rich can and will use their money to increase the chance of their kids getting into those good universities by moving to neighborhoods that increase the chances of their kids getting into good primary schools, so that they can get into good high schools.
Software only EMV payment terminal on Android
Calculation of Range Between Array Elements Using JavaScript
A sci-fi apocalyptic story starting with the underwater monitoring of the Juan De Fuca fault: Peter Watt's Starfish.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66479.Starfish

Free in various formats on the author's web site

http://www.rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm
Hi tenryuu, you're right extensions can be ported more easily than before, thanks for your contribution!

The Firefox extension was following the validation process, it's now published: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nbox/
Cryptocurrency: Why Stratis may be the next big thing
Try him out - he's a fascinating character they made a documentary about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UDS2kgqY8