skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little background. I made essentially exactly what he's selling as a garden monitor to place in a few dozen machine cabinets and motor compartments in a newspaper printing plant. Printing presses are hot, wet things and you can predict failure if things get too hot, or too humid.

So bare ESP8266 modules, OSH Park boards, and the sensors. After my DHT's started kicking the bucket two things helped:

1) Switching my software to only power my sensors for the time I needed to take measurements. (Once per 10 minutes). It does take some seconds to stabilize before taking the reading but the sensors spend most of their time off. I had to cut traces and add a little transistor to the boards to make this happen. That sucked.

2)I picked up some SHT71's and was able to bodge them onto the failed boards in place of the dead DHT's. All it took was a firmware update for my ESP8266. This was easy. I have not lost one since. I don't know how much 1) has to do with that.

As an added benefit, I've got my esp's deep sleeping during the off times (had to add one jumper wire to make this work... easy) and can now power them for weeks at a time with a pair of alkaline batteries.
In all seriousness, if any hacker saw this in their logs, they'd probably say "well played" and redouble their efforts.
Fake news of a fatal car crash wiped out $4B in ethereum’s market value
On the flip side my smart phone often allows me to look up needed information about something I'm currently thinking about or working on. So I can stay in the same task instead of noting it and having to come back to it later after I've looked it up from a laptop or in a library prior to the modern internet.

I think the effects of a smart phone on someone varies greatly depending on how exactly the individual uses it.
We don't ask ourselves that of websites or apps, why would we ask it of programming languages?
I hate things that have a different function for long press vs. 3D touch. It wasn't until 3D touch came out that I noticed I had always been applying pressure during a long press, and that led to a lot of confusion. Still does.
> If it were true... how would we know?

If it were true, how would they know?!?

It's like if my nephew came to my house and saw Star Wars, and then on the drive home with his mom, he told her the story and she (who never saw the movie) said "He recited the entire movie after one hearing!"

No, what he did was remember most of the plot outline (imperfectly), and describe several scenes (imperfectly), and reproduce the gist, more or less, of some of the dialogue... He's not some incredible savant, he's just a normal person who paid attention to a story. I mean, sure, he "can recite the whole thing after one hearing", but in a pre-literate society, how would you even double-check? It would take someone else with total recall to verify that the bard had total recall. So you have to assume storytellers have perfect memory in order to demonstrate that a storyteller has perfect memory.
I've experienced a week or two of temperatures like that. They aren't too miserable as long as humidity is low and you've got a bit of a breeze (and a source of hydration). Fortunately, Arizona is pretty arid.

Frankly, 80 degrees in Florida can easily be significantly more unpleasant than 115 in the southwest.
Something interesting that I learned recently is that the Manchester 'Baby' machine was a 32-bit computer, back in 1948.
When the 'Open Door Policy' is really just for a cross-breeze
This is very useful.

I wish it had some information about supported languages. Most of the processing systems are JVM-based and require that you write your program in a JVM language. Some have Python support. But I have yet to encounter one that allows you write your pipelines in Go, Rust or JavaScript, for example. One notable exception is Storm, which supports pluggable runners, including one that talks to an external program over standard I/O. My impression that aside from Python, today's pipelines require a large amount of JVM buy-in, something I'm personally not interested in.

I'd also love some kind of metric for "aliveness". For example, my impression is that Storm was hot for about a week, and then Spark and Flink happened, and now nobody is talking about it, and Twitter itself has apparently replaced it with Heron.
/r/Geopolitics styling: collapsable threads
What exactly is the iPhone doing that any Android flagship phone can't do? Android flagships have already had the better camera's for a couple of years and I don't see that crown reverting back to the iPhone anytime soon.
FYI, https://github.com/dan-v/bruteforce-bitcoin-brainwallet
I feel like most of these changes would require a constitutional amendment.
Exactly, there's nothing wrong with Geocities style websites either, just snobbishness. /s
I watched it all the way through. I'm baffled as to why anyone would think she's pretentious (is it because she has a zany hairstyle?)

She's knowledgeable. She knows architecture, and she's communicating her knowledge. I don't think that makes her pretentious. It's just that we don't know as much as she does. Let's face it, a blog critiquing the shitty web design/UI choices clients make would be an absolute hit on HN.
How to present controls and styles of collapsable threads, in a manner consistent with long and complex discussions, is difficult.

/r/Geopolitics has a particularly elegant solution. I'd run across it previously but had forgotten where.
It wasn't rote memorization IIRC but a highly structured retelling that used all kinds of tricks to keep it poetic (epithets for characters that took up one, two, or three syllables for instance, used without fail in those situations) but still retained flexibility. Poets would tell the story of the Iliad differently depending on the audience, and I mean they're not going to tell the whole thing every night. But there would be epic competitions where they would.
I would kill for a western release of Seiken Densetsu 3. Probably my fav Square game of the SNES era.
What writing exactly could he save himself? I'm confused.
Funny how most visual programming languages (for example, puredata) look like these diagrams.
Why?
Federal holiday? Nope.
Top-two primaries? Nope. The us constitution doesnt address political parties, currently.
Redistricting rules? Nope. Take a look at Article 1, Section 4 of the us constitution and/or https://ballotpedia.org/State-by-state_redistricting_procedu...
If you work in IT use something like PagerDuty or OpsGenie and set it to harass you until you acknowledge. Then you don't need to worry about missing something.

Automate all the things.

Seriously only way to manage complex systems with small teams and stay sane. Prioritize automation and monitoring. When you do get emergencies spend the time when you are back in the office to figure out how to improve your processes to prevent that particular problem in the future.
They didn't have nukes or climate change back then.

Human nature + escalating technology is the scary formula we are exploring today.
Yes, I do not think "and" here was meant as a logical constraint.
The problem with a system that's easy to manipulate is that the benefitting/manipulating party doesn't like giving up their advantage.
OT: Is there a ELI5aaS (explain-like-Im-5-as-a-Service)?
A random mix of elevator pitches for various religions might be a better deterrent. Have you heard the good news?
I don't know if you'd be interested, but I used to have exactly that kind of behavior--almost reflexively checking my phone at the first sense of downtime. I got an Apple Watch when it first came out and it has helped curb that behavior dramatically.

I can see at a glance of my wrist that I have no notifications, and it'll tap my wrist if I do, so I almost never need to pull out my phone. I'm still just as "connected," but it really did cut down use of my phone to clear tasks and extended boredom.

For me, airplaning would add stress in that I'd have that nagging feeling that I'm missing something important.
What about that comment lead you to believe I didn't read the article.
I for one am not. What is wrong with calling a plain function?
As someone that has been hit by a baseball hundreds of times...it's always scary, rarely hurts that much, but when it does...it sucks!
There's always spots for good startups (even at/especially at YC).

The worst thing for an investor is a missed opportunity (after all, they're looking for that 100th portfolio item that makes up for the 99 other losses).

Meanwhile, you're just shooting yourself in the foot by giving yourself a bad early impression from the get go (solo founder who didn't find a technical cofounder a few weeks later, didn't close your first customer yet so you were still pre revenue, etc.), and the difference week over week can be night-and-day for an early stage startup.
Being easy to manipulate is already a problem
didnt she successfully prop up Yahoo enough to get sold to AOl? given that uber's investors badly want this to go public, she seems like a potentially good person to do that with
> Argentina has just issued a 100-year bond that was over-subscribed by a factor to 4-to-1 or so.

I'm not aware of an economic theory that says mispricing should be impossible, especially for a price set in advance.

> Trillions of euro-denominated deposits stood at bellow 0% for more than a year.

As far as I can tell this is referring to the an ECB policy for deposits of other banks to the ECB. This is not a market price; the ECB is actually trying to discourage its bank deposits. No contradiction of economic theory here.

> Real wages are continuously going down even though the unemployment figures are pretty damn good.

I'm not aware of real wages going down "continuously". As far as I can tell it's remarkably flat. This, however, is closer to something that actually doesn't seem to make much sense at first glance according to economic theory.

FYI I tried googling all of these things using terms you used and mostly got dubious zerohedge articles near the top.
In the UK, they can go for as little as 0.49 ($0.60), but average closer to 0.8 ($1.00)
My parents got one of these when I was 7... It was a TI/994A, actually. I have fond memories of playing Parsec on it! I also taught myself Basic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec_(video_game)
My collegue listed a few iconic parts:
- 8051 (first real MCU, how could it not be on the list?)
- MAXIM 232 (RS232 interface)
- 7805 (voltage regulator)
- TL431 (...)
Subjective and arbitrary are not the same in this context. If it was arbitrary then you could randomize the outputs and see no correlation between experts and non-experts on determining what was tasteful and what wasn't. Thats not true of 'taste'. Taste is subjective in that it is highly influenced by society/culture/history but experts agree on what is tasteful and what isn't within those bounds.

Now preference is arbitrary and subjective. If you just like something even if its not tasteful that is fine, even for experts and I don't know that it is problematic in buying a house that isn't tasteful other than it is a signal that experts were skipped in certain design phases of the project.
> Class Decorators (Stage 2)

Does it means both Typescript and AngularJS implement/use an experimental feature that is still under discussion as of now, in production? this is a bit risky.
Earlier attempts were more successful: (PDF) http://fc16.ifca.ai/preproceedings/36_Vasek.pdf

"Abstract. In the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, users can deterministically derive the private keys used for transmitting money from a password. Such "brain wallets" are appealing because they free users from storing
their private keys on untrusted computers. Unfortunately, they also enable attackers to conduct unlimited online password guessing. In this paper, we report on the fi rst large-scale measurement of the use of brain wallets
in Bitcoin. Using a wide range of word lists, we evaluated around 300 billion passwords. Surprisingly, after excluding activities by researchers, we identi ed just 884 brain wallets worth around $100K in use from
September 2011 to August 2015. We fi nd that all but 21 wallets were drained, usually within 24 hours but often within minutes. We fi nd that around a dozen "drainers" are competing to liquidate brain wallets as soon as they are funded. We fi nd no evidence that users of brain wallets loaded with more bitcoin select stronger passwords, but we do find that brain wallets with weaker passwords are cracked more quickly."
Man Brilliantly Responds to Anti-Muslim Comment, Wins the Internet – IlmFeed
This is an interesting diagram and my initial thought is that they are all correct. For example the rich often have good education, capital and connections so for them hard work is most important. But for the poor no amount of hard work will turn them into Trump unless they somehow gain the education and connections first.
Obviously, Javascript needs to be complex enough to bootstrap the Singularity.
Silicon Valley is now a show about the destructive hubris of the tech industry
You have a mistake in the last not of your formula. The opposite of d<=a is d>a, not a>d.
Someone more familiar with baseball than me - could you explain the "rules" behind retributive "hitting the batter" with pitches? I've heard rumblings that pitchers will intentionally return the favor when their own teammates get hit. Anyone have any insight into this?
do you mean "b > c and d > a"?
In spite of rising downtown housing costs, home ownership rates are outrageously high in Canada, probably even higher than the theoretical optimum.
Doesn't the whole blog specifically point out examples on each house of why they think it is bad architecture? It's not like she just makes a blanket statement that they're bad with no supporting evidence. Every single post has a ton of valid critiques. I don't really know what there is to get.
Sadly, I believe that you're correct: the bill was also introduced in the previous two congressional sessions, where it presumably went nowhere.
Because languages that have few but powerful concepts are easy to use.

I also believe that we do ask these questions about apps. Sometimes less is more.

Note: I feel most proposals today are sane.
Apple acquires SMI eye-tracking company
Might not be entirely obvious and intuitive, but it's not required as well. I mean, iOS did without it for 10 years.

People complain about iOS not being for 'power users', but when they add features in like a secondary click or more fine-grained control, people complain about it not being obvious. How obvious is right clicking on a computer to bring up special features?
First, you have a bunch of for-profit fiefdoms with mutually incompatible payment technologies all trying to own it all, refusing to adopt standards. No government should support non-standard payment systems, whereby they have to support all of them, and the on-going support and development baggage that entails.

Second, they lobby to prevent the proper funding of a fast federal payment transaction system, i.e. making the necessary improvements so EFT can take minutes instead of days. They don't want that to be fast or free because it then obliterates their business models if anyone can just plug into that standardized system. Other governments have done this and that's why they have faster in-country payments (and often even in the Eurozone), despite their "regulations and infrastructure" such as they are.

Your example of QuickPay takes 4-5 days to/from a non-Chase account. That's dog slow, no matter the reason, compared to same country transfers in almost any other industrialized country. I can't think of a slower country off hand.

U.S. banks are overwhelmingly using Windows XP as their OS of choice in ATMs, still today. The height of technological achievement!
Just wondering - can you get a display filter for your OS or browser to do a colour substitution? Like make everything that's red into blue? Does that exists?
I think losing hope that we can't do anything against it is really dangerous.

I know we haven't been on the verge in this way, but I do really believe that we can overcome this with human innovation. Even if it means having to pummel some rich, greedy folks first.
Oh I feel you. There was a day last summer when I woke up around 6:00 am and went for a long walk. Temperature was no more than 95F but it had 85% humidity. I could barely breath. When I eventually made it back home I was literally soaking wet in sweat. Had to stay at least ten minutes under the shower to feel a minimum relief.
1) They're getting their devices updated.

2) Only a small portion of Android phones are "flagship". The rest aren't. The crazy fragmentation of the Android ecosystem makes the real marketshare for something like this small and a long way away. Android phones are still at the mercy of carriers and OEMs. Google doesn't have the ability to push out the latest OS like Apple does.
Proper consistent hashing will only move (on average) K/N assignments when going from N to N+1 servers, for K original assignments.
In an effort to explain what this does, I'd just like to point out how the grammar of the title is meant to be interpreted: [Avoid being scanned] [by spoiling movies] [on all your ports].
Yeah probably unity with ARKit on iOS and Tango on Android.
In my sleep deprived stupor, I read that title as "Cold War, Bombed by Chickens" and got very very interested.
Yep, interestingly the decorators proposal has changed significantly since it was in stage-0.

So much so that this exists:
https://github.com/loganfsmyth/babel-plugin-transform-decora...
Not sure, but under the US Constitution, I'm pretty sure that the states get to decide this particular matter for themselves. So this bill is unenforceable. Both parties like to pass symbolic gestures like this on occasion even though they know it cannot be law.

The only restrictions on the states is that they may not do obviously unconstitutional stuff when drawing districts like attempting to disenfranchise a race.

Corrections welcome.
Thanks for sharing! It's seems like regulating the temperature of the water within a few degrees isn't unprecedented, is it?
I like this explanation. But is this good network security?
StreamSets Data Collector is another useful open-source ingest tool. I'm biased, but people seem to like it.
No. It would take one person who had memorized the story, over however much repetition, to tell the story and then listen to the other person repeat it back. It's more like, if your nephew came to your house and saw Star Wars and then told you the story, and you, having seen the movie multiple times, said "well, that's actually not a perfect retelling".
I can't find the quote, but I remember Mark Twain describing his training as a Mississippi River pilot. The master pilot training him said something like "What was the water depth at So and So crossing at mid day three trips back?" When Twain said he didn't remember, the master said "You would, if you didn't read all the time."
ORide – A prototype for an encrypted uber that can't track you
> > It is hubris or naivete in the extreme to assume that someone you disagree with has nothing valuable to say.

You think you disagree with me, and you clearly disagree with Austrian economics. Yet, with less than one page's worth of reading, you can identify the core lesson of the book, excerpted below. That the author then applies this lesson in ways you find objectionable is no judgment on the lesson itself.

Chapter 1, Paragraph 1:

While certain public policies would in the long
run benefit everybody, other policies would benefit one
group only at the expense of all other groups. The
group that would benefit by such policies, having
such a direct interest in them, will argue for them
plausibly and persistently.

Chapter 1, Paragraph 2:

there is a second main factor that spawns new economic
fallacies every day. This is the persistent tendency of
men to see only the immediate effects of a given policy,
or its effects only on a special group, and to neglect
to inquire what the long-run effects of that policy will
be not only on that special group but on all groups. It
is the fallacy of overlooking secondary consequences.

In case you feel any desire to actually engage with the ideas of the book, it can be read for free, in full, here: https://www.mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson
> We don't ask ourselves that of websites or apps

To be fair, yes we do.

Most websites and apps have an additional advantage of not necessarily caring about backwards compatibility over decades and can cut out features that don't work out or are obsolete, something that may never be possible with JavaScript.

And, just like languages, apps that do become lumbering beasts are often abandoned for rewrites or new apps with similar functionality but streamlined of all that historical baggage.

> why would we ask it of programming languages?

TC39 member Mark S Miller answered this question well in "The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, or, Why Large Languages Explode"

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2015-June/0433...

There is definitely a balance, but any language ignores this question at its peril.
Polaroid also launched Snap:

http://www.polaroid.com/products/Z2300-instant-camera

I love the style and simplicity
You are missing a crucial piece here to have consistent hashing: you also need hash the names of the servers. With consistent hashing you hash both the names of the requests and of the servers, then you assign the request to the server with closest hash (under the modulus). With this scheme, you only need to remap 1/n of the keys (where n is the number of servers).
We have gerrymandering at every level, but first with the States. Why does Wyoming have two Senators and California have two Senators? We have 12% of the population of the US. Wyoming has 0.18%, smaller than DC. Of course, this continues with the House and the Electoral College. Et cetera.

However, there is no incentive for Wyoming and ND and Alaska and ... to fix this.

No Taxation Without Representation? Sure, but that doesn't mean the representation has to be fair.
It's a small world
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https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/
While it doesn't sound like a bad proposal and could probably get a strong majority of votes in some alternate dimension, the party in power will never allow this to make it to the floor of the House for a vote.[1]

The more cynical I become, the more I think the party in power doesn't actually want to solve any problems, they only want to focus on wedge issues to ensure they can use {rage, fear, some other emotion} to keep their party constituents engaged enough to vote but not enough to hold their feet to the fire on getting things done. Incumbents in Congress still have 95%+ re-election rates and in 2010 when those rates dipped, Congress was remarkably less productive than usual.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule
I'd be interested to see that, and another axis for race. I'd imagine the opportunity for social mobility for most Canadian First Nations people, for example, is pretty grim.
Only a small fraction of that information is actually useful in improving our lives or giving meaning to them.
How did zillow force the removal of the posts??
No mentions of npm are made because this is about language specification not the broader ecosystem around javascript.

Package managers are completely detached from language specifications so that they can evolve independently.
Based on Crockford, when tail recursion optimization lands, meaning soon. It's getting ridiculous now, with a super blurry line between language features and built-in utils
Spot on. We've had success with in-house consulting for medium-to-large development projects, and we're in talks with a few MSPs now to help them offer managed custom applications to their customers. In terms of long-term scaling, getting more contractors on board is our biggest priority.
Are you saying that owning an entire class A of IPv4 addresses was a disincentive to go IPv6? ;)