skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I judge my donations as paying for content I enjoy. I donate to several web comics and some youtube channels. I enjoy the content but dislike web ads, so patreon is great for me.

I don't have a set budget but I don't tend to go for higher tiers.

I support someone as long as I'm enjoying the content they're creating. So for webcomics, if they're still creating and I'm still reading, I'm happy to keep paying.
I agree crypto is actually hard.

But there are lots of domains where details matter and small errors have big consequences. Vehicles, medicine, and manufacturing are all places where errors have killed people. Obviously severity depends on the situation, but generally speaking I'd rather my encryption get broken than die.

Software defects in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine killed several people [1].

Software defects in Toyota's acceleration killed 37 people [2]. "We've demonstrated how as little as a single bit flip can cause the driver to lose control of the engine speed in real cars due to software malfunction that is not reliably detected by any fail-safe," Michael Barr, CTO and co-founder of Barr Group, told us in an exclusive interview. Barr served as an expert witness in this case." [3]

Self-driving autopilot has got to be pretty hard. [4]

[1] http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle...

[2] http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4423365/Toyota-Camr...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ml6sjk_8c
JetBrains Rider 1.0- is a new cross-platform .NET IDE
You don't need to proof anything to raise questions. The comment didn't claim anything, it was just a sceptical one. We should cheer those.
JavaScript Utilization
After years of programming with Javascript I only recently took a deep dive into the ECMAScript 5.1 Specification ( highly recommended if you haven't ) to get a better understanding of the underlying architecture

http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/Ecma-262.pdf

Since then I've begun to think about how we took this tool ( Javascript ), built an ecosystem around it and followed a general roadmap over a couple decades to where we find ourselves today

In hindsight, I'm curious to hear whether you feel that we've utilized the language to get the most out of it

Thoughts?
Monitoring HTTP Service Health
The alt-right is not "middle-of-the-road conservative". The alt-right is literal-not-figurative fascism with memes and, occasionally, good dress sense. If you consider white supremacists (oh, sorry, white nationalists (oh, sorry, ethno-nationalists)) to be "middle of the road conservatives," there is a profoundly deeper problem in your calculus.
D's syntax isn't quite as nice as, say, Haskell (which strongly depends on preference anyway), but it has all the necessary tools to write strongly pure, referentially-transparent functions. There's the `pure` and `immutable` keywords that let the compiler statically verify the above properties.
What are the challenges companies usually face when dealing with data?
Does Delphix solve them?
I'm about one third of the way through, but I was turned off by him dismissing Kant and Bentham's moral theories because they are autistic ("diagnosed" on the basis of circumstantial evidence).

I see the value of bringing systematizing vs empathizing in the picture, but you can do that without character-assassinating them. It was really bizarre to read him bring up their autism, then insist he didn't commit Ad Hominem, then continue on as if he had invalidated Kant's view (without actually making any substantive argument).
In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a Workplace Hazard
Gotta get into the enterprise somehow. Even if that means bloating the language so its easier for the career desk jockeys to use (ie: dont ask them to learn something new).
Fired/Rehired
Well, it depends on who wrote the article. I see science journalists get this wrong frequently.

And really, as you say, everybody talking about storage systems should be quoting both energy and power.
Oh man, I always read before going to bed, and now I read a bit after lunch but I must take a break after 20 pages and take a small nap. I never thought before that reading might be a trigger for me to sleep.
I re-read your GP comment, and I think I misread it the first time. Let me try this again.

> If someone posted a message on HN about doing DIY appendectomies with Arduino-controlled robots and I pointed out that you need to go to med school to do surgeries, you would not in fact be harping on me for not having explained why.

Actually, I might well harp on you for saying that, but that's a different topic.

My complaint is not that you're pointing out that crypto is hard. It absolutely is. My complaint is much narrower than that. It is specifically a complaint about making statements of the form, "You just have to know what X is" when X is not something that is easy to look up. "Carry-propagation bug" is such an X. "Appendectomy" is not.

And all I'm asking for is that you (not just you, but anyone who writes about things like this) add something like, "If you don't know what a carry propagation bug is, here's a pointer..." or "... it's when you're doing bignum math, you have a carry from one digit to the next, and you mess that up. These bugs are particularly nasty because they only manifest themselves very rarely and so are easy to miss in testing." Or something like that.
15 years ago? More like 25. The "free" mantra is basically as old as mass-adoption of the web.

But yeah, some sort of ubiquitous fat client, possibly even integrated in the OS, would probably have appeared, and it would cost $50.
fairly low compression rate for zipped ascii, but i guess it is mostly a giant pile of nearly random strings.
It requires remembering 6 digits and it is just a little bit more accurate than directly remembering 6 digits of pi.

Here is a long article on other pi approximations: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiApproximations.html It turns out that 355/113 does a great job compared to most of the expressions given there! But none seem to be better than just remembering 3.14159.
Because the Americans that people in Germany interacted with weren't making the decisions. Use Google. Research it. It's not a controversial topic in terms of historicity. Germans as a matter of deliberate policy were prevented from getting the food they needed.
pretty much anyone that uses a bank
You're right. It's Bigfoot.
Wouldn't be surprised if this gets a lot of other people in the field thinking.
Yes! I completely feel this way when it's someone at all 'reasonable' (ie not a spammer).
I haven't read the book, know nothing about it, but few people I know ~~have~~ (edit: actually they read his earlier book: Mind Over Back Pain)

One person who I trust said that once he reached certain page, his chronic back pain disappeared (just by reading the book). Apparently he is not alone. Maybe for some people chronic back pain is just fearing back pain and having tensing up or something.

I'm still very skeptical, but if the author is not selling anything except the book, maybe reading it is not so bad thing.
Read charitably, his post is more an expression of frustration that this concept that is supposed to be an obvious well-known keyword was difficult to find out about in a google search. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=carry%20propagat...

This is more an indictment of the whole community that there aren’t clear glossaries or other introductory resources with good google juice, and doesn’t necessarily reflect much on your specific comment or intent.

He could have phrased it much better, but I think you’re also overreacting.
Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech"
Oh no, I've encountered this many times already. Sometimes, double-wrapping the archive satisfies a system that isn't recursively extracting archives. :/

Shall we try stenography next?
Personally I like the patreon model, and think it works really well.

Bundling together payments for different creators into one place is handy and I'm guessing helps reduce fees, so smaller payments work better.

I only have to provide payment details to one site, so that's nice and easy too.

I get to support creators who's work I enjoy without having to endure web ads, which I dislike.

From the creators standpoint it seems to provide a nice even revenue stream. Whilst I don't know any personally, I'd guess it must be nice to have an idea of the base income you're going to get in a month, rather than relying on something more variable like advertising or ad-hoc tips.
And 22/7 should be pi day, not 3/14
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=+%2...

I submit that "carry-propagation bug" is easily looked up.

You're asking for people to provide footnotes and extra information so that you can learn what they're talking about when they delve into jargon. I get it. It makes it so much easier to follow along. Then you can learn!

Two points come to mind. First, the bit of jargon you've picked on is in fact easily investigated with tools you are already familiar with. Second, you're asking people writing for an audience of their choice to redefine it to include arbitrarily lay people. Which may not be maximally reasonable - there's a reason Watson and Crick's paper didn't include a primer on what X-rays are.
Also, Manitoba is ranked almost last within Canada for science, reading, and math
Actually, in Norway most of the heating is done with electricity (they have loads of hydro power).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot

Rivest
Everything is a trade-off. One-time "tips" may or may not provide an income flow as as predictable as monthly pledges. However, the flipside is that it broadens your donor base. I'm more than happy to make one-off "tips" all over the place, if you have a low-friction mechanism through which I may do so. However, I'm simply NOT going to sign up as a monthly subscriber. For pretty much anything, whenever I can help it.

Obviously, you lose money by not providing a mechanism for donors like me. However, I can see the argument that if you DID provide such an option, you might lose money from donors who otherwise would have pledged monthly. So which direction provides the best trade-off? I don't know, and this would probably call for some actual research to come up with real numbers rather than gut feelings. But it's definitely not an obvious no-brainer, regardless.

I wryly note that this community tends to look down upon salaried employment, and seems to think that everyone with any merit should be quick-gig consultants or startup entrepreneurs. Start talking about self-employed artists though, and suddenly people want a safe predictable salary again.
OK you've sold me. Where do I sign up?
Most people at my school dropped it in Grade 9
> even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low

Agreed. Even with programs like TweetDeck that can apply some basic filtering, you're still left with a bunch of junk content. (And the UX of TweetDeck is terrible in my opinion, but that's best left for another post.)
With some products it takes a while for the penny to drop, you mention Google, think of Street View and how there was that moment when this nice idea led to something bigger - Google owning maps with all their own cartography not copied from any other agencies. They got copyright on maps by doing them better. The task they undertook was something that most companies would petition their government to do, not do it themselves. There was a cash burn on driving those cars around too, plus privacy battles.

I know that 'anyone can make an electric car' (they did on Top Gear), however Tesla have worked with the toolmakers and component suppliers to build a factory to make cars, this is the main creation, the factory not the car.

Whilst older petrol hears have been sneering about range anxiety, something wonderful has happened to what is going to happen with the energy market and these electric cars. Soon you will be able to get a plug in the lamppost by your door fitted by your electricity company, this will be a bit like getting a satellite dish installed, except the lamppost will work for three cars. Then you get the option to buy cheap electricity from the windfarms when it is windy and sell it back to the grid at peak demand time, earning someone a profit. You won't need to go to garages and those extra long journeys would work out fine too - superchargers are there for that.

This fit - domestic energy demand, variable supply renewables and cars that have large batteries for range reasons - is all coming together nicely.

Tesla could make a 2CV grade electric car if they get the manufacturing sussed. In this situation the ICE dinosaurs just can't change quick enough and it becomes Nokia/iPhone again. This probably summarises it for me, what Tesla are doing is that revolutionary a change, much like what Apple did.
I do not see any Urdu script in any of the pictures. What am I missing here?
One of the challenges I've always had with scheduling systems is travel across timezones. If I'm in NYC this week and London next week my calendar has to shift to that timezone and then back. How do you envision this working? Is it something you guys are thinking about?
I believe the idea is to ensure no one can use the listing to brute force.
I guess I'm not a big fan of too much social cohesion. I actually prefer societies that embrace differences. Though I would agree that can be taken to a dangerous extreme.
Generic arguments about religion are off topic here. They're not interesting (because they're so generic) and they lead to horrible flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14920276 and marked it off-topic.
The New Yuppies: How the aspirational class expresses its status
There's strong bipartisan opposition to civil asset forfeiture: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/session...

The only question is whether Congress or the Supreme Court will strike it down first.
How would Apple threaten the markets/government with that cash? Suddenly bringing it all back to the US, giving the treasury a windfall year that Congress will squander foolishly?
I started this year the 52 book a year challenge, one book a week. I'm actually at 29 books this year (one behind because I read Les Misérables) and I must say it's very rewarding. You just need to take a bit of time every day on some not essential task (tv, facebook etc..) and replace it by reading. I read 1h a day and it's enought to read a book a week.
I kind of doubt that. The current generation of JS rockstar ninjas does everything in their power to avoid learning a new language.
This is just wrong. Do bears not make homes in caves? Do monkeys not use tools? Parasites co-evolve with who ever they're leeching from. Plants, insects, and bacteria are still evolving in greenhouses and petri dishes. Natural selection is determined in many ways, you can go read about it (most definitely not just with "random mutations"). None of those reasons exclude humans on earth just because we live in concrete walls. A lot of animals and whole species are "less fit" by your definition and still pass on their genes just fine. Or are "fit" by your definition and don't.

Once again, I have no idea what you mean by halting, or "less fit" or anything else in your rambling comment. The fact that you focus on the traits you think matter, makes the comment even more idiotic. People who have no fucking clue what evolution is, should not be a part of this conversation and should be ridiculed and ignored.

Evolution is not survival of the fittest, it's natural selection. It is working on earth, on humans, and will continue to work with or without genetic engineering. Like I said, the decrease in natural genetic diversity from unchecked genetic engineering will hurt every species on earth. What we've done to cultivated plants in reducing biodiversity, should be more than enough evidence of what will happen with genetically engineered humans if we ever get there.
Some of us remember way back when the crypto dorks were claiming that bitcoin would be the first unfunny money :)
I just created a list with a reminder for next time I'm at my local bookstore.
I like reading fiction before bed, but the end result is me forming a makeshift blanket cave for 3 hours while my partner snoozes. :o
Transparency in Cloud Storage Costs
I always thought that Into Thin Air was a good metaphor for development. Most people die on the way down. They summit but then don't leave themselves enough daylight.
Pretty sure they will also use the batteries in their powerwall's as well (I seem to remember that the grid storage in CA was produced with batteries from the gigafactory)

I would imagine they would quickly switch the powerwall to use the new battery size that the gigafactory is producing..
Haha I see, thanks!
I remember someone saying here that a key shift in framing in Germany was to call them voting computers rather than voting machines (since the broader public understands that computers can be hacked). I think we might adopt that as well.
You're assuming they actually read the threads. It would be easier, and yield the same results, to merely read the headline, and write based on that. In fact, I'm sure a simple script could cover the majority of cases, leaving them to only need to write for the odd one their script can't cover.
Until crypto currency can be regularly used to buy everyday essentials like food and housing, I don't see this being a reasonable way to pay creators.

And currently, Patreon can only stop you from using their platform; they can not stop you from being paid. I can see an argument eventually being able to be formed behind "people effectively only use Patreon, so not being on it is a death knell" (like YouTube), but it's nowhere near that point yet.
FYI, if you've committed any form of cybercrime in the previous 3 years (edit: the statute of limitations is 5 years for most federal computer crimes, as pointed out below), you should avoid such conferences in the US for exactly this reason. You probably aren't as smart as you think, and there may be a sealed arrest warrant for you.

The FBI waits for these kinds of conferences to do exactly what they did here. Another Las Vegas DEF CON victim was Dmitry Sklyarov [1]. They won't bother with all of the problems associated with international arrest warrants and extradition if they know you're coming to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
Documentation should contain a complete reference off all options. StackOverflow rather describes... usecases.

It sounds fine to me, because the programmer can't think about all usecases, so they better be on a user-managed website.
I'd be more than happy if the proceeds went to ACLU or Watsi or one of the YC non-profits
I really don't get why people are criticizing and saying that there are better alternatives to this. Of course there is. This was not built to be the best way to send files, just to be the most practical one. Some people don't even know there is life outside of Facebook, they will never know about alternatives to send a file they could not send using email or messager. And this shows that Mozilla is starting building services layers on Firefox.
Indictment:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912520-Marcus-Hutch...
I feel you bro'

I remember browsing with 16 MB of memory... and it still feels the same, specially now with Chrome hogging the fan, CPU and mouse...
I read through the thread, and the proposal sounds crazy to me.

1. Members marked private being accessible from other instances of the same class [1] is counter to every other OO language I have used. What is the prior art here? Why depart from all conventions like this?

2. The # syntax is not extensible. If TC39 decides to add protected, internal, etc. modifiers in the future, what will they look like? We should be looking to TypeScript's private/protected modifiers as a battle tested solution that fits the existing convention set by the "static" modifier.

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[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/issues/15#issu...
Tesla's Asymmetric War Against the Auto Industry
Glad to see someone tackling this issue. I too have been frustrated with this and many times thought about building a solution...

I have 10-12 recurring team meetings a week (10-15 minute calls to sync with different teams) and a challenge is there is only one meeting owner making managing them a nightmare. I've longed for a "Team Meeting" interface that would allow multiple people to manage a meeting - rescheduling, adding/removing participants, etc. A similar concept to a Email listserv where the email comes from List-Name@Company.Com and there is an web interface and/or understand the standard calendar email commands that could 'Accept/Subscribe', 'Decline/Unsubscribe', 'Propose New Time', etc. Each Meeting could have properties to show who is invited, subscribed (accepted), unsubscribed (declined). When a meeting invite is forwarded, the new invitee would subscribe to the original invite to ensure updates and changes to the meeting are broadcasted to all attendees. This would work for both one time meetings and recurring meetings and with external attendees.

Also, I'm frequently scheduling meetings with people outside my organization and sending my free/busy time isn't the greatest solution. Use Case: I need to schedule a meeting with UserA@Company1.com, UserB@Company1.com, UserG@Company2.com and UserH@Company2.com along with UserM@MyCompany.com and UserN@MyCompany.com.

Google Hangouts are great but not everyone is comfortable with them (yet). An integration with WebEx would be fantastic to handle creating & updating the meeting within WebEx to keep them in sync.
Thank you for the feedback! By a dark design, do you mean like a toggle of sorts - b/w a white dominant and a dark dominant UI? Or completely switch to a dark UI?
Both great suggestions! I think the weighting will be dependent on getting more engagement on the site overall, which is a tricky thing early on, but working on it!
I'd be curious how, in your model, you'd moderate personal behaviors to tune macro results between social harmony and everyone being a low level sociopath. Historically, peer pressure and social moores provided that functionality.

Isn't there a Black Mirror episode about this with social capital? [+]

[+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
Indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indic...
None of the leaks have said anything otherwise. It would be a bombshell story if they were violating the agreement and spying on each other.
I'm reminded of "psdoom", a version of doom that let you kill processes with the shotgun: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Awesome, thanks! I kind of want to be an SRE now. (Not because of the video game part, though I wouldn't mind that ;) I meant because it sounds exciting.)
*steganography
I'm not a fan of the alt-right but the fact is that it's here to stay.
I would think climate would make some difference compared to California. I wonder how much though.
Taxes are much lower in the US too, even if you factor in the cost of health insurance. And if you are expecting "pensions", there's a bridge I'd like to sell.
This is surreal, no other words. Like NK.
Email address is stupid, we should have randomly generated proxy email addresses.
As someone who works with this every day, I'd say this is pretty solid advice.

The "use a more functional approach" and "take advantage of ES6" are by far the biggest for me. ES6 added so much good stuff, I wouldn't consider it optional. It's better than incremental upgrades, feels almost like a different language to me.

Every language has its quirks, and while I'll keep on hating Javascript's, I'll never lose sight of the fact that if you're holding out for the perfect language, you're not going to be doing much coding.
They actually have 2 different boxes, the steel watches have a more square box, with another box inside made of hard plastic. https://youtu.be/uoztkE1KcO0?t=50s