skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a helpful tool!

Curious to hear what other's opinions are on the learning curve of a project like this.

To me, it seemed a lot to understand (with file structure, architecture, etc.) over something more minimalistic like Next.js (https://zeit.co/blog/next3)
Greg Young's Event Store[1].

[1] https://geteventstore.com
Busses are part of the public transportation infrastructure, just like roads, sidewalks, bridges and everything else. It's weird that they aren't fully subsidized.
One time I was listening to Artie Lange on the Howard Stern show talk about how he got interested in watching sports. (This is related, bare with me). He said something to the effect of "You want to get interested in a local sports team? Fine. How much money is in your bank account? Ok, $1,200 in your bank account. Great. Tonight go put $1,500 on the Nicks game. You won't be able to take your eyes off the TV."

I'm paraphrasing. The point is if you bet money you didn't have on a game, your stake in the outcome of that game would be HIGH.

Your challenge right now is, you have no stake in the matter. I heard someone say one time (Tim Ferris?) that success is just about incentives. Again, poorly paraphrasing.

The point is; with the right incentives you can accomplish amazing things. When I was single and dating, I was funny, charming and generous. The incentive there was obvious.

So how do you incentivize yourself to learn a new technology? Easy: create a situation where you MUST learn it. How? Sell (or promise) a project that includes finishing something in the tech you sold (or promised).

I would pick something that is slightly outside of your comfort zone, not WAY outside. The more you must get something done, the more you'll learn. You'll learn fast if you make a habit out of it.

Sometimes you can do it with a passion project too. So pick something that is important to you personally and just pick the tech you want to learn.

Programming is hard, the passion will carry you through the really hard problems.
The protection lies between that bus and the TCP/IP stack of the IFE. Data can go one way, and several feet of certification documents are there to ensure that.
> To make it clear that these are time-based releases, and to make it easy to figure out the release date of any particular release, the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH. Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term support release will be 18.9.

Shouldn't those version numbers be 2018.3 and 2018.9? Have we learned nothing from the Y2K bug?
Taking the data engineer out of ETL
Hindsight is 20/20. It may see predictable now, but this all took place 10 years ago. It was a much different market.

Clients on TVs? Not even the iphone had "apps" when this decision was made. I doubt they had considered TV "apps" at the time (if anything they were thinking of stbs).
The insurance company can price risk at the population level, there is no need for it to be able to price it individually.

This can be "less fair" to the lower risk members of the population, but the other side of that is whether the insurance company is actually capable of doing the individual pricing in a fair way, or if it is just being presumptuous.
I never wrote that MIT, Harvard, Stanford and Yale are better than Olin. What I did say was that you should compare apples to apples, compare average start up rate for majors at Olin to the same majors at MIT, Yale, Stanford and Harvard.

Right now most startups are tech heavy. If you have a school with exclusively engineering and technology majors, you're much more likely to have a higher startup rate then a full university.
Define what "catching up" means. If you are like me, you have some idealized version of an expert in this domain, and you may or may not have the right idea. What does success mean in this field? What does success mean in this role? Often times we set the bar impossibly too high, and it makes us procrastinate getting started even more. Set a relaistic goal after researching and conceptualizing what "proficient" means, and break up how you will get there. Believe in the law of serendipity -- lady luck favors the one who tries. By even doing this you are already succeeding. You have my fondness. I hope it works out well for you because I am sure we will all need to do something similar at some point in our lives, especially when the big AI monster comes and eats all our jobs. (last part is a little facetious)
Isn't Ubuntu's system prompt for my password spoofable?
Show HN: Easy to use alternate tool for GTM
This is very neat, but I don't think it works for straights.

For example how do these two hands compare?

A 2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5 6

Maybe there is a way we can extend this to work for straights.
This sounds like its both good and bad, depending on which side you're on. Tracking current interest rates helps keep the market liquid, something that many "hot" markets aren't (Bay Area).

A lot of people in the Bay Area got their 30y mortgages locked in at a fantastic (low) 3.x% in the last ~5y, and would be hesitant to give that up, even if they wanted to upgrade. Combined with with property taxes that are locked to inflation, means that a homeowner has an incentive not to sell, and buyers compete for limited inventory.
> I wonder why something that I need is apparently disabled

That is also bad. It's not a choice between two bad things.

> I can't even find an option because it is being presented in a way that doesn't remotely resemble something that should trigger an action.

Then we should not do that either! One solution is obvious links, which are known to trigger events, for secondary and/or tertiary actions.

The list of buttons in the examples is not good.

- More space doesn't address the problem (and after some amount of space it stops being a single "list of buttons" as opposed to multiple buttons strewn across the interface).

- An ellipsis does signal a confirmation, but that is not the problem being addressed.

- The buttons already have different colors in the "before" images. That is how the problem is presented.
Misconceptions and Patterns to Drive DevOps Adoption
Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watch to Steal Hand Signals from Opposing Teams
Except for a few old white dudes.
While I appreciate you pointing this out, there's nothing to re-assure this will remain in place with a few more years of administrations like the current one.
Are you saying that makes Lisp mainstream?
Do you have a specific question? Their position is that they follow the law where it applies to them.
I stand corrected. However it is a weird question to me and this mislead me into wondering how could someone not ever encounter any problem or task which takes more than 20 minutes to grok. Out of curiosity, what is it you do professionally? Do you get bored of it?
So, remove the flag that you'll never use and recompile?

I'm not sure this is worse than using a Unix box with a working "rm" command.
OpenRefactory fixers pose a simple challenge: "What if there were tools that not only detect problems, but also fix them?"
But those cars can drive in tandem. When humans drive, every start and stop has a delay between each driver, and inattentions compound those little delays. Additionally, traffic caused by rubbernecking, by trying to cheat lanes, by not zippering, by reaction inequities all are human problems.
It is an awkward and baffling usage.
I use Google for email, I have an Amazon Echo, and I'm thinking about trying 23andMe. The best case scenario is that I get utility or enjoyment out of these things. The worst case scenario is... what? What would you say the likely outcome is? Do you think I will regret having an Echo one day?
If he lives somewhere where you can get acceptable health insurance cheaper then in USA or from state and where housing is cheaper then San Francisco, then it is possible I would say.

Saving the difference between median salary and developer salary should be doable through less comfortable. The difference should give you at least a year of savings.
The bank takes no loss. They take the money from the merchant.

Banks require merchants to keep a certain amount of money as a deposit with them, specifically for this. The amount varies depending on the type of business the merchant is in (and the size and reliability of the merchant - for example Walmart is probably not required to keep any amount at all).
Not yet. We are starting with a few developers/companies only and will expand it progressively.

What would be your use case?
Deploy state-of-the-art using Docker implemented in Tensorflow
There's a law against this. The anti genetic discrimination law passed by Bush 2.
Doubling down on this point, there are undoubtably people who went to Olin not planning to be a founder, who decided to be because they knew someone else who was a good role-model for them.

This is not dissimilar from the old boy network that makes Washington and Lee the single university which most increases your median earning potential. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Magazine%27s_Lis... for where I got that from.)
Honest question: Do many people read these entire New Yorker articles? This is what happens to me as I'm looking at HN:

From the main page, I open a bunch of tabs that look interesting. On some types of issues, I also open a tab on the HN discussion.

From there, I just wander through the tabs, reading stories and mostly just glancing at some of the top comments. My goal when I browse is to learn something new, and I try to remember that as I'm reading.

When I hit a New Yorker article's tab, I've often half-forgotten the subject line from HN... maybe it matches the article's title, but I just start reading regardless. Four or five paragraphs in, I start to think, "What the hell does all this setup have to do with the article title I clicked on?" Sure, on some level I know that it probably has something esoteric to do with the main article. These people must be paid by the word.

A couple paragraphs further and I start turning the mouse wheel to skim ahead. "Where do they start actually talking about the topic that looked interesting?" At that point, the New Yorker column has maybe mentioned the topic in an ancillary way, but oftentimes it's just warming up by bringing in some personality that they're going to focus on later in relation to the topic.

I get impatient.

I start scrolling faster, looking for some actual text to sink my mind into. At this point, I'm very conscious that I have a bunch of other potentially interesting tabs open in my browser and I've only allocated fifteen minutes or so before I need to get back to work. I scroll way down, hoping that I'll hit a paragraph that looks like it's full of information. Maybe I'll find one that looks interesting, but at that point I also don't have a whole lot of context to go on. It's like that endlessly long joke that you zone out on and then when they get to the punchline, maybe it sounds kind of funny, but you weren't paying attention to all the setup.

I close the tab and wonder how anyone has the time and patience to read these things. Maybe I'm just a slow reader.
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Indiana Jones aside, people actually used to do that. Check out the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. German archeologists excavated and disassembled large artifacts. They kind of "stole" the artifacts, although it wasn't technically illegal at the time.

http://www.egyptian-museum-berlin.com/c01.php
Ah, SQL Slammer... Those were the days indeed! :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer
Well, I would say that higher incarceration rates do not prove higher authoritarianism, but that is a reasonable implication. I think "count of individuals deprived of freedom of movement" is likely a stronger signal than "count of laws on books".
Will this technology be licensed for redistribution or only for online API use? I ask because in the video game scenario it would be great to have this in a library I could distribute instead of relying on the API to be available at all times.
I deleted all my favorites after Twitter renamed them to likes, and Twitter restored them a few months later, so I deleted my account entirely.
Are you still in school, new to the industry, or both?
Film Question: Cyber-Attack in 1 line of code?
Hi, I am a filmmaker with only a rudimentary understanding of cybersecurity, and I have an unusual technical question for some research I am doing for a script.
I apologise in advance if I sound like a complete newbie...

Is there a line of code (say 8 numerical digits or so) that could, in theory, cause significant damage to a government or military infrastructure?

For example, a line of code or a passkey that could disable a fighter jet, cause a military satellite blackout, shut-down powerplants, etc.

I am working on a project that deals with a cyber vulnerability being leaked in a line of code, but I would like to have something that’s at least semi-realistic and not yet-another ‘Hollywood hacker’ cliche.

What is actually ‘theoretically’ possible in a line of digits?

Open to all suggestions! Thanks
Yes it is, but for some reason they called it "Log-based architecture" in the article
They used to be able to, but it was made illegal by the Fair Housing Act in 1968. As a parent who has rented, they probably should be able to ask for extra money.
We're teaching our kids programming by having them on FIRST teams. The youngest is on his second year FIRST LEGO League team, and the oldest is on a FIRST Tech Challenge team. http://ev3lessons.com is a great resource for introducing robot concepts using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3, which uses a block programming interface derived from LabView.
> your product doesn't exist anymore because you lost all the licenses

I think the revocation only applies to patents granted by the patents clause and the licenses (for using the software) are still valid. I might be wrong though.
The 2-hour rule: The genius of Einstein, Darwin, and Nietzsche applied
i like the serverless framework also. x-ray integration is also key although it hadn't come out when i wrote this...

30 questions to ask a serverless fanboy http://www.iheavy.com/2017/03/13/30-questions-to-ask-a-serve....
You're not wrong, but you're not sufficiently right yet. You are saying that folks see only the forest, but you want to point out that there are lots of trees. Open your eyes: There are trees and forests.

A corporation has a power structure which necessarily is independent from any one person. It follows that there is something about corporations which is distinct from its employees. Look at a business as both having employees, who are people, and being a corporation, which is like a golem.
Will it though? A lot of resistance to more efficient driving patterns is due to emotional reactions (or the fear of emotional reactions). The zipper/delayed merge being the quintessential case[1][2][3]. It works better, a lot of people know it works better, and the only argument against it seem to be "it's dangerous because people are irrational assholes and road rage is a thing"[4]. Once you have self-driving cars around, it might break some of those irrational fears and habits. A self-driving car isn't going to get mad at you if you merge late, it's just going to react to your merging and be done with it. So you're no longer the asshole cutting someone off at the last second, you're just another car that's merging at the point where you have to merge. Road etiquette shifts from emotionally driven to pragmatic, since the self-driving cars around you will also be acting pragmatically. It's not going to slam on the gas and brakes to ride the person in front of them in order to be an asshole to the guy next to them trying to "unfairly get ahead", it's going to maintain a safe driving distance and accelerate and decelerate in a controlled manner to optimize for wear and tear, ride smoothness, fuel economy, and maintaining a safe distance.

Self-driving cars will not only be better drivers on the whole, but also allow human drivers to break through inhibitions related to "proper road etiquette", since it's a whole lot easier to do something subjectively rude to a machine than a human.

[1] http://transportation.ky.gov/zippermerge/Pages/default.aspx

[2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/07/the-beauty-of-zipper-me...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-m...

[4] http://jalopnik.com/stop-trying-to-make-the-zipper-merge-hap...
DynamoDB for storing only. After an article is stored in DynamoDB and stream will index it into an ES Service. Then we are quering and searching only ES. DynamoDB can't handle searching very good.

Security wise, everything is private except one Lambda that exposes a GraphQL server and is being forwarded to the public net through API Gateway. We will implement subnets and security groups very soon.
I spent my childhood in a Minneapolis neighborhood where 100-foot Elms lined the streets, making a canopy from both sides of the street - the umbrella shape of the Elm coupled with its size makes a unique landscape. It was truly glorious, and I'm glad at the possibility of future generations experiencing this.
Someone made this very in-depth video about the fall from grace of Phil Fish, the creator of Fez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w

This video bugs me. I don't disagree with it. In fact, the first time I watched it, I found it quite similar to my own take on Fish. Maybe just a few degrees off of how I feel.

Watching it for the first time in ~three years made me realize why it bugged me. The differences between the video and my opinions are the set of changes I'd make if I wanted to publish the strong argument for my perspective on the topic and be taken seriously. Fish is an interesting case study of internet-rando-turned-celebrity that doesn't adapt well to the fact people now care what he's saying.

The rough edges sanded and convenient omissions made by this video are the exact same tweaks I'd make to my perspective to hold onto my own credibility in the games echo chamber.
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> How can we reuse constants that are defined in a single place?

The answer for this is already in your browser: CSS custom properties http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables

On top of that the CSS working group is working on ::part and ::theme pseudoselectors to help theming across components. Brief intro in this Polymer Summit 2017 talk: https://youtu.be/rvpJ5O0W_6A?list=PLNYkxOF6rcIDP0PqVaJxqNWwI... (skip back to 16:17 to hear why the CSS mixins proposal didn't work out)
So as calories available increases, it causes my height to increase?

I'm gonna need a new wardrobe...

You've confused an individual trend with a trend of the aggregate maximum value.

A couple of those may have a minor influence on the limit of my height, but increasing those factors has no effect on my height.

Or how about my age?

And don't forget other highly correlated values, like the number of movies or books published, Chinese population, cumulative deaths in war, and number of artificial satellites. There's a correlation of my age (and height) with each of those.

Just two temporal trends that move in the same direction.

No causation, though.
Why do you assume that it is more likely the hack causes a fire instead of preventing a fire? I mean, I would think that the most likely individual outcome of a hack would be shutdown of the system, which should reduce the likelyhood of weird things happening.
Remote Workers vs. Office Workers
I tend to adhere to the dictionary definition of the word, which is two things happening or existing simultaneously. However, I do know that proponents of single-core-bound languages like JavaScript, and others, like to talk about concurrency in a single-threaded way.
Handy sparrow scripts to easy aws routine jobs
"People" don't have sovereign destiny. Only states are sovereign, and even then there are limits to sovereignty.
It's unclear how pouring even more money into incompetently managed, failing public transit systems is going to actually reduce traffic congestion. For example, let's say we increased BART's budget by 10X. How exactly would they use it to "reduce congestion"? Are they going to build 10X more routes? 10X more stops along existing routes? 10X more trains serving existing stops? Or are they just going to funnel the money into 10X more bureaucrats' pockets?
For whatever it's worth from the other side of the equation, an older biological half-brother who had been adopted got in touch with my family a few years ago, and it's been a profound experience. I knew that he was out there somewhere, but never really thought of him or had any real desire to meet him until he reached out (I was already in my late 30s). We don't live in the same city but close enough that we've been able to hang out 1-2 times per year. Snooping on each other's social media before first meeting lowered the initial awkwardness.

I have a couple of friends who have had similar experiences. Getting to know a close bio-relative as an adult surprised me in how much it offered better self-understanding and an enriched perspective on nature/nurture and the human experience. It was interesting right off the bat to discover improbable similarities in favourite books, albums, and thoughts about John Resig's blog posts, that he had a similar career path to me, and shared some mannerisms and personality quirks, and to realize afterwards how naturally the conversation flowed. Maybe we've also been lucky to not load expectations on each other. After our first meeting he made a comment on how every software developer secretly wishes they had a clone of themselves out there doing the stuff they don't have time to, which summed up my feelings pretty well.

Obviously it's a personal decision, but I've been very happy that he made contact. In terms of potentially causing pain, if 3 of your bio-siblings are on 23andme, it's highly likely that they are at least already aware of your existence and are just as respectful of your boundaries as you are of theirs.
Something for family today
If they aren't offering Whole Exome Sequencing at this point, they're no longer a leader; they are far behind the industry.
It's more mainstream than the $NEW-AWESOME-JAVASCRIPT-FRAMEWORK. Not being mainstream doesn't mean that something isn't awesome. There are lots of awesome discoveries trapped in research/academia because the overton window of the current technology community is shifted too far to "What I am used to", or because nobody cares to look.

Eventually some of these ideas will get dislodged and fall down to us, but you can't rely on that. If you read about Lisp's history it's very obvious why it is rejected by people at the moment.
The classic joke in here is that if you look up "fascism" in the index, it goes to the section about logging in. User authentication wasn't part of the dream, so having been forced to build it, they embedded a dig on it right in the manual.

https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/files.xml#fascism

I think there are a few other jokes in the index but I don't recall what they are.
That's neat, but most of those aren't anything that can't be implemented with just CSS and HTML, unlike some of the stuff you've done for the NYT. Though even in that case, isn't all of this stuff just static assets? Hasn't this problem already been "solved"?