skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruin it and make it hideous by what measure of utility and beauty?

Humanity is beautiful, and the things humanity creates are beautiful. In our solar system, or in the local group of stars, as far as I know, it's the humans who are making the things that are the most beautiful.

There is a type of beauty in nature, but that beauty was based on a harmony. The mountains don't have an intention behind them. The art that humans make does. They're very different things, and the u universe would be at a loss if humans were not a part of it.
Then this Epic Rap Battle of History is for you (salty language warning):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HZ5V9rT96M
Is this related to how ice can form in the desert at night?
What good is benchmarking a kernel going to do when performance in this context has many more moving parts?
We've fixed the bug!
This looks really great, congrats! Forgive me if I missed something, but I was wondering if you could clear up some confusion. From the terms: "Subject to the Biometric Data Agreement, you hereby grant to us a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Voice, Digital Voice..."

Just to be clear, the license of the voice/digital voice is revoked upon deletion of the recordings? I understand it is subject to the biometric agreement, but the words perpetual and irrevocable still worried me. Thanks!
> Cassandra’s data model is a partitioned row store with tunable consistency where each row is an instance of a column family that follows the same schema

"Total Newbie" apparently means well-versed in database paradigms and terminology.
In part I think this is why Musk is such a bigger than life figure. His whole spiel about making humanity a multi-planet specie makes for good PR but as far as I can tell it also genuinely matter to him & provides drive.
Emotion would be a nice one - my wife's first comment was that it sounded too bored.
Thanks for unpacking that a bit for me. Best of luck putting the genetic pieces together, it sounds interesting!
With evidence we can refute made up justifications. If we want to. Not all do. In fact, the huge majority prefers made up reasons.

If we humans perish, our knowledge could survive us. What we have found out about how nature works transcends our species. That is not a good justification why life exists, but at least this reason is not limited to humans, like all other ones.

And if there is no one else that can use our knowledge, and no one comes after us, life was pointless all along.
> The analyzer will parse your source code into an AST. It will then evaluate the AST dynamically, trying to reach every possible execution branch. If a global entry point is specified, every exposed function will be evaluated, including functions that are returned by other functions. [0]

For anything but the smallest of libraries, testing every path through the code would be pretty burdensome to do in the browser on every change. Of course you can do it with the right test plan, but it doesn't take long for a codebase to get large enough to make it difficult to reason about the entire AST. At the very least, it seems like this is a good tool for exposing the blind spots in your testing. :)

[0] https://javascript.studio/features/
> I wonder if NYT can help other news websites by making their code open source?

Hey! I, and a number of other news nerds have been encouraging FOSS for the past decade or so. And in fact a number of major open source projects have come out of news related projects, including Django, Backbone.js/Underscore.js, Rich Harris's work on Svelt.js, and a whole lot more.

Most often the problem with local news organizations are operational constraints. The news biz has seen a huge downturn over this same period of time. Most orgs, both on the reporting side and on the tech side are super strapped for people-time.

It's not enough to have FOSS software, you also have to have folks doing devops and maintaining systems often at below-market salaries.
This looks awesome. I commented on the original post about how exciting this is for worldbuilding (and creating realistic voices for fictional characters, with all the uses that come there).

Random question: it's said that people think their own voices sound weird when they hear recordings of themselves played back. Do you have a way to measure that phenomenon? Have you seen people complaining about the accuracy when in fact it was just that effect making people sound "weird" (to themselves)?
Man this is a sad thread.

Humanity is the most incredible thing in what we know of the universe. Stars and gas clouds sure are beautiful too, but unless you are very religious, the those are simple an artifact of statistics, there was no intention there.

Without the humans, the universe is empty.
Dear HN reader - if you're not quite ready to buy the book, take a listen to this episode of Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/05/02/data-intensi...). It will give you a sense of what Martin Kleppmann is all about and how he thinks about problems. I ordered my copy of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" after listening to this episode.
> Faster Java & JVM updates

More likely faster updates will be to Java itself, while JVM enhancements will be limited to LTS.

Pattern matching and data classes, for example, will arrive far sooner in Java than value types in the JVM.
Yes. I'd expect them to take the high road and give credit.
> As a child I was obsessively aware of other people's opinions of me

1. Young people care what others think of them

2. Middle aged people don't care what others think of them

3. Old people realize that nobody thinks about them
Other differences: Canada does not have a mortgage interest tax deduction nor does it have low/no down payment mortgage options. Generally, the more conservative approach to banking makes things more sane and is part of the reason that Canada rode out the global financial crisis relatively unscathed.
UK Based SASS Apps
Hello, this is my 1st post on HN after hearing about it on various Indie News podcasts. I recently built my 1st Sass app and just wondered if anyone had interesting tips on how to promote Sass applications. Sass is particularly interesting to us as America seems to be so good at it but us in the U.K. seen to fall short. Would really welcome some feedback on our app and also any thoughts on why the UK seems to be the poorer cousin when it comes to Sass or maybe if wrong? Thank Kirk. Oh my app is www.gocrono.com
At this particular moment, according to Google Maps, it would take 2hours 5min to get to SFO by a mix of bus and train, or 23min by car. Bus/Trains are cheap, but when you have more than 30 people on board you probably have to make a lot of stops that slow down the trip.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Googleplex,+Amphitheatre+Par...
If anyone's wondering what you can use 23andMe data for longer term day-day you might want to sign up for news from the company I work for ;) https://www.genetrainer.com/
> The cost was high because they modeled and queried their data like they were still using a SQL database which was incredibly inefficient.

That's literally every Cassandra database I've ever encountered in the wild.

If you use Cassandra, you WILL need to duplicate data across tables for lookups. Don't use Cassandra if you can't stomach that fact (and the disk bills that come with it).
It matters... but not more than anything else. What matters even more is that we retain our humanity.

Notice that this idea is only one step removed from "the long-term future of the race matters more than anything else". Think about what horrors have been done in the service of that idea. Let us be very careful, then, that we commit no horrors in the service of this idea. ("Nothing matters more than X" easily becomes "therefore it's OK - even good - to trample on people in the service of X".)
So crate the kids and train dogs better. Got it!
Tell me more about Spring - I know people who use it but they seem to like it?
If that's your qualification for a "failed experiment," the Atlantic slave trade proved Capitalism a failure before these people were born.
life cannot exist without (outside / away from) energy gradients. is the purpose of life to speed up destruction of its environment? even if the answer is yes which i disagree with, it's only an approximative answer: it's immediately followed by "ok but why is it so?"

imo, life has as much purpose as stars have: none. it's the wrong question to ask. life is simply there, just like stars are there. it "materializes" when-and-where there are the right conditions (a narrow spectrum of energy gradients), just like stars do (the spectra are extremely far apart, of course).
I recently reached out to Mesosphere to better understand the value and options available to my company if we switched to Mesos (and thus Mesosphere). We currently run Kubernetes across all major cloud providers and we'd like some help.

I was startled by how dogmatic they are about their pricing model: per node, annually. Our entire business model is running dynamically scaling data pipelines for companies. We spin nodes up and down programmatically based on a pipeline's history and a dozen other factors.

I had a lot of back and forth with them and eventually their CFO and they just could not understand the concept of a "node hour" or anything of the like. Eventually, it was determined if we paid the per-node annual price for our "average" (completely different story, but they calculated this about as wrong as you could have) usage and we went our separate ways.

The product seems really cool but as someone who runs a company that easily spin up thousands of nodes in the middle of the night for (for a grand total of $40/hr on GKE...) this pricing model just seems antiquated. I imagine that all companies will be driving their usage to this practice in due time. I really hope to see the industry change.
It’s like good financial planning. Everyone knows you should practice it, but lots of people don’t know how. Or they don’t know all of the tips and tricks people have discovered over the years. Or they don’t know how to talk and ask questions about it.
Hackers gain direct access to US power grid controls
It may not, but hopefully it is an opportunity to push the transition to electric cars. If we are going to effectively replace all cars, let's make some smart choices on the replacements.
Powerful stuff here. Honestly amazing how quickly this whole thing materialized with no real planning for it.
>> So if there are genetic roundups, why wouldn't they be accompanied by compulsory testing?

Because one requires instating mass testing while another requires just gaining permission to an existing treasure trove, albiet a subset.
"you should know there were communities without property before the Soviet Union."

And after. Arguably the problem with Communism isn't so much that it is entirely impossible, but that it is entirely possible for it to scale much past 50-100 people, making it an exceedingly poor choice to try to structure a country's governance with. (And generally even by the 50 person mark the strains are seriously setting in and the community frequently still becomes unstable and disintegrates.)
Social workers, CPS and similar people have a lot of power, both through direct action like testimony and reports, or more indirect/passive-aggressive action like filing anonymous complaints or withholding/providing key data strategically.

Most judges are doing to hear "child endangerment" and do exactly what they recommend, or what is called for. People performing assessments have broad discretion in many types of determinations. When you suffer from a serious medical malady like a stroke, the social workers/discharge planners in hospitals and rehab facilities have even greater power with less accountability.
Because China is all about growth at the moment and having citizens open to new ideas would only encourage growth if it was not for western elites using establishment media to tell everyone how bad China is.
"Voila - you only have y."

Thanks. My mental model had a long-lived channel, but I follow your explanation.
Is that all elms, including the American elm under discussion, or just the Siberian Elm? Quoting https://www.springville.org/buildings-and-grounds/urban-fore... :

> Siberian Elm is the weed of the elm family. While most elm species are good hearty trees, Siberian Elm is a problem in the urban forest. Siberian Elm are prone to having weak wood, slime flow from bacteria, poorly attached branches, and producing amazing amounts of seeds. In many areas, Siberian Elm has become an invasive species and a noxious weed. Most people do not plant Siberian Elm; they are very talented at planting themselves. Even on the poorest sites, there are better selections than Siberian Elm.

> Siberian Elm is not the same species as Chinese Elm or Lacebark Elm. Chinese Elm or Lacebark Elm is a very hearty species of elm that is highly recommended for many Utah sites. The bark and growth habit of Chinese Elm is very different from Siberian Elm and should not be confused as the same tree species.

By comparison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm points out that the American elm "had unique properties that made it ideal for such [urban] use: rapid growth, adaptation to a broad range of climates and soils, strong wood, resistance to wind damage, and vase-like growth habit requiring minimal pruning."
It's good that this was thrown out, although a little disappointing that the court considers the whole issue to be "just, like, your opinion, man".
Updated for 2017:

https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone

Including:

- macOS

- OpenBSD

- FreeBSD

- SmartOS

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and CentOS) 7

- Debian/Ubuntu

- Arch Linux

- Windows (assuming PowerShell per recent Windows versions)

This includes all the systemd commands where relevant, and current macOS as other posters have been mentioning.
Behind the Scenes at VC Funds: Fund Structure, Fundraising, and Investor Relations
Asbestos suit on.

There are many positive things you can say about Lisp.

However, many day-to-day developers, and their managers, believe that Lisp's syntax creates nigh-unreadable programs. For example, there's no built-in infix syntax, as opposed to practically all other programming languages, and many modern programmers today expect infix as minimum table stakes for a language. Lisp syntax is extremely simple, but that doesn't mean the resulting code is easily read. Very smart people will disagree with that opinion - especially a number of people on Hacker News!! However, just look up phrases like "lots of irritating silly parentheses" and you'll see that this opinion is extremely widespread. Many people here will disagree with the sentiment, and that's fine, but it's a fact many people believe programs in Lisp syntax are hard to read.

A lot of people will reply that Lisp's syntax is simple, that real programs have been written in Lisp, that it has a kind of simplicity/elegance, and that Lisp syntax enables powerful facilities like Lisp macro processing. All of that is absolutely true. Lisp is quite powerful. But trying to convince people that Lisp is "advanced", even though it doesn't support basic capabilities like infix out of the box, is a losing battle. Forth is one of the few other languages that has an odd syntax and lacks support for infix, and it is also rarely used today.

Feel free to reply, but thoughtful responses preferred :-).
If corporations selling cars were "sponsoring" a bill, they should be sponsoring a bill banning self driving cars, because they are an existential threat to the business of selling cars.
This made me smile. Good work.

ps: a nice big demo button beside 'View on Github' and 'Release Notes' would be a nice tweak :)
I don't understand this point of view. My interpretation of it is that there is some idealized, perfect form of earth (and apparently the universe) that doesn't include humans. Everything in it is perfect except for the humans, which ruin and devalue it.

What confounds me about this view is that humans are as much a product of the earth/universe as any other part of it. What is so unique about humanity in the universe that gives us the exclusive agency to tarnish it? Why are the products of humanity somehow excluded from the perfection of the other productions of the universe?
How to build software that leverages artificial intelligence and learns
Greg Young also cautions "Do not tell me you've built an event sourced system"* (or something along those lines) meaning that you should be careful to apply the pattern only to the part(s) of the system that makes sense (due to the increased complexity of ES)

* I think it's in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGkaShoyNs
> a filter larger than your dataset is obviously useless

This isn't obvious to me, can you explain?
I liked his scientific approach. He listened to his body and found that eating only when he is hungry lowered his blood sugar. That is he waited until his sugar levels dropped to normal then he ate. I think this is a great discovery. Also shows there is a link between feeling hungry and the blood sugar level.
In the long term, we're all dead.

Call me selfish, but I personally don't worry about the future of humanity in thousands of years. I'm sure most people don't either.

A kid born in the year 10,000 is a stranger to me. Sure, people can feel concerned about his fate, just as people can feel concerned about a stranger in a foreign country, but most people just don't. We're all selfish bastards.
Awesome Effective Altruism on GitHub
Yup.

"Oh, you're of African background and have sickle-cell anemia. Your sore throat isn't covered as your spleen dysfunction is a preexisting condition."
Can you go into more detail about what workloads are better suited for Linux and FreeBSD?
Ask HN: Why aren't there more openings for Solidity devs?
Given the boom in ICOs and prevalence of funding, I would expect to see a commensurate surge in hiring for blockchain programmers. Is this happening and I simply am not seeing it? If it isn't, why not?
Life always finds a way.
Prevention, or early intervention, is often less expensive and less painful than curing. Cures are also not always 100% and can be in the form of recurring treatments.

Simple example is heart disease -- the cost of prevention is far lower than the cost of treatment.
Here’s the Exact Process That Asana Uses to Build Their Product Roadmap
I'm not sure why I would do that, although there are instincts which rely on that (e.g. sex). My immediate concerns are of my somatic existence rather than my genes. If my personal survival depended on the survival of the species (as an example: cryogenics), that would certainly be a factor.
meritocracy doesn't mean what you think it does.
Did they say something to that effect before the call started, or only told you at the end? Or did they just use the "this call may be monitored for quality assurance and training purposes" blanket?
That was probably Stallman's doing. He wrote most of the LISP machine code.
Apologies for the glibness, but it sounds like you're a zealot for moderation?
Gotcha, thank you for the explanation.
the world as a whole needs nothing from us

Well, not exactly. Life on Earth's only hope of surviving beyond the decline of Sol currently hinges on some intelligent species developing space travel. They say, "life finds a way"- maybe we are life's way of getting all her species off this planet before it is engulfed by the sun.
Unix crypt with SHA-256/512 (why bcrypt is not in glibc)
Sure, good question!

There will be two scenarii:

- you want to use the voice of someone that has a Lyrebird account: he or she has to give you their authorization.

- you want to use the voice of someone who does not have an account. We have specific contracts for that. Say you want to copy the voice of Morgan Freeman, the contract will be between him/her, you and Lyrebird. We will also probably explore alternative ways for that.
BABL: A Functional JSON Templating Language for Your APIs
They can't if the forum is password protected or URL is "decomposed" in different pieces that you have to recompose

Same thing exists for mega URLs

There are subreddits like megalinks and drivelinks for sharing
Sorry you're downvoted, but what you mention is a real concern.
Been waiting for this a long, long time. Exciting!
you don't know javascript is fantastic at the more advanced stuff.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
I got a good giggle out of that first one, thank you haha.
What if some worse, even more selfish, destructive & violent species were to rise up in our absence?
Voynich manuscript: the solution?
A Brief Timeline of Fred Wilson’s 6+ Years as a Blockchain Investor
Why a walking tour of Huddersfield supermarket car parks is far from boring
We will at some point have to do a total rethink of how we pay for roads.
but it had a killer feature: it ran on commodity hardware, the PDP-11

That is not the essence of worse is better. UNIX won over the others because it was simple and regular, and was built from components that could be reassembled into more complex things. Pipes were a big part of that.
Of course, we individuals can find meaning and purpose in our life. Through family, creativity, social bonds, etc. But I am thinking about life as the whole humanity, the whole nature. I do not think individual purpose answers the questions why life or humans should exist.
"Fixed rate" mortgages in Canada still need to renew every five years, even on a 30 year amortization.

As a result, people who bought homes in 2012/2013 will be affected by rising rates as well as a new affordability test. They'll need to prove they could qualify for the loan at 2-3% higher rates in anticipation of the rate environment at their next renewal.

As a result, people who qualified & budgeted for loans at 2.5% in 2013 will suddenly have to be qualified for 6% loan interest within the next few months.

In terms of financial impact, this could represent an additional $1300 monthly expense people will have to budget for on a ~$450,000 loan.
We're rolling our own: https://github.com/Lokad/AzureEventStore
Everyone wants to do machine learning; you need to fight for it to get there.
Please do go on. Can you explain what you're talking about re: HTML tags? Maybe brush up here http://getbem.com/naming/
If datasource engineers are for some reason implementing "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny," they won't be creating migration-like code, they'll be writing ETL filters. Break out your Members Only jackets!
NOSql Client Side database manager: open source Flatte
have you compared autojump to z / fasd? Did you decide to stick with one for a particular reason?
Awesome idea. It was just a matter of time!
Delta flight beats Hurricane Irma
I'm not sure about this. What is 'attractive' about the pen is that it involves highly valued scarce resources (so much so that, we are told, they have to import more from China). And it involves skilled labour. That doesn't seem a small cost. Lots of prized luxury goods - e.g. sports cars - take up highly skilled labour that, in the counter-factual, could do a lot of good. Also, the type of people who own these companies generally use the money to re-invest, or to purchase useless things for themselves.
That was exactly my point: A lot of the US is laid out in a way that is pessimal for mass transit — "hellscapes," as you put it — so investing in public transit infrastructure doesn't seem like enough to make a big difference. The problem isn't just a lack of investment, but also that mass transit isn't very well suited to America as it exists today. Any proposal to make public transit happen in America that doesn't address this seems pretty unrealistic to me.
So would a conclusion that "most sports fans who watch TV watch ESPN" be selection bias?
I think the effort to reward ratio is much lower if you're a native English speaker and especially an American.