skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having trouble understanding where you're coming from with the hostility. It sounds like your experience must be a lot different than mine.

I run a fairly standard Microsoft stack of ASP.NET, IIS, C#, SQL Server. Chosen for its boringness and reliability, because as I've said before, I really don't like having to worry about hardware:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/happiness-is-a-boring-...

I'm also speaking from experience about the downtime thing. I used to have a rather sketchy ISP, and would see those 7 hour downtimes from time to time. I would occasionally get an email or two from customers who noticed, but never lost a single paying account as a result of downtime. Maybe it's just picking a market that can live without your thing for an hour if need be, but then that's the goal we're talking about of a SaaS business that runs itself without your intervention.

People worry about a lot of things before starting a business. They use things like "what if the server goes down" and "what if my customers call me every night at 3am" as excuses not to even try. But when you actually do try, you find that none of those things you worried about end up happening.

That's not to say it's easy. But the things you're raising as issues just aren't. In my experience.
Show HN: Log work on JIRA issues via the command line
As long as we allow campaign contributions from corporate interests, politicians will continue to vote against public interest.
Speaking of GTD - if you found the book impossible to read, consider watching this video version: https://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-tutorials/Getting-Thin...
I agree with this reasoning (although I'm not particularly privacy minded, and prefer Android and most Google products to iOS and iCloud).

The older tech companies like Apple and Microsoft have built business models with a different set of incentives around user data. Google, and particularly Facebook's, business models entirely rely on monetising user data.

My personal 'ranking' of a companies incentives to respect privacy is something like:

1. Microsoft
2. Apple
3. Amazon
4. Google
5. Facebook

Obviously this ranking is very debatable, but I agree business model incentives are a pretty good heuristic.
No, if you read someone else's book and write your own with the same overall plot you are considered a derivative work, and people have absolutely lost copyright lawsuits over photographs with the same composition as an existing one that they were copying. The idea here is "memory allocator", and the "expression" is the order and structure used to implement that idea.
By "technically feasible" are you referring to Apple's ability to build a software update that allows for quicker brute-forcing of the passcode?
lol i didnt even look, but yea. guess there is really no defending it. guess most of them suck at gambling. but that seems to be how these things work, a large large majority of people end up loosing when they do fantasy sports, or poker, or political futures markets, or stock picking, and the gains go to a small minority. like, even if you are better than 90% of people at one of those things, youll probably lose money.
How I spent my time at the Recurse Center
2.5x doesn't seem like a useful way of looking at it. It's $0.24 vs $0.49. What kind of devices are these things going in? It matters if the rest of the components are $1, not so much of they're $10.
Of course, once you're root you can also prevent those apps (which don't run as root) from finding out that you have root, but it's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game.
That doesn't really apply when the road is so busy that all of the lanes are full of cars.
Here is an interview in which Ted Nelson explains his vision to Werner Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li5dbEY The interview is included in 'Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World' documentary. The whole documentary is rather critical of the impact the Internet revolution had on our society, but Herzog seemed to really admire Ted Nelson's alternative vision for the global network.
I think I would have been disappointed if the composer of Withered and Died and End of the Rainbow started thinking everything was awesome after conversion. His miserabilist streak is one of the things I like about him.
a $ 14 billion company gives away the only secret data that they exist to protect. Why? Because they used Struts. How difficult is it to write a slimmed down, secure version of Struts?
I would like to see them compare themselves to a stock and bond portfolio of similar volatility. Ordinary investors can reduce volatility with bonds for a lot less in fees.
We'll see if that changes, I thought the idea behind EME was that every browser could use all DRM modules...
And if you’re too goddamn stupid to comprehend that, then you deserve to not own Bitcoin and die poor.

BLOW THAT BUBBLE HARDER. DOW 36,000!
And I'm just going to self-promote a bit and say that the bet was registered via a project I worked on, the Long Now Foundation's project Long Bets:

http://longbets.org/

We've been going since 2002: https://www.wired.com/2002/05/longbets/

We are happy to host bets of long-term significance, and the minimum bet is only $200/side. I am glad to personally help shepherd people who are serious about bets to make sure you get through the process.

I would especially like to see HNers making bets about the things we argue a lot about. Bitcoin! VR! Uber! If you're tired of people posting waffle on some topic where you have a strong opinion, then challenge them to put money down.
The startup 3D printing human organs to save lives
For context: The Pirate Bay is now launching a javascript-based Monero miner in all visitors' browsers to mine coins for them in the background (possibly as an alternative to ads).
I wonder at what point we'll start seeing people simply stop paying for in-home internet via WiFi in favor of relying solely on their mobile data package, in the same way that people stopped paying for corded phone lines and are starting to stop paying for cable television. For some reason I'm frightened at the prospect... is it because I trust my ISP more than my wireless carrier?
My understanding was he just copied IBM's DB for a different platform, mimicking their API to the call.
Squirrel fishing
Reminds me of Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum
My experience in Canada: both Cable/DSL and LTE/mobile networks have data caps; but the former has caps in the ~120-300GB range, whereas the latter has caps in the 6-12 GB range.
Actually, once I read what he REALLY seemed to be shooting for, I think it might actually be a GREAT idea!

Let's say you want to process a list of numbers, a set of data records, or something fairly complex. Internally, you can pass it between functions in a fairly compact, but almost illegible form. If a human user wants to see what's getting passed around, though, it could be handy if the system could automatically transform it to smoothing more human readable: tabulated, indented, pretty-printed, what-have-you.

I could definitely see a use for this, strange as it might seem.
Are you able to share your tool?
But going to one bin makes recycling impossible. So really, that just ignores the problem or decides it's too hard to solve. What I'd love to see is a solution that makes disposing of trash easy while also allowing for recycling.
SlickRinse makes cleaning your contacts better
I don't understand your comment, that's on of the options I suggested?
Netflix stopped working for me with Safari about a year ago, when I have an external monitor plugged in. It complains about some display drm nonsense, I guess because my external monitor could be a recording device? Either way, keep chrome around and up to date just for watching netflix and it does not make me happy.
CPU mining is so unprofitable, but I suppose with thousands of users..
Isn't that last sentence the whole point, though? I thought that index funds didn't generally do better than actively managed funds in terms of raw returns, they just didn't do much worse, and the vastly lower fees mean that you come out ahead overall. The point of an index fund isn't to attain some sort of stock picking nirvana where nobody's really picking anything, it's just to get a fee of 0.04% instead of 2%, or whatever.
I don't know how you're doing the palette extraction right now, but if want something to experiment with I'd suggest you take a look at using k-means clustering. In other words see the set of pixels as points in a 3D space (where the axes are red, green and blue) and then perform k-means clustering on the points. You could then extract the palette from the centroids. If k-means doesn't give satisfactory results, try spectral clustering.
Better, cheaper bio-ink may be used to create artificial organs
The site is down for me, possibly due to load (the request just times out).

Off-topic: Did anyone else sit down to watch Citizen Kane, purportedly the best movie ever, and come out of the experience ridiculously underwhelmed?
I'm curious why you would say that Microsoft has the most respect for privacy given Windows 10 telemetry. Is there a MacOS or iOS equivalent?
Right. But it's still surprising that "experts" can't make a biased selection that is better than the exact average.

On average, basketball teams in the NBA score X points per game. You now get to pick 5 teams and average just their scores. I'd imagine in that situation it's pretty easy to beat the league average. Again, it's a surprising and non-trivial fact that this isn't the case in the stock market, roughly speaking.
Verizon bought Straight Path for some billions so you are going to get 5g no matter if you like it or not.
I'm sure that's true, but it's also true of dice. Unless the same funds remain in the upper tails over long periods of time, it's pointless.
>>You are correct except that doing this over 10 years somewhat removes the 'ignoring the volatility' argument.

Only lessens it slightly. There are plenty of bad 10-year periods you wouldn't be happy with if you were 50-55 years old with all your money in stocks, not to mention an index fund tracking the S&P500 rather than the full index.

Obviously holding index funds that are primarily stocks is the play when you are younger, but risk-adjusted returns matter a lot more for someone with big money as they approach retirement. It's worth exchanging returns for lower volatility down the line. Not that I think this bet could have turned out any other way, of course...
If I understand the MDN page correctly, all browser support EME ("web DRM"), they just ship with different decryption modules: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Encrypted_M...
Principles by Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater (2011) [pdf]
Arch. The catch with Arch is that you need to build it, and preferably should back up all your configuration. The best part about Arch is that you need to build it.
Exactly - the headwinds in this case are strong. Even if you're just talking about actively-managed mutual funds versus passive indexes, you're talking about overcoming the 70th percentile after fees/taxes on average. So you can't just beat half the other players, and you can't just do it one time - you have to beat more like 2/3 and do it consistently over the years to overcome drag. In studies done on this, most active managers who beat the index either (a) take on a lot more risk, and/or (b) can't do it consistently and eventually fall behind.
According to the reddit thread on the matter, even at TPB's scale they were looking at only < $500 a month.

I wonder why CoinHive isn't using WebGL for this.
Why is this an extension and not a filter list for existing adblockers?
That sounds reasonable, but it kinda makes me question NixOS' value proposition. It seems that any one of the current distributions works well as a generic base for containers.

There are probably lots of systems running standard Linux packages with more complex configurations (i.e. Mailservers, maybe databases, proxies etc) where I could imagine it being useful? Or maybe their desktop work makes more sense than I thought–my desktop environment is much more customised than any server, and I've never tried if the setup scripts I try to maintain actually work.
Thanks, that helps explains why my driving experience is so poor. There isn't a national standard for the protocol so everyone gets together and has impedance mismatches.

That's being overly charitable though; self-driving cars, even with different protocols, won't suffer from the rubber-necking or phantom slowdown issues. Their algorithm designers might even be smart enough to relieve the pressure of virtual blockages by going a little faster than the speed limit on the outbound side(s) to relieve the pressure wave.
The AVRs, at least some of them, have reasonable Flash and RAM and EEPROM (v nice), and a single-instruction multiply. Much nicer than the 8-bit CPUs that I used to program back in days of yore...
You can't assume that we'll reach equilibrium in a different future situation given that we're not in equilibrium at the moment.
Sure, but then I wouldn't have clicked.
That's why keeping a journal or diary can be helpful as well.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/writing-in-a-diary-can-redu...
Or alternatively, the Ignatian daily examen:
http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-exam...
The main problem here is that the description you're referring to was not updated. That's not great, of course, but bashing PostgreSQL standards conformance merely based on a single high-level description is not cool either.

Let me quote from the full documentation for PostgreSQL 9.6, released in September 2016, i.e. before SQL-2016 was published:

> PostgreSQL supports most of the major features of SQL:2011. Out of 179 mandatory features required for full Core conformance, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 160. In addition, there is a long list of supported optional features. It might be worth noting that at the time of writing, no current version of any database management system claims full conformance to Core SQL:2011.

For more details see: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/features.html
Complaints about the headline aside, it is the perfect sort of doomsday prophecy story. It is far enough away that the people who pulled it out of Newton's writing will be forgotten, its near enough that the reader could imagine being alive at that time and wondering what would happen. Erich von Däniken exploited this in his "Ancient Astronauts" stuff, predicting the Mayan's called it with a 2012 extinction event (whoops :-).

Since you only get one end of the world prophesy (when it passes you're a crackpot and everyone who believed you now hates you intensely) you need to pick it to land post retirement at least since you'll not have any credibility afterward. Predicting '2060' (and yes I know Newton wrote no earlier than) as the folks who have used Newton's works to date it, being a bit more than 40 years away will have all of these folks retired by then. My guess is they will really try to milk it for all it is worth in the 2040's.
Do you seriously believe that you can ignore laws by simply deciding to live in a world where they somehow don't apply?

FWIW, if you want a reference for "even with seemingly no causality a related work was classified as a derivative work for copyright", here is the particular case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Island_Collections_Lt...
First up, was I correct in my interpretation of your initial comment? Nothing else makes sense if we're not talking about the same thing.

Second, I'm not suggesting that the threat posed by Flash wasn't ever a factor in any decision Apple ever made about supporting Flash on iOS (then iPhone OS). But you said "the only reason they did that ...", which suggests that there were no other reasons ever. But if the first iPhone was never intended to run 3rd party apps, then there was nothing to compete with at first. If there was nothing to compete with, then the initial decision not to support Flash could not have been motivated by the threat to the then-not-even-planned-to-exist App Store.
This is a brilliant book, clear, succinct and insightful. Part of the canon on our understanding of what life is / what it means to be animate instead of inanimate.

Other books on the intangible quality of being alive:

- At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman

- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Inside the new battle against Google
Why doesn't the + symbol work?
For an overview of the "user side" read his book "Literary Machines".

If you want to understand the technology behind it, consider that there have been two incomplete implementations: Udanax Green and Udanax Gold: https://web.archive.org/web/20090226223053/http://www.udanax... (the domain udanax.com now seems now to be used by someone else).

The first was based on a data structure called "Enfilade" (http://www.sunless-sea.net/wiki/EntTheory), which was invented by Roger Gregory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gregory_(programmer)). Xanadu Gold was based on a data structure called "Ent", which is much more complicated and was according to http://xanadu.com/tech/ invented by K. Eric Drexler. Understand Enfilades before trying to understand Ents.

The best overview of an Ent that I could find (seems incomplete, though) is https://web.archive.org/web/20071027094309/http://www.sunles...
SciPy 1.0.0 Release Notes
This is a book full of good questions and poor answers.

Or, as the biologist Max Perutz more scathingly put it, "Sadly, a close study of [Schrodinger's] book and of the related literature has shown me that what was true in his book was not original, and most of what was original was known not to be true even when the book was written."
Nope, Apple even goes to great lengths to preserve user privacy in the data they collect (See Apple's use of differential privacy)
Interesting. He argues his way to this principle of genetics:

> And the gene is most certainly not just a homogeneous
drop of liquid. It is probably a large protein molecule, in which every atom, every radical, every
heterocyclic ring plays an individual role, more or less different from that played by any of the other similar
atoms, radicals, or rings.

He seems not to have known of (or at least does not cite) some of the points listed in the Wiki summary of the history of DNA research[1] which would have been extant in 1944. Watson/Crick/Franklin published in 1953, and Schrödinger (d. 1961) must have been delighted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA#History_of_DNA_research
Why was this downvoted? It's a relevant point to the discussion.
I picked this book up from the library and it is definitely a useful book. About 2/3rds of the book is actual runnable example code.

Also agree totally on Java making concurrency way easier with GC. Russ Cox describes one of these problems here https://research.swtch.com/lockfree
Being able to auto generate Typescript definitions is exciting
So how is Mortimer paying him the bet? Is it a suitcase full of $1 bills?
I agree with this but just so you know mic and camera access are two different things and iOS users get two different prompts if an app wants camera AND mic access
Vevo hacked, 3.12 TB of data leaked
That's not how bikeshedding works
I haven't found offline to be much of a concern but I may encounter this in the future so this is interesting to hear - what reasons makes offline necessity so important?

In my experience security/privacy is the greatest concern. This is actually a fairly big concern actually and for saas there's no solution other than developing trust. In my case in particular, working on Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) we don't even store customer's real data, it's all test/fake data and it's still a concern for some so I'd say it's a huge problem compared with desktop/on premises.
Please don't post jokes on HN.
Gruesome murder of a Mexican teenager is exposing the risks of ride-sharing apps
The recommended development board isn't that bad. 256Kb Flash memory, 48-Kbyte RAM. It's not as tight as a classic Arduino.

This is where Rust's safety helps. Debugging embedded code on small machines is a huge pain. The more problems caught at compile time, the better off you are. A compile time error beats JTAG debugging every time.

The article gets kind of vague once they get beyond LED-blinking and busy-waiting. They implement a brute-force CPU dispatcher and call it "async" programming. They never get to interrupts at all.

Rust on little machines makes sense, but it needs more support underneath to deal with timers, interrupts, and concurrency. There are projects working on this.[1]

[1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-for-embedded-development-...
The left lane should be the one generally remaining empty, and used for passing.
How many decades of writing representatives and wasting votes will it take before people wise up? Clearly this isn't working, time for a new strategy.
Jeesh, take it easy. I took the numbers to be rhetorical. Of course you'd want to use intuitive icons instead of just numbers. What I'm curious about is what kind of prevailing more intuitive system you had in mind.
"...he had great visionary scale ideas, but couldn't describe a concrete implementation."

I revisit Xanadu every couple of years. For its time, its "closed" architecture seemed reasonable. How else would one implement persistent two-way links? Once you kinda grasp Xanadu, kludges like pingbacks and link liveness checkers seem ridiculous.

Alas, Ted Nelson, like myself, didn't anticipate, or was slow to fully appreciate, how DNS, HTTP, URL/URI would up-end the world. Whatever else was going on with Nelson, Xanadu, Autodesk, whatever, "the web" tsunami obliterated competing notions.

Animats' comment (below) about git (eg github) being today's closest realization of the Xanadu ideal is insightful.
The JavaScript intellisense engine of previous versions of Visual Studio used to instrument a sandboxed JS engine in order to extract the shape of objects and methods used in the code, so it also worked when unusual idioms for structuring code were used.
Recent versions use instead the TypeSript compiler, with support for plain JavaScript and flow analysis.
There were occasional forays into chromed plastic and simulated wood grain. Radio Shack used to be into that.
I feel like most chronic issues have to be viewed systematically. Often an injury or imbalance in one area over time causes dysfunction in another and although we have physiatrists, they jus don't have enough time to look at the body as a whole and PTs have the time but many just go through the motions.

For chronic pain, I've given the book Trigger Point Workbook by Davies which makes Travell and Simon's trigger point research easily understood by the layman tona few people and many have improved over time. I've seen carpel tunnel, back pain, scoliosis, SI dysfunction, TMJ all improve
I wish the EFF still made those "Who has your back" infographics, they were really helpful if you wanted to find out which companies respected your data both online and in the courts. But IMO Apple is the only large multinational corporation that is actually taking steps to protect my privacy so I'm way more inclined to trust them with my personal information. Can't say the same for Google or others.
This is one of those things that sounds great on paper but in practice basically kills any chance of a startup environment in the country. Why would a startup wish to grow in such a nation if there are other places where the ability to buy useful services from other international companies are so much cheaper?