skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s something we think about a lot, and decentralization isn’t a silver bullet solution to data loss, but I do think it’s more resilient than what we typically do now.

To counter that, you can take measures to mirror important datasets with a dedicated peer. It requires effort, but it at least makes it much, much harder for example, for a government agency to take down public data without warning.
What if there was a spec that web browsers could submit small amounts of mining work as a micropayment system for web content? (amount determined by content provider per-page or per-session or some other better granularity, only sent if user approves)

Browsers could pre-mine/cache some amount of work so that page load times would be relatively unaffected.

Browsers could ask about payment similar to pages requesting location (yes/no/always/never) so future payments are automatically applied or denied.

Thoughts?
Thankyou for your good work on the charts. Google Finance for a long time has been one of my favorite financial tools. (At least it used to be before the stock screener broke.)
Superfocus: The ultimate eyeglasses (2012)
Third party sales have to compete with insane incentives for new cars. If a new Leaf can be had for $12K after incentives, why would I pay more for a used one?
> at least you get a segfault

If the platform has an MMU, if you've properly set up your page table mappings, etc. We are talking about writing an OS here!

Not to mention all the UB around null pointers that can cause miscompilation. Well, not technically miscompilation, but stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324414
Original title: "Creation of single-photon entangled states around rotating black holes"

The HN title call them quantum computers. This may be technically correct but it's an exaggeration, because it would be a 1-qbit or 2-qbit computer, not a general computer or at least more powerful than a calculator.

Also, it would be non programmable. Perhaps you can "program" it launching some asteroids into the black hole with the correct direction to make it rotate faster or slower, but it would be extremely inefficient and anyway it would not be useful to make any interesting calculation.
health, please, mods, not heath...
you mean like classrooms in schools?
> I'm something of an outlier here, maintaining a big legacy MFC application that targets Windows CE, but I can't be the only one.

The problem is not developing "legacy" apps, it's comparing the development and maintenance of "legacy" apps with apps that just get started being written today, for which the bare minimum is being cross-platform.

> Are there wrappers for things like dlopen()? posix_madvise?

Actually, yes, in a cross-platform way:

* http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/doc/html/boost_dll.html (does dlopen, dlclose, and so much more)

* http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/doc/html/boost/interpro... (advise() == posix_madvise if available)

> Filesystem ACLs ?

none that I know of :( though MS has a fairly decent "modern C++" API that covers WinRT: https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt but I don't think ACLs are even available in WinRT

> COM

oh, yes: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5748/Introducing-Comet
UK Bank replaces logout functionality with advert
Exactly right. There has to be real consequences or else you get what we have right now which are these entities that are so powerful they can shift accountability away from themselves and thereby socialize all their losses while profiting to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
And taking the thing down for 12 hours, 1/4 of every weekend could possibly be good in what way? Take it down on Tuesdays from 10pm to 10am Wednesday.

Are you thinking in context or just being contrary?
You don't even need JS. In French and in style:

<p>un paragraphe <span style="font-size: 0;">pas si </span>innocent</p>

So disabling JS won't protect you from those.
Decent Nvidia GPU (GTX 10xx or equiv.). I want/need to be able to write CUDA code on my main work machine. I'm also not buying a machine with less than 64 GB of RAM as my main work machine any more.

Without that I cannot justify the price of a MBP, since I'll have to buy a second machine to complement it.
Copenhagen is #1 on the list of bike-friendly cities. Of course it's going to outpace NYC.
Your code, or any of the code it calls; iterator invalidation, for example, wouldn't force you to use pointers directly, but can still cause memory unsafety.
You might want to check out https://www.class-central.com which offers search as well as reviews.
To be fair to OP, the mention that reports dropped specifically doesn't happen til the end of paragraph 5, and therefore the headline is misleading.
Why wouldn’t you for those two examples? Those are both great use cases for HAProxy and only require like a twenty line config to be up and running.
Test and Code 31: I'm so sick of the Testing Pyramid
A Small, Simple, Functional TypeScript Lens Library
Oh sorry, i meant kids indeed, they are about head height of where i carry my camera, waist height. (im 2m tall)
Thanks for building this 10 years ago. This was my first repo I looked at as a noogler earlier this year because I wanted to understand the effort req’d to replace flash charts. It looked a bit more complex than I was expecting but I still have it as #1 on my backlog for a multi-weekend project.
$10k is buys about one month's rent, a dozen bagels, one fill up of gasoline and one week of coffee where a lot of HN lives.

In SV monopoly money $10k is dirt. Everywhere else it's a major expense.

I'm exaggerating but you get the point.
Show HN: Direct IO for Node.js
Sorry for the self-post on this but Halifax now shows you an advert when you click Logout rather than logging you out.

A small message is displayed saying you'll be logged out in 30 seconds but to me, that is a MASSIVE issue.

When I click logout, I expect to be logged out
Go confirmed for me what I suspected: which is that I hate hate hate the futures style of async programming.

I'm on the lookout for channels and green-threads in Rust (so I can basically write borrow-checked Go-style code in Rust).
Btw, please sign a related petition if you didn't already: https://publiccode.eu.
That's kind of bullshit though. There's no way for it to be truly objective or standard. You already know what university I went to and made assumptions based on that, you know where I worked before and what my hobbies are.

An interview is not like the SAT. And even the SAT is not an unbiased test.
> Capitalism is to free markets what communism is to socialism

Would you explain this a bit more?
I was a tad sad seeing that the other day. I have used it for 10 years.. I guess I will just have to use my investment site. Logging in is such a pain just to get a general update.
I would buy this immediately to commute to work downtown for those rainy days when biking isn't as pleasant or convenient.

But of course, it is not available in NA and if it were somehow I doubt the price would remain $5k (which is roughly the same as a good carbon fiber road bike).
Boofheads LOL
A bastardization of leave policies that lumps pleasure and rest time in with convalescence such that people new to an office often don't get to take real vacations after having spent all of their PTO on gaining immunity to a new germ pool.
It's not a question of trust it's a question of where the legal liability falls.
Uhh, France's corporate espionage dwarfs this "apparent" episode, whose evidence is apparently a throwaway line in a FT article?

Your source: a random line in an article about an episode that occurred 23 years ago during the Clinton administration. My source: a well researched book covering the entire history of modern espionage with a significant portion dedicated to corporate espionage, with specific mention of the Clinton administration's handling of this topic.
>I think this is the big difference, cars drove on the biking lanes

Yes, that's the unfortunate reality of NYPD policing. They basically park in bike lanes with little or no consequence. However, with dedicated lanes a lot of progress is being made. Already there is a dedicated bike path that will allow you to drive for hundreds of miles north with little contact with cars.
It's a trick to get Trump to double the rate at which he incriminates himself!

I hope he doesn't start twice as many wars.

If he takes to it, then Twitter could gradually raise the limit bit by bit, like you train a cat to shit in the toilet by slowly moving its litter box [1], and eventually he'll be tweeting in full paragraphs of complete (if not coherent) sentences.

[1] http://www.wikihow.com/Toilet-Train-Your-Cat
What started as a twitter disagreement carries over into this civil discussion of software testing.
Brian and Paul discuss testing practices such as the testing pyramid, TDD, unit testing, system testing, and balancing test effort.

* the Testing Pyramid
* the Testing Column
* TDD
* unit testing
* balancing unit with system tests, functional tests
* API testing
* subcutaneous testing
* customer facing tests
In my opinion, the best option for changing careers is to get a job in the new field. Freelancing is an option to the degree a person has a rollodex full of potential qualified leads or the skill set necessary to build one quickly.

That said, there is nothing objectively wrong with doing something as a hobby. Maybe it turns into a profession. Maybe it doesn't. If it is an enjoyable way to spend non-working hours, go for it.

Good luck.
Yes, the only question is when the dumb money is in. I guess dotcom is here a historical precedent.

Since we cannot really know, I will just use that number and gradually sell around it. Of course that might make me the dumb money but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
A 12 hour maintenance break every week sounds a bit unlikely to be absolutely necessary.
Ads don't work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills
Technology restores body's insulin generation capability in diabetic patients
That sentiment rings true for most of Europe to be honest. Americans are just not trained to be polite to transport other than cars.
Sübhanallahi velhamdülillahi vela ilahe illallahü vallahü ekber anlamı
Don't say that too loud. Most of the exchanges grant uses of real time quotes for non-finance-professionals only.
How to Choose the Best SSBBW Dating Sites
Electronics is all about differential equations.

> Circuit simulation programs take a text netlist describing the circuit elements (transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc.) and their connections, and translate this description into equations to be solved. The general equations produced are nonlinear differential algebraic equations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE

All the way down to transistors and other basic elements

> These models are very computer intensive, involving detailed spatial and temporal solutions of coupled partial differential equations on three-dimensional grids inside the device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_model
I apologise but I think you have a poor understanding of the way this stuff works.

Everyone absolutely wants to extend you credit.
The total failure of Windows Phone to gain acceptance in the market is a huge pity. I have a Lumina 950 as a secondary device (for loading with a local SIM while abroad) and it’s a solid performer with a polished OS, refreshingly ’different’ UI, and excellent basics (build quality, call quality, and battery life). The basic, core apps I ’need’ in this role are available (WhatsApp, Facebook/Messenger, Twitter, & cetera) and it hotspots very dependably towards my myriad Apple devices (iPhone7+, iPadPro10.5, 11” MacBook). It even has some very fascinating features not seen elsewhere (I have a dedicated dock for using certain apps with an external screen, keyboard and mouse, whose name escapes me at the moment).

I really wished they had managed to gain a foothold, because as a platform it really lacks nothing (excepting an app developer base, and actual producers of handsets).
Machine Learning and Cognitive API's
It amazes me that NY Times gets away with this sort of patronizing articles with their presumed (educated) readership.

"Mainstreet vs Wallstreet". <expletive deleted>
You're thinking of refrigeration cabinets with small separate compressors, just like an average person has at home? Post-eighties refrigeration systems even at small sites are inherently more complex and yes, they have features that make them comparable to industrial systems.
> The new, minimalist design introduces square tabs

WILD APPLAUSE
> something that works well enough.

This will become less and less true over time, especially as Adobe plans to kill the Flash plugin by 2020.
I would never have guessed I would migrate from a google product to a yahoo product. What an odd thing this is.
"one of the most energy efficient" + "safe"
But if you're rich you have low wait times, so it's all good.

Frankly, Obamacare is a bit of a failure for some - I have friends who have "insurance plans" that don't actually cover anything without a deductible that they can't afford. Care for ongoing conditions is essentially not covered as a result.

The thing is... they'd have no healthcare at all under the previous system either, so going back to that isn't a solution for them.

The only real solution is single-payer healthcare paid out of taxes - unless you believe that somebody's right to live depends on how much money they make.
The headline says "crime dropped". It's clearly misleading, parent is just correcting it.
Iceland let its banks fail and protected the taxpayers, and a few years later the economy recovered just fine. It's at a much smaller scale than the US or EU economy though, but still.
If you require it surely you can get it if you pay for that?
The idea that Google has been spending engineering hours on other parts of Google Finance is ridiculous to me. I don't think there's been an update to it in over 5 years. They seem to be doing something to it finally, because there's a notice at the top of Portfolios saying that feature is being removed.
OK with public code, but with limits, some data and code should be closed [1], including:

keys and credentials
algorithms used to detect fraud
unreleased policy

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-source-guida...
That's why I quit VMware. That was the only project to work on, and there was no way I was going to spend my career in a dead-end technology like that.

It was kind of obvious that HTML was going to take over... Like really obvious.
Mostly curious how it works out in practice. Performance, etc.
>in the social "science" around crime

This is likely to provoke strong reactions from people who think you're against social science as a whole, but you raise an important point: much of what passes for academic social science is political activism in disguise.
In the normalized global results, at the bottom, Rust is above C++, and closer to C than C++ is to it.
The dock system was called Continuum: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum
Growth of 10K tool on Morningstar is really handy so that you aren't comparing apples to oranges with dividends, splits, etc.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352597-us-wont-wa...
How One Syrian Fought to the Death for a Free Internet
Better solution is to let users solve a complicated CAPTCHA when they want to tweet longer messages. That way, there is no social pressure to make long tweets (no reasonable person can pressure you to solve boring CAPTCHAs), while it's still there if you need it.

Or, phrased differently, they should make it harder to tweet longer messages.
This author is hilariously biased. I am not a Tesla fan at all, but Elon did not "get schooled" by Daimler.

Daimler claims to have been working on EVs for 100 years. Yet by their own admission, their cars won't be "fully electric until 2020-2025".

Come on man. Tesla ships full electric cars. Daimler doesn't.

End the fanboying.
Not sure that Juicero is a good example good engineering, "Do You Need a $400 Juicer?"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lutHF5HhVA
EasyJet: We'll have electric airliners within the next decade
What signs of change are you expecting? Microsoft is a huge organization and change comes slowly to different products.

Here's the thing - if we see Microsoft making tangible changes to their behavior, and we reward that with more derision and distrust, then we aren't exactly incentivizing them - or anyone wathcing - to do more. I personally applaud Microsoft on their dramatically increased involvement in open source in the past couple of years and I encourage them to keep it up and explore other ways they can improve. Yes, Windows still sucks, and is getting worse. Keep putting their feet to the fire for it. But that doesn't mean we have to demean the legitimately good work they're doing - let them enjoy the success from that so they can apply it across the rest of the org!
I don't think most people or maybe even anybody remembers the domain name in order to access the pertinent network application.
Thanks for following up with that - I appreciate it.
When I was there (2003-2005), the big problem already seemed to be that a lot of engineering saw Yahoo as a tech company, while a lot of the business side saw Yahoo as a media company.

Especially so after Yahoo conceded Search.

So one side wants to pour money into getting technical leverage. The other side largely just wanted more effective ways of publishing and monetizing content.

It doesn't really matter which side was right, only that they were at times pulling in wildly different directions in terms of what they believed it was important to invest in.
Yahoo finance was "better" before Google existed. Google was one of the first to negotiate and implement realtime quotes.

But Yahoo had comparison tools, better option chains, investment challenges, etc.

I got into investing in middle school because of their investment challenge and virtual portfolios.
References can still be null.
Mostly yes? Safety systems aren't a binary thing. One of my vehicles is a 20 year old car that I'd be pretty sure doesn't have all the safety systems required in a new car being sold today. That doesn't mean it's unsafe.
Will the Equifax Data Breach Finally Spur the Courts to Recognize Data Harms?
Show HN: Shelf – A better way to share knowledge across teams and organizations
Update: EFF Lawsuit Results in Release of More FISC Opinions
Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Windows Phone 8 was probably one of the best OS's Microsoft ever did. It was fast on cheap hardware and the UI actually had just one idea instead of several layers of cruft of generations of unfinished new ideas. It was more open than iOS where it counted and more closed than Android where it mattered.

So naturally it failed.
Target audience research and Users research. Part 2
I would imagine that people choose sex work even if they are not destitute.

For example, look at the American porn industry or "high-end" call girl/escort scene. Often, it seems, these women (and men) come from means, or at the very least, not squalor.

Poor sex workers are of course more open to exploitation, but you would still find sex workers in developed nations with high social welfare (Australia, for example).
US credit card companies do not do a lot of ID verification when opening accounts.

I applied for a new CC last year entirely on-line, and had the new card in my hands within a week. They never asked to verify my identity beyond my SSN / DOB / Address, which all seem likely to have been released in at least 3 breaches in the last few years. This is surprising to me, as I've been asked to show ID when opening a local bank account. To me this makes no sense: Why verify customers more stringently when they effectively loan you money than when you loan them money? I guess it may just have something to do with banking laws..

This is all just a long winded way to say that I think that credit card offers, by mail or web, are a problem. They cannot do any meaningful ID verification anymore, now that all info is essentially public. I think they need to partner with some agency that has a physical presence which can do verification of ID via government issued ID. Eg, a bank, merchant, etc, who can look at your driver license, passport, etc, and verify your identity. I suppose they are worried about adding too much friction.
I think you nailed the disconnect between our views.

What I personally am looking for is an engineer -- someone who can look at problems formulated in a fuzzy fashion (this is critical), figure out what technical solutions exist, probing the customer/user to flesh out the initially vague requirements and come up with a few different ways to implement this.

You are looking for coders: someone who can take well posed, unambiguous problem and algorithm descriptions and turn those into a working code. That is probably a better fit for a "coding interview" referred to in the title. It is just my experience that I get much better code and value for $ by hiring engineers even though I have to pay them higher salaries. That's just me though, YMMV.
or https://www.moocha.io/search?query=ethereum
not a good answer but probably both.
>And taking the thing down for 12 hours, 1/4 of every weekend could possibly be good in what way?

Some stakeholder somewhere probably refuses to go down during the business week for whatever reason. Maybe that stakeholder isn't even in government. Stuff like this is not uncommon in the world of enterprise.
Xcode's Interface Builder is just dated. Try Unity3d's component-based UI system with live editing during the "Play mode". It's so great to build everything visually with a tool like this.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

- Charles Goodhart, Economist
The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (2000)
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Yeah but the base license for the terminal is like £15,000 a year. With that you would expect to get at least what I get for free on yahoo finance.
Why on earth would someone commite to work on a $5,000 road bike when a similar experience could be had on a $500 road bike?

Yikes.
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They could fix this by fixing how they thread tweets. Currently they thread tweets, but it's grouped in a weird way and sometimes someone that isn't the person that threaded them is in the middle of the thread. Also, instead of making people manually put (1/x) they could just create a counter and put them in sequential order treating any time the author only replies to themselves (which is how you thread) as the thread, but any reply to someone not themselves as outside of the thread. I'm sure that's complex, but I believe it could be done with some logic.
Russia, US shoot for the moon with joint lunar station project
> if a high-crime community demands more aggressive policing in the Broken Windows mold, they get it

I think what a lot of people would like is more policing but less aggressive policing.

Such as the ability to call the police for minor crime like broken windows and know the police aren't going to shoot someone dead. e.g http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/17/australian-woman-... (but there have been a number of other examples, especially involving non-white people)

"Minneapolis police are investigating, but their work has been hampered because the officers’ body cameras were switched off. The police department said the squad car's camera also failed to capture the incident."

How convenient.
It looks like to me, from the sources, that you see plain http/tcp connection. BitTorrent is using UDP that could be a huge gain in many situations.
Do you plan to add some Realiable UDP overlay to speed things up? Something like Aspera but more open? Maybe QUIC is mature enough?