skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it's point at least as yet. Wikipedia works because there wasn't a free sober extensive alternative available.. there are billions of way to get news and authentic ones too. I don't see the point as yet. The blogging tried to revolutionize the citizen journalism.. but it's tiresome with little to none rewards. Comparing it to Wikipedia is comparing Apples to Oranges ..
I run every other day, this is the best advice I can give. I run in a park and do some exercises too. Spending some time in the open air has improved my mood considerably. I guess that what is most unhealthy about our current modern life is not only sitting for too long, but not breathing outside fresh air.

Also follow the simple rule: 'eat food, not too much, mostly plants'
Show HN: Pathjet – Personal Productivity for Makers
You know what, I might too if that was the only edible thing I could reach in a long-enough timeframe.
Fantastic. Thanks!
Not behind a Mac at the moment, but I wonder if this means you can also enable a set of other standard disabled Unix accounts on a Mac?

That will worsen the impact even more, I'd say. Being able to enable disabled accounts my (locally or remotely) authenticating to a Mac system is very bad, even if those accounts are not root.
I'm out of my depth here regarding paths to scale-up -- I have a chemistry background, but I'm not qualified to comment on most chemical engineering.

I applaud you, sir, on your awareness of self and awareness of scale. If only all programmers were as self aware and aware of the difference between a background in programming and software engineering at scale, I'd smile a little more.
I agree that people should understand pointers, heap and stack. However, there's going to be drop outs from the class if these things are focused on too early. Of course, this is open to debate, which is why we have this type of healthy discussion. You might be right in your assumption that it's better to introduce these concepts earlier. In know that when I was in high school, these concepts were taught and served as a foundation for further learning. It's out of vogue now to teach these concepts to kids. But, you might be right. I need to think about this more. Thank you for your posts.
Thanks for this. I played around with XUL in 2004 for the first time - and last time. Being totally blown away by its native controls then, I suggested it for an in-house insurance app my client was developing. My recommendation did not receive much respect! They ended up developing an ASP app.
Regardless, I still need to define equality for my types.
I don't mean to bag on Reddit because I agree they do it very well (based on how frequently I personally use it), but I would still agree with folks who've pointed how it can be subverted. r/politics seems to be the poster child of these naysayers.
The system needs to have some sort of remote access, like screen sharing, turned on first, then you can remotely use the root account.
Clearly the author is a cat person.
Really just this year is the first time i've been using it for larger side projects. While I still run into some things with the borrow checker, I find I'm much better at predicting them, and figuring out a strategy around it. Really once you get through the book and are comfortable with types, you really just need to start working on something bigger. You will need to change things and refactor as your original ideas don't pan out. But you learn from it.

Good luck!
Well for comparison, GC was a yes right. And basically every popular (modern) language incorporates garbage collection. Functional programming, or at least fairly strict functional programming, still hasn't really caught on. Of the juggernaut languages, C/C++, python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript none are truly functional (I don't use JavaScript but the code I have seen in it doesn't often look functional). Until something like Scala cracks the top 5 I agree with calling it a maybe.
>What’s so good about it? Well.. C is fast.

Agreed! I also agree that K&R "The C Programming Language" is a classic book that everybody should read, at least to admire how well written is it. And of course C is a good language to learn. Not as a "first language" but as one of the "languages to know".

>Also, C is flexible. You can do more with C than you can do with newer languages.

What?! Yes, you can do anything with it, only if your time doesn't cost. The same is true of Assembly code.

There are many languages that are more expressive and powerful than C, and some of them aren't really that slow.
de facto
I would say Reddit is a great example of an open platform getting vandalized by the public.
It's traumatic for the dog, too. Often, when someone with a dog is found dead, the dog will have bitten (or eaten) their face, in the hopes of waking up their owner.

> The dogs start biting and eating as a form of animal instinct. They notice you’re dead by your smell and lack of reaction, and they come and lick the unclothed areas to wake you up. If you’re dead and there’s no reaction, they switch and enter the next level—from licking to biting. That’s all. It is not a matter of hunger.

Quite sad, really.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21533604
Thanks a lot for pointing out! I edited the submission just now.
Stripe Atlas lets you open a bank account and incorporate in Delaware as a C Corp : https://stripe.com/atlas

Don't bother asking for tax advice here, talk to a professional.
a) It's generally agreed that folks in London, Brighton etc are more educated and wealthier than the rest of the country.

b) Yes, London and other big cities voted remain.

I don't think landed gentry make a huge portion of the population. Farmers are generally considered to be working class.
Aren't algorithms the primary paradigm for news as disseminated through Twitter and Facebook?
To everyone in this thread arguing that it's "your own house," it's worth noting that Airbnb requires all cameras to be disclosed to guests, and cameras are forbidden in private areas of the property.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/887/what-are-airbnb-s-ru...

"Legal gray area" or not, it's not allowed by Airbnb.
>shorting where?

Bitfinex lets you short (although you'd obviously still get hosed if there was an enormous sell off).

>you do know most of the market is BTC driven

That's my point. It seems as the crypto market is expanding some tokens are losing their tether/bond to BTC (and one presumes the trend will continue if the overall market gets big enough and has enough time to mature).

I think next year will decide whether or not crypto is an asset class that's here to stay (perhaps with more modest growth in the years following) or if we were really all suffering collective tulip mania and the entire ecosystem dies a spectacular death.

For the moment I personally wouldn't put huge amounts in to crypto but if I had cash I could afford to lose, I'd certainly dip my toe in.

Edit: also want to say, if crypto currencies are here to stay, I hope at least a little light regulation comes in to force as there are way too many ways for new/naive participants to have their shirts taken from their backs. Watching some of the shenanigans going on has given me a stronger appreciation for the role regulation plays in fostering a healthy market.
> The new Friends page to the left of the camera...

> The new Discover page to the right of the camera...

This reads like the manual to an early-90s text adventure.
AFAIK not anyone can signup for Atlas, you have to be selected.

Any recommendations for a professional? There aren't any that know the US landscape where I live.
Its a two way street. I had friends put an annoyatron in an airbnb they were staying in and knew I was going to stay in a few days later. So its not just the hosts you have to worry about...
The biggest thing I lost in a similar switch was ANY old conversation with somebody who was an iMessage user. Where they reply to a conversation and think they are just texting you, but actually they are sending iMessages that you just aren’t receiving. Especially on, for example, family group texts, people just find the old conversation and continue it from the previous year or whatever. Lots of times when I was on windows phone or had iMessage switched off, I’d only get the parts of the conversation coming from non-iMessage users. A good example is random family members who use android texting me reactions to an original text or picture I didn’t get. It’s really dumb. Maybe there’s something I could have done about it in my own settings, but instead I ended up switching back to iPhone recently. Not just for that reason but it sure was nice to get messages properly again. But also more sensitive stuff like somebody sharing pictures of items related to planning a funeral.
My first language was C, back in the early 90s -- from nothing but the K&R book -- and I did learn pointers before I learned my next language (like truly grok them, have the ability to visualize the concept viscerally). When people in interviews ask me to tell them about the most technically challenging thing I've ever done, I tell them about learning pointers in C as a teenager. Taking everything in its context, nothing else in technology has gone that far in pushing my intellect.
Ask HN: What are some things in life worth their price
What things or experiences do you think are worth every penny?
To start with, I think spending on a good laptop or your tool of trade is worth every penny.

Any other ideas?
that is the issue.

You have full access to the machine, so you can update firmware / tinker with BIOS etc.

Then let the machine go back into the pool, and wait for it dial home.

There is some mitigation, but this is a major reason a lot of vendors do not do per second / minute bare metal.
Congratulations. The other 99% of people do need to be protected. Remember, more than 90% of 30,000 of them kill themselves or others in car crashes each year due to driver error, in the US.

That number used to be much higher before safety standards were implemented. So while you can argue about specific standards and regulations, on the whole it's clear society has benefited greatly from them.
I would start scanning a local network to see if there's any devices that I can't identify. If there are, I would try to trace them down, and, if unsuccessful, turn the router off and switch to mobile hotspot.

This is under the assumption that the cameras don't store the data locally, which they probably do. In that case, I don't have any ideas what to do if you can spot them on the local network but can't trace them down physically.
> And given the legal grey area airbnb hosts exist in, it's probably not explicitly illegal, since they're filming their own property.

Depends. In some countries security cameras indoors are not legal - that is, if you get caught putting a burglar on camera, s/he can sue you for invasion of privacy. There's also laws that make it required for you to clearly indicate there are security cameras present.
Yep. So much this. I don't mind ads. I mind tracking. Oh, and advertisers: I've never bought anything because I saw it on facebook or in a google ad or anywhere else like that. I'm not sure what you think you are doing with all that data, but it's not working. Ads are not how I learn about new "needs."
2018 will likely not see active enforcement, a couple of stern warnings and maybe a single case to court to show they mean business. But I fully expect the hammer to come down in 2019 and frankly I can't wait.

I look at a lot of companies professionally and the range goes from: "GDPR? What is that?" to "Sure, we're ready, here is what we did and we are already compliant.".

Most companies are somewhere in the middle between those two, they are aware that something is changing but they are still trying to figure out the impact on their business. Lawyers are - unless their specialty is privacy law and they have boned up on this - pretty useless and generally tend to know even less.
That's the thing, Reuters is already an excellent source, and is freely available. They seem to be the most unbiased news source out there: because they sell news to literally everyone, they're forced to be as non-biased as possible. Quote from a popular comment of mine a year ago:

>They might sell the same article to Russia Today, the New York Times, Fox, Al Jazeera, and the Times of India, so they can't cater to one crowd's political biases. I'm serious; all these news sources pay for Reuters articles.

>And even if you don't like Reuters, you've got to respect the speed at which they get out correct news. Before the Twittersphere erupts, before CNN loses its mind, before the alerts on the radio, Reuters has it. And if they don't know something, they say that they don't know it. It can make for frustratingly light articles, but any time I'm annoyed how empty the article is I realize that if it was bigger it'd be fluff or unverified claims.

Ultimately, wire services like Reuters are the best source of unbiased news today. They make their money selling news to papers, not consumers, so blowing small news out of proportion doesn't really help them either: if a paper wants sensationalized news, they're very capable of producing it themselves.

Honestly, I think this project could be interesting to watch, and I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it. If it takes off, I think the biggest plus to it will be investigative journalism that isn't usually done by wire services. But ultimately I think I'll continue to read Reuters for news.
True! Not with machine learning though. The target of this benchmark is hardcore number-crunching.
Please be comfortable and be yourself...but we'll have you vocalize your thought process even though this is something you never do while working, you have no experience doing and it makes it tougher to think while you're talking.

If someone was a great coder but a mute, your process would weed them out.
A more correct comparison is a store recording how people shop in their locations to better optimize paths and locations of products. Your comparison is more like an app that watches everything you do on your computer outside the context of the app.

Not quite the same thing.
I agree on parallelism. I came to the conclusion that the author must not be including GPU programming in his assessment which does seem odd given how important it has been in recent years.
> That’s because I tend to think that when a service is for profit rather than for the public’s benefit, all sorts of perverse incentives arise. If schools operated for profit, with education subsidized by vouchers, the companies running the schools would have an interest in spending as little as possible actually educating the students, because every dollar they could save would be a dollar they could keep.

The problem with this kind of argument is that it forgets the incentive of a government run or public's benefit is that they too have a different metric to adhere to - politics. They then lead to a cumbersome system with nearly zero responsibility. This then gets picked up by people on the opposite side of the fence as failures of public benefit, government run system.

So, unfortunately things have to seen on a case to case basis. Public benefit schooling is a great thing. But public benefit food option? That is debatable. For some it will come off "government controlling what we eat" and hurting fundamental rights.
Bigger question for me was when does one truly learn C?

Finishing C course on college didn't felt like I learned C. Nor implementing some common algorithms and data structures. [Lets mark my experience until this moment as `phase 1`] This attitude made me stay in C for a bit longer, getting my self interested in systems programming and that is when I got to see truly what programming and debugging C really is. I was learning and experimenting for 2 years with that, and I felt recently like I was ready to move on, (Python and Clojure taking over for the most part) and the conclusion was rather strange:

Everything after phase 1 didn't brought me that much, considering cost/benefit factor I was not impressed by the end results. While whole first few years and college in C were significant and I recommend it to everyone to learn C even up to a point where you write basic CRUD program that read some data from txt/bin and create linked list with that data and represent it, my venture into systems and lower level programming didn't bring me as much of "general" knowledge. Sure it was good, and I learned C++, and combining those two now I do some other things that are related to the things I learned during that period (like GPGPU), it wasn't that mindblowing as I expected initially.
Electronic roadwork signs “hacked” in Ontario
Here is another report on Twitter about a similar case, it seems like it didn't get the required attention at the time:

https://twitter.com/goodyerin/status/859119557654523906
Not quite the same thing.
That’s incorrect. Edge is still Trident, but they took the opportunity of a change in name to rip out all of the old backwards-compatibility layers and leave just the modern stuff.
Outside the office I swim 3 times a week for an hour fairly fast (for me) with no more than 5 minutes rest throughout. Otherwise I'm fairly lethargic the other 4 days.

In the office I make sure I get up and have a walk at least once an hour, either to get a drink, use the toilet or just have a wander round. It makes sure I don't spend too long slouching, dozing off and makes me take my eyes off the screen.
Along those lines; yes. Current transistors are (effectively) hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of atoms.
I use noscript and am pretty happy with it. I also use Adblock Plus because I'm ok with the idea of allowing certain types of ads through the adblockers. I was kind of thinking that we could get sites to stop doing the tracking bullshit if we put out a list of what is acceptable and blocked the rest. I guess it wasn't well executed?
Personally, I'll have nothing other than illuminated manuscript.
Thanks.

I guess some other open questions:

- If one of those drives fails, will Amazon hotswap them out, or do you need to migrate to a new instance (moving TBs of data to a new box without causing outages can be painful.)

- Is there a hardware RAID controller for those drives, or is it software only?

- Can anyone with access to one of these boxes produce some IO performance stats on them? Bonus points for stats on single drive vs concurrent across all drives (i.e is there any throttling). More points for RAID10 performance across the whole 8.
Recently I fished out my Toshiba Libretto 30, which I bought in 1998. It had just about enough processing power to play MP3s using the Fraunhofer codec, but not run WinAmp.

Over the next couple of years the use of MP3 exploded: Napster, the iPod, iTunes. The boundary for "can this system decode mp3 in real time" was somewhere around the late 90s. Now of course it's not an issue on any device.
This sort of thing is an arms-race, and if you don't want to spend your life on counter-surveillance tech and opsec, you're not going to have any certainty.

Publicize, loudly, cases when someone violates your trust. Because that's what this reduces to; you're trusting whomever you're paying for that room. If they don't deserve that trust, ruin their income stream and they'll stop.

Applications of this approach to less-vulnerable violators left as an exercise, etc.
Exactly, and this is the advice AirBnB should also give to the renter; I like that they already offered a refund and got rid of the property on their site, that's about as much as they can do within their jurisdiction, but it's up to the people discovering it to pursue it legally.
My friend, have you heard the good news about Public Choice Theory?
This seems like a perfect use-case for payment channels, e.x. Lightning Network:

Car continuously delivers micropayments to charger while charger continuously delivers power to car, if one stops the other also stops. If the power is cut off prematurely the car only loses maybe a couple cents worth of power.

(Payment channels are built using smart contracts, but they’re simple enough that Bitcoin’s more limited smart contracts can do it)
Judge Slams Uber for Withholding, Possibly Destroying Evidence in Waymo Trial
The article’s short on details - it’s not even clear if this was actually a remote hack - I always thought you neede physical access to change these, (but that once you have access making a change is trivial).
Wasn't a similar question asked by the maintainers of Nupedia when Jimmy Wales launched Wikipedia as an unexpected side project?
Has this happened in hotels? If they're hotel chains, it'd cause some pretty serious reputation damage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806965
This seems to be why: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x24.html
> Here, r is on the stack (or in a register), but is pointing to something on the heap, so "&T is heap allocated" feels wrong.

What's the difference between `r` and `b` here ? (no pun intended)
Plenty of that could have been achieved by slower but more consistent and secure development of extensions to HTML.

That wouldn't give you Google maps, docs or gmail, but the vast majorit of SAAS products could have probably been created in one way or another with the restriction that no code could execute client side.

More and more pages that could have worked just fine now render as totally blank because client side frameworks are now being pushed from every angle. As an end user there is no clear advantage to this.
Sort of: thinner wires have higher resistance, so what tends to happen is you get slightly more heat but in a much smaller space. Heat dissipation has become a major limiting factor.
As always, depending on what the definition of "is" is.
Not really. Please enlighten me.
A nice idea, thanks for sharing.

I do something similar in emacs with org-capture. I use a capture template that enters a row into a table in an org file. In that file I have some org-babel blocks that computes my histograms and displays a nice graph for me.

Although emacs isn't exactly user friendly for most people. I hope your project gets out there more. It's a useful tool to have.

(As a manager of an software development team my job is to be distracted and handle them effectively... a tool like this has been invaluable.)
Markets are incredibly good at giving people what they want, not what they say they want, but what they actually want (economists call this revealed preference).

Some people, like the author, see this as a problem. He had no viable solution to the problem. We have actually tried to the "free healthy alternative" in schools, and what happens is either the healthy parts are thrown away or traded away.
Agreed. Though Muni broadband is prohibited in many locations. That's a shame.
As for Alfred replacement... How about [Albert](https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert)?
It's not a stretch that the bedroom and bathroom of a rental would fall under this law, for example:

http://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-21-15.html

The definition isn't about the rental arrangement, just the use of the room.
My comparison was running a Formula 1 team to making Video Games. Not playing them as an e-sport. Of course competing in a sport in real life is far different to doing so in a video game.
If you don't understand when you're working on a mutable version of a data structure vs a copy, you can't get very far. So at least that part of 'understanding pointers' is crucial in any language?
UK judges are generally very reasonable in my experience (though I should acknowledge that my experience is limited to being an observer or witness in a small number of cases).

If something really does seem like an honest mistake, they may take that into account when passing a sentence.

On the other hand, if someone not only did something bad but then the judge thinks they tried to cover it up even in court, that is likely to count against them, possibly heavily.
This seems like a solid response to Instagram eating their market share, as Instagram suffers from exactly the problem described (of course, as intended because Facebook's entire business model thrives on it).