skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thanks! We are currently querying using CKAN for some alerts at Hooks App, but never thought about massively adding open data to our system, as for our mobile app it made no sense. But now it does.

Actually, we want to add what our users/clients want. No region in mind.

As a side note, its quite easy to create alerts about "new item in the data set" but it get worse if you have to understand the use case, as, e.g. sending all the "garbage collection schedule items" its different than sending "garbage collection new items in that street of Geneva". Hopefully the CKAN spec will allow us to let the users to set a query over the data, so we will be able to push them only when the new data matches that query.

Thanks again!
This could be useful as a build tool plugin to generate consistent typings for frontend and backend code. Of course, using this as a build-time codegen tool means you can't add any custom annotations or methods etc., so it could be a bit restrictive for most use cases.

Nice work though!
You're right that this wasn't the author's argument, but it is a very important lesson to take away. There will always be accidents where the driver is not at fault, but it's worth taking the opportunity to think about how road design and car culture make those accidents more likely, and what we as a society can do to reduce them.
It's not just inconvenience, although that is part of it. The transportation department would have a huge added burden by needing a way to determine which houses have children, a lot more signage to mark the designated slowdown areas, extra workers to make the adjustments as families move around, a way to update various mapping/GPS systems, etc. The number of passing zones would be drastically reduced. Jake braking would be a nuisance for those houses with children. And there are probably more side effects that I can't think of immediately.

I don't disagree with any intention of improving safety, but there are pragmatic reasons we shouldn't unconditionally implement reduced speed limits around children.
Honestly I've heard this before and maybe I'm overly bitter, but this just sounds like an IT department that doesn't want to do their jobs. You're there to manage those internal systems. If they're going off the rails that often, it sounds more to me like you're just shit at your job.

We manage over 900 virtual systems on many, many hosts and file systems and have next to no downtime because we work really hard to make that the case.
> I was referring to men coming up with the idea and colluding over a millennia.

How do you reconcile with the fact that there are hundreds of texts and stories that have selectively excluded by human hands to create what we today call the bible?

If my priest gives me a bible and tells me "This is the word of God", but admits that over the last 2000 years there have been several councils were certain texts and stories were added and removed, and that archaeologists have found previously unknown gospels not included in the bible, what am I supposed to think?
Also, some of their animated movies are original, including “Lilo & Stitch” and “Zootopia”.
I think PHP is still the most popular web app language, a shame it’s missing out having a couple of it’s frameworks included in the test.
Yeah. I'm honestly very fortunate in my situation. Many low income families pay more and don't necessarily have rent control like I do.
It costs them nothing, because there was never any data Apple was sharing. They should look at the differential privacy data Apple was talking about, and maybe that will be better than nothing.
The problem is, that singular noble ruler would have to survive long enough to implement their plan fully, probably facing organized opposition throughout it all.

(Related to Maciej's talk - I vaguely remember the Bible saying something about a good ruler dying, and his work being undone by a clueless son; I can't find the passage now, though.)

BTW. I see you implying that smart and noble ruler would implement a one-time solution that forever relieves us from the need of organized governance. That's very similar of what the Friendly-AI Problem crowd talks about - you get only one shot at this, and if you screw it up, you screw up everything, forever.
So your argument goes like this:

1. Damore truthfully specified he's a PhD student

2. You (I assume innocently) and others (some innocently, some maliciously) misconstrued this as a claim that he has a PhD degree

3. Despite Linkedin information being completely true and whole error being contained in your bad reading alone, you and others called Damore a liar.

4. Damore removed that true information to avoid further confusion

5. You construe it as a proof that Damore was a liar, since if he removed completely truthful information that some people misread and used it against him, he must have intended to mislead from the start, and that's why he specified his PhD student status exactly as it truly was.

6. This also proves Damore was incompetent, since he wrote his Linkedin page in a way that a hostile or inattentive reader was able to misunderstand his page where it suited his preexisting notions, which would never happen if Damore was any good at writing Linkedin pages, as it is known that well-written (or merely competently written) Linkedin page is impossible to misread or misinterpret, no matter how much you try.

7. This is further proven by the image, since Linkedin design and forms do not allow to distinguish incomplete PhD study in progress from a finished one and display merely a length of the study but not the completion status, clearly Damore intended to mislead by using the only options available in the Linkedin interface.

This sounds like extremely tortured logic aimed at arriving at predetermined conclusion that Damore is a bad person. Looks like you're continuing to mine for something that explains why Damore is a bad person (failing at the premise he's a bad programmer above), to avoid addressing what he said on merits - since if he's a bad person, he can't be right on merits, obviously, no bad person has ever said anything true.

Note, you don't have to address it if you don't want to, but if you do, personal attack is not the best way to go, even if a very common one.
> If your code doesn't reach out beyond the blockchain, then there's very little it can actually do.

Asset issuance, voting, wills, identity/reputation systems, land registries.

Fundamentally, a blockchain is just public, transparent immutable data history. Of the above sample cases, all it takes is for the powers to be to recognize the data as a reflection of the real world; which is a barrier outside of the technology.

And sidenote, decentralized oracles will literally tie outside world to the blockchain.
Possibly intentional market manipulation? They are in the top 200 most visited sites in the world and supply api data to hundreds if not thousands of cryptocurrency price apps. Surely they knew their change would impact the market.
They could have used some else's phone to setup the account
I'm really upset Peakcoin isn't a coin meant to quickly transfer money out of failing coin markets.
Until they make distributing software with unbreakable encryption punishable by jail time. Sadly gvmnt can win this one
Doesn't look like the test is warming up the web server. It sleeps 10 seconds (I assume) after starting the server but it might just as well fire some warmup requests.

https://github.com/tbrand/which_is_the_fastest/blob/master/t...
Yes, but both result in a failure to manage one's emotions. The implication I think you're making is that if others are insulting you, you should control your emotions, if others are physically threatening you, it's understandable if you fear for your life. But the biological reality is that both produce amygdala responses and strong emotions.

Also, calling it "citing peer-reviewed research" is sort of missing the point. How about "politely and scientifically insinuating that some of my co-workers wouldn't be working here if it weren't for social programs at the company" which can be taken for insult. The validity of the research is besides the point.

So no, Damore is not responsible for people not "managing their emotions", he's responsible for not forseeing that people would not "manage their emotions". As in, he should have known better than to insult people at work.

Going back to guns, some people like to make demonstrations where they open cary in a Starbucks. They mean no harm, they're within the bounds of the law... but they're either counting on people to freak out to create media commotion or they're obtuse.
Any one remember 'e-company' phase in 1999? Looks like it is all over again. This will lead to speculation in stocks and we all know how that ends.
Still down
The problem there are the endemic local monopolies on internet and cable rights that prevent meaningful competition. (I have no disagreement that Comcast/Xfinity aren't anyone's favorite company.)
>But not bigger than a hundred that came before it. And even if it was, it doesn't warrant a new word.

I agree in the Buffalo case, but the Nevada one is the largest factory in existence by footprint (Boeing wins by volume).
> A lot of property owners never want to leave. Ever. They want this to be their home (or 2nd home) forever, and want it to never change from what they remember it being for the past 20 years.

That's really not generally true. Talk about "property values" generally does actually pertain to financial outcomes related to their property.

And they have valid reasons to: if you're paying a mortgage, you're in trouble if the value of your property drops. Even if you've paid off your mortgage already, you still don't want it to drop, because it reduces your wealth on paper (reducing your financial flexibility), and it also reduces the size of the estate you can bequeath to your children. But more immediately than that: just because the value of your property has dropped, that doesn't mean the taxes you pay on it automatically drop too. (See: Detroit, where people had to sell their homes to force a revaluation, because the annual taxes were more than the value of their homes after the market crashed, and the city refused to reassess the homes, because it was broke).

The problem is that "property values" is also used as a dog-whistle for racism and redlining - or, in other words, making neighborhoods less accessible to (or attractive to) people who aren't white. This is especially true in California and the Pacific Northwest, which has an incredibly long history of passing exclusionary laws regarding housing and property ownership.
I'm beginning to see how delusional it is to think you can make money by producing something useful or of value in people's lives. That's for lusers. Instead mess with the neural pathways of a large population such that they just give you their money.
Does this work for governments? If USG launches TrumpChain -- I bet TrumpCoin is taken -- will it save America from becoming a laughing stock for the idk -- like the next 20 years? Will Chinese crypto investors buy in or will they prefer to spend their money within a economy that will probably dominate the rest of this century?
Augur (mentioned on the article) is fundamentally a decentralized oracle
Malwarebytes? Not really an AV I guess.
Ask HN: What should I do about a job loss
Posting anonymous since I prefer this not to chase me. I got laid off from a fairly big company in the Bay Area as a part of 10% workforce cut beginning of December. Being a H1B employee, I knew I had a clock to race with. I got an offer from another company in Seattle in the Telecom domain on 01/03/18 and had to answer by 01/12/2018. This morning they rescinded the offer stating organization restructuring.

I am a SRE with about 10 years of experience and currently very scared about whether. I would get a job within the 60 days H1B employment gap time that is provided by USCIS. I would appreciate any help on this regard.
One of the reason I don't consider the timing attacks that important is that there are often easier ways to bypass ASLR.
Just because each block has had gigawatts of computing power thrown at it doesn't make the block's contents correct, or 'the truth'. Case in point: every stolen bitcoin or ethereum wallet. The blockchain is storing the wrong owner of these coins. Every hack can be considered a forgery, and the miners will happily validate it.
Because SLAs pay more than the subscription cost during the downtime.
I think he is somewhat confused or insincere about the maths here.

Given this `distribution of preferences and abilities` he said that women on average were lower, but if you only hire people above a certain threshold, there is no difference in the people you hire. This is not true.

Unless the `distribution` is binary "has ability / does not have ability", the people coming from the "higher average" distribution will still on average have more ability. For example, say X~N(1,1) and Y~N(2,1) are normal-distributed with standard deviation 1 and mean 1 and 2 respectively, then E[X | X > 3] ≈ 3.37, while E[Y | Y > 3] ≈ 3.53.

I am pretty sure Damore doesn't think preference and ability are binary, so unless he's confused about his maths, he does say that women at Google on average have less preference/ability.
> Any kind of sin can be punishable by death

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 6:23

You don't see sin as a big deal, but God does.

> including innocent men, women and children

That's the problem. What innocent people? All of Sodom and Gomorrah were doing some really, really bad things like burning children alive and torturing people.

> And the LORD said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave. “I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the LORD. Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it? “Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?” So the LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account.”... ...Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.” - Genesis 18:20-32
Yeah but the most money can be done by dealing with drugs. Extortion or the other stuff is small fish compared to drugs - it's a pest for the small businesses but in the end it's passed on to customers. Pimping is vile but can be helped against by empowering sex workers, and the number of whores on the streets should be identical even after an end of drug criminality.... after all, the number of customers in a city should remain constant (if not shrink a bit because the gang-financed customers vanish).
A few years ago I would have suggested LinearML - https://github.com/pikatchu/LinearML.

Now it may be quite a challenge, to just compile it.
Only because he asked:

> Seriously, what's wrong with that?

Maybe he was being rhetorical, but I didn't read it that way.
But they don't - third party AV software can update the registry key.
can't, nobody is lending out kodak shares to short sellers anymore.
You'd only be able to run it on your system. At least, without other means of breaching the low level secured configuration of someone else's machine, because that's where the One True Compiler for that system lives.
Exactly, and in this situation, the Board of Directors would probably work diligently to maintain that which differentiates Comcast from its competition, namely political leverage and monopolistic behaviors in their areas.

It's not a failure of the Board of Directors to think this way. Its sole purpose is to provide shareholder value within the existing legal framework. Like they said in the article, those on the Board who don't produce value get removed.
Exactly. Companies have figured this out long time ago. The customers whose voice matters are not the same group as the customers you are nominally serving. You can see clear examples of that not only with corporations like Comcast, but also in startup economy - often (the way I see it, more often than not), the customers-that-matter are the investors, and not the actual users.
By "BMI" I presume you mean brain/machine interface. (I had to look it up.)

If you've got an AI that is out of control and human-indifferent or -hostile, all BMI will do is make it easier for the AI to control us.

Now, I presume you're hoping that improved BMI will make it so that the AI understands us better, and therefore helps it not become human-hostile. And in fact it might work out that way. My guess, however, is that any human-equivalent or better AI will think so radically different from us that empathy isn't realistic, and therefore improved BMI will not decrease the probability of a human-hostile AI.
Is there any proof these prophecies were written before the events occurred? The simplest explanation is that they were written after the events then pointed to as prophecies to prove the texts are prophetic. That would align very well with what we know about the world and the deceit Man is perfectly capable of.

While many people collectively editing and revising a text over millennia is certainly impressive, there is nothing impossible about it nor is it on its own proof of anything supernatural.
Surely.

We actually err on the side of 'open' and 'permissive' in general, because that's how my wife and I were raised. We honestly find the steps we often have to take to influence our son uncomfortable. But it's been the only way to wedge him out of the enormous, intricate, detailed, persistent, fantastic, odd and amazing world that is in his head from time to time. He must join with society at some point.
I live in LA and we desperately need more dense housing and better mass transit. You can't have one without the other, so it makes sense to build new dense housing near transit. But the article links to a counterpoint [1] making the very valid point that this bill would allow a lot of predatory development in working-class neighborhoods of LA. I am conflicted. Hopefully there is some middle ground. The population of LA is too big to live in single-family homes, it is impossible to make it work.
To be fair, neither docker nor k8s require you split your app into microservices. Get GKE and put your monolith on there, let k8s handle rolling upgrades. Or not if you don't think that's useful. :)
It is patched on Sierra, this was part of the 2017-002[0] security update on the 6th of December.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208331
That link is not so much about speed as it is about low quality content. I cannot find supporting link now, but as I remember SEO sites echoed info from Google many years ago that including reasonable ads won't damage ranking even if it slows the page down somewhat.
I’m not lol.
A company whose website doesn't have a jobs section is doomed.
I don't really understand this complaint (grew up in Buffalo myself and drove by the factory last week to check it out).

The factory is in an area that's been basically abandoned since Bethlehem Steel closed up shop. A large factory with people working there is likely to increase people spending money at local places in the nearby area (restaurants, stores, apartments, etc.).

The alternative for that area is a large empty field.

I also knew Chris Collins as a kid growing up (he lived near me) and he seemed reasonable at the time, but his current Trump related political comments come across as ridiculous.
Early blockchains like bitcoins might have this thin/fat protocol aspect, but this is much less true of newer blockchains like ethereum. Granted, with programming languages like Solidity we are still quite limited but there are some interesting developments ongoing, like possibly integrating the webassembly tech with some blockchains, to allow more flexibility on the application layer (see ewasm for ethereum).

But generally speaking, this protocol issue is of little interest for end users.

What is of interest to them is the fact that their data can become decentralized with the blockchain, and the power balance can be shifted back to them. With all the tech majors becoming so powerful thats a really big deal.
Go for a walk at lunchtime.

Personally, I like ultimate frisbee. It's very much a read-and-react kind of play, which is a very different mindset from (most) programming. I think that switching the brain modes is helpful, at least for me.
This 15-foot tall mech weighs 8,000 lbs and can run 20 mph
The KAISER[0] fix which is what has been patched by OSes for Meltdown only resolves full physical memory and kernel memory access. You can still use Meltdown techniques to read arbitrary memory in your process, but this seems expected.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation
San Mateo county voted out of BART for what are probably similar reasons (i.e., belief that transit = poor people and poor people = crime, therefore transit = crime).

Which does a bad job of estimating the kind of people who use mass transit even in the Bay. Caltrain (which has also been targeted by wealthier communities in an attempt to stop it from improving), for example, is packed with young professionals and with middle-class (by peninsula standards) teenagers who use it to commute to school. BART and the ferries and other transit systems are used heavily by tech people and other professionals, because trying to get places by driving is a massive headache. But among a certain class of people the whole transit network is perceived as being for the exclusive use of homeless people and criminals.
>Apple would prefer that everything be conducted in apps on mobile where they can take a 30% cut of initial sale and IAP revenue and not on the open web where most of these ads take place.

There is zero evidence that this is a priority for them or their long term business model. Their focus is on selling you hardware and making sure you're happy enough with their hardware that you're willing to pay a premium for it. Everything else is gravy or in support of that central goal.

No-Tracking and privacy are two of the major value adds they have over their competitors. If they're going to forego things that their competitors get through privacy invasion, it makes perfect sense to turn that weakness into a strength.
The number and degree of your assumptions about me, my life and what I am or am not exposed to is so far besides the truth that I think it is ok to stop the discussion here. Much good luck to you.
Everyone here constitutes maybe 1% of total traffic on the internet; still plenty of data points to be had.
No, as long as you pick a client that supports automatic image unfurling, file sharing via some cloud storage service or other, a broad range of emoji including customizable ones (people care more than you think!), and run a bouncer so your users don't lose their entire scrollback every time they disconnect.

I'm not saying that an IRC experience comparable to Slack can't be achieved. I'm saying that it is so much work to do so that, for many organizations, just paying Slack a few bucks a user makes a lot more sense than sinking scarce and vastly more expensive engineer time into reinventing that particular wheel.
really horrible, sorry to hear. awful loss for us all.
When you play the stock market (telling phrase there), are you not making a bet that your stock will increase in value?