skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kid you not, I had the same questions as you, so I literally applied for a bunch of blockchain jobs just so I can talk to these people on the phone to see what they're all about. I end up asking really basic questions like: "So why are you using a blockchain instead of a normal database?" or "What problem are you actually trying to solve?" It is actually embarrassing; I feel like I'm being abrasive on the phone by asking such truly basic questions, yet they always seem so startled by these kinds of questions and assume I'm somehow incredibly intelligent and perceptive to ask these basic questions.

Generally what happens is as follows. Some business MBA type people watch a TED talk or read in the FT that blockchain is the next big thing, so they go out and look to hire "blockchain evangelists". Evangelists is the word they often use, and that sounds about right because it is just like a religion sometimes. Then I only end up talking to the business people about these projects, because that's all the people they have. I won't name them, but I've had conversations with huge firms or startups that both equally talk utter nonsense. One large firm told me that they're working on "permissionless and permissioned blockchains for everything from auditing to wine". While for a small startup I once asked: "why are you using a blockchain for this instead of just having a database?". The answer I got was "well... our customers aren't really technical people...". I told them perhaps they should look at something like Google's certificate transparency rather than blockchains, and they echoed back to me "Oh we are definitely looking at certificate transfer!" (Transfer, not transparency.) It's astonishing.

To summarize, huge firms tend to have people who just want to get paid so they always say yes to whatever the clueless MBA person asks, while startups tend to mostly know it's bullshit but go along anyway because there is a lot of $$$ involved, particularly with ICOs. I would love to go undercover and write a book about what's actually happening.
You can take it from one of the most productive living mathematicians:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...

I recommend reading the entire post - it's not too long, and links to other great materials - but this is a good relevant quote:

> The point of rigour is not to destroy all intuition; instead, it should be used to destroy bad intuition while clarifying and elevating good intuition.
Fair enough, but I take measurements like these as a need to further improve transit. For example, the light rail reaching Redmond should help that particular route a lot.

In general, it doesn't make sense to invest in making it easier for cars as the population grows — it's not as sustainable as improving transit, since public transit is a far more efficient way to transport people.
You realize that most countries in the world have neither armed security, police, or even metal detectors in -any- of their schools and don't have these issues?

Why is our solution here always "more guns!"?
I don't have a strong opinion about your premise about large vs small orgs. But what I will say is that I largely dislike go as a language, yet I still usually pick it for solving problems even if they are just for myself.

The reason for that is largely the 'come back to it' factor. I'm reasonably able to identify go code I wrote and put away. I can't say the same for other languages I've used professionally.
I meant to contrast "ardent free market defenders," i.e., people in the libertarian end of the spectrum, with those concerned about predatory pricing, many of whom would not consider themselves opponents of the free market. "Ardent" is not, in the first place, pejorative.
That's about ME, not the recent Spectre and Meltdown that the article talks about: "Security researchers at the start of January publicized two flaws, dubbed Spectre and Meltdown"
No, the First Amendment applies to Congress, and by the 14th Amendment, to the States. It does not apply to persons, regardless of their citizenship or friendship status with the US.

"Congress shall make no law..."
Uber's financials are irrelevant to whether or not the ride sharing business model is sustainable.

The argument cannot be made without claiming the non-driving part of the business cannot be run for the 25% rake they take on every fare. Period. And I don't think anyone is willing to make that claim.

That doesn't mean Uber's a good investment, or Uber is doing it right, or Uber isn't pursuing monopolistic practices, or Uber isn't ripping off drivers, or that Uber isn't doing something sufficiently different that a competitor won't beat them--none of that matters.

All that matters is whether or not the business model is sustainable without burning through investor cash. That was the question. And if someone else beats them doing it while turning a profit, the business model is still sustainable.
That's not another debate, that's the debate, and putting users first isn't something I'd associate Apple with. Did people beg apple to remove the headphone jack, for example? I'd say Apple puts Apple first, consumers second, users somewhere.
> There are no natural tricks to solve this.

Other than to be East Asian.
Yes! It's next on my list of updates to make.
>Weekends have _at most_ 6 hours of leisure per day.

Why?
I think another interesting paradigm is breaking up companies by:

1. embracing technology early
2. chasing technology
3. last movers

Recent examples of last movers that still have been extremely successful have been TJMaxx and Costco, both functioning with very little e-commerce presence. Why does this make some intuitive sense? The first mover has to break ground and if they are successful in applying innovative technologies, they reap the benefits. Meanwhile, several companies chase this innovator, building out similar systems, but these companies are unable to catch the leader, yet still spend a ton in R&D to develop the technology or spend too much acquiring it. Eventually, third-party software is built, commoditizing much of the associated costs. At this point, being the last mover is actually beneficial since the last mover can make the same technological shift without the associated costs that the chasers faced. In 2018, every company pretty much needs cloud instances, notifications, websites, etc. just like companies in the 1970s needed switchboard operators, fax machines, etc. I think its more a question of what companies quickly adapt fundamental new ways to think about an industry than whether the company employs a bunch of developers.
For those unfamiliar with Gerv: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham_(programmer)
Ah, America, the land prepared to allowed the continued slaughter of children and other innocents on a scale that would take a civil war anywhere else, all for a particular interpretation of the Second Amendment.

"There's nothing we can do" from a country with a problem that literally no one else has.

The slaughter goes well beyond the borders of the US too. Handing out opiates like candy without holding doctors responsible has created a zombie army of heroin addicts. The war on cannabis in the 1970s and beyond was so successful that cannabis became harder to get and more expensive than meth or heroin. Good call that.

And that market demand drives drug cartels in search of the billions of dollars US citizens spend on illegal drugs and that war is fueled by... guns from the USA.

Watch any of these reality border shows and you'll see the trafficking trade is in drugs going north and money and guns going south.

But sure, let's argue that the founders meant for every idiot with anger issues to have an AR-15 with a bump stock and that the slaughter of children is the price of "freedom".

Good call.
I don't understand the utility. Why am I running tests again if nothing has changed? Is this just to speed up multipackage testing use cases?
There are no significant changes to the language specification

This is my least favorite part of the release.
We as a society are fine with mentally unstable individuals having access to multi-shot, and semi-automatic handguns and assault weapons.

When a person takes one of these weapons and begins indiscriminately killing people it's not an "evil" act, it's the act of a mentally ill individual, plain and simple. When we label it as "evil" we absolve ourselves of our duty to act, because evil is a nameless, faceless, and uncontrollable entity, it's just something we must live with. When in reality what's causing these shooting is the crisis of mental illness that is facing this country, and that is something we can control, but we've chosen to ignore. Mental illness is one of those topics that can't be discussed, it's private, and it's embarrassing, but it's killing us.

Mentally unstable individuals have unlimited access to weapons and ammunition is fully supported by our laws, and by the majority of the population. It's only prudent for schools to hold drills for dealing with active shooters because it's an accepted and encouraged part of our culture.
Suite. Use the imaginary commodity that can't keep it's value to solve inflation because the currency is controlled by a tyrannical government. It's probably easier to overthrow their government than use a currency that will soon be outlawed.
Why is Everything a “Platform”?
I was wondering about Best Buy too. Does anyone know what's going on with them?

Last I heard (2017), they were trying hard to be more "on-demand" in response to Amazon. They were quite fully aware of people "demoing" items in store and buying them online, so they dropped prices and updated their e-commerce. If it worked is a separate question entirely...
Personally, I find the fragrances of personal care products far more offensive than the smell of a recently showered person without fragrances. It’s not my preference about the odor, it’s my reaction to the dozens of secret synthetic chemicals that they create the fragrance with. Essential oils are better, but still offensive and cause me various unpleasant symptoms and feelings.
Maybe before the new 520? There are now continuous bus lanes for most of the 545's route.
They don't.

GDPR kicks in once a EU resident files a complaint. GDPR also enforces a data report card - so if a EU resident (not just a citizen!) asks you about their data, you have to comply and give a complete answer. If you then reveal you store PII without their consent or fail to reveal everything and get caught, the fines will kick in.

Don't screw over EU residents and you're fine.

And if you think this laughable, remember that it was a single Austrian law student, Max Schrems, who went after Facebook and killed the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement.

EU pensioneers and students are what will kill you, endless time on their hands.

:)
In the future we won’t edit genomes–we’ll just print out new ones
If supporting the privacy rights of your citizens is considered "anti-business", then maybe businesses need a rethink
Horses are stronger and have much better endurance. From what I have read the reason for oxen being used as draft animals is that the horse collar had not yet been invented. Once it was, agricultural production skyrocketed, and the new wealth made possible the Middle Ages.
Or, you know, the shooter doesn't decide to spend the day at school before they start shooting. They just walk in the front door with guns blazing.

Clear backpacks are more for spotting drugs I think, and even then it's pretty useless. Dealers in schools aren't carrying around kilos of coke, they're carrying easily concealable dime bags and the like.
I gave a realistic solution for the united states, One that I have personally seen work.

You will not be able to do a gun grab without a civil war or extreme violence in the united states.
Perhaps it is taboo to say this but it seems like a catch-22 to me: that in an effort to prevent mass murder with firearms, many US citizens would turn to the same government which has prepared to commit the greatest indiscriminant mass murder in history with their nuclear weapons.
Are there any states where guns are allowed and prevalent in schools? Seems like a mass shooter would want to go to a place where he knows he is the only person with a gun.

I don't know. But Florida is notorious for having some of the loosest gun laws in the country and it didn't seem to affect the outcome here at all (or in the Orlando nightclub).

The Texas army base shooting seems like a double whammy: extremely loose gun laws, and highly armed target. The recent church shooting happened in Texas, too.

It is fascinating. It seems like the availability/nearyby availability of guns seems correlated with the occurrence of mass shootings, but has no correlation with prevention.

I wonder if the CDC has been able to conduct any research on this subject using data that state level law enforcement collects?
Are you complaining that OSM contributors rejected wrong or imprecise location data about your client’s stores?

If you are, I would like you to also consider this from the point of view of (maybe volunteer) contributors who prefer less data but correct data in OSM. Maybe draw a parallel with Wikipedia where a page that is not up to the standards might be deleted.

(Not a contributor to OSM myself, but I have helped the French Drupal community and cofounded the Museomix community. Also, I appreciate precise data in OSM)
Many of these (on state and interstate highways) are paid for by Sound Transit. It's more proper to say "Seattle area", but it's largely our tax dollars.
And it's not just things become unrepairable. Some vehicles, like my mom's previous vehicle, could be repaired by the owner. The problem was that any "serious" repair would require you to disassemble a surprisingly big chunk of the car. For example, every time my mom sent the car to the shop, the dashboard was completely removed. To fix her moonroof, yep, the dash had to be removed. As well as most of the roof.

On top of all that, the manual outright lied about features. It stated that oil could be checked by holding down a button on the instrument cluster, but after trying it then trying all the other buttons, none of them actually did anything outside their normal use (e.g. swapping between total and trip odo). There was no way for the owner to check the oil in this car. Additionally, it is heavily implied that the owner can't even change the oil themselves, though that could be done (with relative difficulty -- the "correct" way was with one of those expensive oil vacuum systems that no one actually owns).

The manual also described Bluetooth features that the car did not have, with no disclaimer like, "This feature may not be available in all models." It also had all the buttons for it and generally looked like it has Bluetooth, but none of the buttons actually did anything.

It's really no wonder she traded her BMW for a Camry.
Would anyone be able to explain to me what this means (from the release notes [1])?

> Go 1.10 is the last release that will run on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Go 1.11 will require OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later.

Would Go programs just not compile on those OS versions, or not run entirely?

[1] https://golang.org/doc/go1.10
I just use Dr. Bronner’s. It has a very short, natural ingredient list, a low amount of fragrance that is natural and easy to tolerate, and my hair gets plenty clean.
ProtonVPN client for Android including beta program
Staring at the wall and thinking about nothing. I really love it.
Investigate Overpass and in particular Overpass Turbo.

And really, any strict layering system in OSM would quickly just fall apart into debates of exactly what belonged in each layer. The range of detail captured by OpenStreetMap users in different areas is really far too nuanced to work crammed into coarse, crude "layer" classifications.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16389463
I think some charts would communicate the point better than pure text in this case.
Right, I just thought it was interesting enough to point out how there are many navigation shortcuts that are built into OS X. Useful even when you're using someone else's computer.
Debunking the Misconceptions of Net Promoter
The instant death zone of nukes will kill, I believe, significantly less than half the victims. Many more people will die of fairly "pedestrian" causes like building collapses or even fire. In other words, a nuclear explosion at medium distance is pretty similar to a chemical bomb hitting somewhere close. So hiding under your desk isn't actually that useless.
An email provider that is not blacklisted and allows relay. I currently use my ISP for that.

Taken from my smtpd.conf:

table secrets { mylogin = [email]@ziggo.nl:[pass] }
accept tagged DKIM for any relay via tls+auth://mylogin@smtp.ziggo.nl:587 auth <secrets>
I tried that for 2 months and it didn't change anything.

Yes hair is a little less greasy compared to when you shower every 1-2 days and then not for 4 days, but you still need to wash your hair with vinegar and baking powder (wtf) if you don't want it to look greasy.
Maybe that is true for a startup you just launched otherwise that doesn't scale (or make sense).
I had an a rash under my arms for the better part of a year that made all the hair go away, and removed all of the odor there. It was just like any other skin that was sort of clammy, like having your knee folded up.
Ask HN: What are your favorite DevOps tools?
I am interested in careers software industry after a few years in a computational genetics PhD program. DevOps seems like a good fit because of my experience with a "Dockerized" distributed computing platform but I don't know where to start.
Another Western European, School Shooting was not even a thing at all when I was at school. Columbine is the event that made that phenomenon real, but, as you said, as a typical American thing.

edit: and to illustrate, I had to look on wikipedia to be sure there had been any earlier than that.
Another: dynamic updates - in case of emergencies and disasters OSM data has often been updated by volunteers faster than other sources to reflect the on ground situation. For current examples See:

https://www.hotosm.org/projects/hot_activates_for_multiple_d...

For historic example see:

http://blogs.worldbank.org/latinamerica/4-years-looking-back...
Yeah that's why I don't go for those websites, there are hundreds of meanings for each TLA and you'll rarely know which one was meant (both because you don't feel like scrolling through that many, and because more than one usually fits). I made that mistake once or twice before.
A lot of the anti-transit comments here are simply saying "yeah but it's hard to get to X place by transit" (particularly Microsoft). This may be true now, but from my perspective only underscores the need for even better coverage — for example, ST3 reaching Redmond will help enormously for people getting between Seattle and Microsoft.

In general, focusing on transit at the expense of drivers is simply the smart thing to do — roads are a limited resource, and as the population grows we have to use them more efficiently. Doing so helps the most people for the least cost.

I'm sorry if you own a car and things get a little less convenient for you, but in the end we have to create the most value for the most people, especially those who don't have the luxury of owning a car.
What percentage of public schools allow teachers to carry firearms?

I know a couple schools in Texas went forward with proper training for a few teachers who wanted to carry in school. Frangible ammo, clearing tactics, proper concealment. I'm sure if there were any incidents at those schools, it would be all over the national news, but I haven't heard anything yet.

It seems like teachers with guns would be a better option than teachers as [temporary] shields for students. Also seems better than "turn the lights off and hide."

I've heard all the arguments about students getting ahold of a teacher's gun, accidental discharge, etc. If you're making those sorts of arguments, do you also carry a gun?

As others have mentioned, the gun culture in America is not going to change any time soon, so the politicians are not going to "take away the guns." We're also continuing to pump psychotropic drugs into our children by the millions. Add to that the environment of public school: raging hormones, toxic bullying, dehumanizing suppression of individuality. Not exactly a recipe for peace.

Perhaps it's time to try something different?
This sounds heartbreakingly true, especially the part about the CMO being sold a fantasy at a conference. I really like the way you've chained it together from the C-suite all the way down to the lowly cashier.
If you have enough irons in the fire, all of those different versions of "you" might qualify as a "large org," depending on your definitions of "large" and "org."
Based on research, it looks like around 30% of Americans own a gun [1]. So you may just live in an area with a lot of gun owners. Also, not everyone owns a gun for the same reason. Some for protection, some for hunting, some for antiques, etc etc. I've owned my house for a few years and last year I found a couple of shotguns tucked away next to a bookcase in a closet. I eventually got rid of them, but for a few months I would have technically had to raise my hand for that question.

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/the-demographics-o...
Yes, because it has happened before.

We even had other countries confirm our conclusions before and it was still wrong.

I don't mean to say, it is definitely wrong, but I can't agree that is is almost certainly right either due to these same parties have all lied before.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/spy-agencies...
I've been using a stainless steel "deoderant stick" [1] (it's just metal, no chemicals) for several years in the shower and its greatly reduced the amount of normal deodorant I use. The steel does a good job of eliminating odors. I only supplement with a dry-stick deodorant if I know I'm going to be getting hot and sweaty - most days at the office I skip it. Saves a lot of money too, since one of these will last you a whole lifetime most likely.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Odor-Works-Natural-Deodorant-Alternat...
In 8 years i live in usa i did not witness any gun-related violence. Nor nuclear-related.
There are also comparatively very few people who live in the Redmond area and who commute to work downtown Seattle. It probably shouldn't be a heavily serviced path, realistically speaking.
I was responding to a claim that it was entirely spurious. It did show signs of being a copy of a portion of the image. It turned out that that portion was a copy of another image, which they (or their system) didn't realise. But none of this is (as the top post in this thread claims) just invented. Had 2600 copied that portion of that image, court action against them may well have succeeded.

All of this could easily have happened without an automated system involved.
The type of data you want for routes is probably in KMZ format. I took a few minutes looking around openrailwaymap and their wiki but nothing immediately obvious stood out.

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/railroad-kmz

A brief google search came back with this; I haven't inspected the data or even tried to use it to see what it contains, but the page description indicates it may not be exact routes you are looking for-but it's a start. Implementing the data is a bit more work in order to display route maps, something like the previously mentioned MapBox does this very interactively.

My email address is in the profile, feel free to shoot over an email if you'd like some help with it. Depending on the complexity, I can probably devote a few cycles this weekend to show you a one-off map with railway routes, and show you how it's done.