skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty simple little thing, not even sure what it really brings new to the Go table except saying to the community "this is how we think it should be done, and how we now do it"
I have to be honest - the last thing I think of when I look at it is "safe." Maybe that's just because I'm an American and feel the need to put as much iron between me and everyone else as I can.

It's cute, and non-threatening looking, and probably the right design for what it is, but people are still going to look at it and think "this is going to get destroyed if a real car hits it."
It may not have been an intentionally initiated plan either. Say NK starts getting suspicious traffic, one possible response is to just pull the plug. I doubt that there are a lot of non-state users to worry about - and if an enemy of the state is blamed ... oh well.
> Note on Nietzche: In Thus Spake Zarathrusa, the "uberman" concept is (maybe) considered a positive that humanity should work towards in the absence of belief in God, and I think it can still be understood as such.

The problem is that, in the absence of God, there is no absolute morality that is not the result of an arbitrary choice. When the "uberman" arises, he/she creates a new morality, which is needed in the morally nihilistic vacuum that arises due to the absence of God. But because there is no objective basis for morality in the absence of God, that means that the new morality is the result of the "uberman's" arbitrary choice. Is that going to be the magic spark that leads us into a golden age? Only if we get very, very lucky in the "uberman's" arbitrary choice.
You're missing his point. "Interests" is a technical term in economics which means something different from the common usage. In short, it means things you consciously seek for their own value. Love, being moral, fulfilling duties; all of these are interests in the sense economists use the term.

NB: Economists largely study specifically monetary interest because it's something they can measure. A number of criticisms can be made about this, but there isn't a good alternative.
Data Analysis: Turing Awards Winners 1966-2013 by Zodiac Sign
I don't know much about it myself, so I'm not the right person to ask. Much of the little I do know came from reading http://designinganalogchips.com/, a book by Hans Camenzind, one of the all-time great sandbenders.
I didn't realize it was a competition between the sexes. Pick your side and game on, then.
I'm not savvy to this stuff so pardon the unsolicited conspiracy theory, does this DDoS have anything to do with the NK internet outage, or is it just coincidence?
I've seen at least one "Coin Beta" backer that actually got a Coin. It looks like a credit card - the button does not have a great clickly felling you would expect and the quality does not feel premium. but it seemed to work.
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Think of it as molding and allowing. The nation molds people into producing the same unsurprising results (I mean the frequency of couch-potatoes-who-get-offended-by-the-sight-of-alcohol-but-not-guns is unmatched in the rest of the world, despite the freedom) and lets them to make unrespectful drawings. In which case the nation is as much producing the drawings as the individuals.
I'm not trying to brush off concerns. They're fair, but I don't think it's particularly fatal. If you're using stringer, you've opted into it by adding //go:generate lines to your source, and so if you're messing with your code you just have to remember to run `go generate` (or stick a comment near the constant definition to remind yourself). In practice you won't be messing with the constants a huge amount, and if you're using something like stringer then it's easy to keep that in mind.
I think the point is "use existing technology" vs. "roll your own."
For what it's worth, I think it depends mostly on your cats and the quality of cat food you're feeding them. I've had the baked poop happen only twice in about eight months. However, without knowing upfront how your cat's poop and the machine will get along, it's totally reasonable to not want to find out.
One thing I would like the article to say, but it didn't: Which fraction of respondents were in each domain.
Investing Themes from Tech and Biology
In my experience, I think it has more to do with getting an engineer acquainted with the pipeline from writing code to getting it live on production. Once he/she is familiar with this, it takes a huge barrier out of the way for the person to be productive whenever they are ready to write some non trivial code in the codebase.
Roundup Ready Cats?
Maybe the DDOS is just a distraction.
Tokyo is expensive, but its the best city to raise kids in that I have ever seen.

Its high density and superb transportation mean you don't need a car -- go almost everywhere with your kids by walking, bicycle, or extremely frequent convenient train. Riding in the car sucks for kids (and adults, IMO).

There is access to all kinds of world-class health care, and all of it is free for your kids.

Tons of great educational institutions from the best universities down to preschool (and although the preschools can take some time to get into due to capacity, they are by and large terrific).

Great food of virtually every variety except Mexican. Most of Tokyo is extremely clean, safe and crime-free. Multiple always-open industry-redefining convenience stores, same-day Amazon prime deliveries, synchronous 1Gbps fiber optic Internet connections for $50 a month, a regular taxi system that is better than the Uber you always hear Americans raving about, one-hour cold beer delivery... in other words, the kind of fundamental lifestyle convenience level that is good when you are single, but becomes way more important once you have kids.

Source: I live in Tokyo with my wife, 2-year-old, and 2-month-old.
What we could be seeing could be a very small part of a much larger operation. We could have bricked or infected their entire infrastructure (quite literally), and then DDoS'd it off the internet to:

1. Give the world a visible sign of response.

2. Perhaps trick the DPRK into believing this was the USA et al.'s real move.
It's an attempt to transfer the world's collective disdain for the Bush Administration to Obama, by suggesting that Obama is the one guilty of crimes against humanity, while Bush and Cheney were guilty of, at best, minor pranks and hazing. And that Americans should remember this the next time we go to the polls, and vote the Red Team back in.
I love this idea, but it appears to be limited to Linux(?). Is there a similar tool (or a plugin I'm not seeing) that works on Mac and Windows?
Passing a law seems wildly unnecessary. The market is handling it just fine. People are pissed and buying competitors products instead. There is no shortage of competition.

I think you're crazy on mandating Xbox hardware to run arbitrary software. If you want to do that then just build a PC. Which is something you can do this instant. Demanding fewer options for consumers rather than more requires a spectacular argument which I don't think can be made here.
> Economists largely study specifically monetary interest because it's something they can measure.

A principle assumption of many of the models underlying economic theories (including, but not limited to, rational choice theory) is that there is a unidimensional quantity, "utility", that aggregates a persons preferences and which individual decisions increase or decrease by definable amounts. Because money is widely fungible, and utility cannot be measured directly, money (e.g., the money people are willing to pay to get something they want, or the money they demand to do or give up something) is often used as a proxy for utility by economists, with the idea that all decisions have an (potentially zero) utility impact, and that utility impact can be stated in monetary terms.
Isn't owning typically cheaper than renting?

Anyways, it makes no sense that everyone on my block owns their own lawnmower, and yet here we are.
You're not performing surgery and you're not arguing in court. You're making many mostly-trivial changes to a website, and that process should be trivial enough that it can be learned in a day.

Having people deploy on their first day is a check on the complexity of the process as much as it is intended to educate new employees.

(n.b. I don't work for Etsy anymore, but I still feel compelled to go to the mat on this thing.)
So, you're saying that the GP's point is moot, in that the USG would disregard any perceived constraints imposed by the CFAA in limiting an attack like this?

If so, we're effectively saying the same thing, with the exception that I do believe individuals are, and know themselves to be, technically liable for criminal conduct. As such, I believe that individuals and groups working within the USG (Executive or otherwise) do seek legal cover for their actions.
Does that really matter? Couldn't you just say "Federal Buildings are in the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia, everything else is in the jurisdiction of Maryland"?

If that doesn't work, it doesn't really matter that much if you sweep up a few commercial buildings into DC. Most of those federal buildings are mixed in with retail, hotels, convention centers, offices, and the like, which doesn't cause disenfranchisement if you include them within DC. The big problem is residential areas.
Just FYI if you load the original page (http://www.lefigaro.fr/assets/marignane/) you can see the video reenactment and a comparison of essentially before and after of the cockpit.
The Dangerous Conflation of Money and Self-Worth
but the jutification for surge pricing doesn't make sense with parking. The entire premise (that I have not seen data to verify, but the premise nonetheless) is that surge pricing increases the number of drivers on the road. Are we going to build more parking spaces for half a day?

"Price surging" would become a fancy word for price gouging.
"at least he didn't let it happen under his watch."

People know so little about how the executive branch, including the President, must do the jobs that we, in our comfortable ignorance that maintains our lifestyle, need them to do for National Security.

At least Cheney is honest when he says he would do it again. There are many things that happen when you and your kids are comfortably sleeping or having hot cocoa.

Trust me. There are worse people in the world than the ones prople are blaming today. And it is just a matter of time before a drone takes care of them. And you want it that way.

If someone is uncomfortable with that notion, then maybe they should run for office or serve in some public capacity. But he or she will then discover the harsh reality.

Just watch a few videos of the news in 2001 or 2002 to refresh your memory a little about what we were asking our leaders to take care of.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeGenerationIsaDesignSmell

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I think (1) is a tenuous assumption as well, especially in some formalizations. Cardinal utility (the idea that it makes sense to say "I want X lambda times as much as I want Y") is almost certainly bunk. Even assuming a total ordering seems unlikely.
Inside FastBoot: the road to server-side rendering
"It is possible to eat healthier at each chain. You can ... order from the “Skinnys” menu at Potbelly, which has sandwiches with fewer than 400 calories."

Or you could skip the chips, cookie or drink, or order the regular size (not the big size). Or have a different sandwich from the Italian, which has the highest calorie content of all the sandwiches on the menu. It's not rocket science.

Honestly I expect a little better than such a blatant false dichotomy from the article.
This seems somewhat analogous to the cell phone market here in the US.

Customers have a choice to either buy their phone upfront and then choose from any number of much cheaper "consumables" (prepaid mobile plans) or to get a huge discount on the device in exchange for vendor-lock in and a higher cost in the long term.

Consumers, here in the US at least, widely prefer the latter either out of preference for lower upfront cost or because they are unaware of long-term savings.
One of the aspects of this that I've been getting concerned about is the invasion of privacy that they will pose, especially if it's one or a handful of companies owning an operating the autonomous vehicles.

It's true that if you carry a cell phone you already carry a personal tracking device and offer this information up freely to your cellular provider, but I'm interested in reducing instead of increasing the amount of information I'm leaking in that way.

What kind of information will these cars track? They'll have to track who rides in them for accountability purposes, which I already find troubling. Your average cabby isn't going to be compiling a profile about you based on where you catch rides to.
Who has access to the information such as who rides in which cars? Is this available via an open API? I'm already peeved at companies like FitBit which hold my data ransom, is this going to be another of those situations?

There's a lot of privacy questions that I feel aren't being adequately addressed, but I still look forward to the possibilities this will bring. The privacy questions are answerable and any problems should be correctable.
Ask HN: What did Alan Perlis mean by “Programming is an unnatural act”?
Alan Perlis's Epigrams on Programming[1] are often repeated but less often analyzed.

Maybe he was saying that humans tend towards emotions and imprecise thoughts, and we must squash that tendency to become good programmers.

On the other hand, I think (although I don't have references to back it up) many people believe that humans' capacity for "algorithmic thought" is a key separation from the rest of the animal kingdom. Under that belief system, programming must be a natural act because it comes from of one of the very traits that makes us human.

We could therefore read Perlis's epigram as a rejection of that belief. But it seems odd to make a sweeping, controversial(?) statement about human nature in such a roundabout way. Is there another interpretation?

[1] http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
I've gotten into the habit of doing: right click, inspect element, and then "delete node" on these headers. I really should create a chrome extension to reduce the friction in doing this.
That's exactly right. It's not about pushing meaningful or complex code to production, it's about pushing a small change so that a new engineer can see the whole process from end-to-end.

We do have people push on their first day here at Gridium and I think it's really beneficial. The new engineer sees how we work, and the rest of the team sees that new name in the git logs, on chat, and everywhere else. It sends a strong message that there is a new member of the team who is going to be contributing from now on. It helps to establish cultural norms (everyone makes a big deal out of that first commit which is fun).

I really like the effect it has on our team. Even changing two characters in a string feels like a big deal and that's awesome.
Now put those two together, and you can understand what the idea here is: It doesn't do dependencies and it isn't meant for end users, only package authors.

The Go philosophy is that if you truly need a make file or other such system, use it. It's always been that way, actually; if you poke hard enough you can still find old Go tutorials which require you to use make (or some other build tool). But if you need it for just this simple little thing, you shouldn't have to pull in make, just as the developing Go philosophy is that it is silly to pull in entire packages for one little function. The purpose of "go generate" is not to replace make; it is to close out another 80% of the uses of make (my made-up number) by offering a simple, high bang-for-the-buck addition that can be depended on in the base language.

Some projects will still need make. This expands the set that don't. There's no interest in trying to make this grow to include all things that use make. It fits the pragmatic philosophy of Go.
DRM attempts (in a better or worse implementation) to enforce a consumables-subsidized business model. And it's not just cat poop machines or coffee makers - it's the same "trick" as network locked subsidized phones.

Just because that's the only business model you thought of, it doesn't make it "right", or even make it something that shouldn't be perfectly legal to circumvent. If you claim to "sell" a coffee maker or cat poop machine, a reasonable person doesn't expect to be tying themselves to your company's future revenue stream. If you angrily discover this _after_ someone's taken your money without having made that clear beforehand - you should have every moral and legal right to _not_ participate in the DRM enforced consumables purchases, and still your the goods you "bought".

Car dealers and real estate developers don't think "Hey, no-one would buy our product if it was $x thousand dollars, therefore it's an uneconomically viable market!". They arrange partnerships with finance companies to ensure you can drive away with only $x hundred dollars down, and a contract (usually with someone else) to pay $y per month until it (and the interest) is paid off.

If you can't sell your cat poop machine (or coffee maker) for a price that covers the cost (and your required margin) because the up front costs sound too high - perhaps getting into or partnering with a business who specializes in providing credit and offering it for "$Z up front, and $Z/10 monthly payments for a year!" - instead of pissing off customers and creating a market opportunity for 3rd party electronics to drive your hardware?

(Of course, I'm probably completely wrong about consumer buying habits here. Most people still talk about the "free phone" they get when they sign up for a 2 year $80/month cell phone plan, and think they're getting a great deal... If you're happy enough to mislead your customers and deal with the blowback like this blog post, I suspect you'll make more money that I do...)
the size of a Death Star

Problem solved: http://diyfather.com/wp-content/uploads/darth-vader-cat2.jpg
I've read that, but what specifically is this key?
Well, to address your main objection then that “the movement to buy/invest locally goes against all of economic theory.” That is not a correct statement. I would first point out that the quote from my first reply, which discusses the benefits of small businesses on local economies, is taken from the FDIC 2012 Community Banking Study. The study’s authors are trained, mainstream economists who based their conclusions on empirical evidence.
Now, even if you stay within the bounds of pure neoclassical theory (which it sounds like you ascribe to) it remains the case that maximum utility (net benefit) accrues to localities when there is a preference for the goods and services of small, local-based firms over larger firms. This is mainly due to the local multiplier effect, the tendency of smaller firms to plow back a greater percent of their revenue into the local economy in the form of secondary vendor purchases than larger firms. Smaller firms typically use a local account, a local attorney, a local design firm, etc. In contrast, larger firms are much more likely to utilize larger, more distant firms resulting in money being transferred outside of the community.
Lastly, in addition to the economic case, there are important cultural and political arguments for supporting small businesses and buying locally. One of the respondents touched upon an important cultural factor, avoiding cultural hegemony. As for a political argument, studies have also shown that communities with strong local businesses ownership tend to have greater civic engagement as measured by voter turnout and membership in civic organizations and community groups.
The comment about BCC being Hello World with a random number generator is amusing, but the fact that you were able to generate profit from a simple web app is really a testament to your marketing and business skill.
JP Morgan got hit pretty hard. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403459
Cutting off a major source of communication to a paranoid and armed nation seems like a really bad idea. Ask any horror film director - imagined enemies and actions are much worse than being able to see the monster.
I'm starting to think that Hawkins is all talk. Anybody can claim esoteric breakthroughs; but the proof is if you can implement something that'll, say, beat the others on ImageNet. Heck, pick a problem, any problem, and show that your approach is the best by _some_ criterion. Then we start making progress.
This looks interesting, as long as it is more efficient as a protocol and API. On another note, the entire email infrastructure need to be redesigned in my opinion.
Wasn't there a startup recently that pivoted from being a mail client into building a generalized API for interfacing with mail services like gmail/yahoo/outlook? I forgot the name but I'm super interested in efforts like this.

I have the feeling the next big social network disruption is going to be leveraging e-mail in a big way. E-mail is the established quasi-p2p (it's a network of centralized services) platform that everyone has an account and a very complete social network on. I'm not saying it would be easy to launch a Facebook competitor from e-mail, but I believe it's still got the potential to launch one last social network and someone just has to do it.

I'm hoping the key lies somewhere in building the right sort of mail client, that's got the reliability and extent of e-mail, adding on top some hook feature and layering in perhaps a dash of privacy, cryptography and independence. There's got to be something viral in there.
I've never used them personally but I'm sure they do improve the experience. I suppose there's a point at which that's still tricking the human nervous system in ways that a physical model doesn't have to, but haptic VR is also more realistic with today's technology than dynamically self-assembling nanobots.
> You're not blameless for voting for the less-bad of two bad options. You still voting for a bad option.

There's no contradiction. You made the best viable choice. You can't be made "bad" by doing that.

That benefit of voting for a non-viable third party is outweighed by the advantage of voting for a lesser evil that can viably win. If hypothetically you were the voter that could tip the election to Gore in 2000, your best choice is to vote for him, not Nader, even if voting for Nader has some benefit. Voting for Nader could be reasonable only if Gore had no realistic chance of winning your state.
Why is that a hard constraint?
Inbox (MIT and Dropbox):

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/mit-and-dropbox-alums-launc...

https://www.inboxapp.com/
Did something happen to the comments? I'm seeing 78 upvotes and no comments.
I haven't had a chance to review the specifics of the protocol yet, but as a Fastmail user, I can vouch for the speed of event propagation across multiple clients. Its lightning fast; noticeably faster than say, Gmail.
Why would you create a new email protocol without an encryption requirement? I understand trying to fix the existing protocol problems but one of the biggest is plaintext.