skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible to make that exact argument in reverse. Those goals are, if not quite universal human values, products of a rich and extremely broad-based cultural tradition.

In contrast, being data-driven means selecting goals that are easy to measure without any attempt to justify them as intrinsically more valuable than other, more difficult to measure goals.

The reality is that goal-selection is always at least somewhat arbitrary, and words like 'data' and 'science' can be and often are used as a cudgel anyone who might support different (arbitrary) goals.
As everyone has repeatedly pointed out, once you deal with the obvious issues you quickly end up with something that looks like the gazillions of other ORMs on the market; sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings.
It's true that some languages, by their very nature, make exploits like buffer overflows impossible, but if a browser was to be built with entirely new code for this reason, I'd be much happier to see it built on a VM such as a JVM or a CLR, so more widely-known language[s] could be used for development.
What exactly is wrong with Authy that makes it completely unacceptable for you to use?

Let's turn this device into a secure token
Enter your Authy cellphone
__+code__ __Authy cellphone number__

They're my private tokens. I don't want to set up an account with Authy Inc and I certainly don't want my tokens in your cloud. Sure maybe it'd be nice to sync across my devices, but not if it looks like it means doing so via somebody else's servers!
Which is ultimately what separates a good language from a bad language. A good language should have ONE best way to do things. With the prototypical inheritance, there are impossible numbers of way to declare/define and inherit a class in JavaScript. That is just a trap for bugs and defects. How could you effectively understand what the code does when you can't read it in one glance? Especially code that is not yours.

ES6's class system is infinitely better.
Nonsense. The question before asks if you are interested in having Google contact you. If not, leave it blank.
Information can most certainly be conveyed outside the use of precise formulas, lest you think that entire fields of human endeavor are bunk (merely "long discussions"): art; music; aspects of philosophy, anthropology and sociology; etc. Nonetheless, I would posit that a number of quantifiable metrics contribute to pron's definition of power (the ability to bend others to your will), such as net worth, yearly earnings, spending patterns, education levels, employment statistics, and social network models, especially when these are considered over time.

These "long discussions" that you show disdain for are attempting to introduce a semantic base on which "well defined" terms can be further developed and evaluated in light of new social experiences (e.g., the latest claims of * -ism in SV). pron has set out an extended metaphor, say, which is akin to describing how one would perform an oil drop experiment. That is the opposite of "resistance". Your assertion that "power" and "privilege" are semantically empty is completely without grounding. Just because the metaphoric equivalent of "applying the power formula" has been left as an exercise to the reader, does not mean that the terms of the equation are void of meaning.
I've thought in the past of how I might turn my grandmother's Underwood No. 5 into a terminal. Now I can just get this! As for all of the hipster references, I'm don't know much about that subculture but I can say that an Underwood No. 5 computer terminal is Steampunk heaven. Just the thing for my Analytical Engine!
Why some conference organizers are failing miserably on the DRY front
Show HN: Visualize the colors of an image as a 3D point cloud
I think another reason is that for the competition-kind code there is very little difference between languages, so the drawbacks of C++ just don't matter. For example, the lack of garbage collection is not a problem, as the program works in the "allocate-compute-free" workflow. And with C++ you have far more room before you would have to think about performance than with more high-level languages. That is, maybe counterintuitively for someone, programming on C++ may be easier when performance matters.
I remember having a daisy-wheel printer at the office. It gave nice, crisp, typewritten and kerned output. Much better than the matrix printers. (This was before laser printers became commonplace).
How to round the corners of a WKInterfaceImage (and why)
The two are not mutually exclusive; each carries a significant tax on the animal's health and immune system.

Humans are fairly unique in our dietary flexibility; most other animals are evolutionarily adapted to a narrow range of foods. Corn provides caloric energy, but little more; a cow needs to eat grass, and move around, in order to be healthy.
I think this is as good an illustration as any about the benefits of a decentralised ecosystem.
Have a look at the ThinkPad T and W ranges (440 and 450). The Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation is interesting but only goes up to 16GB.

Does it have to be a laptop? A desktop will give you more power, more expandability, a better keyboard and screen, and much better ergonomics for a lower price.
I think Google Code Jam is a recruiting tool for Google...
Using NLP to ensure ethical government activity [pdf]
So you say girls aren't more scared of rats than boys? They don't scream louder and longer when looking at a little mouse in the corner? They are all macho in your delusional worldview, right?
Just to be clear:

> DNSSEC/DANE replaces domain validated certificates.

DNSSEC/DANE can be used to replace CA-issued certs, but it can also be used to add an extra layer of validation to existing CA-issued certs. To me this is actually the strongest use-case for DANE, as it provides a means to use DNSSEC to ensure that you are using the correct TLS certificate.

More info is here:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dane/

The four modes are:

----

0 – CA specification – The TLSA record specifies the Certificate Authority (CA) who will provide TLS certificates for the domain. Essentially, you are able to say that your domain will ONLY use TLS certificates from a specific CA. If the browser or other application using DANE validation sees a TLS cert from another CA the app should reject that TLS cert as bogus.

1 – Specific TLS certificate – The TLSA record specifies the exact TLS certificate that should be used for the domain. Note that this TLS certificate must be one that is issued by a valid CA.

2 – Trust anchor assertion – The TLSA record specifies the “trust anchor” to be used for validating the TLS certificates for the domain. For example, if a company operated its own CA that was not in the list of CAs typically installed in client applications this usage of DANE could supply the certificate (or fingerprint) for their CA.

3 – Domain-issued certificate – The TLS record specifies the exact TLS certificate that should be used for the domain, BUT, in contrast to usage #1, the TLS certificate does not need to be signed by a valid CA. This allows for the use of self-signed certificates.

----

Modes 0 and 1 work with current CA-issued certs and assume that normal PKIX X.509 validation is occuring.
... Or the guy was just like so many average humans and assumed that the machine was doing something more than randomly picking cards to hold. If the machine said it was auto-picking the worst cards, we'd all be mad. If the machine said it was randomly picking the cards, we'd all be surprised: why even do that? Who does it help? Therefore, from an implicatures pov, the only reason for the machine to pick cards (or "suggest" cards) is to recommend a good hand. Since the computer can often pick the best hand, why would we not assume that it's doing so, to give us mere humans "a fighting chance", so to speak? Why should we assume that it's not picking the computably best cards to hold, other than our belief that the machine "cheats"? And that's what the article examines.

I don't think it's ignorance on our gambler's part; I think it's the standard "Black Hat UI" issue mentioned on HN so often: We assume that sw does somethign to maximize utility for the user, based on the design or experience, when it's instead doing something to maximize profit for some other entity.

Yes, it's a gambling machine; we all understand that it's designed to take our money. But offering a feature as part of the experience that appears to help when it doesn't (or to a lesser degree than would be expected via presentation), would be deemed misleading by any reasonable person, small print and disclaimers aside.
See articles in Mac Rumors (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/11/app-store-itunes-connect...) and The Next Web (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/03/11/the-apple-app-store-i...).
I still use my Alphasmart Dana. I'd use the Neo, but they never released a model with a localized keyboard for my country. They used to do it with the previous models, so I have a model 2000 and a 3000 with portuguese keyboards. I still use the 3000 sometimes, but the keyboard on the Dana/Neo is just awesome to type on.
Anyway, for a writer, the Neo is great. You take it on a trip and never have to worry about charging it. The keyboard is, like I said, one of the best you'll find, very durable (made for schoolchildren).
Plus, not as ugly or as expensive as the Hemingwrite (man, that thing is ugly!)
And command substitution has nothing to do with pipes, named or unnamed.
Apple TV is definitely affected as is iTunes Connect (at least for me.)
In a way with how expansive the internet is you can get the same results by sourcing that yourself. For example, regarding your first 2 paragraphs, you get those kind of results by posting 'Show HN: ' threads to get assessment and constructive criticism on your product or business. Additionally you are getting a varied response from people all over the world and at all different experience levels and perspectives.

However where online environments are still lacking but getting better is networking. Although places like this are a little better than trying to go on reddit for networking and business advice for example. More transparency behind who is behind the words will usually net better results in that regard.
I think paper.Li's growth was driven by "one weird trick", those messages saying how you had been featured. Like all spam my tactics you run into declining effectiveness, it is like why Zynga is declining.
That sounds a lot like a False Precision game.
On Reverse Engineering
You're just holding it wrong.
Predicting how well new products will do
"Better" should always have you asking "for whom?"
Apple Plans Force of Touch Technology for New iPhones
The best way to explain it is by analogy.

Diesel engines originally were developed to burn peanut oil. So lets run the peanut farm on locally grown peanut oil.

Lets say the tractors and trucks take 100 barrels of peanut oil per year to run. Oh fertilizers and poisons and all that petroleum derived stuff take oil too, but whatever, we'll imagine the total energy cost of running a farm is 100 barrel equivalent of peanut oil. Sure some of the 100 barrels equivalent is the UPS dude pumping diesel into his brown truck to drive out and drop off your herbicide or seed or whatever. And the power plant is shoveling some energy in the form of coal to make the electricity to run the irrigation pumps. Still, ignore the details and stick with me on the big pix, "doing farmin for a year" takes 100 barrels of energy.

If your farm averages 101 or more barrels of peanut oil production, you win, and get to sell at least 1 barrel a year (or more) for profit, or more likely debt service and taxes, whatever. At least next year on average you'll have a stockpile of 100 barrels needed to run the farm next year. You have a magic perpetual motion machine that turns sunlight into a trickle of peanut oil as long as the soil doesn't wash away and the sun keeps on shining. Cool.

If your farm averages 99 or fewer barrels of peanut oil production per year, then aside from massive government intervention you'll never get to sell any peanut oil on the open market, and even worse, you'll have to buy at least 1 barrel per year of crude oil to continue to operate your farm. This farm eats oil well pumped crude oil and outputs, well, nothing at all, at least without massive central government control and regulation and subsidy, like having the .gov take my money at gunpoint to give you 50 barrels of crude oil in exchange for votes so you can sell 40 barrels of peanut oil to greenwash the market.

Guess which scenario describes actual ethanol operations? We would net conserve crude petroleum if we shut down ethanol production today. This would eliminate uncountable government provided socialized jobs, so you can guess the likelihood of that ever happening.
Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture
What does "it works" mean? Most of the criticisms quoted are that inflation targeting is providing insufficient stimulus. But is this a problem of inflation targeting per se or inflation targets that are too low (i.e., 2% or lower). Compare the experience of Australia, which has IIRC an inflation target of 3% and a really astonishing history of economic growth.
Is this a school or commercial address?

Yes / No

Google master troll
CIA Campaign to Compromise Apple's Developer Tools
Itunes Connect is down, but Apple status indicates Green bars
Upgrade Your DLL to Reflective DLL
Be careful... the 5th gen Intel CPUs can NOT run with standard 16GB modules. There is a technical issue which causes instabilities with 16GB modules, except if the modules are specially made to cover this issue. The Intelligent Memory modules do that.
5 important things to learn from data analytics of 100M+ emails
I think you are missing the big picture: it is not about the net but about free flow of ideas (free speech).

With these new rules governments can now decide which services are qualified as "specialized", with this they can for example censor the opposition by slowing them down to a crawl, or take bribes to declare some corporation's service "specialized" gaining an edge over the competition.
HypeQ
Getting started with big data doesn't have to be expensive
What would be the alternative, should we just get rid of the laws then? I think that would be an order of magnitude worse than having to wait.

We don't have net neutrality laws in Europe right now to get rid of. The alternative is doing nothing, which in my experience is working pretty well. Are you European? Are ISPs in your area trying to slow down some traffic? If not, what problem exactly are you trying to solve?

And even if you are having problems, why do they must be solved at the EU level?

Also, in my mind special would mean that the service is of great public importance, it doesn't seem likely to me for such things just turn up every other day.

Services don't appear and are suddenly recognized as of great importance. They start small and unimportant until they gain enough momentum to be recognized by the public at large. And they'll never will if you enshrine into law the privilege of existing ones.
Using Method Chaining with the Revealing Module Pattern in JavaScript
SMS and voice call codes should still work.
This is not what HR does. HR is there to present compliance while allowing the company to do what it wants anyway. Randy would still have got the seat, but competent HR would most likely have ensured an alternative reason be presented.
Solar Is Growing Faster Than Non-Renewable Energy in the US
WP-CLI: Create Projects and Run Wordpress Without MAMP from the Command Line
It sounds like you're describing a typewriter. Where does the difference lie?
Link to the actual report:

https://estoniaevoting.org/

Peer reviewed paper:

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/ivoting-ccs14.pdf
You realise that you encrypt the tokens you send and you can't restore them without that password, right? And that backups are opt-in only and you can leave that option disabled?

Do you not trust them to actually encrypt the data before backup? Or is there another issue?
Ask HN: Where are the tech-oriented psychologists/therapists on HN?
I'm trying to find a therapist with experience troubleshooting poor hacker performance and having difficulty. I realized HN has its resident lawyers, but not psychologists. Surely there must be some people whose interests and practice intersect the tech industry and psychology/therapy. Where are they?
so you say we can discriminate against children as long as they aren't girls?!
Option types and Ruby
Crashlytics is now bundled with Fabric suit from Twitter.
Its working well for us. I missed the custom logging feature in the Analytics, but that would evolve with time I guess.
It's a sales pitch that appeals to a market you're not a part of. Get over it.
Very nice project ! Is it open source ?
Elevator pitch: the investors’ version
Correct, 95% of the average knowledge worker will be fine with 8GB, but only 5% of the skilled knowledge workers who run specialized software, development stacks, VMs, etc.

In a software company I wouldn't stick anyone with an 8GB mac. But then, that is a specialist application technically.
I guess it always goes like this.
-> "Really exciting"
Because it is actually something new and made by enthusiasts that dont know how to market and sell it (-> Product Flops).
-> "It doesn't do anything new"
You say that because you have actually seen it before, but a big player market this stolen idea to the general public and finally profits from it.
Yep, another example of C features.

I am really looking forward that the likes of D, Go, Rust, .NET Native, Ada, ParaSail, Chapel, Java (past v10) and many others help reduce even more the need for C to the same level as Assembly use nowadays.
Wow. I guess that's what I get for not being totally enamoured of Unix.
> You are 100% wrong about this. DNA that is not needed does not "wither" away. If it's benign, it'll most likely stick around.

Why would it stick around if it is not needed? Why wouldn't it be free to morph if it did not matter? Why wouldn't it change if it did not affect the being? Evidence exists that DNA changes due to stresses in environments, so hereditary (e.g. the parent has it, so the child must) is not sufficient to explain why garbage DNA is still transferring over generations later.

> This sentence doesn't make any sense. How do you "overload" DNA? What does "collapsing" look like?
> What is "complexity"?

If a creation of an object relies solely on DNA, then there must be some sort of ignore protocol built into the creation factory for the DNA part that is meaningless. Overloaded DNA has excessive meaningless data. An enormous amount of complexity would be required within the creation factory to handle this overload.

> Chaos theory ...
The idea that random changes occur and the only changes that survive are the ones that can still adapt to their environment despite or in spite of the change.

> Please define "harmonious?

Harmonious would mean the very stable and smooth transitions of creatures to change from one to another without there being some sort of "noise" e.g. rapid fluctuations in genes. If creatures can transition uniformly to another creature, why not several different creatures across several different environments (sort of like man-made innovations in isolated environments). Failures and successes would both appear on graphs.

> how to measure harmonious? how to measure complexity?

Measuring harmonious is akin to measuring cold energy. You cannot measure something that does not exist, but instead you measure it by the lack of its opposite. (you measure cold by the lack of heat). Complexity is only apparent when things break. If you don't see things breaking, you cannot witness complexity.

> you started with benign force and worked your way backwards, ignoring any inconvenient evidence.

Actually, its the other way around. A researcher must constantly battle the concept of unknown/benign/hidden/dark energy/force/matter to figure out why things work the way they do. A researcher is always digging, always denying, the concept of an unknown force, in finality to achieve the phrase "That's how!" I call it peace at a certain point. But for a person with an agenda, the inconvenient fact may be that there is an unknown force. Sometimes, these things are cloaked as laws of physics, that some events other than this event just cannot happen. Other times, they are called theories, until they are met with an enigma, where then it is broken.
1. I linked to hundreds of people saying exactly that thing, plus it's all over Twitter, the op-ed-osphere, in-person conversations, etc.

2. I argued very clearly: Apple Watch is not a watch. It occupies a similar spot on the wrist and it has a time keeping app. That's where the similarities actually end, digital crown or no.

3. My point was never that "People buy Ferraris because they've been in business forever." That's irrelevant. My point is: There are plenty of very wealthy people who don't fret about $10k, or that it might be a "waste," because they're wealthy enough it doesn't matter. F Scott Fitzgerald and all that.

4. I think it's funny that you don't believe in the idea of "track records." Which invalidates skill, experience, customer loyalty, brand recognition, platform lock-in… all the things that drive sales. Apple products are not randomly generated in a vacuum.

5. Nope, it's not about conspicuous consumption. Never claimed it was. It only came up in my quoting that article about the "basic bitch" Birkin. Very wealthy people who are inclined to drop $10k on a whim could buy something much rarer and more impressive than a mass-produced electronic device. Which isn't to say there aren't stratified status layers inside the Watch editions/brands.

6. I never claimed "People will buy Apple Watch as a causal outcome of plane tickets." You missed the entire point of the article.

7. You probably should brush up on the definition of "straw man argument," since you made several. I didn't make any; straw man requires you to set up a false premise in order to knock it down. I made an argument by analogy.

8. You didn't cite any sources for your claims, or even quote the parts of my essay you were refuting, but you used a lot of Classic Style so it sounds impressive.
Ratings can't really be trusted there.

I don't know, I've been running Yosemite just fine since beta. Some issues here and there that have been slowly improving.

It's still UNIX, it still has a great UI. I don't think we always remember how good we have it.
Newly launched the Sync Project explores music as medicine
> The future holds more use cases. Remote surgery, autonomous vehicles etc etc.

This is the main argument Marc Cuban uses to justify his opposition to net neutrality and I think it's nonsense: any critical or life-threatening systems should run on dedicated lines just like they do now.
Find emails in a specific market?
We build an automated (BigData/IA) internal tool for finding relevant companies, people and emails from a specific targeted market.

Do you think it's relevant to pivot to market this tool ?

Did you pay for this kind of solution ?

Nico (nico@inspishop.com)
Not That Kind of Python: How an Indie Rock Star Became a Coder
So like a normal Tuesday night for me and my Apple TV.
Homeopathy not effective for treating any condition, Australian report finds
What if I told you that you can't talk about rap music because it offends me?

Do you mean ever, or do you just mean to you (or in a group conversation in which you are taking part)? Because the latter would be absolutely fine. You don't want to talk about that, no worries. I won't bring it up. What's the problem with that?
Us Californians just really, really like Yosemite.
Safe TypeScript: Safe and Efficient Gradual Typing for TypeScript
It's not just about costs - it's about ease of provision, access (salespeople are out and about a lot so this is a huge deal), customizability, ease of integration etc.

Salesforce were pretty courageous back in '99 basing their entire strategy around SaaS.