skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For those worried by the lack of ports, check around a university or coffee shop and nobody is using multiple ports at once.

Obviously yes, people out and about use fewer peripherals. But many people use their laptop as their primary machine, and when they're at home they want some way to back up that laptop; backup their phone; connect their various other gadgets.

San Francisco might have great Internet (which helps with most of this stuff) but many people have really Internet connections and they need the cable or they risk multiple failed transfers of data and the corruption that sometimes results.
Please, stop with the paranoia. The majority of US middle-aged and young adults have experience with illicit drugs. Illicit drug use is extremely common in the US.
Can orange glasses make you sleep better?
Flatland is great.

Try Ian M Banks if you haven't already for some cerebral sci-fi, also Vernor Vinge.
Arstechnica.com review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9348815
I get that, but surely you have to provide a reasonable amount of time for patches to be installed. Perhaps a 2-part blog entry, where he gives general details (to instill urgency) and then release exploit code a month later?
Wells Fargo ATMs will wish you a happy birthday and congratulate you on X years with Wells Fargo. It's a little creepy, but if you like fun...
> Methadone is really harmful.

> So heroin is back in?

Evidently, both are bad and it doesn't seem to be immediately clear whether real sugar or artificial is more harmful. But we do know for a fact that excess carbohydrate intake causes numerous serious health problems (heart problems, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, etc).
It's kind of unclear, but it looks from the screenshots as if AWS is doing feature selection behind the scenes. But it seems that unless AWS does feature selection or model selection really efficiently behind the scenes, the cost of that extra work time is placed on the user.
> If you cannot punish the sweatshop because they are not under your jurisdiction, then the only thing you can do to discourage profit from flowing to the sweatshop is to punish those who benefit from it's product.

We are talking about domestic law. Once again, you go from "apples" to "oranges".

The fact you can't stay in the context of domestic law causes me to say f it, honestly.
I'm kind of surprised there's not a means (to my knowledge, at least) to crash/throw an exception upon sending a message to nil for people who want to better ensure their code doesn't have lurking issues like this. I suppose it'd have to be smart enough to filter out system frameworks to be useful, but I'd imagine that to be do-able.
Do you mean install packages to your user's homedir or to use the package manager on a system where you do not have root access?
Ask HN: Is Cost per Call (CPC) a Reasonable Way of Pricing for a REST SASS?
I'm developing a web service and have the idea of implementing charging for the service using a Cost Per Call (CPC) method, having the customer keep a monetary balance with the service to continue using it. Does this seem like a reasonable way of charging customers, or would they be more happy with a tiered (based on usage) monthly subscription model? Pluses and minuses of either pricing model would be greatly appreciated.
cool! you should lump cambridge MA in with boston
> Maybe a few companies/startups who have cash in their pocket will use it/try it out

Honestly, I'd see it the other way around. Small companies without a DS team might be drawn to this. I don't see how any company with a lick of sense would lock down their prediction model into AWS. They very clearly won't let you export your model once the training is done.
> Do we even need monolithic financial entities in this day and age?

Four letters: F.D.I.C.
Puerto Rico is different in that it is a U.S. territory so a lot of concerns in the financial services world where I work are not relevant. My clients would never hire someone from a non U.S. state/territory to work on their critical IT systems.

The Timezone thing is also a really big deal too. PR is the same most of the year and just one hour off Nov-Mar. I do not ever see myself waking up at 5:00am for meetings.
return isEmployeeWatchingNetflixAtWorkAllDay();
I think it took me four tries before I finally read it all the way through. Eventually the text on formal systems becomes quite heavy and that's where I stopped in my previous tries... once I got past that hump it was downhill all the way. Highly worth the effort; one of the best books I've ever read.
An HP Lovecraft anthology. I just read The Temple, and wondered if some people take it as evidence of Lovecraft's outrageous political views.
SHOULD YOU RAISE VENTURE CAPITAL?
Oh your really off base.. I am MUCH MORE biased against Apple. You know those Linux users who hate on Microsoft? I am the Linux user who HATES Apple since I was first lied to by Apple in 1983 (Color Mac coming in the next year, wasn't till March 1987) (Color Mac will destroy Amiga 1000 in 1985)

I have never seen Apple as being honest or making products for me as a nerd. So I live mostly in Linux nowadays.
The only way to keep their population in check is to kill them, no? How would you humanely kill them without shooting them? Couldn't introducing another predator to hunt them cause even more unforeseen ecological problems?
Yeah I made that mistake with the N56U, because you can't put OpenWrt on it. I won't make it again, but, really, anything is better than the junk that ISPs hand out.
> To be fair, OS X updates are free and usually run well even on 5+ years old hardware. OS X has kinda gone the way of Chrome, with most users on the newest version.
I see you've defended the salary range elsewhere in this conversation, but I second the feeling that it's low. My rule of thumb is that if an ad/recruiter says "competitive salary" it probably isn't, and it worked out here also.

I'll take your word for it that in Dublin it's a fair salary---but if you have a small hiring pool and do nothing to stand out, you shouldn't complain that SO Careers gives you few leads.

Also I wonder about your expectations. You call this a good salary "for a developer at the beginning of his career." But you are looking for C#, Angular, Python, R, Matlab, Mongo, and Hadoop. Yikes! Maybe you should cut it back to just C#, put "Junior Developer" in the title, and say you'll provide training time+budget for the other techs. Or leave the requirements and offer a range that is good for someone with 5-10 years experience.

Sorry to be so critical. Best of luck to you. . . .
Hackers Wanted: An Examination of the Cybersecurity Labor Market (2014) [pdf]
Cringeworthy post.

A post like this feels like a good way to seal your fate as a victim of the crunch.

It's true that investors make mistakes. Don't feel sorry for yourself or complain about it, figure it out. It doesn't get any easier (or so they tell me)
If your idea of good financial planning is just putting all your money into $SPY and $QQQ and keeping it there until you need to start withdrawing from it, I fear you're on a dangerous path. Acting as if the only decision is the right and pure choice of total index-fund investment and it all just works out after that is, I believe, wrong.

Finance, how the markets work, things of this nature.. we do a poor job of educating people about it. The pension fund outsourced the job of understanding their investments, and I fear people do the same.

Of course, this is controversial because... you know... knowledge is power, except finance, you can't know jack about finance... or something?
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang. The stories explore wildly different topics, but every one of them is amazing.

Someone on HN had recommended The Box by Marc Levinson. It's a history of the shipping container. That sounds dreadfully prosaic, but the book is well written and the shipping container's influence on our modern global economy cannot be overstated.

Not reading per se, but Dan Carlin's WWI podcasts on the Hardcore History blog are well worth listening to. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Thumbs down: iOS update breaks Touch ID for some
Lead developer Barton Gorge's interesting commentary:

http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-devel...
Iteration cycle speed.
"Watch out for script-kiddies."
IoT seems overblown, but what happens when IoT is applied to big industry?
It's normal in biology to talk that way. It's only incorrect if you understand it literally.

I don't think scientists make that mistake, although some philosophers have argued that they (rarely) do. It is very likely that laypeople reading such articles might, though.
Ask HN: Which podcasts are you listening to these days?
I recently found Alex Blumberg's podcast called "Startup Podcast" and loved it. I'm curious to know which podcasts are being listened to by the members of the HN community.

Other podcasts I regularly listen to
- Startups for the rest of us
- Bootstrapped.fm
- SEO 101
- The Naked Scientists

Edit Note: Forgot to put an Ask HN in the title
Apple Watch Screen Scratch Test by iPhonefixed
>If anything, it weakens the traditional unix security model because now the running user owns the binaries, running processes can modify them.

This is a great issue to point out. This is why package managers like Nix and Guix (and maybe others I do not know about) use an immutable store for package builds. Unprivileged users may still install and use the software in the store, but the Unix security model prevents them or a malicious process running under their user account from corrupting what has been built.
I bet the entirety of the GNU projects (Free reimplementations of closed-source products) must blow your mind.
1984 by George Orwell

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck
"Server 2000,2003,2007,2013 MCSE" or such, would show continuous strength.
I guess I'm pretty damn fluent in vim. But I use emacs-style shortcuts in shell and don't imagine why I would ever switch.
It's quite terrible, I mean, amazing for Lynda :)

Now that we have free Stanford, MIT, etc courses online, for free, what has Lynda got to offer? It's a sinking ship. The 'one-stop for all your learning needs' is simply a bad model - all programmers know this. You have to go and seek out different resources that work for you and now we CAN, more than ever. The only reason to choose Lynda is out of ignorance or laziness. Both of which are indicators of somebody you don't want to hire!

LinkedIn's head must be operating in oldschool mode of certificates actually meaning something. They don't. Unless they're HARD to get, really hard. And if they are, then you are better off going to a real college/university where you can get realtime feedback and support.

What few skills can a working programmer get from Lynda? Honestly...
C and C++ need to be usable in systems without memory protection, so they don't guarantee any faults for operations like method calls. (There are some standard-guaranteed exceptions, for example std::bad_alloc, but those are only on relatively expensive operations.)
Compilers then take advantage of these undefined behaviors to optimize even on systems that do have memory protection.
Alrighty.... I can't think of a better way to undermine your credibility, so I think we're done here.
Nevada prostitution is by no means all sunshine and rainbows.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/07/usa.gender

http://prostitutionresearch.com/2007/03/17/prostitution-and-...
WaMu. Maybe they weren't perfect, but one of the things we lost when Chase ate WaMu was their "quirkyness." They always seemed happy and friendly in my branch. Now? Zombies.
So assume that Ender's response was proportional considering the bullying he underwent. His fear of being attacked at first sounds like a child's paranoia, but when he kills his tormentors the reader sees that this scared little kid is quite lethal.

We're left to wonder why he's lethal and soon we realize that he's innately good at executing force in a strategic way. We question his judgment a bit -- should he have avoided killing the bullies at all cost? But we realize that his judgment is no worse than that of any other kid, only his execution (no pun intended) is far, far better. He would have been devastated if he'd known the bullies died.

I think this aspect of Ender was conceived as a great short story angle, but as the plot develops it gets a bit two dimensional. Card counters this by framing Ender as the embodiment of human ability -- justice, self-awareness, compassion.

Further into the book we find that Ender's ability is a function of his empathy -- much like someone who empathizes with us may find just the right words to hurt us, Ender empathizes with his enemy allowing him to vanquish it. Though because of his kind, compassionate disposition, he must be deceived into fighting an actual war.

I will admit that revelations about Card's homophobia are a bit concerning, but I try hard to separate the creator from the product of creation in all areas...
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
1984 by George Orwell
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck
>Do we even need monolithic financial entities in this day and age? Most transactions would be better handled by smaller, specialized and modern service companies. Banks are to financial startups what taxi driver unions are to Uber.

You forgot one of the most critical functions of banks like this-- large scale institutional lending.

A business needs to borrow $2 billion dollars -- are you going to crowd fund that?

A state government wants to borrow $800 million in bonds for a new arena, can you GoFund that?

A major government wants to store $30 billion of their own currency in a financial product that will decrease in value against the dollar more slowly than their currency. Is there an app that helps governments store 30 billion in assets (or are we naive enough to suggest that bitcoin is a smart investment?)

A major pension plan serving 100,000 retirees needs their 100 billion dollars in assets to be managed responsibly, can a 24 year old Stanford grad manage that?

I think calling Banks the "taxi union against Uber" is painfully naive in the sense that it only looks at small transactions and consumer transaction while ignoring the very large institutional business-to-business and business-to-governments side of banking.

Maybe small business will get their lending needs with new technology but I just don't see a Fortune 50 company taking a multi-billion dollar loan through crowdsourcing.
Ah, I hoped to see these projects built: http://io9.com/these-beautiful-giant-sculptures-support-powe...
No no, just move all the farms to California!
Given that "sweetness" is provided by sugar?

Personally I've completely eliminated added salt and everything is now tasty as it was when I added salt - my taste has recovered from the over-stimulation. I can't imagine that added salt (or sweetener) is any different.
For me, the desire to not cause pain is offset by the needs of the ecosystem and humanity. We may need to manage certain animal populations through killing members of that population, and allowing hunting may be the most humane way to accomplish that, at least with our current understanding and capabilities. If someone enjoys hunting, and it serves a cause, such as population control, which we don't have a better method for enacting? I'm fine with that. It's suffering, but it's justified. If that needs subsides, but people still want to hunt because they enjoy it, or it's something they were raised doing and they want to continue? I'm not very sympathetic in that case.
And on a more relevant note, prostitution in Nevada (which, last I checked, is quite legal).
I first read it when quite young, so probably it provided an emotional education, but also a lesson that literature can be more than just a clever plot - it's full of wonderful observations of human character, even characters that Tolstoy was not particularly sympathetic to (e.g. Stiva, who chooses his opinions as he chooses his hat, from the selection available, or Anna, the tragic focal point of the novel) - there are no villains and no heroes, only bumbling humans dealing with problems entirely of their own creation.

I also liked Madame Bovary from the same period, another riff on doomed attempts to escape unhappy circumstances - perhaps all happy novels are alike, whereas every unhappy novel is unhappy in its own interesting way?
Some interesting books by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.:
Breakfast of Champions
Bluebeard
Deadeye Dick
Moroccan baked eggs
Looks like it's automatic.
Small companies without a DS team will likely fall into the ML pitfalls which make the resulting analysis invalid.
XSS in WP-Super-Cache, millions of sites affected
A book I read recently that I think others on HN would appreciate is Robert Scheer's latest book, "They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy". Here's a link to the book on AMZN: http://www.amazon.com/They-Know-Everything-About-Data-Collec...

Highly recommended to anyone that cares about their privacy online!
After Effects to HTML Canvas
Building product with visual protein
I'm reading 2nd book of The Kingkiller Chronicles (Wise Man's Fear) and loving it!

Anyone slightly interested in fantasy should definitely read the series. The story has been great so far and storytelling is exceptional.
The Loaded New DJI Phantom 3 Drone Can Shoot in 4K
Writing Code OS X? MacDevWeekly – Issue #2
While I'd say we have too few banks...

> Do we even need monolithic financial entities in this day and age? Most transactions would be better handled by smaller, specialized and modern service companies.

Try dealing with all the special snowflake APIs of twenty or a hundred suppliers of physical goods which are essentially a list of transactions. Then on the other end you mesh with Amex, a merchant gateway for Visa/Mastercard, Paypal, Amazon, etc.

Even "standards" tend to get "adjusted". EDI becomes Vendor X's bastardization of EDI that only resembles EDI at a glance from a non-technical person.

The more "special snowflake" providers you have, the more complex the system becomes and complexity breeds all sorts of inefficiencies. I'd much rather have 50 'monolithic' banks that all abstract things and talk to each other so I only have to deal with "my" bank than 10,000 "financial entities".

> what taxi driver unions are to Uber

I don't want Uber "oh, we'll break regulations and standards because we can get away with it and the contractor is the one that is legally liable" anywhere near any kind of banking system. That attitude would cause all sorts of truly massive problems.
AWS Lambda now supports Synchronous Invoke for scalable mobile back ends
JavaScript will lead a massive shift in enterprise development
500 EUR per room seems like a lot, and not just for Thailand. I'm planning a holiday in France, I have a two bedroom place booked for more or less the same price near the beach in Marseille (monthly rate on AirBnB, not the cheapest option either). I'll also be visiting Prague where I see places for half that. My home in Cape Town is a very well situated two bedroom flat, also half that price.
I read jeffbush's comment as a broad one, rather than narrowly about trade restrictions. The government is often right based on secret information, but selection biases are strong.
i'm sorry to hear that you perceive this as some sort of excuse. that wasn't my intention. we haven't started fundraising yet so i don't know which side we'll land on. this was more meant as my personal observation on the VC ecosystem and how I can see some of the dynamics leading to the crunch.
> Also, the reason given for this is so hilarious. China is using the supercomputers to "research nuclear explosions". China is doing WHAT?! Stop the presses! China is going to have a nuke!

The ability to computationally model nuclear explosions is strategically important. This permits development of new nuclear weapons designs without violating the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty.
In my experience the Canada DMV has incredibly hot young women working at the DMV. Back home, it's Patty and Selma.
An opinionated minimalistic vim setup for any bare or unfamiliar server
MidoNet's traffic meters and Prometheus TSDB
There is no RencourtBlitzenMcPhail.
It's a figure of speech, not a cultural reference. It's a term used for pragmatic openness between companies. Avoiding secrets. I prefer using the term 'lay your cards on the table'. Less charged.
Wow, he was busted for exporting FPGAs that were rated for the wrong temperature range. I'm not saying it wasn't nefarious, but it is crazy that Automotive grade is completely legal at -40C - 125C and but go a little colder to milspec (-55C - 125C) and you are going to jail.
"It made me realize I've never really hustled in my life. Reading it was a humbling experience. When I finished the book I was on the verge of tears, an odd mix of shame and wonder."

There is a lot of survivor bias in that.
After reading that I feel about as lost as I did after that XKCD about correlation and causation https://xkcd.com/552/
Also, just because your comment is popular does not mean your comment is good.

The popularity heuristic may be a little better than the OP suggests though, maybe.
Because, at that point, you'll be seriously threatening the ability of the bankster fraudsters to keep stealing from the public.
Of course this exploits XPC.

I really hate all the desktop IPC bullshit. IPC frameworks are pure fucking evil. COM, D-Bus, XPC, everything SUCKS.

If you want completely separate programs on one machine to talk, use UNIX domain sockets (with something like ZeroMQ or HTTP), FIFOs (named pipes), anything that you can chmod and chown, not a daemon that reinvents access control, badly.
I can't help but feel that not supplying processors to the "National University of Defense Technology" is basically a textbook use of export regs?

I don't really understand why people are complaining about this one?
Boston is gaining and should probably be gaining more if lumped together with Cambridge.

Less sure about lumping San Francisco and Palo Alto. Thoughts?
That's enticing, are there any references/benchmarks to back it up?
Stable APIs for the Go language
You are making an important point but doing so in a confusing manner.

The argument was made that prohibition is inherently ineffective.

Some people who make this argument may nonetheless support prohibition in some cases.

In fact, whether prohibition works or not is intrinsically tied to the general moral views of society at large. When over 1/3rd of the U.S. population has tried marijuana - including a former President - it's really no surprise that prohibition of marijuana is ineffective.

Prohibition is effective at controlling deviant behavior.

It's a strange thing. It works solely to punish behaviors that most people wouldn't engage in or don't approve of anyway anyway. Once society's stance changes on those behaviors, the punishment comes to be seen as unjust and the law as unnecessary.
They are technical.

Brushing up on:

K&R - The C Programming Language

K&P - The Unix Programming Environment

K&P - The Practice of Programming

Kerrisk - The Linux Programming Interface (Not light reading)

Even though it is mostly review, reading code and seeing commands that K&R&P run has actually helped my workflow, code quality, etc.

Highly recommend re-reading if it has been a while. Even things like variable names have noticeably improved since beginning re-reading.

And, the Linux Programming Interface....is huge. There's always more to learn in there.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity

An exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.
Tianhe-2 uses Xeon Phi, not the mainstream Xeon processors. By the way, even mainstream Xeons can have very different performance depending on the specific model.
The real question is: Did he get stitches? :P