skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking at the single point of choosing the door as your definition of luck, rather than all the decisions that led you to be in a position where your only choices were between a car and a goat.

When I say you mostly make your own luck, I was referring to making decisions and choices so that you don't end up with only a car or a goat as your choices.
reminsd me of spaceX's take on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqs_S-zEBY
Ask HN: this is core business for YCombinator startups, why isn't it solved?
Is there a SAAS handling user registration, oauth signin and Stripe subscriptions?

I don't want to write all that stuff yet again.

I'm not enthused about http://www.signupasaservice.com/ since their login link leads to a dead page, not inspiring confidence.

EDIT: why isn't this a solved problem by all the ycombinator genius folks? Remember - build something people WANT.
Even worse, you get to street that has no sidewalk at all, you cross and the other side has no sidewalk either. Literally no sidewalk on either side of the street!
Odd responses. I guess I shouldn't have phrased my response in the form of a question.

Here's another try:

> When near fuel exhaustion, the Merlin engine has a thrust to weight ratio above 1.

The rocket will always have a thrust to weight ratio well above 1.
I can make it in 5 seconds, some grandma can't. Shouldn't it be based on your speed, not the timer?
Its very lame that the new format kept the bad design from C hacks.

Why not 'field: {:center :minsize=8 varname}'.format(varname=123) ?
In Seattle at least, there is near-universal consensus among every coffee shop I've been to using an Aeropress that 175 is much too low. Most go closer to 200.
I'd wager scsh would provide a similar experience.
We all dodged a bullet there.
Interesting options, I like that you offer CoreOS and other "fancy" options. Also nice that you accept an SSH key, way to many services mail passwords around.

From the FAQ:
> Is this a contract?

> No it is not, you may cancel at any time.

Then how would you call it/what legal construct does describe the relationship with your customers? Maybe wording it as "Can I cancel anytime? Yes." would work better.

EDIT: removed second question, misread something
I feel like we're just going back and forth with the exact same points - when the warrant used to produce something, but no longer does it poses an issue for law enforcement. In this case, it's not the suspect that made that choice to prevent law enforcement from gaining access.

> Encryption on devices with the relevant hardware instructions is basically free; the user receives no practical benefit from not using it. What purpose is there in presenting the user with a choice that every rational user will make the same way?

It's not free - encrypting data always comes with the risk that you're going to lose the means to decrypt it. I can think of two people I know who in one case put full disk encryption on their cell phone and in the other case put full disk encryption on their laptop. After rebooting a week or two, both had forgotten the passwords they used and lost all of the data on them. Neither of them encrypt their devices anymore.

Encryption can make data recovery a pain in the butt. I've had encrypted e-mails in my mail archives that I've discovered that I no longer have the private key for - it got replaced a year prior, the new key got migrated to a new computer without the old one, and the old computer eventually got wiped and repurposed.

Yeah, it was my mistake for not backing up my old GPG key. I'd put a hefty share of the blame on my two friends as well for their encryption woes as well. But that's the point - we make mistakes, and strong encryption isn't very forgiving. It's a trade-off that not everyone is going to make, especially for data they don't consider sensitive; I've lived with people who have to go through password recovery every two weeks or so. Personally, I wouldn't encrypt something that I'm only going to access once every 5 years or so; I'd use some other solution like making an unencrypted backup on some removable media and storing it in a secure place.
i applaud you for your open mindedness.

as a lover of bikes, and of recumbents, i kind of get annoyed at the very predictable 'recumbents are the fastest most aerodynamic bikes' thing that you get alot from folks.

there might be many reasons the uci banned recumbents. but there is one primary reason recumbents never have and never will sell well; they are invisible in urban riding environment due to low seat height.

that and their problems with long chains, heavier weights, and poor climbing are all very good reasons to accept the generic superiority of the 20th century generic bicycle.

some things are so perfect, they cannot really be improved upon.
Mostly, I think, because they'd prefer to avoid having several types of engine involved. SpaceX is big on cost savings through commonality. The development and tooling and testing etc. for creating a smaller landing-only engine would probably cost darn near as much as for the main engines, so if you can get it done with them, it makes sense to do so.

If they can't get them on the ground reliably with just the Merlins after trying enough, then maybe they'll do something like that. But if it's a simple matter of software and a handful of tests, as it seems may be the case, then they've saved a lot of effort and cost.

The other answer is that the F9 architecture was designed (and flying) before this mode of recovery was "the one". And they'd prefer to not redesign the thing if it can work as-is. So they'll try it and see before spending gobs of money on a re-design. Rockets aren't software (except to the extent they are) and changing things about them is dangerous and expensive.
Mission Control and Notifications have made a pretty big difference in my workflow, but yes, I'd agree that the changes are getting smaller over the years.
Let’s Sunset the Tax Code
It would increase up to the point where people wouldn't feel comfortable driving faster.

There's a huge benefit to this: there would be less inconsistency between driving speeds. It is more dangerous when someone is going 85 and someone else is going 65 compared to 85 and 75.

The most dangerous is when one car is much faster than the others. There is little difference in terms of the chance of a crash if everyone is going 65 or everyone is going 75. The crash is more likely to be serious, but at least the people who are speeding are less likely to plow into someone when they're distracted.
Heh, with some friends I took down the email service board wide for a day via auto-responder. Unlikely you could do that today - most schools are switching to Office365.
When people have asked me for examples of the very best long form technical writing for the Web, I point them at these articles (particularly the Snow Leopard review which is my favorite). Not only does John seem to have a solid grasp of _everything_, he makes it all entertaining.
https://www.dailycred.com/
I think it could. For example, the Leica Disto2 laser rangefinder has a minimum measuring distance of 5cm. I don't see why an RF-based system couldn't do adequately for this use case.

http://www.leica-geosystems.us/en/Leica-DISTO-D2_69656.htm
That's how I perceive Craigslist.

And by no means do I avoid Craigslist. I've purchased plenty of things off of it ranging from coffee tables to what I lovingly call my "man couch" to the occasional video game.

But whereas with Amazon I just purchase with the assumption of quality and SAFETY, with Craigslist I do due diligence first. There's a good reason why I buy things locally that I either go pick up or they deliver. It allows me to inspect the goods before completing the transaction.

Now, I think in general people selling on Craigslist aren't out to specifically hurt you, but they're not out to do right by you either. It's just a completely different arena.

I recently purchased a brand new PS4 off of Amazon. No way would I do that off of Craigslist. Do you know that PS4 died within 5 hours of me having it? Amazon replaced it no questions asked. There's a reason why I would never dream of purchasing something like that through Craigslist, even if many people do it successfully, the cost savings isn't worth the risk (for me personally).
In the gut, one key probiotic helps by orchestrating others
These projects are amazing. Seeing the work that goes into just a single subway line makes it absolutely mind blowing to me that China has managed to build entire metropolises, complete with subway systems, in well under a decade. These photos are absolutely fantastic, and I'm happy to have had the opportunity to see some of what goes into this kind of work.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380635
I hope you enjoy the extra hours you get back.

In a way, I'll also enjoy the extra time I have in not reading the reviews - as much as I truly enjoyed them.
L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum
The one about the BMWs was a flaw where you could access the Obc port and get the car to program itself a new key. In the 1 series there is an alarm dead spot where the Obc port is. So the thieves would cut the glass, insert a cable, program a blank key and then open the door and drive away.
To me it sounds like McDonalds sending out a free shuttle bus to pick you up, but the shuttle only takes you to McDonalds (and not Wendy's or whatever). This actually exists with things like free hotel airport shuttles.
Kid gets knocked out prank gone wrong
"T3 is made to be unopinionated while prescribing how some problems might be solved"

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hm, you may be right that nothing in C requires it. But things like POSIX pthreads do - e.g. pthread_attr_setstack() only lets you set a single stack address and size.

So yes, you'd have to create a new runtime from the ground up, not just a new ABI for an existing API.
Last I heard Linux and ultra high res screen were a kind of hit and miss. Has dell done anything to uptimize Ubuntu or has it matured enough on its own?
Extensive discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9170615
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As jarring as it will be to not have a Siracusa companion volume to 10.11, 15 years is a fine career in what has essentially been a one-man industry. He's no doubt inspired countless other tech writers in his run, and I look forward to seeing the next generation start upon the path he has so expertly forged.

No one may be able to truly replicate a Siracusa OS X review, but the person who really gets what made them great will probably do a bang-up job.
Ask HN: What examples of counter intuitive customer feedback have you received?
I just came across a relevant site this morning. Hilarious hipster brew review satire: http://vicioustasting.com/
Ask HN: Am I good enough to do consulting?
Context: I'm a JavaScript developer working a nice day job, and I just keep hearing (in stories and comments on HN and elsewhere) about engineers who moved into freelance consulting and make hundreds of dollars an hour, and I feel like a chump getting <$60/hour at this day job.

But I'm only 23, I've only been programming for 5 years, and while I'm decent at what I do, I'm not a whiz and most importantly I'm rather slow to grok new code bases and infer the relationships between arbitrarily designed system components. I understand the technologies I work with pretty well, but I have a hard time understanding what people are trying to accomplish a lot of the time.

Ye of HN with more experience, could I consult anyway? Do I have to be really, really good? If you've done it, what was your experience with consulting? What skills served you the best?
If the inventor will please make a portable, electric burr grinder I would be extremely happy. This is the missing piece, for travelers and those who cannot otherwise own a proper burr grinder.

Edit: came across this which looks promising http://handground.com/
No, what the author is trying to say that the only reason that Carver is listed alongside Einstein and Marie Curie is that he was black, and that it was considered politically necessary to include him for that reason.

His accomplishments, while real and greater than mine and probably yours (no offence), aren't in the same league as those two.
this might be a silly question but why can't they use parachutes? wouldn't a mostly empty rocket float? or is there an issue with the salt water and whatnot
PerfectLeads.com also lets you do this, but also lets you find the right companies to contact in the first place.

If you are a mobile web developer, you might want to target restaurants that are not mobile friendly, and have a certain level of traffic (alexa rank). Sure you need the email address, but firstly you also need to target the right companies. That's why I made PerfectLeads.
Don’t build an app for your next client. Tell them what to buy
Time to dust off my old MC68451 segmented MMU and fire up a copy of MULTICS.
Blue Bottle recommends Portlex
https://bluebottlecoffee.com/travel-kit

Portable and electric are also mutually exclusive for car travelers, campers, etc.
They intend for it to land on land in the future, not out at sea. For that they cannot use parachutes.
I was using the AeroPress Inverted Method for about two years with varying degrees of success, however, I finally soured on the clunkiness, mess-making potential, lack of easy containment/storage, and lack of body to the coffee it produced so I sold out and got a Nespresso VertuoLine. It's such a refreshing experience to just push a button and have espresso (actual espresso) or coffee. The only downside was the lack of bean choice, however, a clever YouTuber put me on to a method of reusing the pods with your own grind. So when I get tired of the Nespresso flavors, I brew my own (although this is pretty rare since the Nespresso varieties are pretty damn rich and tasty).

I still keep the AeroPress around though — who knows why — affectation maybe.
http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/
My personal view, is that the cons significantly outweigh the pros in a situation like this. I know your pain, as I recently went through the subscription hell (confirm emails, error checking, change credit card, valid_until, webooks, accounting stats, etc), but this is the core of your company and it needs to be right. Stripe was actually the easy part, it is all the scaffolding around it to make subscriptions work, which is extremely painful. If this out-sourced saas goes out of business tomorrow, you are royally screwed, has a security issue, screwed, hardware failure with data loss, screwed, bad service, customers are screwed, you are screwed, etc, etc. There needs to be a better way I know, I'm just not sure this is the answer, and it is just way to risky.

Having said all that, I think https://www.ccbill.com/ does something close to what you are looking for.
pseudoscience.

one step removed from phrenology.

we do not have a comprehesive theory of the brain yet and so we are using a libary of fairly unreliable pattern matching to make conclusions.
I thought it was kind of bullshit when Aaron Swartz was like 10 that he won an Ars Digita prize for a static-HTML site, because the contest was for database-backed web sites. (I hadn’t entered, I think I wasn’t even eligible, I didn’t have any skin in the game.) About two or three years later, at my first startup, he was telling us for free all the things we would later learn through hard experience we were doing wrong because we didn’t listen. Later he became one of the best programmers I ever had a chance to work with.

In short, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with distinguishing between levels of technical mastery, and honoring more highly the higher levels of technical mastery. We’ll never get anywhere as a civilization if we let the mundanes think that your cousin Brian, who knows how to install antivirus software, is equivalent to Vint Cerf and Don Knuth. But that doesn’t mean we can’t honestly recognize and encourage people’s progress, even before they reach world-class status.

And, as kaylarose points out, it’s totally legit to reward people for making progress on important problems, even if they aren’t hard problems.
Richard Fontana analyzed Debian packages... guess what? Mostly GPL.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
"and then we just lift half the mass of Mercury out from its current orbit to 1AU efficiently" is one hell of a thing to handwave away. Nearly as big as the transition from "we'll need advanced nanomaterials that don't currently exist" to "there's iron, so we can build things out of that"...
I've been using the Hario hand grinder and I find it extremely difficult to maintain a grip. Is the Portlex easier to hold? I'm female thus possible not as strong as others who may be using this.
Are you kidding? No hardware improvement in 10 years? I have a PowerPC machine powered off in a closet that runs 10.4, which somehow I can't move myself to get rid of. Today's smartphones are more powerful. They have more RAM and a better CPU.

On the software side, I powered it on a year or so ago. Felt pretty different from recent OS X. I didn't remember it being as different as it was. (If you had said little substantive change since 10.6 I may have agreed more.)
You're perfectly correct, of course. You bought it, you deal with it.

I just don't understand why developers, of all people, persist with systems like OSX and Windows.
"We examine this hypothesis by measuring the amount of swapping in these workloads with the vmstat Linux utility. As expected, we observe no swapping activity, indicating little value in providing the capability to swap."

Yes, but that's obvious - if your DB application starts swapping, you have badly misconfigured something. A well-tuned server should never have any swap activity.
But there is still page-oriented I/O for explicitly invoked I/Os, and it's still crucial to support that properly.

Granted, 4KB pages are probably too small for today's storage hardware. 2MB or 4MB pages might even be too small too. (multiply pagesize * I/O transfer rate, compare to average seek time. Ideally you want pagesize * rate to be greater than seek time, but that hasn't been true in decades.)
If you were actually thinking, then my comment could only be either correct, incorrect, or indeterminate.

You're not used to thinking, and so any comment that you dislike or that irritates your politics is "noxious".

This is the part where you rebut with outraged fallacy.
Nice read. I did something sort of similar with the same dataset about a year ago. I compared LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to TF-IDF as tools to find similar beers based on their review text. Lots of intuitive and funny topics discovered.

I suggest you play with LDA, it seemed to work really well at generating topics. There is also a lot of fascinating, very readable research using it. Check out SNAPs work on the same dataset [1] and some of the Yelp Dataset challenge winners [2]. If you end up interested in doing so, Gensim [3] was pleasant enough to work with.

[1] http://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-BeerAdvocate.html

[2] http://www.yelp.com/dataset_challenge

[3] https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/wiki.html#latent-dirichlet-a...
Indeed. Ideological eaters are and probably always will be a minority. Economics based eaters on the other hand.....
He has mentioned Bench a few times as a business model/company he admires in various podcasts he's been on. I wasn't surprised in the slightest when I saw that he was featured on their blog. Either they got word of it, or he reached out to them to be featured (I'm guessing the former).
tl;dr: Not an actual OS X review, just Siracusa saying he's retiring from reviewing Mac OS.
But the countdown occurs while the hand for no crossing is showing and that's jaywalking. Unless the point is to say "don't cross, unless you're fast". After the hand goes up, it should be just don't cross. Otherwise people will mostly try to outrun the light, especially in the US as there is little fear of a stopped driver hitting you (vs, say, Latin American countries).
FoundationDB is back
> I just saw the first episode of a similar series, royal Cousins at War

Haven't heard of it, but I want to see it. I love the history of that time period because so much of it influenced what happened the next 100 years, but rarely is it mentioned.

I think playing Imperialism[1] when I was a kid sort of drew me into wanting to know more about the late 19th century and the events that lead to The Great War. Any avid strategy gamers out there I recommend it or its more modern (spiritual) successor Victoria 2[3]. Each has some strategic combat, but they focus more on economics and out competing the other countries in resources + manufactured goods.

Thanks!

FYI vithlani, your account appears dead. Looks like it's related mostly to a single comment[2] you made sometime ago.

[1] http://www.gog.com/game/imperialism

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821439

[3] http://store.steampowered.com/app/42960/
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Agreed - I thought the Snow Leopard review was a classic, and I read through it several times, savoring his perspective.

What I liked about his reviews, is that he intentionally did not make them comprehensive. He saw his goal not to rehash all of the Apple Documentation (which you could read if you were interested), but rather to provide his opinionated perspective on what was interesting, and what spoke to the general theme of OS X's progression.

His reviews will be missed, but I agree, 15 years of stress/agony is more than enough for one man. He's leaving on the top of his game.
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They really should have made it clear that it's a mitigating factors and that most (some, many?) non-IIS uses wouldn't use kernel caching and thus be OK.
The article mentions proteins can be produced by yeast, but an additional fat (such as palm oil) will need to be added. Yeasts don't produce fats? Can something else be modified to produce fats identical to milk fat? A plant maybe?
Sorry, so, you're telling me that picking a subset of developers from a nation to represent the entire nation's developers should be found funny? I disagree.
Everyone talks a lot about the inverted method, but I feel like you get the same controlled steep time by easing the plunger in a little and then pulling back out a little to create negative pressure inside tube.
Oh yes, its very handwavy, but a good read nonetheless.

I also wonder if this is really needed? It would be far better to try for higher efficiency and fusion. Fusion, especially would lead to far more energy than we can ever use, I feel. Especially because the raw materials for fusion are abundant in the universe.
It's like Django, can't deal with two column primary keys.
From a technical standpoint, it's tough. You've got big expensive machinery that operates at or past any reasonable limits in extreme conditions and moreover gets destroyed with every test if you make the slightest mistake. I know that when I end up with an iteration interval of an hour it seems like development takes forever. SpaceX is able to test, what, every couple months?

But the economics is probably more important. The incumbents have such sky-high development costs that reusability seemed like an impossible task to do economically. Last time anyone tried they came up with STS, which was highly capable but ultimately dangerous and ruinously expensive. A new reusable system seemed like it would take half a trillion dollars in development, and would probably never have the flight rate to make it worthwhile. Elon thought that he could do it better. NASA believes designing a reusable system would be too expensive for them. They're probably both right.
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BTW, the first time I followed your link, Flickr redirected me to an ad for a Flickr app for an operating system I don’t use. You might want to find new hosting for your images.