skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder what their endgame is here

MechaLenin.

Hey, it worked for Nixon and they only had his head in a jar, not the whole body.
If it is spinning how does the video feed work? Wouldn't the antenna be spinning wildly as well?
why is it dumb? There has been studies about how people make better decisions about the future if they can see their future self, otherwise people treat their future self as "some other dude/gal".

as if your future self is "another person" that can deal with whatever happens, and its really not much of your concern.
I remember SEEING this in action on their site. It was VERY quickly taken down. It was absolutely horrible-- a bit scary and felt like nothing more than a gimmick, seemed really unprofessional. Something you would expect to see on Newgrounds long before a world-class banking website.
How to Use Compassion to Increase Your Profit in Business
"Audit every single module in npm."

143,000 with 260 more every day, not to mention updates.

Seems like an impractical goal.
I hope that was sarcastic :)
I think they were the first to put it on the App Store, and if not they were at least the most popular. If you search 2048, they are the first app.
Best TED talks for job seekers
Maybe they can finally find the wreckage of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Fligh...
I meant the sterness vs niceness balance as a life thing.
Too soon to call game consoles dead. We'll have compute clouds and ever increasing bandwidth. A fixed hardware platform makes for a better consumer experience. High-end (by definition a small market) gamers will always take custom PCs with latest graphics.

The problem with the Ouya was hitting a sweet spot of a moving target. Casual to mainstream gaming at a good price point. Now squeezed further by the likes of Compute Stick, etc.
Why not use NoScript and/or RequestPolicy instead? That way, all such sites are blocked by default, and you can temporarily or permanently enable individual ones with a couple of clicks.
"That's a problem for Future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvvmT3ab80
Children are actually a great way to experience what you missed in childhood.
If you're embarrassed by everything you haven't heard of, sure...
I've heard advice in a similar vein as this and it really sounds great. I try to stay in this mindset but a part of me really struggles with the idea that I'm going to spend 40+ hours a week on a "means to an end". It just seems like such a long time to be unhappy, or at best not miserable?
I hate this more than these words can convey.
human nature is no longer politically correct? lol. they're called "gold diggers," brother.
So was Sir Winston Churchill, by whose policy 10 mln Bengali people died from starvation. I see no difference between one greedy self-important politician and another. Its a pity we are defenseless in front of them.
Malbolge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
Hey, Jake here from Frisbi.

Do you think WebRTC is a good enough selling point to have somewhere on the main page?

Regarding open source, we may go down that route quite soon - the code could use some refactoring (this is a pet project for 2 people with jobs ;)

We haven't got a real desire to make money off this in the short term. It's simply for fun and we hope that a community can form around the site.

Thanks for your feedback, it's really appreciated.
People managed because women didn't work.
Stuck for me on: "Photo aging in progress. Please stand by..."
One way to think of it is basically as a text mode with customisable graphics for each character. It's also possible to "race the beam" and change them between lines, giving rise to far more interesting effects.
This is amazing. Thanks so much for posting this. I "listen" to music all day in my head but never thought about using it to be able to sing the specific notes. I'm looking forward to trying this later with my guitar.
I think your comment is quite insightful. Just think about how many times instant messaging has shifted from one most-popular platform to another. IRC, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Skype...SMS?...Facebook?...WhatsApp? It's just a constant shift from one service to the next. Obviously this cycling will continue forever. Therefore it would seem unwise to invest in any one platform too heavily, if at all--as a user or an investor.
What do you mean by "sound"? Obviously it can't mean "effective" because as you point out these plans weren't the case.
Seriously, look at the typographic alignment in the very first word of this paragraph (which happens to be "Amazon"):

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/img15/amazon-busi...

It has always seemed freaky to me that Amazon still uses images for paragraphs of text. I have assumed it is because the real-world web is more broken than I know.
Tips of making specifications for app
Zebra mussels have had a noticeable effect on water clarity in Chicago harbors in the last ten years. When the light is right it's possible to see 20-30 feet down easily when the view was always previously occluded.

Aside from the detrimental effects on local species it also means that algae and weed blooms are common and it's not uncommon for harbors to be choked with weeds by August.

Not sure if all the current water clarity across the lake can be attributed to them but the change inshore has been rapid and remarkable.
Transcribing Tim Cook nearly in real time
I'm curious now.
Sneaky Questions Early-Stage VCs Ask Founders
It's not as clear cut as that. It's just down to the wording of your claims as to whether your invention is software or not. The question that needs to be asked is whether the claimed invention involves the production of some commercially useful effect.

If so, then even if it's using software to achieve that, it will be patentable.
Building a Lego server blade– what I do at work
That's how I feel about most work, but I still take a level of pride in doing it well and learning new things from it. I think a job is a good fit for me when I like it enough that it doesn't need to be one of my rare passion projects.
We have a time lapse build of the build too-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPOnSjH9qA
Yeah, but I'd imagine the number of companies who want to advertise something dwarfs the number of companies doing data analysis.

It's mass market vs niche market.
ICBM delivered nuclear bombs are no longer the primary threat for cities in the west. Kinetic bombs are harder to intercept with lasers or projectiles and suitcase nukes are essentially impossible to stop from entering a port.

Yield doesn't truly matter. Even a couple thousand people dying on 9/11 was enough to cause mass despair.
Construct 2 r204.2 (Beta)
> From purely a product standpoint, this seems like quite a depressing tool.

Why is that?
windows 8.1 needs to fix the web app on load sequence
Why do startups keep thinking micropayments is a thing people want?
Software Engineer at Brain of Things
BrainofT (Brain of Things) is co-founded by Prof. Ashutosh Saxena (http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/asaxena/index.html) and Prof. David Cheriton (first investor of Google, co-founder Arista Networks), based on their expertise in machine learning and distributed systems, applied to the space of Internet of Things (IoT).

We are looking for a strong software engineer who is passionate about being part of our early team. Develop good software solutions for our product. Design and deploy efficient software engineering processes. Plan and execute development cycles.

Requirements:

3+ years of experience as software engineer in industry, deploying software solutions.
BS (preferably MS) from one of the top universities in CS.
Strong background in C++ and Python.
Fundamentals of computer science in algorithm design, problem solving, and data structures.

Desired Skills:

Solid understanding of distributed systems using Unix/Linux.
Embedded systems experience or familiarity with basics of machine learning.

You'd get to work closely with the world's leading experts in the area of machine learning, distributed systems and Internet of Things (IoT).
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I see the point made by the economic calculation problem for state planning, but don't see how it applies to a carbon tax as a scheme to incentivize behavior.

Eg. Governments do a lot already to (dis)incentivize behavior through tax policy. Are you saying this doesn't work?

I'll do some further reading on cap and trade, most of my knowledge on this matter is from the book Storms of my Grandchildren, which speaks to the issues against cap and trade at length.
The downsides and caveats are very similar to writing mod_perl based web apps last I saw those docs. The downsides shouldn't be a problem for most Nagios plugins though since they shouldn't require state hopefully.
"less usable than before" -- this is completely the opposite of my experience. Kudos to cloudflare for ditching the dysfunctional infinite scroll.
New ASP.NET MVC Application? Suffering from Security Misconfiguration?
Hmm, how many networks these days are unswitched? How are you going to see traffic that the switch doesn't send to you?
We already do this. And yes, you can (using the "syscall" package).
I respect your opinion and don't question the alleged research. But, I personally can't imagine being persuaded to invest in an IRA based on a gimmicky face aging tool. See aerovistae's above comment on the real world application.
To achieve a deorbit burn they'd have to be able to stop the spinning, right? The thing that's worrying is, if they could exercise that kind of control they'd have probably done it by now.
The most important thing isn't mentioned in this PDF -- it goes to 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
It's true that there are many challenges and threats the nation faces and that it would be a trivial exercise to attempt to enumerate them all.

On the nuclear front today it would be impossible to intercept a barrage of ICBMs - it is a fact of life that some strikes in a barrage would go through - this is exacerbated by new delivery vehicles that can strike in under 40 minutes from across the globe.

You are right to mention that this is just one of the many emerging challenges the nation is compelled to defend.
In the end, serilog, depending on the sink, makes your log look like the template, and attaches the meta data of your template variable names and replacement values to the message itself.
Forever young
I didn't live there, but my grandparents did and my family summered there (on Long Lake) every year from the early 80's thru the last few years. I snorkels and later dove in Lake Michigan and surrounding connected and non-connected lakes. The water definitely got more clear in the 90's and 2000's to my unscientific eye.

It's beautiful country up there. Nothing much compares, to me, to northern lower-peninsula Michigan summers.
MODS: First word in title should be "Sever", not "Server".
He was dropping his son off at school. There's a limit to how early you can do that. Leaving home 5 minutes early won't help if the "issue" is the commute between school and work.
We've evaluated loggly, logentries, splunk, and Seq. The first 3 are fine depending on your logging needs. Seq can handle a TON of events thrown at it, and the latest stuff (~1 day old or so) is extremely accessible. The older stuff takes a little longer to search through though.
As a network/security guy, this was a great read. I mean, $199 retail for a product that basically breaks the speed of light?

I threw some money at them. Ya never know!
That's true, but can you "memorize" something that lets you tell whether a given square is 20 or 19 inches on a side?
I am bemused. I viscerally don't like it, but I can't justify the magnitude of my distaste. The paper quotes Proust with a straight face. But then there is also the happy/sad slider of Figure 4. Major whiplash.

It's a combination of extreme, even admirable, erudition and a very hokey experimental setup designed to quantify the obvious.
Microsoft's Hololens patent for emotion detection
This will get ugly...
was expecting a nick cage movie sequel ... all i got was this retirement patent.
Systemd seems to have ongoing problems with mounting...
You can actually see the video feed blip out once per revolution. I assume it's because the transmitter is briefly pointing away from the receiver.
Why would they not be? It is all meta data.
My understanding is that it is going to burn up naturally unless they do something about it. Its orbit is low enough that it feels a fair amount of drag.
There is good information that the true scope of the famine didn't really reach London until after the 1943 harvest came in, and by then the famine was easing.
The thing is, implicit interfaces give you so much freedom and make it so easy to keep your code decoupled, that the very rare times that you hit something like this Next() problem, you just work around it and accept it as a cost for all the other benefits it brings.

For the record, in Juju we have hundreds of interfaces and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and AFAIK have never had this be a problem.

For the given Next problem, you can easily make a wrapper type that simply masks the underlying Next() method with its own implementation.

type MyType struct {}
func (m *MyType) Next(i int) {
// do base next stuff
}

type ForSql struct {
*MyType
}
func (f ForSql) Next() bool {
// do sql-next stuff
}

and then using this type is trivial in-code:

mt := &MyType{}
doSomeSqlThing(ForSql{mt})

Note that this new type retains all the methods of the original type, so it still implements all the interfaces it used to (unless they rely on the old Next signature).

Compare this to the benefits of implicit interfaces (decoupled code, easy composition, using third party code as your own interface type without needing a wrapper type)... hopefully it's pretty obvious this is a large net positive.
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This advice is clearly not for everyone but it has been working for me for many years:

Do your best not to off yourself until your parents are dead. Avoid romantic relationships and avoid inflicting your accursed genes on another generation. Do not make promises that you cannot keep.

Seek out and savor close friends. Know yourself and treat yourself with kindness. Reflect on your astonishing fortune to have been born in a time and place where someone like you has a shot at enjoying life.

Some people will attempt to persuade you that living in agony is virtuous. It is not. Tell them white lies.
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Meanwhile I'm geeking out over the number of things Ghostery blocked on the site. 38 - that'd have to be a record.
I'm curious how it would be more educational to boot directly into Python instead of logging in and starting a Python REPL.
It's a really crappy overlay, there doesn't seem to be any detection at all... I would think that using one of the "render your face as 3d" tools then aging that would probably work better than this thing...

Definitely not something unique or anything but conventional.
I'm not the person you're asking, but in our system, our secret access is tied to an SSH identity, not an SSH agent. This means that you have flexibility to require a personal user's ssh agent to be present for access to some things, or an identity file (optionally encrypted) stored on the server for less-sensitive things. In the case of things that need to happen unattended, we use an in-the-clear identity file, which might seem a little counterintuitive since security-wise, it's basically equivalent to just having the secret sitting there, but the indirection adds ease of rotating secrets along with revocability if we were to suspect we lost control of such a machine. But for most of our secrets, we tie them to individual user's identities which must be forwarded via an agent. We consider this an acceptable constraint because deployment and app restarts are always driven by a human in our operations.

It's not a perfect system or a panacea, but it's far better than having a bunch of passwords directly stored in config files, in my opinion. We also have a wrapper tool that uses your SSH agent access to fetch secrets for the mysql suite of tools as needed, so nobody is ever tempted to create a personal .my.cnf on prod servers. Anybody who actually has access to a given mysql password is still on the honor system not to fetch it and write it down somewhere, but removing the need to ever even see them eliminates the temptation to put it in a .my.cnf or in your clipboard, which eliminates a whole class of mistakes you can make in handling them.
Why? I don't know of anything named Pearl. I know of Perl, but not Pearl.
Just a copy and paste from the solution I posted elsewhere... this really shouldn't be too hard to work around:

You can easily make a wrapper type that simply masks the underlying Next() method with its own implementation.

type MyType struct {}
func (m *MyType) Next(i int) {
// do base next stuff
}

type ForSql struct {
*MyType
}
func (f ForSql) Next() bool {
// do sql-next stuff
}

and then using this type is trivial in-code:

mt := &MyType{}
doSomeSqlThing(ForSql{mt})

Note that this new type retains all the methods of the original type, so it still implements all the interfaces it used to (unless they rely on the old Next signature).
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We're working internally on a number of different ways of how to integrate Page Rules better into the user interface, include a few ideas on these lines.
You imply that Lenin caused the famine, that's a stretch, a fatal one. I'll accept fully that war communism made an existing food situation worse, but no man controls the weather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921
When you think about what it has done for television, it's hard not to be excited about what unscripted programming might bring.
Looks like it was launched a few years ago, according to this press release - wonder how it is doing/how many images Bank of America has saved of people.
http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/press-release/consumer-ban...
I want to do a news site like this someday.
This article has been on HN a number of times. Usually in the Quora format, but I've seen a few blogs that have posted it as well.

I've seen it maybe 10 times in the last week, so you can join the conversation hit one of the existing links.

Here are a few links from HN:

: Elon Musk's first wife on what it takes to become a billionaire
109 points yuvals 7 days ago 70 comments (http://www.quora.com/Will-I-become-a-billionaire-if-I-am-det...)
Elon Musk's ex-wife describes what it takes to be great
8 points foobarqux 8 days ago 0 comments (http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Ste...)
Elon Musk's Ex-Wife: Is Determination Enough to Become a Billionaire?
4 points bennyluo 12 days ago 0 comments (http://nextshark.com/justine-musk-why-becoming-a-billionaire...)
Elon Musk's first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire
3 points mkolodny 6 days ago 0 comments (http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-first-wife-explain...)
Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife on What It Takes to Be a Mogul
1 points bootload 38 minutes ago 0 comments (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/business/dealbook/insider-...)
"I Was a Starter Wife": Inside [Elon Musk's] Divorce
1 points rfreytag 2 years ago 0 comments (http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/mill...)
How can I be as great as Elon Musk? Answered by his Ex-Wife
5 points franze 8 days ago 0 comments (http://quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Steve-J...)
How to Be as Great as Elon Musk: Advice from His Ex-Wife
4 points dsr12 9 days ago 0 comments (http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2015/04/20/how-to-be-as-g...)
Indeed, Lenin however was an absolutist, and absolutists rarely come to a long term solution.
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> Personally I find the increasing emphasis on work as a way to derive personal satisfaction troubling. It looks like a subtle trap to me. A way to convince people to forgo time with their family, hobbies, side ventures and anything else you might possibly derive happiness from in favor of just working more and trying to convince yourself that that is enough.

A counterpoint to this is that many people -- myself included -- see that we spend so much of our waking hours at a job (about 40% assuming a 40-hour week) that we want to spend that 40% doing something that makes us happy.

So it's not that work defines us or drives our satisfaction, but that work makes up a large part of our lifespan, and it seems wasteful to spend it doing something just to facilitate the happiness of the other 60%.

I don't want to strive to be happy just 60% of the time -- I want to strive to be happy 100% of the time.
We are using jq to parse JSON output from various API in shell scripts. It served us well even for large JSON strings. If you want to write small scripts and parse some JSON in it then jq is best fit.
> A lot of the points can be boiled down to "work very
> hard". But what if you simply are the type of person who
> doesn't like working? Another point is do what makes you
> happy. For some lucky folks, work makes them happy, but
> there's a lot of us who don't like it.

I think regularly getting in to "flow" is a key to happiness. Video games - one of the things you enjoy - seems to be something that gets people in to flow. Could you find work like that?

You laden "work" with a lot of assumptions.
Note, you can do this easily in Go, too:

type Kelvin int
type Celcius int

func SetReactorTemp(temp Celcius) {}

func GetOperatingTemp() Kelvin {}

temp := GetOperatingTemp()
SetReactorTemp(temp) // compile error
So be it... honestly, for the most part this is and should be about basic authentication for identity. As long as you offer Facebook/Google/Twitter (and maybe another) with a fallback to an email/passphrase account, it's generally all you should need.

Yeah, if you are trying to tightly integrate, it might help... but in general, having a "share" link it enough, and given how many places are using FB for comments, and the like, I never liked the result. When an app asks for permissions it really doesn't need, that is another thing I really don't like.
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I'm so over Cloudflare. I've tried their service twice:
The first time, I used a demo account at their Enterprise service level and compared it to our existing CDN (Akamai). Our page load times increased across the board. When I asked them about implementing the L7 customizations that we have in our Akamai setup, I was told that it would take custom development and that we would have to pay for it--stuff that we were able to implement at Akamai using their XML configuration. Akamai is not an awesome company to work with and the XML configuration format is a nightmare but the service is fast and we didn't need custom dev work to get it running.

The second time I tried Cloudflare was a few months ago for a personal project. I run a moderately popular vBulletin forum in my spare time and I wanted to see if CF could speed up my site. The results were similar--Cloudflare actually slowed things down. I was at the free tier and perhaps I would have seen improvement at the $200/mo plan with Railgun but I wasn't going to waste any more time to find out.

The nail in the coffin was when I discovered that they provided CDN services to ISIS propaganda sites and openly oppose any efforts to shut down the sites. I'm all for freedom of expression on the internet and it's certainly their right to support the distribution of jihadi videos featuring the beheading innocent aid workers but I'm not going to support it with my money.
M-x calc is pretty awesome. I had no idea it was there.. (M-x tetris I had heard of)

I use dc and bc on the command line. Some people have chided me saying the command line calculators aren't always accurate and are buggy, but I haven't seen any problems.