skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of one of my biggest facepalm-ing moments when I first started using Lisp. I needed to serialise some data to disk, it was all in a list form - (list (a b) (c d)) kinda thing. So I thought to use XML format to store it on disk as that's what I had experience with in other languages.

I was about halfway through writing the (write-to-xml) function when I realised I could just write the entire lisp expression to the file instead...

Not only was it smaller, it had the huge advantage of not needing to parse it back when I wanted to read from disk, I just called the inbuilt (read) function. Thankfully I only wasted an afternoon!

That's what really ingrained the whole "data is code, code is data" idea into me. I even went on to write the structure function to each file as well, so that no matter what I did to the data structure down the line, I would still have the actual code needed to understand it. Right next to the data itself. Not only was my code self-documenting, my data was as well ;)
As I said[0] when this was submitted a few days ago[1] ...

Human controlled robot arms:
It's an ad for da Vinci surgery.

Also submitted other times[2][3].

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521001

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9520974

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519316

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517813
>"I also had a girlfriend [in Canada]"

Yeah, right!
> Or whack him in the back of the head with a nightstick?

That might be somewhat less lethal than shooting him, but still has a good chance of causing death or permanent disability. In addition, it would require being in striking range of his hammer which is the opposite of where you want to be. I don't think you have a good grasp on this at all.
First profit donating scheme: the winners – Linux Voice
Take a look at: http://www.serializer.io/custom

Reddit isn't a source on the homepage, it's one of the custom ones.

EDIT: my bad, reddit IS a source on the homepage. oops.
I was completely convinced I played as Batman in Killer Instinct at the Wiz or something at a display kiosk until years later I looked it up and of course Batman never appeared in Killer Instinct.
The problem is the process is innately corrupt though. If we wanted an uncorrupted process, we would set aside tax money to pay researchers in the field grants solely to study and advise, with laws preventing them from taking subsidies and the like elsewhere. Perhaps with a process to allocate existing researchers to new issues. Corporation feels that we need more spying on our citizens because it makes them profitable? They could raise that issue, an existent researcher could look into it; but the continued funding of that researcher is not tied to their findings or results in any way.

As it is, the side with the most money gets the most lobbying, and that's not even considering the negative effect of campaign donations and the like.
I don't see it. $100k per person costs drop to $20k per person costs, they should want to scale this as fast as they can. They may have had to invest a little up front, or redistribute some of the costs back to where the funding came from before, but it sounds like this scales spectacularly and is a huge win all around.
I use reddit, HN, and lobste.rs to give myself mental breaks throughout the coding day.

I'm subscribed to a lot of niche subreddits, but even so, the quality of reddit has dropped pretty noticeably in the last few years.

I'm sure its partly from the expanded userbase, but the site itself has actually degraded.

* You can no longer see upvotes vs downvotes.

* Comment replies are no longer automatic. Instead, the little red envelope updates its status once every ~45 minutes.

Which wouldn't be so bad, except:

* Now when messages are deleted, there's no guaranteed [deleted] message, and the message will disappear from your inbox.

* In really popular threads, some messages beneath a certain vote count appear to get automatically deleted?

* The inbox status notification is broken. I have about ~100 comment replies I've kept marked as unread in my inbox, for long term saving. Reddit used to just notify you when you received a new message, but now every once in a while, it will realize I have unread messages, and give me a "new messages" notification, despite nothing having changed.

Not to mention just how bad all the astroturfing has gotten, particularly on the default subreddits.

And that's just off the top of my head, its a shame really.
Spend your money on experiences not things
Thanks! This could be a solution. But to be honest, I was actually hoping that the automatic redirection could be done with something as simple as an entry in iptables.
Wow thanks! Great to get some good feedback! Really glad you like it.
And, it doesn’t even help much, as the actual image is still accessible to the browser, unless executed on the server.
Recounting a story actually alters your memory of it. People think of memory like a recording that you just play back but it's more like, say, some hastily scribbled notes you made during a meeting, if you imagine that every time you read them, you had to then make a new copy and throw away the old one (tortured analogy but work with me here).
Clash of Clans “Most Heroic Dragon Ever” Clan War Attacks
It will be a sad weekend in Memphis. There are no words to describe what he means to that city. We lost a legend.
Still, the image would somehow have to be loaded in the browsers, at which point it’s easy to circumvent.
The greatest. Got more into one note than most could into an entire lifetime.
My address bar knows me too well: "r" and "n" are enough for autocompletes. Reddit's blocked in hosts and HN is getting really close to going back.

Reddit pretty much ended the period of my life where I read books because that's where my reddit time came from. Since we're talking about years of my life that's a pretty big regret.
If someone is about to bash someone else with a hammer, what would your "first choice" be?
I can't stand reddit. I've never been able to.

I "use" reddit by seeing memes and other popular imagery on Imgur.
A music video by Lernert & Sander

We created a music video for Aux Raus. Coffin Poser is the 2nd single of their album The Brick is in the Air (TopNotch/Universal).

As written on the page.
Hardening Hypervisors Against Venom-Style Attacks
The author should go to China to see how the environment has been "liberated".

The western world has outsourced pollution to the third world, thinking that it would stop at the borders.

The more I read western news (and make no mistake, I'm a westerner) the more I'm under the impression of reading the "Pravda" back in its glorious days : "sleep well people everything is OK".
Is there really no clause in your contract with MediumCo that you won't leave to work for a company you are consulting for without approval? Seems like both employee -> consulting shop, and customer -> consulting shop often both have some kind of agreement in place.
IMO the biggest challenge here is cases that doesn't fit in. What if you want to create or update multiple records in a single operation, for example. There are ways, namely additional batch resources, but structuring that is your problem.
This looks really useful. Thanks for sharing

There was a missed opportunity to name the app 'Shirk', though
Even the newest airliners of today still triangulate their positions off of radio beacons (VORs) as a backup to the GPS system and also contain an inertial system. GPS being the most accurate, it's normally the primary navigation system, however, I've flown across the country, beacon to beacon, with the GPS inoperative, which some airliners still do from time to time.

In the southwestern US, especially, GPS often becomes unusable due to military activity. It isn't uncommon for an airliner to experience a loss of GPS signal mid-flight when operating near military exercises. It's just the nature of our system.

It was a good article. I enjoyed the allusions to ships on a sea, and moment before landing described as an unanswered question. I'm wondering if this will be passed along much in the pilot community. The most popular 'pilot life' creation in recent memory seems to be this Lego parody - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxz2hhSXuY.
Maybe let's put it a different way: if you and I are partners in a business, and I decide to take out a second mortgage and buy you out, is that a bad thing? What if I have to sell a slice of the business to pay off that mortgage? I dunno, this all seems reasonable, and if it's reasonable for one person, then I think it's reasonable for a corporation.
We're waiting on oculus at the moment to approve the gear VR build, They've been great but we've been having a few last minute problems with it. Hopefully if all goes it'll be on the store soon.

In the meantime the android and iphone apps have a cardboard mode so you if you've got a cardboard you can have a budget vr experience.

If you've got a DK2- hopefully we'll put out a build on that next week. Although I'm not sure how we'll release that.

Thanks
I've got an account where I've subscribed to various hobby- and interest-related subreddits and unsubscribed from the vast majority of the defaults.

It really can be informative and entertaining if only by virtue of the huge user base. By the same token, it follows any large group with similar demographics: lots of fluff, no small amount of (what I consider) crap, and pockets of great content.

None of that surprises me though. If I consider all of the people in my city, a similarly small percentage would be considered friends or welcomed as colleagues and collaborators on projects while the majority would share few interests or have compatible personalities.

For all the complete BS on that site, I've gotten some of the best advice, answers to questions, and found more informative and entertaining articles than many other forums or websites. It just takes a bit of effort to curate your subscription list.
Yeah, I don't have that urge. My spending hasn't increased [with the exception of what I spend to help my SO out when she is unemployed] since I started making $40k, let alone what I make now.
It's like biting my nails. Without thinking, there I am, looking at something on reddit. Always just use the website. Follow my favorite sports team, pics, and gamedev mostly.

But, I'm going to be phasing it out of my life. As I get older, I feel like it's not good for me. I've done the same with Facebook and Twitter, it's time for Reddit to stop, and I'm a little worried about Pinterest - but I basically use that as my Google for ideas like Camping Hacks or Gluten Free recipes.
I think unicorns are also playing a role. Unicorns are monopolizing rainbows and without rainbows men cannot find the will to work.

Both of our comments are completely random, uncited, and not even mentioned in the article.
I use Reddit for all the other subjects than programming and startups that I'm interested in.

For example, I'm interested in energy production, energy policy and climate change, and there are several interesting energy related subreddits providing different view points and opinions (e.g. /r/energy, /r/climate, /r/nuclear, /r/hardenergy)

Also, I'm currently recreationally training running, swimming and weight lifting and Reddit gives a good view to all of these through /r/running, /r/swimming, /r/fitness and more specific subreddits ...
Patow: Run any windows software from any device after installing just once
Show HN: nomadlist.txt
That doesn't increase the correlation risk, since the same could be done today with TLS session IDs or session tickets: even if you open more than one connection to the third party, your browser will attempt to reuse the same TLS session for performance reasons (it shortens the handshake and avoids expensive public key calculations).

On the flip side, the use of TLS means that connections to different origins must be kept separate, even with Alt-Svc. If I'm reading https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-06 correctly, "example.com" MUST present the certificate for TopLevelOrigin1 or TopLevelOrigin2, which obviously requires a separate TLS handshake and thus a separate TLS session for each one.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282876-mcdonald...
Experimental MySQL HTTP API and Ruby
While the frontpage and default subs are drastically down in quality the smaller more specialized subs are still valuable to me.

/r/writing /r/math /r/boardgames /r/Debate<topic> and programming subs are still valuable.

Honestly, I think Reddit is ripe for disruption. There are some good ideas there but I think it is struggling under some initial assumptions that worked when there were fewer people with fewer interests and agendas that just don't work but would be hard to change at this stage. And while there is a bit of a network effect in value, unlike something like facebook where there is a lot of value in the 'archive' aspects of it, Reddit is a very 'here and now' phenomena that could be replaced without too much pain assuming people decide they like some other system better. And it might be a Craigslist kind of thing where specialized sites that better cater to the different areas can chip away audience from Reddit.
I love this setup, especially how you used #tweets as a unified ranking system and can sync read pages across devices.

Is there a way to add custom sources? For example: http://www.datatau.com/, https://soylentnews.org/ or any number of other aggregation sites

Also, sometimes Ars and HN will cover the same story or HN will link Ars; have you considered a duplicate detection system?
Yeah that was my other concern, but like all forms of DRM, it's pretty much broken from the start so initially I didn't think it was worth pointing out. I'm glad you did though.

It's an important and likely not obvious point to some people that as the image is being modified in JS, the original image is locally accessible regardless of the watermark if the viewer is even just a little tech savvy. Might be good for getting credit on printed pages, but its certainly not a complete solution.
There is a reason I mentioned fire codes, I suppose I could have been more verbose. :P

But yeah, stronger locks are pointless when you have doors that are designed to be kicked in [or out] in an emergency by someone who is able to apply a certain level of force to the right spot on the door.
Men are used in these statistics because the labor participation of women in the workforce varies over time due to varying birth rates and cultural change. If you're trying to look at economic trends, it's easier if you start by ignoring women.
Basically, yes. But management consultants are often brought in to look at a group or a process, break it down with a defendable methodology / framework, and recommend improvements based on the client's goals. Most management consultants also bring in systems integrators to implement the recommended changes. The margins on systems integration projects aren't nearly as high, but the volume of work is usually higher (a management consulting project is usually under $2 million, while systems integration contracts can go into the hundreds of millions of dollars).

Much of what I've been doing recently has been helping development organizations at large companies convert to "modern" management practices. Things like bringing your ops folks into the dev team as DevOps, how to structure teams to manage automated testing, planning how dev environments (i.e. CI environments) should be structured and used so that continuous delivery is an option down the road, etc.

I happen to focus on software development and technical operations because that's my background, but there are people doing this for manufacturing, shipping, call centers, etc. There is sort of an "ideal way" (aka "best practices") for most companies to do most things. HN might cry "No there's not!" but this is actually true because most of our clients are too big to really be innovative. It can be hard for an insider to see what's working and what isn't. Also, because I move from client to client relatively often, I get to see how a lot of different companies do things, so I can bring perspective that someone who only works at one company all the time can't.

And usually, it doesn't matter if the manager trusts my opinion or not. Either myself or someone else from my firm has developed a trust relationship with someone higher up in the company (usually a VP who has a discretionary project budget) who has brought us in to help. The core of the business is trust: that's why you have to be a likable person capable of building lasting human relationships. It's in both parties' interests to maintain these relationships; the consultant uses them to sell work, and the client uses them to solve problems. It's a win-win.
People on or below median income (i.e. "most people") live above their means, because they have little choice.
Moving from Infrastructure Automation to True DevOps
I believe #[inline(always)] and #[inline(never)] both work like this.
Some ideas are sensible, but a particular discussion thereof may not be.
The door he suggests would violate the fire codes in every municipality I've ever lived in.

So given the landlord would be fined by the city and told to change it back is the reason the landlord would care.
Because it's very hard to say anything about the relationship between male and female employment without inciting controversy. Whenever there are more women in the workforce, there are complaints about women pushing men into more dangerous occupations (reflected in disability figures) or out of the workforce altogether (possibly reflected in family/education figures). Whenever there are fewer women in the workforce, there are complaints about men being forced to work longer (retirement figures) and also about women being discouraged from working due to lingering sexism in the workplace. In every case, some opposite constituency shows up with a diametrically and adamantly opposed POV. I'm not saying who's right or who's wrong, but it's almost impossible to talk about these things without rancor any more.
> as evidenced by the recent strong performance of the stock price

Any "strong performance" may only be a result of the stock buyback -- which serves to inflate share prices by creating demand for the stock not by virtue of the value of the business, but by promising to extract further value from the business and give it to stock holders via dividends and buybacks. Quoting the article:

>"...its executives can do up to $8.1 billion in buybacks in 2015..." and "...to help finance the plan...[McDonald's would] take on more debt..."

As noted in the article, they paid out 134% of net income in 2014 -- so it's probably not the strength of the business that's driving demand.
When the cops pull someone over they have no way of knowing whether the person owns any bitcoin.
They suck. I am one.
But here's why our kind get's jobs.

(Skill/Pay) of Indian >= (Skill/Pay) of most top hackers.

It's all about optimization! :P
A good ajax library that's well integrated with a good promise library, that's completely cross-browser, back to IE7.
> That's setting the bar rather low, isn't it?

Based upon my own experience, I would say that a founder honoring a very expensive agreement, made before the company was highly successful, isn't a low bar at all. It's an exception to the rule; look at what Zynga did as an example [1]. They'll agree to whatever they have to in order to get people to work, and then use any money, power, and influence they wind up with as a result of that work to try to unravel those agreements should the company succeed.

IMO this move makes Nick Woodman a decent guy in a sea of fairly greedy and unethical people (the kinds of people that seem to make it to billionaire status).

[1] http://www.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020462190457...
Because it's part of a series:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/upshot/our-series-on-the-d...

With an entirely separate article on women:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/upshot/us-employment-women...

Don't assume the worst!
Well, it is an article about a specific subset of the population, namely men...
I agree completely.

It seems that the most powerful tool most people have in their debate toolbox is "you have a financial interest in X, so your opinion on X must be invalid". But this is a logical fallacy.

It's incorrect dismiss a study on the Widget industry just because it was performed by scientists from Widgets-R-Us. Who else is going to do the study? Who has more understanding of widgets than those very scientists? And in particular, why should we believe that the study done by Widgets-R-Evil is somehow more pure and worthy of consideration?
No, they go moldy too. I've seen it happen.

Now let's see what's in the bread at Panera, or the bun at Five Guys or Shake Shack, or the tortilla at Chipotle. If you're expecting artisan bread baked early that morning by a master chef, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

Here's Chipotle's large tortilla ingredients:

Flour, Water, Organic Whole Wheat Flour, Non-GMO Canola Oil, Salt, Non-GMO Baking Soda (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate), Wheat Bran, Fumaric Acid , Calcium Propionate , Sorbic Acid , Sodium Metabisulfite.

And how about the ciabatta bread that Panera uses in their sandwiches?

Unbleached enriched wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, country base (natural wheat sour, salt, rye flour, wheat gluten, malted barley flour, sunflower lecithin, ascorbic acid, enzymes), olive oil blend (extra virgin olive oil, canola oil), natural base (calcium diphosphate, malted barley flour, dextrose, distilled monoglycerides, rye flour, sunflower lecithin, wheat flour, enzymes, ascorbic acid), yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate, ascorbic acid)

Five Guys is, um, pretty open too. I wonder what the "secondary" ingredients are:

Our bread is a proprietary recipe. The primary ingredients are: Water, Salt, Sugar, Vegetable
Shorting (Contains: Soy), Milk, Eggs, Bleached Bread Flour, Yeast, Sesame Seeds
When I visited your site the first time I was taken to a /welcome page where it listed Y, Reddit, and P as the "default" or what I assumed was the default

And without clicking anything on /welcome and just visiting the home page again reddit looks like a default!
I totally agree! I learned about the conjecture in my late 20s and did some extensive work on the problem. The idea of using it as a hashing function is obvious (and equally obvious, it is a terribly inefficient one).
Curious question - if hauling someone through the justice system is how we determine whether illegal behavior actually happened or not, then how does one separate the metrics "laws being unequally applied" vs "incidences of illegal behavior"?
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I think you may have covered this, but I would first check whether there's some sort of contractual agreement between your current (consulting) company with the client, where no person would be poached (or recruited) within a certain period of time, during and after providing consulting services. This alone will save you a lot of grief.

From the gist of your questions, I can certainly say that you're driven with the financial rewards. But do note that money is only part of the equation. There's a lot of stories abound similar to your situation where they've chosen the side of salary numbers and ended up being unhappy and downright unproductive.

If you know your value, and the value for which employees at the client company pays, then you could certainly do the math. Asking a n% increase should be commensurate to the business value your bring to the table.
Conrad and the Steamplant (maintaining very old steam systems)
Back when we were writing documentation in Docbook we just used a GUI editor like oXygen , so it did not matter.
Autocorrect doesn't know sometimes "its" is the correct form.