skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory reference to tptacek's post at http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ -- see the end of chapter 2 for an amazing example
And universal suffrage at all levels since 1990.
The real alternative to regulation is tort--I say this over and over. A pretty functional alternative to licensing, voluntary or not is proof of insurance. Its a way of stating to the customer "someone trusts me enough that they can play you if something goes horribly wrong and you sue." This partially solves the above-mentioned problem of humans who are, depending on how you look at it, poor at assessing risk.
But if you're building any software related to human safety, bad design or bad code quality WILL kill. Just look at Toyota.
Top+Health+Apps+to+Help+you+Survive+the+Scorching+Summers
Twitter will not change under Jack Dorsey. Unfortunately
Citation for the 30% figure?
by my math we could get to a 55% savings rate, but we would have to really cut out somethings we enjoy.
Podcasts Are Saving NPR
Creator of the World’s First Apple Watch Game to Win an Apple Design Award
And it is a total waste of space and time. As it doesn't work offline it is nothing more than an inefficient bookmarking feature.
Ask HN: Free tool for comparing follower growth of 2 or more Twitter handles?
Is there a free tool (even better if it's open source too) for comparing follower growth and tweet count of 2 or more Twitter handles?
When Will European Fintech Startups Grow Up?
Praise be Unix.
The Shittiest Language I Ever Used
There is an introduction video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I10qWoQEi5U&list=PLIGa-eWCss...
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That's the complete reverse of a guarantee. The person with the gun can stop met from going to a polling station.

Hence, in a true democracy, the only free way to vote is at a polling station, in a voting both constructed in such a way that I have total privacy from the moment I vote to the moment I put the vote in the ballot box, yet transparant enough so it can be observed by anyone (hence, short curtains, box in the same open space, etc).

We even put polling stations in hospitals, care homes, embassies abroad, military bases etcetera to ensure voting happens in total freedom, transparency and anonymity. This principle also applies to the counting of the votes.

All of this did not come about by accident, and the fact that it's being abandoned by people who do not wish to even argue why they want to remove fundamental democratic safeguards should be met with extreme suspicion.

The arguments in favor of electronic voting are extremely weak, and in many instances e-voting has already been found to be subject to deliberate manipulation.

There is no excuse for lowering our standards for the most essential element of a democracy.
Does orbot do this as well?
How Reddit became the Alamo of the Internet’s ongoing culture war
> Add this to the fact that the CEO of CoreOS told me in person that he expected them to be the _only_ Operating System on the internet, and I'm generally not along for the ride with CoreOS any longer.

That's the part that would concern me the most. The guy sounds delusional at best.
>This isn't a bribe. You describe democracy working as it should. Policies are SUPPOSE to be made to aid the largest number of people. This is the point. In societies where the system works, rich minorities often feel this is unfair when they get taxed to hell. (It's not, and currently in our society, the rich are taxed less than poor people)
The system as it exists today does not benefit the majority. It benefits the elite. The elite choose who gets elected, by choosing who has necessary money to campaign. At the end of the day the politician owes more allegiance to the person who funded his campaign then the people who voted for him. The people live with it because said elected official utilizes charisma, complexity and politics to disguise the true nature of many things.

Policies aid the majority, they let the 51 rule the 49.

Again let's assume you're right, the elite choose who are elected and can make the rules. Why are they being taxed? Why can't they use their influence so they get to keep their entire income?

>I would suggest laws to prevent rich people from having too much influence on campaign funding. Ironically, I need to be rich to make that happen, and by then I'd probably be in a position where I have no desire to harm myself.
Thus when wealth inequality gets too extreme there's only one inevitable solution: Violence. Other than that it's something we have to live with, as wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism.

So there are laws which supposedly benefit the rich and now you want to make more laws to fix the fact that the laws benefit the rich? You see the problem here?
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Thanks! When @lunny finishes the outstand pull request feature it should be a real alternative as it is damn lightweight. There are already plans to im prove the UI as well :)
I run an event startup called UpOut (haha get up and go out)

A lot of new startups ask me about their events discovery startup so I thought I'd chime in. Read the Riotvine and Plancast post mortems before you commit any more time.

If your answer to monetization requires more than 2x per month engagement... Then this is not the right space for you. Companies like eventbrite (probably one of the biggest in events) aren't racking stacks on stacks.

People in reality go to 2-3 events per month max and "discover" new events 12-20x per year. This translates to 2 visits per month for the perfect product.
I love Tunnelbear, but I assure you their vigilant mode is far from perfect. In particular, I take a train to and from work. When the network goes down, and it goes down several times every trip, sometimes Tunnelbear goes into vigilant mode, but it frequently doesn't - i.e. I can absolutely connect to sites from the open wifi while the Tunnelbear icon is spinning up a fresh connection but before it has fully secured the tunnel.

My very convoluted solution has been to use my phone and PDAnet [1] for the actual connection, instead of the public train's wifi (they go down with similar frequency). When my phone connection goes down, it requires a hard reset (unlike the public train wifi). Before I actually initiate the hard reset, I use Pauser [2] to manually stop my main browser, then I open my secondary browser and verify I can connect to one of several different generic sites, while Tunnelbear is active. Once I know Tunnelbear is active, I'll un-pause my main browser and go back to work.

In other words, (A) I avoid the public wifi, (B) I manually have to pause my main browser when I loose connection, (C) I have to ensure I'm not using me secondary browser for anything secure, and (D) I have to manually ensure Tunnelbear has fully secured my connection before restarting my main browser.

I'm sure this still leaves me open to attack, but less so than not using this process.

[1] http://pdanet.co/
[2] http://sdunster.com/project/pauser/
There's no reincarnation in Buddhism, only rebirth.

And rebirth happens to you right now when your consciousness arises again and again from previous states of your mind.

Yes, there's also a "fantastic" theory that this process goes beyond physical death but this theory is supported by simple logic of buddhist philosophy.
That's a keeper!
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If you don't have enough control over your applications to have them connect over trusted networks and not untrusted ones, you probably don't have enough control to stop them leaking more information than you would want to the endpoints they connect to.

That's not meant to be snarky; it's a real problem. I have an android phone but I am very conscious that it's doing a lot of things I don't control and I can't really trust it.

A VPN can be part of a carefully implemented security policy, or it can be a thing that might help a little on a generally insecure base, but it can't turn an insecure machine into a secure one.
Ask HN: How hard is it to build an Email client?
I'm venturing in unknown territory here.
Also I'm wondering if all protocols are easy/hard to support E.g. SMTP, IMAP, POP3.
> Do you use a POP3 or IMAP e-mail client? If they check automatically, that traffic is out in the clear for all to see, including potentially the login credentials. Other programs, like instant messaging client, may try to log on.

That sounds overly pessimistic.

Most POP3/IMAP email services nowadays support TLS, and some don't even work unless you use TLS. Most email clients, likewise, are designed to use TLS by default when you first set up an account. If yours isn't, complain to the developer(s).

Likewise, I'm not aware of any popular instant messaging client that sends login credentials in the clear in this day and age. At least none of the programs I've set up to log in automatically (Dropbox, Skype, etc.) seem to be guilty of that crime.

The part about the operating system automatically connecting to various servers in the clear is a bit worrying. But for the time being, I'm pretty sure none of that traffic carries any login credentials of mine.
France seeks to extend Google 'right to be forgotten'
I don't know how to phrase this in a constructive way, but... there are only two links on the landing page, and the first of them leads to a 404. That strikes me as a bit of a QA disaster!

The URL is also quite hard to type / remember / mentally turn into actual words (without uppercase letters).
You're confusing two different things. Windows still does phone home even in private network. In private network it just "locks" down access to your computer to some extent.

The same is also present in OS X under Firewall settings where you can go stealth mode and / or block all incoming connections.

Both phone home.
Original source:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-m...
Has anyone made a JSX transformer that plays nice with Mithril? Seems like it would make using that api you provided a snippet of less painful
Ultimately we need more secure OSes and apps. If something being 'exposed' a little is that dangerous, it means it's broken.
I really wish more people grokked Stanovich's algorithmic vs. reflective intelligence thing. It is so much better at explaining reality than trying to say "well they're smart but they have ~character flaws~ so they don't succeed"!
We almost have all the letters necessary to call Ember the SCROTUM framework. "O" opinionated, "U" __, "T" ___
Another way is to just use subtraction:

x = x + y
y = x - y
x = x - y

I originally learned about this while preparing for some interviews.

The funny thing, I find, is that in Python you can simply do this:

x, y = 5, 10
x, y = y, x

I was asked this question in an interview and I responded that you can do this. His response: "Python is weird."
Solution for OS X: http://superuser.com/questions/468919/prevent-outgoing-traff... (I didn't try it, but it should work).
Very true! I think being 'wise' is for the most part pursuing worthy goals. But the article makes the mistake of equating wisdom with 'rationality'. Rationality is a tool too (as the article suggests a distinct tool from intelligence). It is not like being able to not worry about awkward conversations and not maxing out your credit card will lead you to good life.
The OverbiteFF extension (http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/) will let you use the gopher protocol as well. I actually installed it just so I could browse the floodgap gopher server.
I hope you realize that you're dealing with a "experts exchange"/"expert sex change" problem with "go on" and "goon"
Seriously. I think, at least in the U.S., there has been a decline in respect of vocational training. Students on every academic track, from remedial to advanced, in my opinion, should have at least some introduction to building physical things as a core part of education.
> Being in the "Shu" means having zero human interaction for indefinite periods of time; if you're in there, you have to defecate through a hole in the floor.

This is intolerable. People wonder why inmates get out of prison more fucked up than they were before prison? This is the answer.
Yeah, I completely agree that the current system sucks.

There needs to be some universal way to conveniently pay small sums of money for viewing an article or watching a video.

It would be awesome if there would be some generally accepted system that allows you to embed a button on your website and accomplish that in one click.

Maybe it even exist, I'm not sure(if it does it's not widely accepted enough), also maybe there's more elegant and clever way of doing that. But to me it seems like a great startup idea, if someone could solve this problem a lot of people would be happy.
Does this work with celery tasks?

My usual solution is to add checks in the cron job to make sure they don't repeat or duplicate anything, by using an audit table. So for example when a celery tasks triggers an email, I store an event called EMAIL_X_SENT to the audit table with meta data and check it later before sending it again.

Of course it complicates the logic a bit but I've noticed it's the same pattern that works everywhere so I just abstracted most of into a custom task class.

Another way typically is to use a shared lock just like above except in the cache backend. So you could probably extend highlander to use cache backend etc.
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What are the thermal properties of the carbon fibre? Can they stay composed under automobile tail exhaust temperatures?
It really doesn't matter while the game companies as a whole have figured out that the best thing for their business is if the game is popular on Twitch equals a lot more sales. Once companies see streamer as hurting game sales that would make this an issue again.
I'd jump right in. The upgrade path has been very gentle for quite some time now.
Huh? I've been rejected by an UK company with just "you're obviously a very experienced programmer, but "we are not able to take your application any further at this time".

I did get a code review out of it though, and it did point out a few real issues, so I'm ok with it.
AFAIU, it's a tutorial on old neural networks, not on deep learning.
Single System Image.
Own34 was first it actually was Justin.tv/Twitch.tv poaching streamers from Own3d. Own3d had a money problem with not enough income and more money going out due to popularity. Streamers were owed tens of thousands of dollars when they closed up shop.
As someone who has had to write this themselves multiple times, there are a few bits that I consider to be missing:

1) Command line verification - is the pid owned by the same type of process as is running now? PIDs are re-used, ensure it's the same (the creation time check helps, but it doesn't say anything about what process wrote it).

2) Process Hang Detection - Has the process actually consumed any CPU ticks in the last minute?

3) Infinite loop detection - Is the other process stuck processing something uselessly?

4) Killing off stuck processes - 2 or 3 true? Behead it and continue on. Optionally do some form of alerting - stderr is probably fine.

Add these, and I would personally find it much more useful.
Does anyone use flock? I came across it recently and believe it serves the same purpose, very useful from cron tasks:

man page:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/flock

Example: https://ma.ttias.be/prevent-cronjobs-from-overlapping-in-lin...
A Clojure library that implements the Logo programming language
That was my fear, too. And I also will go with C++ first.
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A standardized test for 'wisdom' as quoted below seems possible and worth developing. In addition to personal self-improvement, a lot of companies would be interested. Does anyone here know of any such tests?

> In one experiment, Grossmann presented his volunteers with different social dilemmas – ranging from what to do about the war in Crimea to heartfelt crises disclosed to Dear Abby, the Washington Post’s agony aunt. As the volunteers talked, a panel of psychologists judged their reasoning and weakness to bias: whether it was a rounded argument, whether the candidates were ready to admit the limits of their knowledge – their “intellectual humility” – and whether they were ignoring important details that didn’t fit their theory.

> High scores turned out to predict greater life satisfaction, relationship quality, and, crucially, reduced anxiety and rumination – all the qualities that seem to be absent in classically smart people. Wiser reasoning even seemed to ensure a longer life – those with the higher scores were less likely to die over intervening years. Crucially, Grossmann found that IQ was not related to any of these measures, and certainly didn’t predict greater wisdom. “People who are very sharp may generate, very quickly, arguments [for] why their claims are the correct ones – but may do it in a very biased fashion.”
Alleged harassment.

FPH users were banned for any kind if outside FPH harassment, including brigading. Even links to other parts of reddit were banned.

It's pure pandering to the fat majority.

And it was more than just shutting down the sub, all of the moderators were shadow banned.
> "brochureware site" <- don't be too hard on yourselves, there's plenty of goodness there too :)

Besides Pivotal's commercial support for Redis (which, from what I've heard, is superb) there are also at least two hardcore Redis community members who're providing professional support for Redis deployments - for more details, contact Michel Martens and Damian Janowski.

Redis Labs, my employer, is also heavily into Redis (duh) so naturally we give support for our product line that consists of a Redis on-prem solution and a cloud service.
Animation CPU is Codea-like http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/ mobile development IDE

ACPUL is high level ultra simple declarative language for minimal coding on tablets/mobile.

ACPU API is minimal

https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/tree/master/sys

It is simple, learn complex API not needed.

This is DOTA-like prototype demo (Render, Networking, Control, Physics):

https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/tree/master/dota

This is another demo 100k particles on iPad 2 (9700-9740 files):

https://github.com/d08ble/acpul-demo/blob/master/9700_node.e...

ACPU: The Matrix extension like Slashtop2 https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/splashtop-2-remote-desktop/i... but better, because you have powerful programming API that can be used for make really usable remote control using iPad. This is true usable like TV remote control. Or you can make game with real virtual desktop.

ACPUL interpreter is very fast like LUA, performance near to native C. It also export code to many platforms like Haxe http://haxe.org/ (current implementation run on iOS only)

ACPU is new paradigm of LiveCoding. ACPU should never crash. ACPU is bug-free.

Here is some demo video of the platform: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuHMJoNDYia7tk33L6ue0zw
https://github.com/insin/msx
Perhaps they want to test it first before rolling it out worldwide?
I find Mesos the most interesting because it's a kind of mirror image of Lattice[1], particularly Diego[2][2][3]. Both of them push intelligence out to the edges, but in different ways.

Diego pushes the scheduling problem out to the executors themselves through an auction mechanism. Mesos delegates it back to the requestors, as I understand it.

The way it was described to me by Onsi Fakhouri is that Diego is "demand-driven", and Mesos is "supply-driven". Diego grew from the lessons learnt on Cloud Foundry v2, so it favours fast placement of requests over perfect fit. But in the fact of the network fallacies, it probably turns out to be a good approach anyhow.

By way of warning, it has been a few months since I read the relevant papers and my memory is fuzzy.

Edit: and it looks as though the auction mechanism was moved away from. Hm.

[1] http://lattice.cf/

[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/diego-design-notes

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OkmVTFhfLY (an excellent overview)

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSxI9eonBVs (an excellent update)
Show HN: Horse racing in Slack
I was lucky to take this course in 2013, and TA last year.
Neil Gershenfeld is a genius. HTMAA is just the tip of the iceberg with all his works.

Every week we had to learn about a different fabrication process, make something and present it in class.

If you guys are into fab labs, I encourage you to visit this page: http://www.fabfoundation.org/fab-labs/

Also, one of the best ways to learn, in my opinion, is by learning from other people's mistakes. That is why every student in the class documents their projects. You guys should definitely view some of the class works! [http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.13/people/index.html]

Every year Neil updates the links. You should visit the most recent year to see what's new and relevant. [http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/]
I would expect not to. That said, I might sail into No True Scotsman territory, so I should stop here.
I've noticed that dichotomy as well. It seems to be splitting along culture lines - so one of these two camps would be right at home at Google, the other would be fairly miserable.

Of course, this creates its own issues related to creating and maintaining a mono-culture, but that's a topic for another thread.
the reason reddit needs to crack on the politically incorrect is because if they fail to do so, the corporate media will demonize reddit, and then reddit will lose money.

The corporate media is the enforcer of political correctness.

Why? Because the corporate media is supported by advertising purchased by the big corporations, and so the media is the mouthpiece for the big corporations.

Political correctness helps mold and shape the culture of america.

A politically correct culture helps the big corporations squeeze more immigrants into America and into the workforce.
The big corporations love multiculturalism and inclusiveness because that helps grow america, help increase the GDP, helps increase the workforce, increase the supply of labor etc.

This all helps increase corporate profits. Which means more money spent on ads in the media.

So the media will demonize and ruin any politically incorrect website that is on the way up. Hence, reddit dances to the tune played by the media.
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Its prevalence suggests that it's a pretty big issue that many interviewees face, and nobody has the answer on which is the best approach for hiring competent developers at scale.
Our designers, no lie, are awesome. But we are definitely writing copy aimed at the C-suite right now, on the developer front it's a bit scantier but improving.

I see you guys have a service offering on PWS. Nifty.
Why Wedding Invitations are equally important to weddings
Yep, I use the 34" ultra wide and it's great.
TL;DR: You usually first have to accept the WiFi network's terms of service on a special page (called a captive portal) before you get Internet access. Until you do that, VPN doesn't work, and by then your email program (or anything else) may already have checked for new messages. If you have a password for your email account (which surely you do), it may have been sent unencrypted, open for anyone nearby to see.
Amazing Views of the Lake from All of the Windows
I am curious what do these meetings look like. Could you describe them? Why did you find them uninteresting?
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I really don't understand the hiring decision surrounding Ellen Pao. Her personal/professional scandal already make her a rather ineffectual leader, and she doesn't seem to embody any of reddit's ideals. They really could kill the company and they need a strong leader with vision to set the pace