skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem for "interesting" people is discussing those topics with you or me, isn't that interesting to them. That's the problem with discussion forums - I'd find discussing Linux with Torvaldes fascinating, but his side of the conversation wouldn't help him solve his problems or forge new ground. It wouldn't just be a waste of his time but it would be boring.

I've seen all of those topics you mention gain traction, probably with the exception of "climbing the career ladder at big corp", but that's the broader Zeitgeist not just HN.

The way to get more C++/Fortran/Java discussion on HN is to submit good relevant content. If you post something really really good, sometimes the James Gosling of X shows up to comment because HN's diversity keeps them around. But any really good topic is likely to draw comments from people who worked with the James Gosling of X because HN has a lot of those people.

HN has grown large enough that there is an audience for just about any tech topic so long as the resource is reasonably good...in fact, that's been the case for a long time, and this from someone who was posting articles about Windows and Microsoft in the days where every time the Macbook got a new 8% faster Core 2, the front page of HN was dominated by the press release and Ask HN was full of "are you upgrading?" treads.

In the end, finding or creating good content is the way to increase discussion of the topics one finds interesting and to influence the direction of the community.
Why would you have a trial if you already knew the truth?

Edit: I appear to have been overly vague. My point is that you can't reward a prosecutor for producing a "truthful" outcome unless you know the truth to compare with. If you knew the absolute truth then an adversarial trial system would be expensive and redundant.
I haven't, but it's happened to one person in my family.

I have seen someone who was pulled over by the police, then let go, then make an illegal u-turn while turning back onto the road and was pulled over again within seconds :)

Edit: I have been randomly questioned a few times playing Ingress at post offices at 3am.
Why open hardware is winning
I don't think you can be. You could train authorship attribution on many kinds of features. But checking against common methods would probably go a long way in avoiding detection.
A DevOps periodic table of elements
How about http://pgre.st/ ?

it does same kinda stuff + capable of loading Node.js modules, compatible with MongoLab's REST API and Firebase's real-time API
If it's related to the article from the other day, then yes;

It appears that they're gaining access via UConnect, which is connected to TMobile's cell phone network.
Allegedly, this exploit makes it vulnerable from anywhere that the vehicle would have TMobile cell coverage.
Why do people sing?: Music in human evolution
"Others have found that making music and dancing together produces more altruistic and cohesive groups, with one study finding that chill-inducing music is particularly good at promoting altruism in the lab’s subjects. Maybe it is the rush of endorphins from a skin orgasm that helps promote the communal goodwill."

Gah, cynic in me is coming out.

Call me DJ Overlord. Wave your hands in the air like you just don't care. Okay sweet. Now everyone lets...
I'm not sure if this is the place to engage meaningfully around common-sense misconceptions about race, class, and so forth in the US.

That said: "the majority of crime is committed by Black people" is something that I'd like to call out. Can you provide sources? How do you define crime? For example: white people are far more likely to deal drugs, but Black people are far more likely to get arrested for dealing drugs. [0]. The same article, and its cited bits, digs further into the old "black people do more criming" canard.

Your re-exercising of the "black on black" meme is also pretty tired. First of all: there's a lot of people doing a lot of stuff to improve that (c.f., My Brother's Keeper [1], an initiative that President Obama started and the right conveniently forgets every time they blow their dog whistles about the President and black-on-black crime). Secondly: not relevant to the discussion about the fact that Police seem to kill Black people every day, for reasons that we would be screaming about to the rafters if those victims of homicide were White.

Finally, can we at least agree on the statistics? Actually, not really: Law Enforcement in the US is really reluctant (one can only wonder why) about how many people they kill every day. Some crowd-sourced attempts to stitch together local reports into a national database [2] indicate that in 2014, the number works out to be about three people per day killed by LEO. That number is ridiculously high. The vast majority of these people are not white. LEO in many other "western" countries don't do this - in the UK in 2014 police killed one person, total. In Germany: none.

So, should we be distracted by your handwavy "black people deserve killing by police" narrative (because that's what you're actually saying), or could we at least agree that the police seem to be a direct and active threat to the lives and safety of People of Color in this country? It's not like this is a surprise - it hasn't been that long since the 1960s, and you see what we did back then. It's just nowadays people get offended when you point out that our national institutions are largely racist, just ever so slightly less overt about it than before.

0: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/30/w...

1: https://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper

2: http://www.killedbypolice.net/kbp2014.html
“Hacking Drones” spread malware via wifi
Yes. I'm white, in a boring town, was driving a crap car at the time and was young. Got a warning.
Leef seeks to crack the iOS device storage problem
Apple’s Broken Promises
The Metrics Question
If you can locate a copy of it, Robert Graves's essay "Lars Porsena, or the Future of Swearing" is worth a read.
No, this is just what they tell you when they just want to pull you over.
Incidentally, this is also true of renting a condo or house you own. A couple friends have attempted to rent their condo or house and move somewhere else. This has never worked out well. It is possible to hire a company to manage the condo or house, but that is expensive and the profits never quite arrive.

I have seen a couple friends successfully rent places they live near.
What's this dumb downvote for? The title said she was recruited and let go 4 times which doesn't make any sense. The actual story is that she was interviewed 4 times and then ignored.
Did it change the startup time significantly?
> Interestingly the project has Github issues disabled.

This is pretty weird. Certainly goes against the spirit of free software in my book. It's not like they have to answer any issues.

(Oh right it's Google. Well that explains that.)
> if you can quickly solve NP problems, you basically have super powers.

This classic argument is flawed, because P=NP doesn't mean that you can "easily" solve all NP problems. Nature is still free to define huge exponents to difficult problems, making them essentially unsolvable in practice. I even heard Knuth recognizing this recently.
Write tests by playing chess
What can DevOps do for your documentation?
For fuck's sake, who has ever said "skin orgasm", you shameless click-baiting jerks. The word has been "frisson" for centuries, its not even that obscure.
The prosecutor should really be disbarred. The local bar should be quite embarrassed to have such a high ranking member with no regard for ethics. At this point, Denise Lundsford has gravely undermined public confidence in the legal system.

I hope that Mr. Weiner sues that state for compensation for his house, savings, emotional injury, and anything else his attorney can pile on.
Never blindly quote internet clichés without supporting evidence to back them up.
Can Smartwatches Improve Your Privacy and What We Learnt from Online Cheaters
True. The police will simply stop your car remotely, or redirect it to wherever they want to interact with you, based on whatever information about you and your driving patterns the car is required to provide to law enforcement.

But yes, legitimate issues with driver error will be a thing of the past.
Scaling the data layer is a huge challenge. No doubt. But calling databases that are designed for solving these problems "snake oil" undermines the huge amount of work that serious engineers have invested in this. No one has ever promised linear scalability and perfect consistency/reliability. No one.

Cassandra, HBase, CouchDB etc even MongoDB have built in scalability as a first order priority from day one and have been largely successful at it e.g. iCloud, EA Online, PSN. Databases like this are a nightmare to work with for smaller datasets but work incredibly well with larger ones.

It's always a shame to see HN act like you scale vertically and magically every problem is solved.
This. Those that frequent such community sites would recognize this as the 501 manifesto.
You do know that the Kindle is subsidized by book sales, right? That and the fact that Amazon has both economies of scale and a zero-profit/market-domination strategy.

The Visionect kit is cheaper, more capable and better supported than comparable dev kits.
I've seen similar solutions that rely on turning the message into an image...can anyone explain how this works?
This is exactly why I sold my condo instead of doing what a bunch of friend suggested and renting it out. I was moving across country and would not be able to attend to the condo same-day for anything that comes up.
Actually that isn't entirely true. mesos-execute will run any shell command and it shows up as a framework in the framework api/ui tab on the mesos master.
Hard to read in comparison to Scala. It's impressive that it was accomplished but some things just aren't meant to happen in Java 8.
One thing that lends doubt to the malice hypothesis is my hope that nobody would be so dumb as to think that such a ham-fisted attempt at manipulation would pass muster. But so far I am at a loss to imagine what kind of errors would result in that video.
Yes. In nearly all these stories, the victim is resisting arrest in one form or another. The moral of the story is: don't resist arrest. Respect the police and follow their orders. If you have an issue, take it up with the judge later.
Open source protocol: a tool for finding where a site's source code is hosted
In many cases, this is a bad idea. For example, this is eventually equivalent to blocking Tor. I've been dealing with this issue lately.
"..heady emotional cocktail.."

When I experience this I feel like I choke or have to vomit. And I don't think it has to do with music (alone) but with the cocktail of emotions. Music will trigger all kinds of emotion so it is very likely you will experience a skin orgasm while listening to music. But for example seeing something beautiful can also trigger this.

I like to think of it as a kind of short circuit of emotions. Too much to handle.
I think his point was that the fact that we rely on such an expectation (in the face of constant evidence that it is insufficient) is one of society's problems. I think that, in general, people do feel an obligation to meet (what they see as) the societal expectations of (what they see as) their role. But from a statistical perspective, relying on individual people to do so as a mechanism to ensure compliance with the role is foolish.

We do not send airplanes into the skies comfortably secure in the knowledge that airline pilots take their responsibilities very seriously. (Which they do, I am sure.) We do not do that because the airline industry cannot survive a failure rate of 'everyone tries hard'. Instead, there are checklists, redundant safety mechanisms, and the like, all of which greatly improve the airline success rate.
Though you may be able to pull the SIM. My Audi came with T-Mobile coverage and the SIM is behind a door in the center console (which I yanked, turns out Goole Earth over 3G isn't a very good nav system).
I can't believe the author didn't know the RS article was a scam. I guess the two examples are given to establish a dichotomy between cases where predators were actually involved and those where it's just paranoia, both falling under the umbrella of a "horrific year".
The real question is why anyone in a position of power is allowed to believe anything at all, instead of always acting rationally and always being ready to rationally justify each and every decision?
I was on a two lane road once, in the fast lane, driving the posted speed limit right at dusk. I noticed car headlights coming up behind me at a very high rate of speed and realized it was a cop. I assumed there was a hurry to get to an accident or something. I switched lanes to get out of the way, but found myself pulled over instead. The cop kept asking "why did you change lanes like that?" And I kept replying that "you were doing what looked like 90mph coming up behind me, what reasonable person wouldn't?". Really felt like the guy was having a bad day and looking for someone to take it out on. He wrote me a ticket.
This is consistent with my statement above. The CIA admitted it had a role, which I acknowledge. They gave them money and assisted the local faction in the return of the monarch. And, since elections had been suspended, the depose was not democratically elected. The newspaper sensationalizes the actions of the CIA, and that has become the new narrative.
This one is not a cellular hack, this is an exploit using DAB radio as the bearer.
Eq. 16.

As a grad student in quantum computing we used to have a game where we would race to see who could be the first one to spot the flaw in a paper that claimed an efficient quantum polynomial time algorithm for NP-complete problems.

My bet after a few minutes looking at the paper is Eq. 16. Eq. 15 is computing the clauses with a traditional clause oracle \sum_x |x>|C(x)> where C(x) is a vector of the clauses evaluated on the input x. Eq. 16 claims that one can ignore the first register and this becomes \sum_x |C(x)>. That's not correct: the system is entangled across those two registers, and the partial portion of one of those systems is a mixed state. In particular there is no coherence between the |C(x)> states. The next step relies crucially on this property.
To say that PHP/MySQL is just a "part of Facebook's stack" is laughable.

They are the core components of Facebook. Normal people understand that the characteristics of Facebook's architecture is unique to just Facebook. They can get away with sharding/colocating data that nobody else can. The rest of us have a tonne of integrated data that requires complex joins (whether at the application or database layer).
It’s official: the C++ Concepts TS has been voted for publication
The world is littered with evolutionary just-so stories, that like a good horoscope bring all the right details together and sound just right, but are total hooey with no evidence. The fact is we know little about how we evolved and determinations like this are nearly impossible, no matter how fun they sound. See also the Aquatic Ape theory, etc.
Why Did You Get into Coding?
Here's what I did to prepare for my latest job.

1. Break the time remaining into one or two week blocks.

2. Assign one layer of their stack to each week, starting at the bottom. ( e.g. OS )

3. Each morning make and practice flashcards for terminology or things that just need to be memorised, about the tech in that stack layer. ( e.g. What is the /opt dir for?)

4. Each afternoon work on a small project around that layer. (e.g. cmd prompt customisation)

5. Get plenty of sleep so you actually retain this information.
Just wrapped a project with IE7, yes, SEVEN, support.
I might be missing something here, but isn't hiring somebody new to do your job exactly what the new owners of the company have to do if you sell it? Maybe this will be delayed by golden handcuffs, but sooner or later it has to happen.
I got pulled over doing 70 on a freeway in medium-heavy traffic because a cop noticed the inspection sticker on my windshield was 2 months out of date. You never know what kind of bug has crawled up an individual officer's ass on any given day.
At what point are video and sound getting out of sync?

At 12:50 the policeman slams shut the door of her car and it is in sync with the audio.

At 25:55 the same door gots slammed, but no sound is to be heard. Maybe because the policeman is carrying the microphone? Is he that far away?

At about 48:00 the door of another car gets slammed. Its clearly on the audio, but about 1 second too early.
Awesome new way to create playlists – please implement it Spotify
Why would you call it a failure to not send an innocent person to prison?
>I'm not sure what is going on when a guy who is apparently a professional pulls a from my parents basement in Wyoming I stab at thee!

While 'Oh sorry, I forgot LWN readers require me to do all their homework for them' comes across as a petty remark (though hardly as hateful as you try to paint it), I've read a lot worse from for example Theo who is also 'apparently a professional', and of course from countless other 'apparently professionals', in countless places beyond LWN, like right here on Hacker News (yes, really!).

Vezzy-fnord totally disregarded the tone in which Theo characterised existing solutions while painting this spender guy as some bully driven by narrow-mindedness because he came from a 'Linux bubble' and I assume therefore could not accept the brilliance of Theo's solution or something like that.

To me it seems like this spender guy is providing strong criticism against this solution from a practical perspective, and vezzy-fnord chose to paint him as a 'narrow-minded' and 'wilfully-ignorant' through his tone (again totally disregarding Theo's same tone) in order to sweep the technical criticism under the rug (don't listen to him, he is on a 'vendetta'!) .
My guess is that the problem lies in the M_x operator, which is similar to the Grover rotation operator but supposedly only acts on the control qubits and another control-control qubit (see my other comment here). Would love to get your opinion on that!
IoT+and+your+blood+pressure+woes
Your reply is the funniest so I'll answer you. :)

"Leftist" simply means someone on the left side of the political spectrum that goes from Totalitarianism all the way to Free Markets. The reason I say "leftist" is because if I say "democrats" or "liberals" I will be excluding a lot of people; and I'll be talking about US politics. Whereas when I say "leftist" I mean anyone in the world that leans towards centralization of power over free markets without intervention form constituencies.

I have an issue with anyone that wants to change my life via the power of voting, or thinks that is acceptable behavior. I am a non-interventionist when it comes to all relationships, be they between two countries, two people, two companies, a company and a person, etc.

If you think it's OK to allow a third party with a monopoly on violence to whimsically change what you are allowed to do in your private affairs and relationships, then I honestly think you have not read enough cases of people being wrongly convicted.

Start here for a small dose of that reality: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-21/american-nightmare-...
The solution is to aggressively and systematically break the blue code of silence by offering massive incentives for cops to rat out their fellow officers for misbehavior.

Science thrives on peer review and making sure members of the community keep each other in check; let's give the police incentives to do that.

Also, break the police unions. Make it a felony for police officers to unionize.
Is this Python 2 or 3? The ecosystems are pretty different
Usually with property rentals you're looking to just cover mortgage, taxes, maintenance, insurance and hope that you make money on appreciation.
Certainly not an anedote. I was an Oracle and SQL Server DBA for a number of years amongst other hats on stupid big datasets and loads. Add to that 25 years' experience getting companies out of deep trouble that everyone else has given up on. I know my shit.

Orthogonality: I haven't introduced anything here. Very rarely does any conceptual model of reality fit into the relational model. It's more imperative than that. Everything is usually crudely shoehorned into it because it's a compromise that people are barely willing to make or because they don't understand how to model a system properly.

Duplication: there is duplication in there. The versioning is very inadequate and API stability is the key to success on this. Plus also, this is a minor part of the application to consider. It's no different to issuing SQL. The protocol is different, that is all.

Lock in: There is no ORM lock-in past the platform. If you isolate everything properly i.e. use command-query-separation then this is a non issue. It's trivial to replace the ORM. You can even do it piecemeal. We've done it. I yanked out bastardisd ADO and EF out and stuck Nhibernate in. If you couple all your logic into the database, no banana. That luxury goes out of the window.

They may be underused, but when your vendor pulls a 26% price hike on half a million quid's worth of kit, can you afford to bend over and take it?

It's a tradeoff, but not one I'm willing to make on medium to large scale systems where there is a capital risk.
How can you compare being locked into a DB versus locked into an ORM ?

One of the main features of an ORM has been abstraction from the intrinsic properties of that database. ORM was a concept that was popularised by the original Obj-C/EOF/WebObjects back in the day which supported retrieving data from any database you pointed it at. And it fully supported you enhancing it's access layer with database specific features.
Maybe the title changed since your comment, but 'recruited and rejected' means exactly that, interviewed and not hired.
LifeLock Accused of Violating U.S. Settlement Over Deception
Thanks for the subreddit link, didn't know about /r/frisson, only knew about /r/asmr.

The song that gives me frisson/ASMR nearly every time I listen to it is Glamorous Sky (the Mika Nakashima version), usually with the falsetto bit in the chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsFO9jr9XFU

I also found I could trigger long waves of it in myself and influence where it went when I went for a meditation retreat. I get it at random other times as well. It's a great feeling. :-)
Or you could do:

1. Insert new User instance
2. Unique constraint violation? Tell user that the username is already registered.
The Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand is worth reading if this subject interests you. [1]. Brand created the Whole Earth Catalogue, which inspired the first wave of Silicon Valley PC pioneers (Steve Jobs most famously). It's the catalogue that ends with the phrase "Stay hungry, stay foolish."

Brand was a founding member of the "Green" movement, which was formed to combat the predicted "Population Bomb" (something Brand addresses in the book).

In later years, Brand has sought more pragmatic viewpoints on the environment. The book specifically address geo-engineering, nuclear power, genetically engineered crops, and other 'hot topics'.

I've mentioned it here before, but worth mentioning again because it's a long, enjoyable read -- thought provoking, conversation starter.

1: http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Earth-Discipline-RestoredWildlan...
We house-rule this. When playing Scrabble in my group of friends, we've added a rule that when a word is challenged, not only will the challenger look the word up in a dictionary, but the one who was challenged must correctly use the word in a sentence.

It's more fun that way (for us), and it gives us all an incentive to go learn both the spelling and meaning of obscure words.
The lives of our hunter-gather ancestors – 7/22/15