skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, it's possible that there's some issue with the WA integration. I'll check. In the mean time, SMS and FB Messenger should be active for sure!

I'm using thirdparty open source libraries to integrate FB and Whatsapp into this.
Now it is up.
Last I checked the App store was not a significant revenue source for Apple. My guess is the review process is expensive and most apps are a net negative from Apples perspective.

One way around this would be if apple reserved a portion of sales, but with the number of 'free' apps out there this would probably not work. And for near breakeven apps it would probably result in similar numbers. (EX: 100% of the first 10k, 10% after that.)
Given we are in a world of 500 km underwater interconnects and synchronous grids that span up to eight time zones, I am not sure why you think electricity needs to be generated right next to cities.

Though, that said, existing urban rooftops are over a third of the required area to power the world, so you might as well stick some there while you are at it.
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Between the limitations and the lack of a used market, ebooks do seem really expensive compared to dead-tree.
As Sam alludes to, many YC alums have joined the government in some capacity—healthcare.gov, US Digital Service, Nava, Presidential Innovation Fellows—and are on HN.

Jason Shen from YC S11 recently wrote about the concept of a "Tour of Duty":
http://www.jasonshen.com/2015/when-did-you-do-your-tour-of-d...

If anybody has questions, feel free to ask and I'm sure one of the alumni will reply!
>Also, what prevents them from moving out of the jurisdiction?

Exit tax, having to give up citizenship.

> (brining their skills and capital with them).

What skills does the inheritance class have exactly? Why do we want to incentivize the hoarding of wealth?

What creates more jobs:

100k investment in your company

10k new customers for your company

>(very) progressive consumption tax?

So we want to provide disincentives to consume?
We want to incentivize saving money over spending money?
Seems like a negative for the economy - people will consume less, or they will consume elsewhere.

What will likely happen is, a wealthy person can avoid consumption tax by purchasing something lavish elsewhere, say purchasing a yacht in spain - then having it delivered to their US home.
How about buying a BMW in germany, having it shipped to the US.

This is something a poor person cannot do, but a rich person can. Especially on the types of goods we would most want to tax based on consumption (luxury goods)

So now you are hurting the local economy by depressing local consumption, hurting the poor the most by adding taxes to consumption, meanwhile the rich can easily afford to avoid taxes and have things shipped from overseas.
Did he take his own advice? Also regarding the rewrite of HealthCare.gov - I don't know the specifics but aren't re-writes always way cheaper and far easier than the initial implementation? Is it really a fair comparison?
His support isn't lukewarm. Also: now, when DNSSEC is almost dead, is the most important time to ensure that it actually becomes fully dead. It's like a zombie. You have to cut off the head and burn the body. DNSSEC is still intact and twitching.
Dev tools, copied the link. :)
This doesn't allege that they produced malware, only that they produced false positives for competitors. They didn't deploy any actual malware.

It sounds like they took advantage of the fact that most malware fingerprinting uses md5 to create collisions with known good files, then uploaded bad files with a matching signature to the places that aggregate bad md5s.

Again, all allegedly.
Five Signs to Recognize a Future SaaS-Customer
We're veering into movie-plot territory here.
I really liked "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" too.
That would be better, though quite a bit more effort!

Usually these studies only have enough resolution to say "probably worked", "no measurable effect", "probably negative", and even then are often wrong.
Norwegian Wood was my favorite.
Detailing how this works publicly makes nobody more secure.

Public release of the general problem is still worthwhile as information, but there is a net "security" loss here.
I hate that I have to use this library.

Edit: I hate the usecase, not the library.
Try re-implementing some of the GNU Core Utils in Rust [0]

[0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html
Interesting, that seems like a pretty reasonable way to do it. Another case of convenience taking precedence over security, I guess.
> 153. ... there can be no doubt that if what Mr Assange had done had been done in England and Wales, he would have been charged and thus criminal proceedings would have been commenced. If the commencement of criminal proceedings were to be viewed as dependent on whether a person had been charged, it would be to look at Swedish procedure through the narrowest of common law eyes. Looking at it through cosmopolitan eyes on this basis, criminal proceedings have commenced against Mr Assange.

It's almost like directly translating a word from one language and one country's legal system to a different language and a different legal system can be misleading.

If only there were some sort of body of legal experts who decided this, some sort of "court" of people to "judge" meanings.
It's in the article:

Now, after lengthy negotiations, the paper is finally in the public domain - with just one sentence redacted.

"This single sentence contains an explicit description of a component of the calculations on the chip," Verdult said, adding that by removing the sentence it was much more difficult to recreate the attack.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10001364
That's good feedback, thank you.
> aren't re-writes always way cheaper and far easier than the initial implementation

No, definitely not "always." There are many examples of big enterprise systems being rewritten that take forever and ultimately fail -- to the point where the old system is put back in place.
That's really cool. Worth noting that it's an ES7 proposal rather than part of ES6, so you get it with Babel but not native ES6, or e.g. TypeScript.
I think the most devious would be to simply move the cursor up one line. This would result in the 'git log' line being overwritten, and hiding the commit from casual scrutiny.
Thank you for the article. That was quite illuminating.
Yes, but that doesn't mean this information isn't relevant when considering how to interpret the claims.

Especially in the absence of actual evidence.
The conventional wisdom is that rewrites usually fail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_second-system_effect

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

This article has some specifics on the rewrite of healthcare.gov:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3047856/innovation-by-design/mee...
Does Reuters often write "pure propaganda/fluff pieces"? Or is this piece special?
but they got the key, so you can safely assume everybody else has or could. publishing it is the kind of pressure the manufacturer need from the public, otherwise people will do the same reasoning, kicking into 'secret = safe' mode even when it's completely pwnd - heck it's not even theoretical there is a paper on it with the extracted keys.

the fact you weren't affected is just because stealing a car is not the hardest part of the ordeal.
One might, if one had purchased a VW during the years this paper was censored.
It's not unreasonable no. So why not stick to the speed limit and actually lobby your local government to change the limits.

</rant>
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Also check out 18F [1], which focuses on pushing forward how tech and the government work together. They run a 12-month Presidential Innovation Fellows program [2] which works more intensely on innovating with specific groups within the federal government. USDS is more focused on modernizing and ensuring some basic technical functionality of a lot of the core aspects of the government (which is incredibly important and impactful, but is less about innovation -- see a comparison here [3]).

[1] https://18f.gsa.gov/

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows

[3] http://ben.balter.com/2015/04/22/the-difference-between-18f-...
What's the phrase? "Locks keep honest people honest." This has always been the case.
If the information turns out to be false then the anonymous sources get blamed, not the author.
Just keep in mind that object spread operators are a TC39 stage 1 proposal at this point.
I suspect there's a fair amount of survivor bias there too; initial implementations that aren't cheap and relatively easy don't tend to survive long enough to get rewritten!
The website refers to http://lockedout.io/provider.html
(says nothing about your cut)
Yes, aggregating mood for a whole project then looking back afterwards and saying "yep, that was the data" would be pretty useless for getting that product shipped. But, that's not what's being claimed. The claim is that the smiley calendar is a tool that helps everyone spot some problems and trends. This is in addition to having a few managers keep in-practice private (and probably mental) logs of everyone's mood over hundreds of face-to-face check-ins.

The value I see in this is that people sometimes totally do fake their mood face to face for a variety of reasons. People sometimes will also totally fake being overly happy on a board too. It's just one more opportunity for people to bring problems to the surface. It'll work better for some people than others, better for some teams than others. But, when it works it would be tremendously valuable.
Transmitting electricity is quite a bit different from transmitting bytes. That's the main reason we are using Alternating Current rather than Direct Current to power virtually everything.
Or contribute to the project that's already doing so: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/

(I myself wrote a little wc for fun a month ago, still missing some compatibility things https://github.com/steveklabnik/rwc/blob/master/src/main.rs )
Why would you hire a firm to fight a ticket?

Send a letter and you'll get it auto-reduced, except if you want to get out of the ticket.
Apple take 30% because they can take 30%. You are paying it. You haven't switched to developing for another platform like Android or PC. They can do it because you, along with all the other app developers, are masochistic enough to put up with this walled garden. Somehow I cannot muster up sympathy.
Is there an RFC or thread covering the IDE integration plans?
Kansas City Startup Raises $40m Series D Round from Temasek
I'm not sure when the last time you checked but $10 billion [1] in revenue is significant. That's only 2013.

[1] https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/01/07App-Store-Sales-T...
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For the times that the ticket is the fault of the driver I would agree with you.

But when I'm not at fault then I should fight the ticket. Because I really shouldn't have to.
It's obviously not a safety recall, but that doesn't mean it isn't serious.

Other companies have been known to do voluntary recalls defective locks, why is VAG exempted in your mind?

"It barely can even be considered an immobiliser" is almost certainly contrary to reasonable consumer expectations, and it wouldn't surprise me if the EU, at least, had laws regarding this kind of issue.
OpenBSD removes support for non-UTF8 locales
Legal Issue – Woulda Shoulda Coulda
What legal issues do you wish you had known to think about, or learn about, or resolve either right at the start of your venture or otherwise, earlier than you actually found out about it?
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>C++ has no ability to do so, so it does not provide a thread unsafe version.

In which case would you like to enforce a thread unsafe version?

>Additionally, in C++ there's nothing stopping me from wrapping a unique_ptr around a pointer that's aliased else where. This violates the guarantees of a unique_ptr and forces the user to make sure its invariants are held. In Rust the compiler ensures that your Box (Rust's unique_ptr) can never be owned more than once.

True, nothing stops you to do that and it is nice to know it on compile time. But I fail to say how you would do this by accident. If you deliberately want to do this kind of things, then you are asking for trouble and it doesn't matter how awesome your language is, you would find a way to shoot your foot.
> I think it’d be great if it became a new tradition that people from the tech world do a tour of duty

I really can't stand this language.

"Tour of duty" means fighting in combat, for years, at low pay. Getting $130k/yr [1] to pad your resume isn't a "tour of duty."

[1] http://fcw.com/articles/2014/10/27/red-tape-holding-back-hir...
Not disagreeing with you, but I don't see any programs that would actually help people do that on a global basis. The US Digital Service idea is great - I wouldn't want anyone to be under the impression that it isn't "big enough".
Right, because VW should blindly build parts into their vehicles without vetting the security they bring (especially when said part is in fact a security component). Tougher to do when vetting such a part requires expertise in the field, but blindly trusting the supplier is never a good practice.
viksit, at sameroom.io we are building real-time messaging gateway system (currently adding FB, Telegram and Whatsapp).

Would you be interested in us opening a generic API to apps like yours so we handle all protocol differences?
I'm a contractor under the GSA's OCSIT, sharing a floor with 18F, the PIFs, and occasionally members of the USDS that come to hang out. It's great to see the feds hiring awesome technologists and doing great things, including some of the technologies that are currently only available to teams with, as the developers of them say, "a reasonable pain tolerance". My only advice to 18F is that they should figure out pathways to provide the services they intend to provide, create a management plan, and stick with it. I would recommend them to check out the business models of Peter Corbett's iStrategyLabs, who is right here in Washington D.C. and doing great work for some really big brands, and VICE's Carrot Creative, from Brooklyn, if they want to see the agency model in action.
Please don't editorialize titles. The title of the video is "How Amazon Works" and describes robots in their fulfillment centers.
Developers don't need to switch. They can just host and authenticate their software internally. Spotify passes on the savings to their consumers [1] with a model like that.

[1] http://www.cultofmac.com/328554/spotify-wants-its-listeners-...
Really happy seeing these initiatives and the way the White House is thinking about bringing technology to the government.

I just can't understand why other government bodies and countries still give all their work to big corporations asking for ridiculous amounts of money for delivering questionable work quality. Their only thinking is how we can deliver the worst software ever that require us to maintain it for as many years as possible.

Give the work to smart folks who are willing to make it happen because they believe in that country and how they can make a true impact and you'll get wonderful software at a reasonable price that will just work.
I too am curious if Sam will take his own advice and do a tour.
Perhaps it is already complete.

Inspiration:

A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?"

"It will take one year," said the Master promptly.

"But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer frowned. "In that case, it will take two years."

"And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer shrugged. "Then the design will never be completed," he said.
I feel the author's pain and 30% does seem ridiculously high given the service Apple provides. And given that it's these same developers that make Apple's hardware as popular as it is by providing awesome apps and services. And I do not like the monopolistic nature of the App Store -- that it's integrated into Mac OS X in a way that other software sales platforms could never compete with.

But.

If 30% is too expensive -- if the added benefits of promotion through the App Store and other services don't make up for the loss -- why is it even a question? Don't sell through the Mac App Store. The presumption is that it's more profitable not to. So don't.
The best part about this ML course is that all assignments are in Torch (a deep learning framework in Lua) for which Andrej Karpathy has good things to say on his blog[0]

> "Brief digression. The code is written in Torch 7, which has recently become my favorite deep learning framework. I've only started working with Torch/LUA over the last few months and it hasn't been easy (I spent a good amount of time digging through the raw Torch code on Github and asking questions on their gitter to get things done), but once you get a hang of things it offers a lot of flexibility and speed. I've also worked with Caffe and Theano in the past and I believe Torch, while not perfect, gets its levels of abstraction and philosophy right better than others."

[0] - http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
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That would be very interesting! Ping me offline? (username at gmail)
Sorry about that - we got a bit overloaded. It's also a beta platform, hence the loading page issue.
Comcast to launch digital video platform Watchable
Absolutely - and a lot of what USDS, 18f and PIF do is bring technical people into gov't not only to design and code software, but to make sure the right solution gets implemented, and help policy makers understand how effective technology gets built.
Glad to see the language evolve.

It feels great, once one gets used with the borrow checker messages.

One thing that could make the language better(and was mentioned in the post) is faster compilation.

Having programmed in Go, this may be one of its best points, just have a watcher that recompiles the program on change(and maybe run the unittests). Though it can be argued that not all types of programs benefit from such workflow, it's still one of my favorite things.
Plus the fact that if there was no App store Apple wouldn't have as high of hardware sales so it has intrinsic value just being there.
One of my team members is a former Army Captain and Iraq veteran. He doesn't seem to mind.

And the only way anyone would be making $130K is if they landed at the top step of the GS-15 scale. I know most offers are made around the GS-13 level.
The Unreal development kit has an interesting pricing method. The first $50k you make is completely royalty free, and after that Unreal takes a 25% cut. Now that I think about it, Apple's approach seems incredibly lazy considering its size and the size of the market. I guess there's enough demand for apps that developers are willing to put up with shitty terms.

I can't link directly to the answer, but it's the last FAQ, 'Can you explain the UDK commercial license terms'. https://www.unrealengine.com/previous-versions/udk-licensing...
Not yet, but Nick Cameron (@nrc) has been holding talks with many IDE makers and plans to launch a "Rust IDE initiative" very soon.
Thank you for the kind offer, I will see how things progress next week.
I’m the type that only runs arch because I can’t be bothered to run Gentoo ;)

Anyway, for posting on a public forum it’s pretty useless, as it provides no benefit and requires the users to have JS enabled, which is, especially on Hacker News, not really a given.

Even the mods complained when an up1.ca link was used as submission link recently.

Using a standard protocol would be an advantage here most definitely.
"Tour of duty" means fighting in combat, for years, at low pay.

No it doesn't. If the army started paying better would it mean soldiers aren't taking tours of duty any more?

Historically it has been a term associated with the army because it was one of very few ways a person could serve their country. I actually think it's a great repurposing of the term - despite the fact that it is a relative well-paid desk job I'd wager that a lot of people could get more money going to Google/Facebook/whatever. It's still a form of public service.
Phew! I was thinking this was going to be a template-meta programming example of a y-combinator...

Looks useful!
OP here: I tested this system with a IR thermometer. Unplugging 2 out of 3 cables does make the remaining cable get warm after an hour of operation, but it doesn't burn, melt, or smoke. Running with just 2 cables, the system remains nice and cool, the third one is there for backup. In case of failure, if resistance on one of the cables goes up, the electricity will naturally flow through the other 2 cables with less resistance. Any short in any of the 3 wires will instantly trip the 30 amp fuse. If, for some reason, 2 out of 3 cables get unplugged, but not shorted, for some reason. The last remaining cable does have a potential to overheat after hours of operation, but the fuse should blow way before any significant problem could occur. It's just as unlikely that someone will come and neatly disconnect 2/3 extension cords as it is that 2/3 of the strands in the thick extension cord will be damaged, causing it to also overheat.
We have to just pick one outcome variable for each experiment though, or it's going to get too complicated.
The real point is that no advice or consultation was being made, it was purely opinion-based commentary. There is no reason to believe it will affect WG charter, and in fact The Tao of IETF explicitly notes that face-to-face WG meetings aren't of high significance to the actual WG's charter. Snowden recommending DNSSEC isn't going to suddenly suspend all rational judgment in those circles.
Fair point.

If you're interested in the changepoint detection use cases, we have a package for that, too. :)

https://github.com/lytics/impact
The source refers to flat-ui as a variation of Bootstrap. So I guess its this one: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/

Did not know it and indeed looks interesting :-)
It appears that Whatsapp may have (temporarily?) blocked access to their service.

User interactions have really spiked as we speak. Try shifting to FB Messenger (if abroad or not wanting to use SMS) or SMS in the meanwhile!
Stick with Murakami, he's pretty much absorbed the entire Western canon and now left us with his charming "shuffling" of it. Hopefully you also read Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball 1973. They were his first two and recently reprinted ( this month, August 2015 ) in English.
I'm so very sorry.

Making a good first run involving BlueTooth pairing is... a challenge to say the least.

My team spent over 2 months trying to design a good flow. We failed. We still meet regularly to try and improve it, but we are never sure how successful we can be.
Some of the other comments refer to rewrites where the intention was to expand scope / technology / scale / etc. The Healthcare.gov rewrite was simply to make a functional system. If you have a system that does A, it is absolutely easy (relative to greenfield) to rewrite another system to do A. The problem is that most rewrites don't just set out to do A, but to also incorporate B, C, D and E, with an easy framework that enables F, G and H, and...
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