skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great (and possibly NSFW) tumblr dedicated to this genre: http://the-scandyfactory.tumblr.com/
Yeah, i just came expecting to see something about the issues of porting scripts between shells or something. especially as there has been a whole lot of pro/con shell scripts as of late.
"These are the stakes. We must trust in C, or we must die."

Dear God... lol
> Especially worth remembering given that if the East German authorities <SNIP>

Interesting how mass-murdering oppressors/tyrants are still "authorities". Do people have some sort of moral obligation to obey that kind of authorities?

What about the currently non-mass-murdering "authorities" in our countries? Did Hitler still have the same "authority" when he was mass-murdering Jews as he did before starting?

.. Or is (political) "authority" just an illusion?
Brink, you say?
Why a former devotee? Why is this orthogonal to their spiels?
Agreed. One interesting direction the project could go in is building as a framework to be embeddable into OS X apps. Cocoa already makes it trivial to expose Objective-C objects to JSC. This would just extend that to being able to script Cocoa apps in Clojure(Script).
Gold and cryptocurrencies work just like using the currency from some other country. Their exchange value don't reflect the economy that is using it and country can't have independent monetary policy.
fwiw There's also a list of companies on the Pharo website, maybe their websites show more of that sort of thing --

http://pharo.org/Companies
There's a bunch of illnesses that are physically debillitating but that don't seem to have physical explanations. They often respond well to psychological talking therapy treatments.

So the problem is letting people know that they may well cure their health condition with a talking therapy without making it sound like you're dismissing them as malingerers. And there's also a need to stop them stigmatising mental health problems ("no! My illness is real! It's not in my head")

So, thanks for talking about what helped you.
Great collection!

Maybe one could ask the authors if they could donate their debugging articles to a cc licensed repository so the articles themselves could be hosted instead of linking? That would be very nice I think.
I'd say it looks better because it's mimicking accumulation of dirt in the cracks moreso than mimicking the light/shadow.

SSAO a perfectly useful tool for that, but it's definitely more applicable to a shield than to an interior corner of a room.
I live in Venezuela and item's prices are raising horrible, let me tell you something I am electrical engineer and computer engineer, and my salary is only 10.3$/month, ridiculous, but his is how socialism works everyone are equalized but to poverty. To buy a car in Venezuela you need to save money for 50 years without buying food supplies, to buy a house it takes 200 years, to buy dollars you need to be a friend of Maduro, my most bright colleagues have left the country so I am.
I've thought about this. Even lights do this, as every green light is actually saying "please blow through this blind intersection at 45mph". It seems like more of a concern for my terms (1) and (3) on larger roads, possibly encouraging traffic get up to 60mph.

For neighborhoods, the streets wouldn't be getting any wider which is a larger speed factor. Driving on your side of the line, you'd feel pretty close to driveways etc. And if you're stradding the line because nobody else is coming the other way, I don't see how that would encourage you to go any faster than you do currently.
Lack of diversification doesn't play into the calculation of expected value. The expected value of 100% chance of $1m is the same as the expected value of 1% chance of $100m.

If you're an individual trying to make a utility-based decision, though, you have to take into account the diminishing marginal utility of each additional dollar, i.e. you care much more about the first $1m than the next $1m.
Walking in War’s Path
It's always difficult to answer questions like this, because code can be structured in so many different ways, good and bad, to do the same things. It's probably safe to say in this case that for a well-written body of code this would be a simple change: likely changing the default value of a flag, or the boolean expression in a branch. However the code could be written to make it much more difficult, and there is just no way to get a sense of that without understanding how it is put together.
In Venezuela is illegal to buy any KIND of currency, without the government approval.

You can find the dollar price here -> dolartoday.com
You will find how poor all venezuelans are :(
It's just context. Those in power at the time. As for resisting, see the context about those being resisted as mass murderers.

In any case, it helps differentiate between those in power and those seeking power.
Sigil is a Parenscript to JavaScript command line compiler and REPL
Have my upvote for your opinion.

Problem is, that you're basically "forced" to produce a mobile site by Google, otherwise you'll be way down in the SERPs :(

I never understood the point of mobile sites - i'm perfectly capable of pinching my screen, in case something is unreadable (which isn't too much, given retina screens and all that...)
The Chrome app on iOS is just a Safari-powered Web View inside a Chrome-like UI.

https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/ios/overview
But have any Republican elected officials actually put these policies into action? I mean, let's take Scott Walker. What has he done in Wisconsin? Seems like a lot of giveaways to the wealthy and not much else. This despite having a pretty solid mandate as mandates go these days (given that he survived a recall).

There are lots of reasonable-sounding proposals on various topics on both sides of the aisle (mostly from think tanks). The important thing is what happens when a party actually gets into government.
I have never heard of someone being granted preferred stock in a startup, except in return for cold hard cash. Part of the rationale of preferred stock is to protect investors from the CEO just selling the company tomorrow and taking home a large % of the cash in the bank.
If I were a neural net learning to tell real light vs ambient occlusion, I'd immediately learn to look for the spider webs. I was fascinated by this article and loved the author's approach of graphing real photos. But I got a giggle when I started seeing the prominent spider webs.
How to share Go packages to C and Golang
> The framework allows for partial data updates

Good! Additionally, it would be useful to memory map buffers and allow using raw pointers in addition to std::vectors. But more importantly, it would be necessary to use the output of one kernel as the input of another kernel invocation.

Anyway, build it to suit your use case primarily. Happy hacking!
How one German millennial chose to live on trains rather than pay rent
If you have the patience and willingness to learn some basic and not-so-basic acccounting principles: I'd suggest GNUCash (http://www.gnucash.org/)
I wonder why there's inflation in Venezuela, and not e.g. in the EU or the US. In particular, how is the printing of money by Venezuela different from the printing that goes on in the West (Quantitative Easing).

I guess the only difference is that in the West, the money goes mostly to the banks, which distribute it to the companies or invest it in the stock market and real estate. Consequently, the rich get richer and the poor don't see any of this money.

But I can't see why the situation in Venezuela would be any different. I can't imagine the printed money reaches poor people - I mean, the recipients are most likely big companies and people close to the governments, the elite, exactly the same as in the US.
I am not in Venezuela, but I work with some guys there. Your "10.3$/month" is a blatant, and pretty absurd lie. If this account created a few minutes ago is going to be used to spread lies, please use it somewhere else, not in HN. We don't need you.
Why?

After all, a Watt is simply a Joule/second.

Watts are how we measure power. A Watt second (joule) isn't particularly useful. A watt-hour (or kWh or MWh) makes sense for many industrial processes.

Otherwise we're talking 3600 Joule / kilojoule / megajoule quantities (seconds per hour).

Or multiples of 86,400 per day.

Sensible units aren't always decimal.
Per Brinch Hansen: The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System (1970) [pdf]
http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/israel-pays...

>Genetic changes stemming from the trauma suffered by Holocaust survivors are capable of being passed on to their children
>The conclusion from a research team at New York’s Mount Sinai hospital led by Rachel Yehuda
>Rachel Yehuda
Stopped right there.

A jew in America really has to do some serous mental gymnastics to stay in the oppression Olympics.. They are the richest per capita ethnic group in the United States and at less than 2% of the population they are vastly overrepresented in media, law, academia, banking, and anything else that is high status.
jewish privilege? That's racist.
Meanwhile every presidential contender will travel to the other side of the world to pay homage to their ruined temple.

>the genetic study of 32 Jewish men and women
>32

This article is quite funny.
Yes.

But if you turn on WiFi and Location at the same time (which is not uncommon), then it will suck your battery dry in seconds. Turn any of those two off, and it works.
Great collection! Love these kinds of stories - hate to struggle with these kinds of problems.
>Not to mention that their sample size was 32.

No offense (really!), but this kind of criticism makes me suspect that you don't know much about research and statistics.

Statistical power matters, not the sample size, per se. If you want to criticize the size of n, you have to tell us what makes you think they have insufficient statistical power (which will invariably involve estimating an effect size for us).

Your previous points are well-taken, though.
Here is the thing, the cryptography is really not the weak part of a communication system. You really don't gain anything by using a one-time pad over something like AES-256 in any practical sense. You're only making the part of your system stronger that is already more than strong enough (From a thermodynamics point of view you couldn't even brute force AES-256 if you had a supernova as an energy source [1]). Difficult parts of a secure communication system are authentication, key-exchange, etc.

Example how to compromise your system: I send your friend a message with some random data and pretend to be you. Now he doesn't know what's going on and you two are out of sync and cannot securely re-sync your keys without meeting up again.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...
Ask HN: Open Source projects an intermediate python programmer can contribute to?
I have been writing python (more specifically Django) for a year or so. I want to start working on some Open source projects where my contributions can be of some significance.
SnoPy – Snobol Pattern Matching Extension for Python
Yours is the only response that has attempted to answer the question which was asked. As you say, the others have focused on how to value the offer, i.e. to compare the salary+equity with an equivalent salary-only offer.

For the OP, Angel List may be a good source of comparative data. It has job postings with salary and equity ranges for similar positions.
Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years
American taxpayers give Israel $10.2M per day [pdf]
Ugh, if you bring up Rust in this thread it's clear you have little to no experience actually writing large amounts of system-level code. Rust has been around for all 2-3 years now? 1.0 for what? Months? What large successful Rust code bases have you worked on? What have you actually built with Rust?

C++ is for people who work on large mature codebases, deal with practical issues, and actually build stuff. Talk to me about the virtues of Rust when you actually have real experience.
The Digital Native Marketing Trap, Another Startup CEO Blindspot
What matters more to me is that, as far as we know, there is no known link between genes and psychology. That is, which genes and HOW they affect our psychology.

I personally believe (strongly) that exposure to parent's stories and trauma (which I believe no one in their right mind would consider that it stoped at the gates of Auchwitz) influenced children growing up around Holocaust victims.
What does that last quote mean?
The Fed doesn't "give" money to anyone. They buy treasury bonds from the US government.
Only in Romania you can see this stuff
(disclaimer, i'm the co-founder of ScaleFT, a startup building products in this space: https://www.scaleft.com )

I believe that "ephemeral" or "dynamic" credentials is a concept that is just starting to emerge.

This particular implementation, I don't see what threats it is really stopping.

One question we lead with at ScaleFT is, "How Old should an SSH Key be?". It leads many to admit they have had the same key, across multiple companies, across multiple devices. The threats against that kind of private key are massive, everything from an old corporate backup at a company you don't even work at anymore, to an APT capturing it 3 weeks ago.

Basically using an SSH key, doesn't prove much, except that at any point in time, you had the associated private key. This is a pretty broad attestation of identity -- so generating a key for every use -- and then building in additional attestations of identity (eg, two factor) for the use of that key, is something I think we will see more of in the future.
Got it -- more of a README/ HOWTO than a project/application. Thanks!
+1 to the CommonsWare book. It's 1000s of pages of well-written reference material, and frequently updated.

If you like video learning, take a look at BitFountain and Udemy. Both have good courses on mobile development. IIRC Udacity also has one on Android development.
Compiler, rather.
Most big companies primarily grow through acquisitions and just gluing together innovative efforts and hoping that results in sufficient value after the attrition common after companies are acquired. If big companies could grow like start-ups often, we'd have a very different business climate.

It's why big companies are more concerned about losing revenue than growing it - this is the opposite with start-ups. It's what seems obvious when you're near your market cap.
Encryption is our best chance to stop mass surveillance
This title is literally true for me.

During the 70s my dad & his team built a programming language & runtime environment for realtime control systems in power stations. It was called Cutlass, and it's still in (dwindling) use today.

In my dad's context, the term 'realtime' drew the most useful distinction between types of system in that context.

In the web days, the term is used slightly differently, but still draws broadly the most useful distinction within the context.

And lastly in media, the tech industry and computer subcultures have a pretty bad track record of protecting words from mis-use... troll, hacker, repo, pull-request, etc. all have comically uninformed usage. You don't quarrel with folk who buy ink by the barrel, nor do you get far telling them that they're doing language wrong.

Personally this isn't an issue I choose to care about, language is contextual after all, but even if you do my advice would be to save your blood pressure for a fight you have a hope of winning.
Thanks for all your kind words. Glad to hear you appreciate our openness and that our UI was easy to navigate. We're still working on performance testing the new http server. I'll ask Jacob to consider writing a blog post when he is done.
The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online
This is what you DON'T do at a birthday party
At the risk of stating the obvious: the real HFT firms have run perfectly straight fiber between the exchanges (and/or use microwaves), and pay large amounts of money to have their cage closest to the order machines. They've rewritten operating systems to shave more time. They know everything you are doing - they see every order before it executes. They will see your orders, and change the prices before yours go through. You can watch this happen in real time.

You may be able to pry a few pennies from them while they are dealing with larger orders, but you ain't going to beat that set up.

Anecdotes to the contrary (I made money doing it!) are meaningless without an accompanying risk analysis. You can sometimes gamble a winning a penny vs losing a dime and win. That doesn't mean the expected value is positive, regardless of the results of some short term run.

If I had software that could beat the HFT firms I wouldn't be selling it to low-level consumers, I'd be either beating them at their own game or selling it to them for the hundreds of millions to billions that it was worth.
> Facebook made a grievous PR error taking back the internship.

Only if the issues surrounding the internship loss can be generalized enough that potential interns and employees will actually give a damn. Otherwise, it's just "some dude lost an internship. Wow. Gimme tha money."

Facebook has proven that "Code wins arguments" is bullshit, but Google has proven that they can be just as evil and manipulative as everyone else and you see how that's worked out.
seems to work just fine in scandinavia
How to Build a Jumbo Jet Engine – BBC, Rolls-Royce
If only there were some way to make source code accessible to the general public, and to allow people to... i don't know, "request" various changes be... "pulled" into the codebase?
I really don't understand this. Everyone wants to do it their way when it comes to docstrings. One of the big unfortunate culprits is "PyDev", which is an Eclipse plugin for python development. It's sole developer decided to divert from the already-established (if not already-hacky) docstring format of type hinting for lists. So now, instead of: "list of str", we have to contend with another format of: "list(str)".

I can't wait for the python PEP standards for function-annotation to become standard and permeate the editors.
Good work, specially on keeping the results from various platforms!
I still find value in much of what they espouse(d). But there's also a lot of dogma and belligerence in their words, which I used to enjoy but I now find a turnoff.
If you have very solid controls in place then a sample size of 32 is much more substantial IMHO than if you're dealing with real-world environmental factors where you have very little control.
Intel’s Krzanich: CEO Q&A at IDF
what?

1) A ton of contemporary research is funded through the American Cancer Society, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Herceptin was essentially kicked off through the charitable contributions of the cosmetics company Revlon.

2) Polio was cured through the efforts of a nongovernmental research agency (March of Dimes)

3) For basic research: The Glyn Research Trust was an entity set up to discover the chemiosmotic effect. Few people believed Mitchell, and it is unlikely that the work would have gotten public funding. Not only is the chemiosmotic effect now uncontroversial, but Mitchell won a Nobel Prize for his work.
Remember that placebo is a well known phenomena, so far without any reasonable explanation. It is there and obviously, hope, no matter its source, helps.
> We don't need you.

Don't speak for me.

Given at least half of us have no idea what 10.3$/month is, why don't one of you enlighten us and let us draw our own conclusions?
Another escape story is Bernd Boettger, who built a mini submarine:

http://www.hisutton.com/The%20Escape%20of%20Bernd%20Boettger...
Perhaps its just me, but use a deckchair for the logo, or place one on the beach?
I think the suggestion is that Alan Kay was disappointed that there was no Smalltalk-82, Smalltalk-84 and perhaps disappointed that there was no Smalltalk-04 with all the base libraries re-designed around traits.

http://www.ptidej.net/courses/ift6251/fall06/presentations/0...

Smalltalk-80 calcified Smalltalk.
You got me - I only play a lawyer on TV. Thanks for the perspective, is West/Lexis still hiring people to read over content and rank/organize it?
Indeed, RocketChat will be disabled by default as well. It will have a different url (FQDN) so you can run it on a separate server if you want to. We will only ship Rocket Chat if it uses PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB as noted in release announcement.
There's a documentary about VHS movies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewind_This!

It's somewhat reliant on nostalgia for the medium, which I don't have because I didn't have a VHS player, but even so, I found it interesting. It makes it clear why VHS is culturally important and why so many people care about it.
I'd argue that GP is right, but only partially. It may be true that "real-time became synonymous with instant results and zero delays to mainstream audiences". But the story continues: then the sales&marketing folks and various other bullshitters noticed that "realtime = fast" and "fast = good", and they did what they always do - stared to stretch the term so that they can steal some of the good feelings associated with it, even though their products don't deserve them. It's what happened with the word "hacker", or is happening with the word "geek" right now. If something is associated with good qualities among relevant enough audience, it will be co-opted by marketing and then used and abused until it loses any meaning.

That's what I hate about sales&marketing - it will fuck up everything that's cool.

And journalism, I guess is to blame too (they are marketers too, competing for our attention). My pet peeve: ever heard about a company "going nuclear" or taking "a nuclear option"? That phrase should not be used to mean anything less serious than threatening to deploy an actual ICBM.
Skepticism is important (especially to religious believers), but it doesn't give you a clue about the right path in life. Anger, the strongest asset of Dawkins et al., will not help you or me in any way. Ever.
> A common abuse of SSAO I see among early users: using it everywhere.

See also: every other graphic trick ever. HDR, bloom, lens flares, bump maps, normal maps, etc.

Basically, when a new rendering trick comes on the scene, everyone cranks it to 11 to show off that their engine can do it and to stand out from the older ones that don't. Then, eventually, they dial it down to something more reasonable.

It's fashion, plain and simple. The masses want to mimic high end fashion, so styles "flow downhill" from the avant garde to the rest. Meanwhile, the avant garde want to distinguish themselves from the masses, so they have to constantly come up with new things (or repurpose old things that have fallen out of use: see, pixel art). It's not about looking good as much as it is about looking uncommon.
Ask HN: Can I get a job without an Interview?
I suffer from severe social anxiety of new people. I feel gregarious/at home with people I trust ( much like a cat).

This makes me totally useless for traditional interviews.

I have some github presence ( 1-2 projects with > ~ 1000 stars) but nothing groundbreaking.

What should I do?