skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glassbreakers is launching enterprise software for diversity
Hmm, that the acquisition would mean anything for node directly seems off. At least, the blog post seemed to indicate that this wasn't meant to be about IBM buying influence. I wasn't a customer and not particularly keen on the enterprise focus of strongloop but I thought you had a really good thing going with loopback. Not sure what to think of it now... I was in a startup that got acquired by a huge multinational and it was shocking how quickly we went from nimble to gridlock.
I know in general there's no room for pity when it comes to animals for food. But just felt sad reading this, especially the attempts to replicate Mike's case. It frustrates me that while we make a strong legal case against cruelty towards animals, we don't give a thought about those animals that are turned to food for humans. Of course, you could argue why harm vegetables/plants for food, but I guess animals suffer much more because of higher consciousness.
Beacon and Immigration: $3M to Fill a Journalism Gap
Wait, is this seriously a problem for people, or an xkcd joke?
Facebook does a whole lot more now than they did when there were 80M users. I think if they provided the same functionality over the years this would be more concerning.
> So, let's break down the fields of CS for which this should be applicable:

> So, is this focused on ML and ML-using code and experiments?

Your completely missing the point. Please look into 'Computational Science' (or Scientific Computing, or Numerical Analysis), that applies to 80%+ of all disciplines that exist today (e.g., computational physics, comp. biology, comp. economics, comp. aspects of engineering disciplines, the list goes on).
Rather interesting, though, the scope is limited to USA alone.

Supposing you make your way out of USA, a good solution for restarting your life is to join the French Foreign Legion. They'll take recruits from 17.5 - 39.5 years old. No questions asked, for a year. You literally start with a new name, an assumed identity which is a sign-up requirement. Their tagline is "the school of second chance."

You get fed, you get training, you get a salary. If in that year you do well, learn the language, learn soldiering, progress, you can get French citizenship. After the first year, you can either continue your career under your assumed identity, or reconcile your issues with your country of origin.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/french-foreign-legion.htm
For what it's worth, I've had the opposite experience and never fail to tweak my back when using dumbbells.

Barbell training is quite safe if you learn proper technique.

Also, if strength is a goal, it's very difficult to work with heavier weights without a bar.
The popsci version of Many Worlds is terrible, because it implies that some sort of meta-conservation laws are violated in the creation of all of these universes. (where do all the universes come from?)

This is simply just bad explanation of perfectly reasonable math. This happens all the time with fundamental physics. Unfortunately the bad explanations persist, because coming up with good nuanced metaphors is hard, and they tend to be harder to communicate.
Rice Researchers Demo Solar Water-Splitting Technology
Looks better now! Though checking on a mobile its a little broken.
How would you prevent this if they use multiple phones? You couldn't.
Sorry for the nitpick, but is it logarithmic or exponential in this case?

To the point, I would not be surprised if 5,500 was the "settling" point. In my experience, the hiring pendulum takes some time to swing far enough to include an adequate number of employees in a rapidly scaling environment. (e.g., I would not be surprised if 500 million users were served by 750 employees.)
Which is why taxi drivers continue to meet the definition of a contractor, while Uber drivers do not. Uber's entire model is built over the control they exert to enable the experience they desire. Without that control, they don't have a brand, but by needing that control, it prohibits their operating model (using contractors).
yeah and they get 'leaked' and you are screwed. or they just snoop around figure out that you weren't Jason Bourne at all but actually David Webb. cue music...
What about software contractors that are handed work equipment, required to work a minimum of 40 hrs (full time) and have to show up to an office. How are they not considered employees?
Maybe things are different in CA, but as a driver in FL:

> Taxi drivers get to choose how they do their job (i.e. who to pick up).

I can reject any fare.

> Moreover taxi companies do not forbid customers from tipping nor do they get a percentage of a taxi driver's gratuity.

Uber doesn't forbid me from getting tips, and doesn't take any of the tips that I do get...
> I think most Perl4 programs will run on the latest Perl 5.

I think most programs that will run on the latest Perl 5 will run on the latest Perl 6.[1]

So, yeah, feel free to roll with Perl4 and maybe mix it up with a little Perl 6 magic (eg concurrency or Unicode grapheme string handling).

[1] https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5/
Actually have you ever been to an Ikea alone? You can get pretty lost..
Honestly the preview doesn't read to me like any of them, Pynchon included. When I tried to think of a name that I wouldn't be surprised to see on the cover, the first one that came to mind was Austin Grosmman.

I am not saying that he wrote it! Just that the style of this book (based on a few pages) is much closer to his (and many other writers of his generation) than to Pynchon's.
They are. If you are in this situation, consult with a California labor attorney.
It's a cool concept. Fingerprint databases kind of throw a monkey wrench at it though (if your fingerprints are in a database).
Not at all.

I'm a sprinter, so I do take a quantitative approach to running.

I also lift weights, and I would say that I do so seriously. But my weights are my own body and big rice sacks filled with water bottles that I heave around in various ways until I'm tired. I'm an experienced enough athlete to know when I'm hitting my limits, without following any specific metric.
A peer review can identify a very large class of problems with research without actually replicating the experiment.

For example, problems with methodology and sampling, overlooked prior research, bad analysis of results, straight-up non-sequiturs and conclusions drawn from insufficient data.

All of these mean peer review is valuable without reproducing results.

For an extreme example: if somebody publishes a "Cheese found on moon" paper, do you expect the reviewer to mount an expedition to the moon to check?
I worked for IBM for a period and all the teams I was around were very family-friendly when it came to work/life balance. Much more so than other younger/cooler tech companies I've worked for and read about. There were downsides at IBM for sure, but this wasn't one of them.
Came up with some similar results a couple months ago. I looked at it from just bugs per commit, but I also have some cool charts! http://deliberate-software.com/safety-rank-part-2/
We've suffered a few engineering-related delays. It is a few weeks out still. More details later.
Not anymore! GNU tar now figures it out automagically :)
Wi Fi in the schools is a disaster. Constant screen viewing hampers brain development, cognition and the biological effects of chronic microwave exposure may cause cancer, neurological problems, blood brain barrier permeability, reproductive harm, etc. There are now over a dozen sperm studies that confirm sperm damage from using a laptop. Microwave radiation from Wi-Fi routers was classified a Class 2B carcinogen by the W.H.O. in 2011. None of these microwave emitting devices were ever pre-market safety tested. When we measured the microwave exposure in my daughter's school it was 50x's higher than standing 100 feet from a cell tower. Science confirms this but the 4 trillion dollar telecommunications industry buys scientists, media and members of high profile agencies. Industry money is the second highest source of revenue that the U.S. "Government" has. How can it be that the FCC is funding this disaster and is also in charge of regulating microwave exposures of wireless devices. Exposure levels in the US are 100 x's higher than levels in Russia and China. What do they know about harm that we are not telling??? <strong><a href="http://www.sott.net/article/268183-34-scientific-studies-sho... Scientific Studies Related to Exposure to Microwave Radiation from Wi-Fi</a></strong>

http://www.wirelesswatchblog.org
Does Uber define what sort of vehicle you can use? Do they provide any sort of guidelines or rules on how the work is done? Are you only providing services for Uber?

If the above answers are yes, they're breaking the law.
Also report them to the IRS. You'll receive a portion of the taxes and penalties recovered.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/How-Do-You-Report-Suspected-T...
I'll bet Canada has a plan to do that even now, and vice versa.

Drawing up that type of plan is the military's job. There are undoubtedly plans to invade every country, including Monaco, the Vatican, and Iceland. It doesn't mean that an invasion is immanent, or even expected. You always plan for the worst-case scenario.
Lifting in a gym is not necessary. I get a fantastic workout by doing body weight training and lifting weighted sacks that I made with materials costing ~5$.
Running highly effective experiments
Always sad to see the state dictating consenting and willing adults how they should run their lives and work. I'm used to it though as a French.
You certainly seemed ready to defend lev_k. Someone makes a ridiculous comment like "Maybe 'scientists who are girls' would be more befitting?" (I thought that was hilarious until I realized they weren't joking) mcv calls him out, and then you jump in and explain why "girls" is okay to use here?

Again, it's not. It's really really not. Outside of pop song lyrics and college parties "girl" is not the opposite of "guy." And if you don't understand the connotations/subtle unspoken irony when a middle aged woman says "she's going out with The Girls" (and, yeah, my white-haired grandmother still says this -- she's less serious and more vocal about the phrase every year) you probably shouldn't be using the word at all when you're referring to anyone over the age of 12.

So, okay, great, you said you wouldn't actually use it. But why were you defending it, or... trying to come up with an explanation and using your 50 year old female friend as a rationalization? I don't get it.
Interview: RMS Answers Your Questions
This article is highly misleading. Sure, certain kinds of data (like credit card data or medical data) can be a liability if not properly managed. If you are working in one of those industries you already know that (although arguably many financial and medical companies underestimate the risks).

In contrast, data about what users have clicked, comments on an online forum, or who has friended who on your social media site is not a liability. In many cases this data is already public. Even in cases where it's not, it is usually incredibly boring for any hacker to steal, like what web pages John Doe has clicked on in the last 10 minutes. Hackers are going to go after stuff like social security numbers or credit card numbers, not data about the average length of time people spent looking at Pepsi Inc. web page layout A versus web page layout B.

The argument that you should only store "the data that you need" is a circular one. How do you know what data you need? Well, you run an analysis. How do you run an analysis? Using the data you have. Short-sighted policies like throwing away historical data, as the article recommends, effectively blind you to long-term trends.
Is it impossible to default on that loan? Can Uber beat their drivers into submission?
You mean the "Kindel?"
The bigger problem is the nature of this sort of data. All of this sort of data needs to be invalidated all the time and provided as some sort of hash rather than actual data that is usable.
Yup, I can see it for computational experiments or "applied CS" fields. I realized this soon after I posted the comment, but I didn't bother to update my comment.

However, this still isn't clear in their website. I will give them the benefit of the doubt since they are early in their project, but I think it would behoove them to nail down their mission sooner rather than later.

This is probably what I get being in the CS bubble. =)
What the drone knows
7 Tips I wish I knew before becoming a Digital Nomad
It probably has something to do with concurrency being common in Go code. The primary implementations of Ruby and Python (for example) have almost no meaningful form of concurrency. That means most Ruby and Python apps have no concurrency, thus no concurrency bugs.
Microsoft Edge Roadmap
> Caplets are classes that hook into the capsule and modify its behavior.

What problem does this solve? Because it sounds like it is going to create quite a few new ones.
Exactly. Intellectual property is worthless. The only thing of value is intellect.
That was a great read. Thanks!
3 Things dad taught me about money
Getting disrupted sucks I suppose.
"Nobody should bother developing an alternative to SQLite because 1% of SQLite's users won't be able to run it" isn't a valid argument against developing an alternative any more than "Microsoft shouldn't bother developing Windows 95 because some users still have a 286" would have been in 1993.

Nobody is saying that those who need SQLite as it exists today shouldn't continue to fund its development. It's just that writing off the development of alternatives as unrealistic because they'll only be runnable by 99% of SQLite's install base as opposed to 100% of it is silly.
Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?
A lot of advice out there says find a co-founder. But for those of you who are doing it alone, what is your startup?
I think this is a pretty good, general rule. But with everything in technology it's not true for everything. For instance auditing and medical records. Basically the only exceptions are going to be things not actionable in the market.

Good read!
Evidently the Legion now asks for ID and runs recruits through Interpol prior to letting them join[0].

[0]: Things Google tells me when I should be working[1]

[1]: http://www.overseas-exile.com/p/french-foreign-legion-myths....
Do you have any good references for your statement about laser surveillance? Generally speaking, although the us government is a wallowing pile of inefficiency, it generally tends to be true that our military technology is a fair bit ahead of where it is thought to be. I didn't even know satellite laser surveillance was a thing, so I am genuinely curious here.
Rms.sexy
it's the free market ...
> The pinnacle of laser surveillance ... hundreds of meters

I suspect the limitation is atmospheric distortion which astronomers have pretty much solved a ways back, by observing a laser pilot beam. Considering they can look through about a dozen km of air (upwards) like that, it's not a stretch to think spook gear can go a dozen km horizontally to a window.

That said, that's not a haystack tech; someone would be onto you already if they were using it.
Those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive options. Something can be "open source" and still have only one contributor.
While you code
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Argentina hails UN vote on sovereign debt restructuring
Makes sense; nobody is going to tell you it's not your job to get somewhere you are being payed to be.
I'd be interesting in joining the community groups you mentioned on Slack, but I have never used Slack before and it seems to want me to create an account for an entire organization and won't allow me to create one as an individual.

Not very obvious to me what to do. ;)
A nitpick (beyond the spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors throughout): The part about "most states in the Union require 24 hours before reporting a missing person" is nothing but a Hollywood trope. The fact is, most agencies require a missing person to be entered into their respective state's database within a few hours of the report. I can say unequivocally that Georgia has a two-hour window, as I've entered many such reports during my stint in law enforcement, and that is our state's requirement.

The reason they want to enter the person as soon as possible is so that any checks for that person's info will return a "hit" in time to locate the person. For example, George has dementia, goes for a walk at 8am, and is gone for several hours. He is reported missing at 12pm, and the police report is keyed into the state database by 1pm. At 2pm that same day, George is stopped by an officer and his information ran on the state computer. A hit shows up that states he's a missing-endangered person (endangered due to his mental state), the officer notifies his department so they can notify the family, and all is well. Now, if the bogus 24 hour rule was real, George never would have been reported the day he went missing, and perhaps would have met a grisly demise that night. Timely reporting is a potentially life-saving measure and I really wish television and the movies would stop it with that particularly dangerous bit of misinformation.
> Time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a fixed office should be regarded as working time, the European Court of Justice has ruled

Oh well.
Thanks for responding. I'm happily using React in my personal life but we don't use it at work (for no reason than we don't need SPA). One last question, is there an official policy as to how long will you support a release?
But they don't just take anyone. Here's an article about a guy who tried to join [1]. Here's another article about some people who made it in [2]. It doesn't seem as exciting as the image that a lot of people have (me included).

[1] http://www.vice.com/read/i-tried-joining-the-french-foreign-...

[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/unchanged/2012/12/french-foreign-l...
Those are all excellent points, but even if you don't find any significant problems with the methodology or the math, or any of the other factors, that still doesn't make a complete review--not without replication.

For the 'Cheese found on moon' paper, I would expect the reviewer to clearly state that the results could not be replicated before mentioning anything else. Let readers draw informed conclusions based on a complete picture of the result, including whether or not it was a one-off.
I've been looking for something like this (and thinking about developing something if I can't find a satisfactory solution) to use across many different hosts to identify duplicate files, etc. I've got media spread across many different linux and os x machines. Can crab handle this?
Spotted the Bayesian.
I think it's a mistake to think of natural languages as being rationality, deliberately constructed. They evolve organically, most often without -- and often in direct resistance too -- conscious design efforts. Elements of language are sometimes imposed by deliberate, premeditated campaigns, but these tend to be the exception rather than the rule.

Languages aren't generally products of design.
Check out Enigma [1]. It allows a 3rd party to perform computations on encrypted data using distributed, secure multi-party computations.

Thing is it's at least 20x slower than computing over plaintext, and nodes will have to be compensated with fees, much like Bitcoin miners.

Still, for safety critical industries, this could be a very useful tool. Especially if the government steps in and mandates such a protocol.

Here's a more in-depth write-up I did a few weeks back if you're interested: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-use-cases-enigma-homomorp...

[1] http://enigma.media.mit.edu/enigma_full.pdf
Node.js v4.0.0 – Node at its best
Yay for commercial open source!
Yes, I use this regardless now. It seems these days most shoes I've bought have shoelaces with less surface friction and come undone really easily.
I believe it's the half-life for each bond. But 10^22 is plenty high enough that essentially all bond are broken, and certainly not enough left to reconstruct the genome. (You need unbroken sections of certain minimal lengths to statistically reconstruct what was there before.)

I think you're right that it's a temperature thing.
Pantelegraph
But...is it the employers issue if you choose to work 4 hours away from where you live? Are they allowed to not employ people based on where they live as it is going to impact their costs?

I like the idea, but i get the feeling the implementation will result in no major benefit for anyone.

Edit: I'm an idiot and i understand now :-)
You basically need to know three options for tar:

-x EXTRACT
-c CREATE
-f - USE STDIN/OUT

to create a tar file of the current directory:

tar -cf - . | gzip > /tmp/foo.tar.gz

to extract:

gzip < /tmp/foo.tar.gz | tar -xf -

why tar has all the options was someone's idea they were helping you out -- they weren't

Create is -c --- remember that
eXtract is -x - remember that
-f - is stdout/stdin depending on your need -- remember that

pipes are your friend.
Thankfully, because I wouldn't want to be discriminated against if I chose to live further away from work so I could afford a nicer, bigger place.
We'll probably soon move out of Heroku exactly because of this, makes no sense to have our stuff in the States when our user base is in Tokyo.
This boy got his dream internship thanks to HN
The C/C++ libraries you're holding up as examples get no compiler support.

That said, I do think a much better style of coroutines for Rust would be a C#-esque async/await transformation, converting stack-frames/local variables into an enum, allowing literally zero-cost coroutines (all the state is stored inline, no need to allocate a separate stack). Relevant issues:

- https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388

- https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1081

I'm pretty sure this is quite non-trivial to implement automatically.

---

C++ has had 20 years of stability, Rust only 3 months. Rust will get concurrent IO before C++ has on that time scale.

The goal with 1.0 was to stabilise enough of the language that people can start using it to write libraries that work into the forseeable future, allowing them to seriously explore the space of, for example, concurrent IO in Rust. Once enough exploration has been done (maybe you think enough has been done for async IO now), the functionality can start to become more official.
Numato Opsis: FPGA-based open video platform
Hopefully this puts more interest among executives and managers towards distributed/remote teams.
Isn't it the case that if you reject more than a tiny percentage of fares, Uber will fire you?
Don't be silly. These functions are built into `Float` and `Double`.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Double.ht...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Double.ht...

Both are marked as native functions in OpenJDK 7:

http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...

http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...
The combined density will be lower than any of the cities you might reasonably build trains. I don't see how this isn't meaningful.
The spooks do use similar technology to process downwards-looking images, but I still don't think they're at the point of reading your conversation off your windows from space, though, based off of the maturity of the various systems.
For example: launch a capsule in a container, run a capsule as a daemon/service, or turn a capsule to a native app. Other uses may include reading configurations from etcd/ZooKeeper or querying information about the host and using it to set better JVM flags.

See the list of available caplets: http://www.capsule.io/caplets/
Know how I know you didn't read the article?
Most people do not pay for K-12 education in the US (it's paid for via taxation as in Germany), they go to public schools. The OP is talking about typical public high schools from what I can tell. Definitely a different context from college.