skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was ask on Reddit recently, and Chris Lattner answered:

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/3kbjjn/so_swift_isnt...

We are still on track to open source Swift (including Linux support) "by the end of 2015" as promised, more details will come out when they can.

-Chris
Monument Valley's Creators Just Made a Stunning VR Game
Fair point. Was going by the numbers of 3M USD seed round in 2012, and 17M in 2014. Without much major press and valuations being made public, it's kind of safe to assume that the 3M USD was burning out by the end of 2013. 14M from 2013 to 2015 would be 7M per year. Assuming rising costs from both running the business, 5M and 9M across two years seems plausible.

Given the number of employees in the company (26), 3 co founders, who form half of a 6 C-level team, it's likely that the team size increased along that curve as well (3M, 5M, 9M). This is entirely speculation at this point.

But after some further reading, it's possible that their business model may have just been not profitable. For each reader who read more than 10% of a book, the full retail price of the book is paid out to publishers. For people reading 3-4 books a month, they would be making a loss from those customers.

If you aren't the sort that reads 3-4 books a month, then you are also probably not the kind of person who spends a 10 USD subscription service to an 'all-you-can-read' ebook service. Therefore the larger base of customers there were probably loss makers. So assuming a growing customer base made up of loss makers it's entirely likely that they burnt out funds. Now that the running costs of a business in general were clarified in a reply above it actually makes sense that the money could have run out.
> Are you going to reply to the other post

No. I'm not going to waste my time with people who lie.
There's a very significant and logical reason why American corporations - particularly tech companies - are accumulating so much cash: repatriation taxes.

The cash is collecting dust abroad, and large tech companies are waiting for a tax holiday, for which there is precedent [0].

There are a number of fascinating reasons why companies may hold cash (e.g., it's been suggested that companies with CEOs that grew up during the Great Depression hold (held) more cash than those that didn't). [1]

That said, it does appear that taxes seem to be one of the more significant (if not the most significant) reason in our current economic climate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_tax_holiday
[1] http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/files/Documents/Departments/Finan...
Ask HN: Any tips on hiring first developer in a small, non-startup company?
(Posting anonymously as I don't want this to come across as a spammy job ad, really just asking for advice)

I've been looking for a senior developer to join my small web development company in Sydney, and I'm finding it very difficult. Not getting the quality of applicant I'm after, but also there is no quantity - my first job ad on the most popular local job site attracted only 10 applicants. This could be because we are really small (I'm the only developer, and will be the only other full-time employee), or because my initial ad was crap.

It's now a couple of months later and I really need to find someone. I've created another job description which is more specific (I state the pay, specific requirements, offer flexibility) and plan on posting this to my website, and local job sites. In the interim I've also let people in my network know, and posted on some tech boards.

I want to make sure I'm covering all the bases, so would love any advice that people have for hiring that first employee when you're a very small company, personally time-poor, but really need to find someone good. Some people in my network have suggested I should just use a recruiter.
Not the OP, but LISP machines had hardware incremental GC, I'd say GC in the hardware is pretty bad ass and was probably more predictable than modern software based GC.
FWIW I haven't seen anything in the new rules (admittedly I have focused on SDR and U-NII regs) which pretends to cover anything but intentional radiators (i.e. transmitters).
on the other hand I always get dumbfounded when I see their antonovs, they are crazy big.
Amazing head lice view zoomed
I use pbkdf2 in GAE
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10254721
Do we have any ethical add blocker around. I would love to have an add blocker that disables tracking but allows ads by default, and I as a user should have option to block ads in some sites or block certain ad network i find offensive/creepy/...
Not sure where you think I claimed that the only or chief use of firearms was to murder people. The main use of lead, asbestos and DDT were also not to cause health problems but they were still banned.

OTOH firearms are overwhelmingly the most common way people get murdered in the US today, so to say they're 'rarely used to murder people' is to only look at the question from one side.
The second half of that sentence is false, assuming the site salt has enough entropy, i.e. 32-bytes from a CS-PRNG.

However, if your server is compromised, pulling the site-wide salt (aka 'pepper') from memory is presumably trivial, so you typically assume it is known to the attacker.
I believe the generic maker must show bioequivalency to make sure the thing they are making works the same as the thing the other manufacturer was making. There's probably numerous ways that making a complicated medicine can be screwed up.
Dear Amazon, You Dropped Something: Redirect Attack from Amazon's Ad Network
This is an example of a gamergate supporter (you) continuing a pattern of harrassment (perpetuating the copiously debunked lies about Quinn). Repeating the libel is the harrassment.

I understand you don't see it that way.
The FCC responded to Ars saying that the line about DD-WRT was clumsily worded. I'm under the impression that if the OEM/importer demonstrates in their filing that their proof of conformance documentation will always be representative (valid) of the device no matter what the user can do through user-accessible features and menus, i.e. they can prove that the radio module is locked down in some way other than the main device firmware, this should be sufficient and does in fact meet the requirements.

After all, preventing APs from stomping on licensed spectrum due to wrong country selection seems to be half of what's driving all this anyway.
Linux does work out of the box if you buy hardware from a company that has a very large corporate install base (Dell, Lenovo, etc).

Linux also works really well if your hardware isn't bleeding edge.

The part where Linux becomes hard to use and requires expertise is learning the new UX, understanding what software and tools are no longer available and figuring out how to live and work with the alternatives that exist.

The degree of technical proficiency that you have is probably relevant to your "out of the box" experience - you are reading and posting on HN, which means that your level of technical knowledge is probably higher than most users given the typical audience of this site.
> If that occurs, that is only through Google's negligent implementation of the law, and not through an issue with the law itself.

Your claim that deletion of "inconvenient" rather than "untrue" information concerning the subject requesting deletion is a result of "Google's negligent implementation" rather than "the law itself" is inconsistent with, well, the EU's own information on the RTBF, which never once mentions truth among the criteria for application of the RTBF. [0]

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
1-year-old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/2dpmma/is_there_a_p...
Wow, they really buried the lede! 'Netflix is pleased to announce […] Lemur!', then 893 words with a workflow diagram for things that aren't Lemur, then finally 'Lemur is a …'.
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> You're constantly

[citation needed]

I don't think I've engaged with gators for several months.

> on the front lines of this debate

[citation needed]

I have been at best a minor footnote in the entire debacle.

> pushing for more leniency for journalists.

[citation needed]

I'm all for ethical journalism. But that is not a call for "objectivity" as I do not believe that journalism can be objective, nor is it a call for removal of "opinion" from both news and reviews.

> You are anti-audience in that respect

Did you consider that perhaps gators are not my audience?

> and yes I consider that unethical.

Writing for different audiences is _unethical_? Do words even have meaning in your world?

> You can have any agenda you wish but when that agenda hurts your readership's trust in you, it seems strange to continue to push it.

Did you never consider that your views do not in fact constitute the consensus opinion of my readership? If I were to lie to my readers and maintain a pro-gamergate persona, I daresay it would hurt my readers' trust in me far more than my current position.

I'm still waiting for you to list all the unethical things I have done. You know: stuff that, for example, demonstrates a conflict of interest or a deliberate misrepresentation of facts. Something that's an actual journalistic ethics issue. I mean, you were so very quick to claim that I was an unethical journalist. Can you not even substantiate the claim?
Rhinoceros horn is not used as an aphrodisiac, rather to treat fevers. (of course it doesn't actually treat fevers either) That aside, there are quite a few people who have misconceptions about medicine; it seems noble but very difficult to correct them all.

Why do you oppose market-based solutions? If any solution prevented some large percent of poaching incidents, would it not be a net improvement?
Previous discussion about different URL (perspective of one of the students): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250371
A huge amount of electricity is wasted in non-cloud datacenter deployments which service limited geographies (time zones). For example, the US stock market is open from 4 AM to 8 PM, leaving one third of the day with literally no trading activity. Do you think the servers involved in this market sleep? They mostly do not, and moreover they typically have all power management disabled, including dynamic underclocking (Intel SpeedStep). Figure 200-300W per server and maybe 100K machines (not including desktops which also suffer most of this, but at least consume fewer watts). I guess that's at least 10 MW wasted, or about five wind turbines worth, just for the US stock market.
Since you seem fond of Deep Learning projects, what do you think something like automatic classification of streets (and transportation network in general) from imagery is viable yet? Seems like it would be useful for OpenStreetMap. The corpus of valid classification is tremendous (pretty much all (>95%?) of NA is classified , and the data is readily available.

The subjects themselves don't seem too complex either: lines are small roads, thick lines are major ones, and then there's intersections which semantically interlink them.
"24 out of 29 states in India currently have various regulations prohibiting either the slaughter or sale of cows."

That sounds like most states ban it. Also the grandparent comment just said "other states" without stating the number.
An alternative interpretation is that Shkreli is a sociopath (other evidence of that) who's try to exploit people with no choice, and he's giving some hard to verify excuses to deflect criticism.

Maybe they will create a new drug with the extra money, but there is no reason to believe a generic drug manufacturer has anything in the way of research capability to do so. There is no reason to view this as anything but bullshit.

He had the company switch over to direct sales, which explains most every other point.

The only thing to note here is that they raised the price 5000% for a drug from the 40s.
New Letter calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand Up This Week for User Safeguards
I will buy a beer to anyone who implements a good fast 2nd order linear-chain CRF in an imperative lang like C++/Julia/Cython/Python+Numba. Many many models would benefit from higher order information.

My current implementation is slowish and the fast ones like crfsuite are only 1st order. FlexCRF is buggy. There are literally no good 2nd order CRF libs.
One word: Bioequivalence. Having the correct active ingredient does not imply that drug delivery and efficacy are equivalent unless you can prove it by comparing it against a known and approved formulation in human volunteers, The burden of proof is significantly less than that of getting a new compound approved, but still a major sinkhole for money.

The correct way to handle this would be for the FDA to hand out compassionate use permits for patients to import their own drugs since it is clearly unavailable for a reasonable price in the US.
> Your Lisp code (unless it's an emacs tool) will never work with anything or anyone else. You're invited to write everything from scratch, and doing so is easy; it's just difficult for anything you do to be used by or with anyone else's code.

Since everyone else is jumping on this point, I might as well also point out that there are things like Chicken Scheme that actually transpile to C and are therefore compatible with it (and anything else that's compatible with C).

> and C is faster than Lisp and people are totally okay with writing code in it.

While C is indeed faster than Lisp (sometimes, at least; IIRC, some Common Lisp implementations like SBCL come within the same ballpark depending on the code being worked with), people are decreasingly comfortable with it as alternatives emerge and the cost of running a high-level language decreases (originally due to Moore's law, but nowadays also due to better-optimizing compilers and interpreters). I expect that we'll eventually hit a point where - much like how it's very difficult (if not borderline-impossible) to produce hand-written assembly that's faster than what a compiler will generate - it'll also be very difficult to write any sort of low-level code in a way that's faster than what a HLL compiler will spit out.
I agree with your overall point that auto code should be open to review and the "could have uncovered" buys the EFF enough wiggle room in the headline -- but it just seems extremely unlikely that it would have been uncovered.

Part of my doubt comes from a financial incentive for random researchers to really spend time on bug review for Jetta wagons.. Though seeing the 20% stock plunge and following a few 'Fraud Cap' traders did provide an interesting view into a possible reward mechanism for researchers who find illegal or dangerous defects in embedded code..
Oh come now, that's not fair. Sure XUL can't be the key to a good extension mechanism. If devs stop writing (or choose not to port) it's because of the economics of Firefox extensions, which is to say, there are no economics to writing Firefox extensions. Except some minor reputation points and feel-good points. (The exception, of course, being those add-ons that make a SaaS more usable.)

Out of curiosity, if there was a Firefox App Store, how much would you pay for Tree Style Tabs?
You just said this:

> Oh, and Totilo doesn't describe any kind of compromising relationship between Quinn and any of his writers,

But action was required on Kotaku's behalf because they weren't acting ethically. Here's another Totilo statement about how Kotaku messed up: https://archive.is/fL71k

He does admit wrongdoing. You're straight up saying he doesn't. How is that ethical?

> you idiots continue to bitch about "oh gosh someone in the games industry knows someone else"

That you find people's concern over undisclosed relationships in reporting something worthy of mockery is appalling and quite frankly all the evidence needed to show you're out to push an agenda that requires overlooking a very traditional staple of journalistic integrity.
I doubt that the EEPROM is holding all the code these days. For the most part, it's probably holding small sub-routines, or even just LUT's for mapping the parameters of the control logic.
> Out of curiosity, if there was a Firefox App Store, how much would you pay for Tree Style Tabs?

Probably a few bucks. TST is pretty fundamental to my Firefox workflow.
Consider this scenario:

You're walking down the street and a small woman walks past you and stumbles. You help her up and she says thanks, then gets back on her way. How can you "scientifically" prove whether she was a human or not?

Of course you could put her on an operating table and cut her open... but she moves and breathes and feels everything as a human. How could you force that treatment upon her?

And then you'd have to do it for everybody else. How do you know the surgeon isn't a humanoid robot?

How do you know you're not a robot yourself?
Salt is a requirement but not a panacea. AshleyMadison's salted MD5 proves that well enough. The point of a salt is so that same password does not result in the same hash for two different users. The key point is that attack time scales linearly with user count, which makes a difference in the actual crack rate when the breach is large.

When cracking passwords, to crack the most hashes, your inner loop is iterating the salts from the database while the outer loop moves down the dictionary. Crucially, that means the salt should always be the first bits fed to your hashing function, or else the cracker can optimize away some hashing cycles across users. HMAC will do the right thing here if salt is passed as the 'key' (although the way it expands the key to the block size is somewhat flawed). Feeding the salt to the hashing function first approximately halves the crack rate versus appending salt at the end, by preventing any reuse of hash function state in the inner loop. [1]

[1] - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2325/
The Rise of Bigorexia
It could also be argued that one process would have prevented the explosions everywhere.
Java is still required for a lot of educational gizmos online (like physics demos/examples). Hopefully there'll be an effective way to keep such things alive "in this day and age".
I don’t know enough about the sandbox model to discuss it (and I know that Google tries to have an amazing sandbox model especially because they run their browser also as OS)

But the sidebar stuff just can’t compete with the whole browser UI being effectively an XML document in the hands of an extension.
Seems amazing to me that one could write 100 million lines of code to set the spark advance and the fuel mixture. :-)
Tech bus drivers forced to live in cars to make ends meet
>It would be pretty awesome if we can get to a place where browser extensions are truly cross-browser.

Yes, yes, yes!

There is absolutely no reason why this can't be done. And, here's how it should work:

You go to a website, and you save a page as an html file. Then you go into your browser and load that file as an extension. There is a simple convention where the extension asks for permissions when it attempts the action.

I mean, hey, if there isn't going to be an economic incentive to write these things, you might as well make it easy and fun for devs to write and distribute them.
With the Watch it's too early to tell, and they didn't really try on the TV until a few weeks ago. I'd say the Mac is doing pretty well :-) it remains profitable and even growing a little while competitors fight over breadcrumbs and try to post the smallest losses.

And even if the Apple Car doesn't win on market share (it probably won't), it will lead the car industry in design like the Mac does for computers: Not everyone will own an Apple Car, but everyone's cars will be better because of it.
I'm not in the US and I don't know much about US laws, so can you enlighten me on the relevant laws regarding this? Would it be illegal to stick a 4k camera on your window sill? What about for surveillance purposes?
This story was killed by user flags, whereupon another user emailed to plead the case for the article as more thoughtful and substantive than it sounds.

The median Donald Trump article is obviously off topic for this site, but arguably his rise is also "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" [1]. So let's try turning flags off on this post as an experiment and see if everyone can keep the discussion thoughtful.

Edit: I read the article. Trump is a natural subject for Rich, a political journalist with a (much longer) background as an entertainment critic. What makes the article good is that he takes Trump seriously and uses him to make 'serious' politics look buffoonish, reversing the usual trope. If anyone knows a better analysis of Trump, please post the link in this thread—I'm sure many readers would like to see it.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When Anxiety Attacks
Definitely. A lot of problems can benefit from sequence labeling. I did a similar thing with labeling malware names[1] and it worked really well with only about a hundred examples for each type of sequence.

[1]http://lqdc.github.io/using-machine-learning-to-name-malware...
Huh. Never realized that was an official rule for comments as well as headlines.
I think that sounds like a good idea, but in practice it's not a product you'd want.

Motorola used to be at the cutting edge of phones (e.g. Razr) but when Apple slapped their software onto a Motorola phone, it was a terrible product (Rokr).
EFF Urges State Appeals Court to Protect Twitter Parodies
This post got flagged and killed. Daniel kindly unkilled it at my request. I'm not a Trump fan (and neither is the article) but I agree with its counter-intuitive observation.

> In the short time since Trump declared his candidacy, he has performed a public service by exposing, however crudely and at times inadvertently, the posturings of both the Republicans and the Democrats and the foolishness and obsolescence of much of the political culture they share. He is, as many say, making a mockery of the entire political process with his bull-in-a-china-shop antics. But the mockery in this case may be overdue, highly warranted, and ultimately a spur to reform rather than the crime against civic order that has scandalized those who see him, in the words of the former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, as “dangerous to democracy.”

It's no surprise that Michael Gerson labels Trump "dangerous to democracy." Trump is actually dangerous to the GOP establishment and Gerson stands for that establishment.

What does it say about American democracy that it takes a self-aggrandizimg billionaire to speak openly about buying politicians and offers to be bought in a presidential election debate? It's the job of the moderators to force such an issue into the open, but they don't dare anger the party for fear of never hosting again. If you watched the first debate, you can see that Fox News was tough on Trump (as they should be), but nowhere near as tough on the rest (as they should have been). Even CNN seemed to be a proxy for the Republican establishment in the second debate.

EDIT: Ross Perot was was the last candidate to truly upset the political establishment, and he also was a billionaire. Hmmmm....
More then few times I could smell some distinct smell that some diesel cars produce, which reminds me something.

When I was a kid I've traded with someone on IRC to get some HNO3 with plans to make... dynamite. Few weeks later, the lid of mason jar rusted thru and my room had this distinct smell. I doubt that is NO as I would probably be dead now, but coupled with all the experiments involving nitrates I probably do hold more nitrates than usual.
I know you said a lot of it is too abstract, but I really enjoyed the readings from UIUC's CS525 when I was in school (years ago). The selected papers are a great "who's who" of distributed systems research.

https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2015/sched.htm
Link has an extra closing parenthesis, this link works: https://github.com/softcover/softcover