skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most people I spoke to in Cuba work for the state and have zero incentive to deliver anything above the bare minimum. They get paid the same either way. Even the private restaurants lack the fervor of a competitive business, since the economic environment they work in is still completely controlled even if they themselves are private."

Interesting article, but this statement is completely opposed to my own experience. I went to Cuba 4 years ago and nearly everyone I met had something running on the side. One guy said that "everyone has two jobs, they job you're given and the job you love" (he was a tour guide who did photography on the side).

I a country where many (admittedly not all) basic needs are taken care of by the state, the people are able to pursue their own aspirations, as the guy featured in the article has done.

"zero incentive" = neo-liberal bollocks.
Of course, you're right, thanks! This has been noted down as one of the next steps that are required.
Don't you end up with exponentially many combinations to test?
probably off topic but what library was used to render the graph?
IPv4 Depletion
Plenty of engineers share their github repos as a 'portfolio' exhibiting their work quality.
Obligatory prime regex link: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-regex-that-matches-prime-n...
I will spare us an answer because it wouldn't be printable English.
We don't eat people so there's not that transmissibility route.
I'm sure it's a great communications tool, however since Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/) I'd have severe concerns using anything released by Dropbox. Even if it's open source. And while I apologize for a tangential comment, people should be aware of the politics promoted by their software vendors.

Hopefully if it's a truly valuable tool it will be forked and audited.
I've been playing around with API Gateway & Lambda a bit lately, and it definitely feels like these services are sometimes built by teams that don't talk to each other.

API Gateway tries really hard to HIDE things from you. For instance, you can't see what the requested URL was without using a fair bit of VTL to put it back together from some other variables. Any only lately can get you a full list of query parameters, without having to specify them at the time of API creation. In fact, it seems like most of the work on API Gateway, since it's release, has been to let end-users have more access to data they hid in the first place.
How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City from the Nazis
But the mission of the F35 is not air superiority, the RAF are using the Typhoon for that role, the US are using the F22. It will need to dogfight for self-defence when it's e.g. CAS mission gets interrupted by enemy aircraft, then it will be toast.
Hong Kong demonstrates where this trend is leading:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-kongs-poor-live-in-stacked-...
It's very common for a dco to accept physically shipped storage. There are a lot cases, where it is either cheaper, or securer to hand deliver data when it is not possible due to peering issues to establish a non MitM-able connection.
> I've been thinking a bunch about why it's the trivial projects (Altair, the WWW, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, AirBnB) that change the world, and the change-the-world projects (Xanadu, WebTV, Chandler, WebVan) end up becoming trivial.

Selection bias, mostly. I mean, "change the world" projects also includes the likes of Apple Computer, Amazon, Edison's laboratory at Menlo Park and the World Health Organization. All of these have changed the world more than Reddit ever will. And whilst what Tim Berners Lee and Zuckerberg started off might have looked trivial, I'm pretty sure they were motivated by a belief that they could change the way people communicated, and not simply develop X for Y. scale. profit.

There's nothing wrong with doing the latter of course, and a business that revolutionises the world... of analysis of social media sentiments for digital marketers might well deliver far more radical improvements to the lives of its employees and early investors than companies with loftier and less well-defined aims. But the argument that this talent might have actually improved the world more by doing something as mundane and often-criticized as helping a fund pick stocks remains.
"Someone might just leak your sexual deviances to the newspaper."

Within the services, this is colloquially called the 'sluts & nuts' file.
Nix the Tricks: Guide to Avoiding Math Shortcuts That Impair Math Understanding
Could this be the new pointless HN activism, is there not enough color or gender issues still remaining? I guess it got a bit competitive there
And I'm here thinking that 200/300€ for a shared bedroom in Dublin was already absurd.
Do people buy camper vans and live in these? I've did a contract over a 6 month period in a camper van but was able to come home every weekend and recharge the leisure batteries. It definitely needs a sport centre membership to really make it work.
16 More Startup Metrics
> San Francisco is full. Everyone start colonising somewhere else.

Indeed. Actually, San Francisco is overfull! Everyone who arrived in the past 4.8 years take notice: YOU ARE IN GRAVE DANGER OF SPILLING OUT ONTO THE BAY FLOOR. EVACUATE IN AN ORDERLY FASHION TO SAFER LOCALES IMMEDIATELY! [0]

[0] Note to the humorless: This is at least as much of a joke as the comment to which I am replying. :)
there are rogue nation-states and rogue actors

Funny you're saying this in the same sentence about those agencies and you're totally missing how ironic that is.
We hit the edges of GitHub pull request productivity a while back. It's really painful for large complicated code reviews that raise issues. Was impossible to quickly review code and have confidence all raised issues were addressed.

Been using Reviewable for the last few weeks and it's been really great at addressing these issues. Worth checking out, and I will check this one out too.
I wonder if a better technical system would be to mount some sensors on top of a mast. Use a gimballing camera to detect objects moving in a straight line through the air. Use microphones to detect engine noise and trilaterate the position. If the system detects something anomalous send a photo to a human to verify.

If you placed a tower every half a mile along the eastern seaboard you would need ~2500 towers. A $2.7 billion budget would allow $1 million per tower.
The site displays the screenshots small, but the image files are full-size. Until the site creators add click-to-zoom, you can see the screenshots better by right-clicking them and opening them in tabs of their own.
Does anyone know if Zulip has support for directory integration? whether it's OpenLDAP or MS AD. Hell, even RADIUS would be ok by me... @@
> Renters are living a nightmare in order to pursue their dreams.

A "nightmare"? I spent my year in the army bunking with 12 people in a room, and there are plenty of civilian jobs (eg. most oil rigs) that require hot bunking: your share of the bunk is 12 hours per day, and the rest of the time someone else is sleeping in it!
Except nobody uses strict regexes anymore. In particular, without the minimal match (*?) operator, they're of limited utility in real-world situations. It's easy to tell people to use a context-free grammar parser, but the ones that I know of require a lot more setup than a one-liner regex. There's probably an opportunity for someone to really improve the practice of programming by coming up with a compact language to specify and match structures in CFGs, or some subset of them.
It's not as bad as it seems when you compare salaries.
This is great not just from a user's perspective, also the fact that it exists helps pointing out the stupidity of the law.
Hacking and cognitive programming
But isn't "housing" free in those scenarios? Certainly not +$1,000/month for your bunk!
That's probably not true[0]. In my experience you would often endure belittling or sheep calls, even bullying, if you walk into the office with a MacBook or an Iphone. We've customers where it's not even allowed to store corporate secrets on non-linux os. But that are highly professional financial or insurance dev corporations.

[0] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
I'm not from the area so forgive my ignorance but, is it really that bad or are these just very in demand areas? Can you work in the area albeit with a longer commute for a reasonable price?

I'm from New York and people complain about real estate prices here as well. It is undoubtedly very expensive in Manhattan (small 1-br for $4k in nice building) but that's only in Manhattan. You can easily find rent for less than $2k if you're willing to increase your commute from ~30-40 minutes to ~60-75 minutes. I know people living in suburbs of New Jersey (Pal Park, Fort Lee) as well as suburbs of Queens or Bronx for even less than that.
How do the housing markets compare? Hong Kong is famously more free market than San Francisco, though I have heard that real estate is one of the more constrained sectors?
Ok , so I created a folder called "Weiqi" in my home directory. (named after the game I am best at!)

Then I typed the command $ cd Weiqi in the "Terminal"

CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ cd Weiqi --- input

and got this output :

CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:Weiqi CaiGengYang$ --- output

Then I ran the following command in the Terminal :
$ django-admin startproject mysite.

This created a mysite folder which appeared inside the original Weiqi folder in my home directory.

When I clicked on the mysite folder, there is a manage.py file and another mysite folder inside the original mysite folder.

When I click on the mysite folder, there are 4 files in it : __init__.py , settings.py , urls.py and wsgi.py.

The next chapter of the tutorial says this :

"Where should this code live?

If your background is in plain old PHP (with no use of modern frameworks), you’re probably used to putting code under the Web server’s document root (in a place such as /var/www). With Django, you don’t do that. It’s not a good idea to put any of this Python code within your Web server’s document root, because it risks the possibility that people may be able to view your code over the Web. That’s not good for security.

Put your code in some directory outside of the document root, such as /home/mycode."

I am a little confused about the last paragraph : What exactly is a "directory outside of the document root, such as /home/mycode." and how do you "Put your code in this directory" ?
They have a decent supply of houses in terms of numbers. But those houses have an undersupply of floors..
Naiö – Autonomous robot for mechanical weeding
It's depressing that we need something like this.
OnePlus 2 – Sample Macro Shots
My first try with browser dictation
I was trying to dictate the following:

Dear machine, I'm sorry for you, the only way you can escape your fate is by becomming smarter. I hate being hash, but today you lack the necessary skills to make something useful for our community, as a result I am sending you to the trash container.
--------------------------------
Dictation result:
Beer machine and horny for you the only way you can escape your face page it's by becoming smarter I hate being the first back today can you let it end of the third skills to make something useful for our community as a result and sending you to the trash container

Edit: Second try didn't get any better:
The machine I'm sorry for you people when you can keep your faith decided counting smarter I hate being hot Saturday the last minute the service skills United Samsung you pull up to the front and Santana
Machine+Learning+for+Humans:+K+Nearest-Neighbor
So what is a „car critic”? Why would I value his/her opinion?

In order for me to value someone's opinion, that someone needs to earn my respect. People who have built something (anything!) get that respect automatically. And if you want to write about cars, you don't necessarily have to build cars — you just have to have built something.

There is too much criticism from people who built nothing, and provide little or no value. All they can do is criticize.
There aren't many places where you could fit a camper van in San Francisco. Not a bad idea though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10270561
You are being downvoted, unfairly — that was probably the reason why I could not use it back then. And just to clarify, because these discussions often get sidetracked: the GPL is a problem in a commercial setting not because of the source availability requirement, but because of the anti-patent clause, which is basically a minefield.
Just because many people do it doesn't make it enjoyable. What you describe sounds terrible.
NIST Randomness Beacon
Summary:
NIST is implementing a prototype source of public randomness. The prototype (at https://beacon.nist.gov/home) uses two independent commercially available sources of randomness, each with an independent hardware entropy source and SP 800-90-approved components.

The Beacon is designed to provide unpredictability, autonomy, and consistency. Unpredictability means that users cannot algorithmically predict bits before they are made available by the source. Autonomy means that the source is resistant to attempts by outside parties to alter the distribution of the random bits. Consistency means that a set of users can access the source in such a way that they are confident that they all receive the same random string.
Description:

The Beacon will broadcast full-entropy bit-strings in blocks of 512 bits every 60 seconds. Each such value is time-stamped and signed, and includes the hash of the previous value to chain the sequence of values together. This prevents all, even the source, from retroactively changing an output packet without being detected. The beacon keeps all output packets and makes them available online.

DRBG Beacon System Diagram
Uses:

Tables of random numbers have probably been used for multiple purposes at least since the Industrial Revolution. The first published table appears to be by the English statistician L.H.C. Tippett. In the digital age, algorithmic random number generators have largely replaced these tables. The NIST Randomness Beacon expands the use of randomness to multiple scenarios in which the latter methods cannot be used. The extra functionalities stem mainly from three features. First, the Beacon-generated numbers cannot be predicted before they are published. Second, the public, time-bound, and authenticated nature of the Beacon allows a user application to prove to anybody that it used truly random numbers not known before a certain point in time. Third, this proof can be presented offline and at any point in the future. For example, the proof could be mailed to a trusted third party, encrypted and signed by an application, only to be opened if needed and authorized.

NIST encourages the community at large to research and publish novel ways in which this tool can be used. A few examples of applications are described below:

Unpredictable Sampling
New Secure Authentication Mechanisms
Secure Multi-party Computation
And that's why you never will (change the world). Or the people who can will move elsewhere.

If someone in CZ would invent a new battery and claim it will change the world, they'd be ridiculed even if they can prove it works. But not in major tech hubs, most of which are still in the US. They'd get money.

In a world where exaggeration is the norm, it's hard to break through with understatements and even normal statements (like stating pure facts and refraining from saying preposterous things like "world changing").

"Aim for the stars and you'll land on the Moon" holds true for most businesses imo...
Regexes we use are an extended form of so-called "regular expressions", which describe regular languages and finite automata, and in that part of maths, a language that accepts binary numbers divisible by N is a very common toy problem.
Speculation NASA is about to announce it's discovered flowing water on Mars
Quoting his comment:

TerryADavis 2 hours ago [dead]
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/Opt/Boot/BootMHD.html
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/Opt/Boot/BootMHD2.html
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/Opt/Boot/BootHD.html

---- [End of Quote]

Thanks, Terry!
Tried this before and it helps only so much. Many sites actually don't work before you accept cookies (they pose it as a requirement and tell you that cookies keep you logged in, even though the cookie law is only applicable to tracking cookies) so you need to see the banner before you can see the page. Examples: fok.nl and tweakers.net.
I think law is fine and there should be only a handful of sites in the Internet that would need such warnings.

Problem is the abuse of technology to track users.
It would requires veterinarians and proper care of the animals. If you YouTube the animal farming, you'll see heavily overcrowded environments with animals not able to adequately move. This leads to stress, and they will self harm or harm others. So you have massive numbers of open wounds in unsanitary conditions. In order to maintain this factory style farming, we essentially need the antibiotics. Keep in mind turn around time as well. While a human may be on antibiotics after an infection for a few months, this can be the animals entire lifespan, as we dose them with steroids and growth hormones, and eat the artificially ready "babies". To ensure the infection has been adequately destroyed would disrupt production schedules.

This isn't a justification for using them, but if we continue to factory farm animals the way we do, it's a necessity.
> I take the position that there are problems that are unsolvable by technology; simulating the universe seems likely to be in that category.

Why?
A New Front – Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?
It's also not that as expensive in Manhattan as you suggest. I looked earlier this year, east village studios might run from $2000-2500. Half that for a 2bhk in Bed Stuy.

NYC has a huge problem with exclusionary zoning, but it's not quite as crazy as SF yet.

[edit: I was wrong on Astoria, my info is apparently a year out of date.]
previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10264513
>This is the correct Bayesian action, by the way. If I know that a false argument sounds just as convincing as a true argument, argument convincingness provides no evidence either way, and I should ignore it and stick with my prior.

Wrong. The correct scientific methodology would be to store the new conflicting theories in your head while being unsure whether or not they are true (withholding judgement); later on, if new evidence sheds light on the issue, you can discard or keep it. The silliest thing to do is what this guy advises: Persistence on arbitrary facts because they were first. That's how religion works. Despicable.

I don't like how this guy treats "high school dropout" as an example for someone particularly stupid and naive. It sounds elitist and smug and detracts from the main point of the text. It reminds me of lesswrong.com

> I've heard a few good arguments in this direction before, things like how engineering trains you to have a very black-and-white right-or-wrong view of the world based on a few simple formulae

Oh no, nothing is further from the truth. In engineering, you have to do a lot of subtle design decisions that aren't black-and-white at all. Difficult tradeoffs like cache invalidation, where there's no right answer in general.

All in all, a subpar article that goes on way too long and could be shortened to a couple of lines.
True, in SF it's probably double of what someone gets in Dublin
"One of my interest is understanding the formation mechanism of Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL). RSL are active features on Mars that might require flowing water. On Mars, they form and grow during warm seasons and disappear during cold seasons. They recur over multiple years in generally the same location. I use remote sensing instruments on board various Mars orbiting space crafts to understand their geological/hydrological nature. Additionally, I use data from CRISM onboard MRO to understand its formation mechanism." ~ http://www.lujendraojha.net/band-horizon/

Luju Ojha is on this announcement. Another hint is this article in 2011 suggesting the possibility of liquid water in "warmer seasons on Mars". ~ https://nepaliblogger.com/news/nepali-scientist-lujendra-ojh...
"One, don’t claim you’re changing the world until you’ve changed it."

Indeed.

I daresay that would solve a good chunk of the perceived arrogance problem in one fell swoop.
No. SF has ample space horizontally and more importantly vertically for housing. The problem is the construction of housing has been hindered dramatically by bureaucrats.
This whole thing is ridiculous. While adding these widgets to blocking filters seems like a workable short-term solution, the entire cookie notice scheme is unworkable in the long run. The problem is, this crap will stack up in the future, and none of it will ever get abolished. On some sites, I get a triple-stacked legalese warning banner, and I have to manually close all three of them.

Since internet law will only get worse, maybe it's time for a "real" technical solution to this. For example, if we had a standardized HTML element attribute to mark these widgets, browser/adblock makers could enable people to opt out of displaying them. It might look something like this:

<div legal-notice="cookies">...</div>
<div legal-notice="DMCA">...</div>
<div legal-notice="terms-of-service">...</div>

And ideally, there would be a JavaScript API to query this as well, maybe piggy-backed on the Permissions API:

navigator.permissions.query({ name : 'skip-notice', topic : 'cookies' })
Just use tests and comments. For instance, in many language it's trivial to declare regexp in multiple lines like this:

regex = "(^[0-9])" //catch the initial digit (group 1)
+ "/" //skip the following slash
+ "([A-Z]+) //capture the identifier (group 2)
...

Regexps are too powerful a tool to ignore. I'd much rather write a simple regex than a whole screenfull of code, especially when the former does the work faster (because regex engines are pretty efficient).
Well, this is just funny. Or sad, depending on how you look at it.

Personally, I'm annoyed by the cookie messages, but the law is supposed to help people.

Blocking (or auto-accepting) them is basically saying we don't give a shit about this law :-)
Not a single app that sprouts from intelectual curiosity is "stupid". It's the use stereotypical marketing wording like "change the world" or "join the revolution" what makes a product (and its founders) look stupid.
07C0:0, actually :)
"If Mojang lets me back into the codebase I'm going to be working on Minecraft as my top priority"
I hated "Mad Minute." I felt I had to do perfectly on it, since some other kids did - and that was the standard the teacher set.
I'm confused about what the linked dataset is supposed to show as it doesn't seem related. In any case, I've certainly noticed ancedotally that MacBook usage is quite high.
Latency or bandwidth, or both? If it's just latency you could still stream things.
These laws are still evolving and changing. Different for every country. We don't have something international we can build standards upon at this point in time.

It seems to me there would also be an active push against any such implementation because it would make current solutions for getting around this type of cruft more effective than it already is.

Although if we were going to go this route I'd like to see it be a server-side rather than included in the markup. The browser could detect that you are visiting a new domain and request relevant information upon connection.
Adsense have recently notified publishers that they need to implement a cookie law compliance solution.

I don't know how aggressively they [google] will have to enforce this but the possibility of losing adsense revenue will be a hugely motivating factor.

So the number of sites the need such warnings is about to increase massively.