skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WildAid reports 82% http://wildaid.org/sites/default/files/SharkReport_spread_fi...

I don't have access to the paper referenced in the article, therefore I can't really comment.

The article also uses a lot of words such as 'should', 'may', 'could' so I'll need something a bit stronger than that.
Photographs of Andromeda Galaxy taken from earth
I have to take a moment to thoroughly agree with you on the shell sentiment, although it's not quite on topic. My zsh has always been my most reliable and used tool. Almost every piece of software I've ever used has caused me some headache---GNOME, Firefox, even vim, you name it. zsh never froze, or screwed up my work due to a bug, or anything like that. It always follows what I tell it to do with almost annoying diligence, and if I don't get the result I wanted, I know it's my fault. I've never liked using graphical file managers or, God forbid, some graphical renaming tool, to name an example off the top of my head. I feel immense power when I'm at my shell, because whenever I want to manipulate stuff---from the directory structure, to chaining some commands together to achieve a task, convert audio between formats, getting some quick info out of big files, etc., I always do it using the shell (well, and also the coreutils, sed, awk and others, but I believe my point stands). I know it's a basic thing that all people using Unix systems do and don't think much about it, but the amount of complex things it can do while staying so minimalist sometimes blows my mind. To me, the simple yet powerful text interface feels almost Zen. And although many shells have come and passed, each with its own quirks and weirdness, the underlying principles have barely changed. It's just that perfect. So here's one for the shell: the quiet hero of Unix :)
Presumably in the same place. You'll note the reference to the Bush administration touting its Medicare law.
One of the co-founders (Mike Cannon-Brookes) did an AMA on reddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3lrvpv/iama_mike_cann...

Some quotes:

Q: "What was the scariest, most panic-inducing thing to happen to/at Atlassian?"

A: "The most topical fear we have at the moment (and one of the reasons you see us spending so much time on it right now) is that Atlassian is growing faster than the Sydney (and Australian) technology industry. That cannot be good for our long term domicile here - we must continue to diversify product + engineering overseas, or risk running aground."

Q: "...before Atlassian for saving bookmarks which you sold pretty early. What did you learn from that business that helped the most with Atlassian?"

A: "Overall? It was a fantastic lesson. Failure (or forced sale type success in a smart decision before we hit the wall) taught us many things. How to get customers. How to build software. How to prioritise our day. How to get a business name. A domain name. How to run books. Get investors on board. How hard it is to make $1. Harder to make $10 still etc."

And the other co-founder (Scott Farquhar) did an interview on ABC's lateline show earlier in the week: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2015/s4317805.htm
Seems odd to take this advice from a company like Twitter when you compare them to companies like Instagram and WhatsApp. How to keep a lot of engineers busy and burn a lot of money, they could offer lots of good tips there.
So if there a rare disease increases 500% from a few to a few dozen, does that count as an outbreak?
They do, a little bit, though.
Coincidentally A5/1 was also compromised down to 56bits.
> What am I missing - Price? Features? Implementation pain (or lack thereof)?

Good price structure and business model.

As you said, the software is so-so.

But remember, Bitbucket is free for private repos. As many as you want. You can even share them with a few users before you have to pay. With Github, you have to start forking over cash for private repos.

Bitbucket gets you hooked, but then you have a raft of tools that are tightly integrated that aren't even available at Github without going to 3rd parties. Nobody wants to sign up for a dozen different services and try to integrate that.

You get a ton of tools out of the bag that you need and that work. Nobody else offers that right now. Gitlab is trying, but they have a long way to go.
Nix the Tricks: Math tricks defeat understanding
Typed React and Redux
You can find many ethnic-Asians in all of these groups: US Citizens, permanent residents, and student-visa holders
Worst case it helps you focus on what/why and explaining your startup. Best case you get in. Worst case just continue. In fact, if you wouldn't start the company without getting into YC, you probably should re-think whether you're serious enough about it.
This article has me extremely confused. They keep talking about a dearth of R&D spending relative to the rest of the world and then present a graph that says we are basically keeping up and have been at about the same level compared to most countries since 1995.

Am I missing something here? Is the lack of funding rickety? That all of it is moving into the "D" rather than the "R"? Is there a distinction, or are we just "feeling" like laggards without a good key metric to represent it?
Ah, you interpreted cookiecaper as saying "this problem doesn't happen, period". In which case, your response makes sense - "of course it happens in these parts of SF under discussion".

I read that comment as more narrowly disputing "most mid to large size American cities have it". Revisiting, I do think my initial reading was correct. If cookiecaper was denying the problem existed, why would imagining it be "a nice way to comfort yourself about living [...] in either SF or Oakland"? The comment makes substantially more sense as asserting that 1) the problems in SF are not problems elsewhere, and 2) a view that they are problems everywhere (and thus maybe not solvable) is not reality based, so SF and Oakland must be "Doing It Wrong". I don't agree with that comment - as you can see from my direct response to it - but the logic of it is coherent in a way it would not be if it were supporting the other point.
My boob quotient is weak
The United Nations thinks Saudi Arabia is a defender of human rights
How do you deal with the analytics/computation/HFT asymmetry available to those who earned fortunes under the anonymous-currency regime, from overwhelming new generations who must live in a cashless hampster wheel of negative interest rates, no transactional privacy and gamified behavioral nudges?
American corporate labs are the stuff of legend. Researchers dream of the halcyon days of Bell Labs and its eight Nobel Prize winners, who brought us the transistor and Unix. Others reminisce about Xerox PARC, which came up with the graphical user interface that propelled the personal computer into just about every home and office.

Those days are long gone...

What about commodity clusters (i.e. all cloud computing), MapReduce/Hadoop, Spark, or the deep learning renaissance? Yes, I am super biased, but I think Google and Facebook have done as much to advance technology as their predecessors.

But apart from that they have a point. Raw numbers matter, and even though R&D might have a fuzzy boundary with ordinary business, I think that R&D expenditure is a useful signal.
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"LGBT activities are illegal in Saudi Arabia and it is one of the least homosexual friendly countries in the world. First offenses attract prison sentences of several months to life, fines with whipping/flogging, castration, torture, vigilante killings and public execution. A second conviction invariably results in execution."

Wow. Sounds fucking awful there.
The cert on https://signed.bad.horse/ is also amazing.
From the article:

> If Clinton really wants to deal with short-termism, she’d be better off targeting the way executive compensation works, instead of the way capital gains are taxed. Ultimately, the solution to short-termism isn’t on Wall Street. It’s in the executive suite.

So my GGP's post is correct. Executives break companies by manipulating the financial short-term.

Saying "Amazon and Netflix and Tesla prove that the market is long-terminal" is silly. These companies are founder-run and there is a large part of the market (Hello Yahoo and HP) where revolving door CEOs just pillage the company to goose the short term numbers and cash out their stock options)
Long taps are annoying. You want to do something NOW, but have to waaaaiiiittt for it. Much more satisfying to press hard and get the same response.
You can also buy diffraction glasses for under $10. They're marketed as "rave" accessories, but I found them useful for quickly identifying incandescent light bulbs hidden inside fixtures, in order to replace them with CFLs.
I am not a linguist, but isn't gate still being used as a content word in you example. Rather, it seems to be being turned into a verb.
Right now, -ghazi is too politically freighted to win in that sense (too many people have not yet accepted that it's a non-scandal masquerading as a scandal), although there was certainly some momentum this summer here in the Northeast to refer to 'deflategate' as 'ballghazi'. I think it has a chance in the long term.
It's shown to increase excitement and therefore engagement.
Fun fact: Startups are absolutely R&D. D is for Development. Everyone who writes software is R&D as far as the IRS is concerned -- I have filled out the tax forms at my jobs.
I am quite sure that at no point did I advocate for what you are saying, and in fact i in several of my replies to the parent conversation i say that i believe that access to treatment programs is the answer
Ooh I'd be excited to read this. I recently found "Linear Algebra Done Right." How, you ask? They defer using determinants until the end of the book. Determinants are hard computationally, hard to define, and not obviously useful. Without them (and I haven't read the book but I will), one has to make more general, less computational proofs.
There are some steps which evolution can't achieve, requiring steps thru self-destructive configurations to reach a superior productive state. Making the leap from one to another without having to survive the middle is necessary to longer progress. That's kinda the point of genetic engineering: just make the changes we need NOW, rather than trying to persuade progress on a natural path nobody wants to take.
It's just not right. Given the existence of options, shorting is no more bound by liquidity than being long on a stock.

Imagine saying "Stock X is great, but the market can undervalue X longer than I can stay solvent"?
I wouldn't assume 30+ folks don't care. We have been online since the 90s (at least) and we've seen some bad shit in our lifetime. An interesting survey would be: Are you "creeped out" by Facebook? Try that survey on Facebook (if it doesn't get blocked) and see how that goes ;-)
The article also says:

"a 2014 study of companies that cut R. & D. spending in order to meet short-term earnings goals found that their stocks underperformed after earnings had been announced—hardly what you’d expect if the market cared only about the short term."

meaning the market is not being fooled, and therefore executive compensation based on market value is not driving short term thinking.
> First, if you believe that the crack down on prescription narcotics have first and foremost hurt addicts, you're very mistaken.

But aren't you arguing that the crackdown has hurt prescription opiate addicts?
Regular touch gestures are like a one-button mouse. You can do everything with it, but it's nice to have some extra buttons.
Most of us on HN are so incredibly fortunate to live where we do. In the fast paced world, it's often easy to forget that fortune, and the fact that for most of human history, tyranny is the rule, not the exception. That we are shocked by such institutionalized barbarism is both a good thing for how far the world has come, and a sad thing that such a place still exists.

How the UN could possibly name this place the head of the Human Rights Council is unfathomable. They have lost any moral authority they had left through that action.
Oh, I'm all for the "let it crash" ideology, just make it crash in a loud and verbose manner. Let me figure out what went wrong. :)
The challenge for enterprises is they all believe they are special snowflakes and that the way in which they diverge from best practices is a 'market differentiator'.

Most enterprises would do well to look at how enterprise products have been shaped to work and to conform to it, because there's a reason those tools work that way...
Meh. People pay a lot for art.
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I had the same thought exactly. :)
One step towards faster organic electronics
(Actually, I just realized that a far more accurate analogy arises if you were to call the game 'CDO'. Now I'm depressed.)
I recently started on something not too different as part of a flux framework: https://github.com/hliyan/praxis/blob/master/src/ui/Input.js...

Though I'm still in the very early stages.
Here's the problem with tools and process:

They're a cost center and not a revenue generator.

When you've got a group that provides no measurable revenue they will always be at a disadvantage to the group that provides the money train. This is why you see a systematic de-valuing of tools and iteration improvement despite the massive gains they provide.
There’s no such meetup anywhere near New York, sadly. The only NYC Elixir meetup is http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Elixir-Language-Meetup/, which only had three meetings and hasn’t met for two months.
I had one also. IIR I even had some Don Bluth films on it.

The problem was that the player broke all the time. I recall us taking it in for repairs constantly and I think we even bought another one at some point.

We used to rent disks from early video rental stores and I remember when VHS and Beta tapes suddenly showed up in those stores. I think when it was finally discontinued my parents bought a huge collection of movies cheap.

There's a couple cartoons I remember watching all the time on the disks that I can't remember the name of them these days, but I've never seen them outside the format.

One of the other problems was that you could only fit about an hour's worth of video on a side. So watching a movie required flipping the disk through half-way.

The disks were definitely robust enough though, I don't think I've ever even seen the disk inside, they were kind of like a giant 3.5" floppy.

edit: oh wow, I remember us also having the 10 Commandments and I think Ben Hur (or some other sword and sandles movie). They took up 3 or 4 disks IIR and a huge block of space on the shelf.
... Morton Order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve
I thought this up last week, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the first. It's a combination of a few popular ideas.

The financial crisis got people thinking critically about what money is, especially the people who hopped on the Ron Paul boat back in the 2008 election season. (I hope you'll hear me out even if you consider those folks to be crazy people.) That's when I first understood that money is debt.

Bitcoin gave us blockchains: the ability to create ledgers that we can agree on without authority. You send transactions to move amounts in the ledger. Ethereum allows us to create arbitrary transaction types that modify the state that transaction type controls.

The Clojure and React communities got me thinking more about different ways to think about state. State is the result of transactions, and if you keep either the transactions or the previous states around, you can control time in your program, among other things.

Apache Kafka, Samza, and related projects introduced me to the concept of a database as a transaction log. One potentially useful application that my coworker pointed out is that we could write events to a Kafka database, then change what they mean later. State is a function of a list of transactions and a transaction processing function. You can change your transaction processing function at any time. Anyone who has the transactions can build their own view of the world with a function they define, so everyone can have their own calculation of merit, for instance.

I've thought for some time that while governments are useful, it'd be better if we could find ways to achieve the same ends without giving anyone power over us. I've been exploring ways to use blockchains to give society the power to self-organize and provide the things we currently need governments to provide for us.

Merit capitalism is a combination of those ideas, and probably more parts of the idea soup in my brain.
I'm guessing none. Looks like a servo is moved, which moves permanent magnets closet or farther from the fluid. Once the servo moves the magnets to the desired position, no further power would be required. So looks like just a burst of power every minute to move the servos and nothing more.
I'm sorry if this is obvious, but I would love to understand exactly what you mean by "the only branches are release branches". What I think you mean is that the only branches are release branches and the development branches on each dev's machine.

At my startup, we use feature branches, and we expect devs to continually merge master into their branch while it's under development (ideally daily), and to fix any resulting conflicts or test failures. We have them push these branches to the repo (which triggers our continuous integration server), but they're treated as private works in progress. Then, when they finish and pass code review, we're confident that they will merge seamlessly, since they've been merging master all along. (We also use git merge --squash for the final merge to avoid seeing all the intermediate commits on the master commit log.)

I'm trying to understand if your practices are meaningfully different. Do developers have private branches on their machines for weeks on end? Are they encouraged to regularly merge master into those private branches?
Undoubtedly? Says whom? I can get whatever I want on the dark web tomorrow and I have no interest in doing any opiates.
Fair enough. I meant in the more general sense of "it is already adopting a new grammatical role", not that grammatical role specifically.
Cool project. Makes me wonder about the spectrum of an LED light bulb.
> The united states uses orders of magnitude more opiates than all other countries,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc...
Fair point, I should have written "addicts will go on to get opiates regardless".
That used to be the SAP sales pitch.
Ask HN: “A good story to repost”
I received this today by courtesy of HN's repost experiment:

Hi there,

<URL> looks good, but didn't
get much attention. Would you care to repost it? You can do so
by clicking here: <REPOST URL>.

Please use the same account (hliyan), title, and URL. When these match,
the software will give the repost an upvote from the mods, plus we'll
help make sure it doesn't get flagged.

This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions multiple
chances at the front page. If you have any questions, let us know.

I'm wondering: is this determined by a human mod or an algorithm. If it's an algorithm, I'd be very interested in knowing what type of natural language processing is involved in determining whether HN will like a story!
Yes, Vitamin A deficiency is a problem, and Golden Rice can treat it. You know what else can? Pretty much any other food with Vitamin A. Why do we need to create an entirely new kind of fortified rice? Why not just, say, give these people carrots?

These people are vitamin deficient in their diets because they are poor. Making golden rice is solving the wrong problem. What we need to do is end poverty.
very gibsonian profession
Pressing a bit harder is a very natural gesture, while long-touch and double-tap are annoying. As with pretty much everything they oversold it in the announcement, but nonetheless it is a nice improvement that makes the phone incrementally more pleasant to use.
> Wow... how... how do you fix a place like this? How do you move such a medieval religious society into freedom?

Not a good idea. The Middle East has had a succession of "enlightened" despots who attempted to rid their countries of Islam. Islam is not just a faith for these people, it's a way of life, so well entrenched in the social fabric that all these rulers managed to do was to inflict even worse human rights violations and galvanize the population against the demon West.

You have to let them find their own way. It may take them a few hundred years, but eventually their society will slowly pry open. The external threats to their way of life will have to cease, as long as they feel like they're under attack by the West, they'll just cocoon off and just not allow any influences in.

Probably the best thing that could happen in this regard is a permanent collapse in oil prices, though that would likely cause a lot of people to starve. Things would get a lot worse for them before they get better. I read an article recently about how the Saud family is trying their hardest to prepare for a post-oil world.

> Is there a simple explanation for why the Christian West moved to relative secularism a couple centuries ago while Saudi Arabia has remained so medieval, despite oil-powered industrialisation?

Because colonialism. Europe brought industry to the rest of the world at the point of a gun. An excellent book to read on this topic is Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong.

http://www.amazon.com/Fields-Blood-Religion-History-Violence...
They don’t. It’s simulated with force feedback. Try clicking with the machine turned off.
I want these as individual 7 segment displays. Or 16 segment.
Honest question: How is it that Google is the company that's always doing all of this involved technical work? Or is it just that their work gets publicity?
In fairness, though Nix does take the pain out of cross-compilation and other operations through a higher-level package and configuration management layer, a saner build system and toolchain would have accomplished the same in the particular case of cross-compiling: http://aiju.de/rant/cross-compiling
All talk of futuristic "smart cities" requires us to implicitly acknowledge that the present cities are indeed quite "dumb".
Thanks! I don't mean to say that the Hacker News community is not friendly to non-techies, just that the articles on Hacker News are often very technical and incomprehensible to people outside of the tech world. WeRead wants to have a more diverse set of articles while upholding the same level of standard as Hacker News.
I interned there last year. They use a Windows 7 image that is preloaded with drilling software built in-house. Most of the newer software seemed to be written in .NET.

They have some really awesome tech, especially from an electronics point of view. Some of their newer MWD (measurement while drilling) tools have state of the art sensors for every physical phenomenon known to man. The drilling operator can therefore "see" everything. The electronics systems that go downhole can withstand insane temperatures (125C), shocks, and RPM.
We generate a huge amount of IP at work in a (similar to) engineering effectiveness role. Even the dumbest tools we come up with could be spun off into an ok-ish start-up.

I guess it's a matter of mindset, if you think to make tools which address the issue at hand, you'll end up as a cost center; if you think of products to solve the class of problems the issue belongs to, then you'll be adding value to the company as well as improving effectiveness.
We'd condemn people who've done nothing wrong to a life of constant pain.