skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is something along the lines of what a friend once told me: "Compare the grammar of Java and C++. C++ has a very complex definition, whereas Java is brain-dead simple. And that fact enables all the powerful transformations IDE can do."

Also there's this school of thought that attributes most security problems to people accidentally using Turing-complete languages where they meant to use something less powerful. Consider vulnerability to arbitrary code execution through user input injection, which could be interpreted by your program being a "parser" (so-called "shotgun parser" - it's implicitly distributed throughout your code base) for a Turing-complete superset of what was supposed to be a list of accepted inputs. There are pretty good talks about this line of thought and I personally find it pretty interesting.

But none of this affects the fact that in complicated enough programs, you need "configuration" to be more code than data, which leads people not knowing of Lisp to reinvent a subset of it in XML or JSON or something similar.
IOW no evidence whatsoever.
I already build up my HTML programmatically from reusable components, following DRY (Don't you?). That means the markup for what it means to be e.g. a paragraph heading is already in one place. It's no trouble to style it there, with a font tag, and if I want to change it then I can change it there. And if I want to abstract out a particular piece of styling and reuse it across several components, it's just code, I factor it out the same way I would anything else.

So yes, seriously, it's simpler than using a CSS selector.
"Different brain regions including external frontal cortex, cerebellar hemisphere, entorhinal cortex/hippocampus and choroid plexus contain fungal material, which is absent in brain tissue from control individuals. Analysis of brain sections from ten additional AD patients reveals that all are infected with fungi."
I sometimes have a problem too.

BTW. You mentioned Star Trek, actually that (IMO) pretty ridiculous episode with holographic messages hidden in DNA was on my mind when I wrote the original comment...
I've seen the image several times, and I'd always assumed it was a painting, using photo-realist techniques.
Futures are not outright gambling, no, they're temporal arbitrage - same as loans and bonds. Derivatives - well, depends on the market, but in one sense they're basically insurance, which is maybe a form of gambling, sure.
Very poorly: http://zombe.es/post/4078724716/openssl-cipher-selection
> We don't know the NSA is doing this. There's no evidence whatsoever beyond conspiracy theory stuff.

We don't know the NSA is not doing this. There is ample evidence that they do a lot more than we conspired about.
Easy solution: go back and buy another piece of junk for $25k. ;)
Enough of this boorish, loud, annoying clown, please.
I was on this visa. You must have been running the business in your home country for at least one year, and you must continue to keep the business running in your home country while you are in the U.S. (The U.S. office is supposed to be a branch). You also need sufficient funds (at least $100K, but $150K is safer). However once you get it, you can renew it for up to seven years, and, unlike the E-2, it has a path to getting a green card
Though I'm not familiar with the workings of classification, that question sounds paradoxical to me. Isn't that equivalent to something like, "How many secrets are there in the world?"?
Top 7 Cyber Attack Maps
Curious how much of this is actually about making things 'humane' and how much is for recruiting purposes.

If you're running a war against a worthy opponent, everyone needs to get behind it if you have a chance at succeeding.

It's also a pretty despicable thing to have to get behind, and not everyone is going to want to on purely moral grounds.

If you can somehow soften the edges, at least in theory, you might be able to convince otherwise inconvincible segments of your own society to at least tacitly support the effort.
I see your point of view.

"sucks less" has a negative connotation, but I can see the message delivered is not necessarily negative.
Don't have fall foliage where you live? Get fresh, colorful leaves at your door
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392636
William Koch (the "poor" brother) is a western nut and bought the other photo. With his wealth he probably bid a high price. (His brothers expelled him from the family business with smaller share of stock.)
How could it not be luck of the draw? Do you understand how rare IPOs are?

> Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO?

I take issue with your implication: "YC has had no IPOs after funding ~1000 companies". That is a premature call, and (frankly) bending the truth. YC has been taking on more startups per year recently. That skews the age of YC companies to very young. If you assume that an IPO takes > 5-6 years, then results for the vast majority of YC companies aren't even in yet.

> After 10 years of success, and a lot of VC-backed companies that would be looking for eventual exits, that seemed like a surprising statistic.

Sure, YC may have fewer IPOs than normal VCs. That's because they are an early-stage investor, which has much higher risk. Thus, you would expect fewer IPOs compared to a late-stage investor.

> is it something special about the YC ecosystem that tends to not culminate in an IPO,

Citation needed. What is the "expected" number of IPOs? Are there similar early-stage VCs that have more IPOs?

It sounds like you are trying to dig for a problem that doesn't exist.
It's like complaining that your favorite baseball team hasn't had enough no-hitters. Who cares, as long as they are winning!
Startup Parasites – Looking for Feedback from HN Community
GNU ethical criteria for code repositories emphasize privacy, freedom, copyleft
Can you elaborate on Square's gold-plated credentials? Most of the news / comments I've read about square post their IPO disclosure have been negative (or at least skeptical) - largely to do with the increasing loss rate and the state of the payments market.
Space reduction, plus work reduction - you don't have to manually move clothes from the washer to the dryer. On the other hand, when you're in a hurry, you can't start another load in the washer while the first load is drying...
Considering H1B visa only allows you to work for the company that sponsored your visa, what you're describing sounds illegal, not just a loophole. I'm not saying they shouldn't do so. And I'm also not saying anything about whether the H1B requirements make any sense. I'm just saying that hopefully they're aware that what they're doing is illegal and may hurt their companies at any moment.
Down Memory Lane: Can the Nexus 5X Cut It with 2GB of RAM?
I have an unambiguously dirty '03 TDI (though the B99 in the tank makes it less bad than it might otherwise be, and I bike to work while it sits in the driveway), but I certainly only intend to buy electric/hybrid vehicles going forward. But VW is heading that direction, too: http://qz.com/522844/volkswagen-is-pegging-its-fate-to-a-maj...
> people need people like librarians to help utilize that fire hose more

Given the explosion of niche interests over the past 50 years I don't think its feasible for librarians to provide that service except at extremes of the spectrum: internal university or corporate information of extreme specificity and controlled scope at one end, and public topics of general specificity at the other.

In the middle is a vast information space traditionally only explored and indexed by clubs and societies but now predominantly by the search engines.

Think about asking your local public librarian about functional programming, or the history of turbine-powered cars. They'll have to refer to a index of recommended texts[0] and hope there's something vaguely similar there, which is far inferior to a search engine which can access vast reservoirs of specialist discussion on such specific topics.

[0] I can't remember the name of this index after all this time but it lists 'go-to' references for a long list of topics.
“7 Days Germany” – “DIE ZEIT” compiled a list of attacks on refugees from 1 week
It looks like all you need to do is save it from the web browser. At least when I did it to the example file I got a page that has no scripts in it and an svg diagram.
I was born in the US...Not to stereotype a whole city or region...but my parents grew up near Naples. A lot of their world view (and that of their napolitani immigrant friends) seems governed by a philosophy of "the world is out to scam you. Be very careful about the people you put your tust in"

Ive always found it difficult to reconcile the general optimism of American culture with their ever present wariness.
pdf is still editable.
How Gentrifiers Gentrify
One of Gibson's recurring themes is that enough money is like being in the future.

Apple couldn't do anything on a technical level that other manufacturers couldn't. But they were the only company that could charge $500 for a phone (at a time when high-end premium phones cost less than half that), play hardball with the carriers, and have people buy it. Which, it turns out, is a lot like leaping a couple of years into the future.
Maybe It's a Dyson Sphere
If it looks too good to be true ...
I'd like to see grass-fed meat meeting the demands of 5 billion people.

No one is arguing that the environmental impact can't be reduced. I'm just saying that people are blind and don't care about deaths caused by having a car, but they are also blind and don't care about deaths caused by eating meat.

Yes, not everyone buys their meat from bad sources, I'd definitely like for it to become a majority.

Unfortunately, there's not enough land for that, I'd rather eat bugs.

> If you want to be sarcastic, make it obvious.

Yes I agree that my comment about sheep was entirely unnecessary, as was this whole discussion, I removed it.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10399854
Odd, I posted this exact link yesterday[1]. I always thought there was link normalisation on HN?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10390791
Since precedent-wise, it only applies in the Second Circuit (CT, VT, and NY), I wonder if there are any similar cases (or if there's another entity that might try their luck against Google elsewhere, say in the 9th Cir.) that might result in either an a concurrence with the 2nd, or a split that would 'force' SCOTUS to weigh in.
I am not 100% positive, and I don't work for FB, but it is my understanding that FB doesn't need to look at your cache to determine who you may know. There are several factors to consider in determining if someone may know someone that FB uses. The weight of each factor combined determines the likelihood of the individuals knowing each other. Some of those factors are in no particular order:

1. Mutual friends
1a. If Friend X talks to Person Y a lot, and you a friends with Friend X and you talk to Friend X lot via liking and commenting on FB, there is a higher chance of you knowing Person Y. Compared to if you are just friends with Friend X and don't really communicate with them.

2. Education - did you go to the same school or are you friends with people that went to the same schools.

3. Community - do you live in the same community, city, state.

4. Work - have you worked together or for the same company. Are you friends with people that work with him or her.

5. Are you in a photo, or same album, posted to FB with this individual. For example, if Friend X creates an album and uploads 100 photos to that album. If you are in some of the photos with Friend X and Person Y is in some of the photos with Friend X there may be a good chance you know each other.

6. Did you choose to share your contacts with FB such as using Gmail or Yahoo email?
The "ads" are an opt-in recommendation feature of the Store and/or Cortana. They don't directly make money for Microsoft. (Microsoft still gets its Store cut if you actually buy one of the suggested apps, but it wants Suggested Apps to be a useful, personalized recommender, not a paid featured spot...)

If the forced Windows 10 upgrades were not an accident, it wasn't to make money. If anything it would be an attempt to save money and have fewer people on older operating systems that they need to support.

If there's a "grand conspiracy" afoot, it should be pretty transparent and obvious by now: Microsoft doesn't want people stuck on the same version of Windows for a decade again (XP).
Pierre isn't complaining that a "rule" has been broken. He's asking about the future benefit or harm to society caused by the public shaming.

If 'Fly' isn't going to be put to death (I don't think you are arguing for that?), there's a likelihood that someday he will emerge from jail and be expected to re-enter society. Pierre's question is whether the treatment of 'Fly' now puts the world in a better or worse position at that future point.

I think it's a legitimate concern, although I think the 'public shaming' is going to have much less impact than the years spent in foreign jail living only among other criminals. It doesn't strike me as likely that he will be in a position to re-enter society having seen the flaws of his ways.
Yes reliability and safety are the most important points but at same time, most of the certification processes to go to space are usually overbloated. Anyway, i'm just asking from the technical point of view if the radiation issue could be solved or not using some modern technics as SpaceX is using.
> If you give technical interviews, I implore you: when the candidate asks what you want from them, don't be coy or sneaky about it with the justification that figuring it out is part of the interview. Tell the candidate what you want.

Man, this is so true. I've had great conversations in interviews where it was stated up-front that the goal was to cooperatively dig into ambiguous specifications. This is (often) an actual part of working as an developer. Speaking with someone who's being deliberately vague about what they want is not, unless that's what you think of people "on the business side," in which case you've got a bizarre understanding of how this industry works that would be a big red-flag for me as a potential colleague.
I get that NSA snooping is abusive if it's the norm. But who exactly would really want to protect themselves from the NSA?

I mean ultimately, isn't the problem the NSA is snooping on people who aren't aware of it ? Why would someone try to hide itself from the NSA ? Is it just because it's a political principle or to just annoy the NSA and discourage them ? I mean wouldn't this help the bad guys more ?
I recall hearing that the first Betty Crocker cake mix didn't sell well. It was very convenient - just add water, stick it in a pan, and bake. People didn't like it.

After running some focus groups, Betty Crocker found out that it was too convenient - people didn't feel like they had done any "cooking". So Betty Crocker reformulated it so that you had to add eggs, not just water, and then it became a huge success.

People want cooking convenient, but many people still want to feel like they cooked.
Did you have to pay for copies? If you were in junior high, I would assume that the 6 page limit is a cost limiting measure.
What's your conclusion? Will it be easy or costly to have location-dependent data and will they do it?
No affiliation with this (not even a customer), but this might be useful for you: http://www.growamp.com

And...holy shit, they just raised their pricing by 5x. That's kind of insane. I was really on the fence about this at $500 / month, but if I really needed this now, I'd probably try building it myself. If you planned on paying for this for a year, that's $30k. Seems like you could recreate this for $30k, right?
Looking into Craig's remaning James Bond contracts says about 2 more films after Spectre (releasing this November)[0]. Sure would be cool to have Idris as James Bond, he is an amazing actor.

0 - https://www.quora.com/How-many-more-Bond-movies-do-you-think...
You'll note that I said “simplest” – this could work on a $2/month shared hosting plan (not sure where you got the “updating and restarting httpd” bit from with a couple decades of prior art showing otherwise).

The Jetty approach is clever, too, as would be things like scanning rel=prefetch links but simple declarative approaches have their moments, too. One thing the Jetty approach doesn't appear to offer is the ability to manage resources if not all resources are appropriate for every client so it would appear to do things like ship every size of a responsive image to every client.
And for your next trick, undump: convert the core file into an executable program which recreates the process in the same state it was originally dumped (nearly).
Norway Is a Model for Encouraging Electric Car Sales
Is this really a "best practice" to disable dhe in firefox/chrome?

Won't that just make the server/browser negotiate an even weaker scheme if they cannot find a matching higher set?

My firefox goes from:

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

to:

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

Do you really want TLS_RSA? How about 3DES?
I think you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
One of the main things I want to keep private is just family life - conflicts, love, sex, etc. I don't want the government to know about my private family life. I don't see how a free, thoughtful, creative society can flourish if the government can always know the goods on everybody.
Savings are stocks, incomes are flows.

http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_imk_wp_100_2012.pdf
Try different sites or youtube-dl.
Jack in a Box: Can Twitter Be Saved?
> makes it sound like the current consensus is that Van der Lubbe set the fire after all.

Does it?

> The responsibility for the Reichstag fire remains an ongoing topic of debate and research.

The German one is not quite so sure either: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstagsbrand

> Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested at the scene. However, the circumstances and especially who did it could never be cleared up without doubt, and are still an object of controversy today.
I live in Uruguay (South America), many developers don't speak English, and most that do don't speak it well (they usually do read and write decently).

You'd probably be hard pressed to understand what they're talking about :) - for example JSON is definitely JASON, and you'll be looked at funny if you don't pronounce it that way :) , and Ajax is pronounced like the Dutch football team.

If I don't hear it on a video or a talk, I'm probably pronouncing it wrong (and not knowing I am). I hope to get corrected if I do.
CERN and the synoptic telescopes have identical issues. They collect petabytes a year and re-analyze it later. CERN only saves about one in billion "interesting" events. A physicist might suggest a new decay model. Then a grad student might search for its signature in the recorded billions of events.
Congratulations, and thanks for making a simple automation tool that I have come to love!

You guys definitely were very active in the community. Enough for the likes of me to also become an active tweet-er. I was pretty excited when @tybstar (Tim Gerla), Ansible's co-founder, chimed in once. I hope you guys share some chunk of the sale with him too! ;)
H1B is transferrable any time, even before you start working for the company that sponsored it.
Kinesis Rant
I've had recruiters cop a very passive-aggressive tone when I told them I didn't know anyone interested in their position. It was weird.
I understand it is probably an unreal expectation. If you actually did know your min/max heaps and could implement them you'd be better off being a programmer. Never the less it is counter-productive to know nothing at all as we agree.

That's why I don't have any good solutions. It doesn't seem like there are any. Unless we can find magical unicorns who know enough about programming and software development to be competent enough to assess the abilities of programmers themselves... or at the very least understand the process enough to be able to answer their questions.
Seems ideal for certain circumstances, e.g., with a remote dev team in your home country.
MIT echoes Big Hero 6 with microbot-like tech
Thanks for your interest!

I think the biggest thing to do is finalize the public API and release v1.0.0. I started with only functions but have since added types, so I'd like to figure out if I should support both or stick to one or the other. I have a feeling I could use an Interface to make stats work for both []float64 and []int but I'm not sure about that.

Another thing I'd like to do is add more test suites, I know they are out there for more mature statistics packages in other languages that could be ported to Go.

Speaking of mature packages, I think the Gnu GSL Statistics[1] could be a good roadmap for future functionality and API design decisions.

1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Statistics....
Ystem that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams
http://i.imgur.com/iv5NLKe.jpg
The Effects of Seeing Asian-Americans as a ‘Model Minority’
Yes, but that doesn't stop the recruiter from waxing passive-aggressive when you tell them that.

It'd be hilaribad if it weren't so irksome.
A handful of times I've been able to control things while lucid, but more often than not (probably at least once per month) it serves only as a sort of "escape mechanism" from the dream.

I haven't had a "nightmare" in probably 10 years because they never make any sense to me while I'm dreaming. Like if it's a drastically bad situation I always realize that it can't possibly be real, which switches off the dream as if it were a movie. Then I'm left in a sort of void where I have to work toward waking up -- out of the sleep paralysis. It was at this point that I used to panic, but now I know better, and that eventually I'll be fine and awake. I too seem to have a lot of energy after this process of "escape".

But my original comment was more a question of whether or not the research in the article could potentially trigger a lucid dream state, facilitating an on-demand, in-brain VR situation.

I don't think I've ever experienced fully conscious eyes-open sleep paralysis.
GNU ethical repository criteria
Scanning books almost certainly is not copyright infringement. Tons of people do it. What you do with the scans afterwards matters more.
African States Hop on the Citizen Surveillance Bandwagon
What if a blind person were selling a box of old useless foreign currencies for $2 but when you look through the box you discover there's a couple of $1,000,000 US Treasury bonds (valid, cashable) inside? Do you quickly snap it up, thinking it's a fair trade because you're paying the asking price? Or is there a sense of having taken advantage of the blind person as they couldn't see the value of what they were selling?

I'm not suggesting any sort of obligation towards the junk shop; it's an interesting thought exercise of where one draws the line when there's a knowledge gap between buyer and seller, particularly one involving six orders of magnitude difference in value.