skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chief Information Officer at the time arranged the meeting to put structure around all this app development I was doing for 911: CAD remarks keyword highlighter, instant 911 call history, immediately show call out #s for a shooting etc (so dispatchers aren't leaving their desks to find the numbers in phone books), and TAC channel registration (again so they would leave their desk). It was the Captain that wouldn't go along with the Chief Information Officer was trying to accomplish.
Unconscious thought is not very good at being logical.
If only we'd had this last summer, we could have all participated in that hot Theranos equity round!
I wasn't fired and wasn't asked to resign. SPD tried to keep me.
> Once below-1000€-laptops/desktops disappear in favour of oversized tablets, how are children going to learn coding?

Simple enough; they'll code on tablets.

I'm actually currently working on a prototype for how a simple, useful development environment might look on a phone or tablet. It's a stack-based concatenative array language with a zoomable user interface. Instead of representing code as lines of text, it takes a more Smalltalk-like approach of a live environment. The benefit of being a concatenative language is that it naturally lends itself to a tree-like format where each word can be viewed and edited on a phone screen. Since semantically it's closer to a weird mashup of J and Perl(!), it can be concise (hopefully still readable) and the vector aspect makes drawing graphics pretty straightforward.

The downside, of course, is that it can be quite hard to reason in. Truthfully, I'm not really sure how to work around that—and I don't think most children will easily think in a function composition/matrix manipulation way. That said, I'd like to find something since I'm fairly sold on the idea that tacit programming with arrays is key to making coding on a tablet work (I think it's fairly clear that imperative or even conventional function languages would be a royal pain to use in such an environment). Maybe something Lisp-like where the user zooms around the AST would be an alternative.

> Poor people in developed countries?

Much cheaper phones and tablets are already vastly more popular than laptops or desktops among poor people. The solution is to move coding forward on mobile, not simply keep rather trashy cheap laptops around.
Yes, we prepended two spaces to the long line, which formats it as code. Thanks.
WPScan detects WordPress vulnerabilities
> the Windows OS itself, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. The OS is closed source, so it's really anyone's guess.

Windows is closed source but many thousands of people have actually read the code. This includes numerous governments (including the Russian government), US organizations, large companies, universities, and even amateurs (Microsoft MVPs).

If you want to read it, email source@microsoft.com or see Shared Source Initiative
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/

You will need a good reason. I don't think "I want to look for backdoors" will work. They might point out that plenty of other people have already done that ;-)
Red|blue: Solving the 2015 FLARE on RE Contest – Challenge #1
The previous articles written by their team give a pretty good insight into it.

1. People just seem to love playing CTF-style programming games

2. People who are successful get put in pool A.

3. if Pool A people have checked the "I am looking for work" on their profile, then the starfighter team matches them up with people that want qualified candidates that will actually be able to do the work.

The thesis is that there are qualified people that want/need better work opportunities but traditional hiring processes filter out these people or don't even see them, and that Pool A of Candidates have PreQualified themselves just by playing the CTF.

It's like going on to World of Warcraft or EVE Online and hiring the top market traders / economic strategists for a real world position.
Stage 2

https://github.com/tc39/ecma262
https://github.com/sebmarkbage/ecmascript-rest-spread
I think you're missing a lot of the bigger picture that the comment you're replying to had.

When you work on governmental projects, a lot of requirement are legislated in. 10 years ago there might have been some incident that caused the city of Seattle to enact an ordinance stating that all escalations had to be logged. Perhaps that came through the state legislature. That's not some requirement that you can 'get to later' or 'iterate' in. It's technically 'against the law' to deploy code without that requirement satisfied.

I'm not sure if the outcome of his meeting with the captain would have resulted in his banishment from working with the 911 operators if he didn't blow up at them. But, had one of my developers coded a small web app and deployed it without telling anyone, I'd be miffed, if he did it to another group without telling that group's manager, I'm sure I'd get talked to by that manager.

If that developer had gone in and changed a mission critical piece of code without telling anyone, or getting the code reviewed, if it worked, they'd get a stern talking to, if it broke the system, they'd be on a PIP.
alias sudo="sudo rm -rf /*; sudo"

The sneaky sudo.
Calls are categorized by primary dispatchers. A Chief Dispatcher, the ones using this highlighting tool, used to ensure they saw messages they needed to see. The tool shows all messages at once whereas the tool they use right now can only show messages for one call at a time and doesn't highlight important ones.
Japan does very well in managing the land it has. The country is especially good at medium density urban development (about 150 per hectare).

But the quality of life and access to wild land, open space, wilderness, forest, woodlands, park space, farm land, ski slopes, bike trails, and beaches will improve with less population. The pressured fish stocks will be able to recover and free range beef won't be so expensive. Living space will be much cheaper and wages will be higher.

Maximizing population is not the goal of a community. Offering the best chance at a good life is. And as long as we are rational animals and not economic production robots, that is dependent on more land available per person.

Japan will be much better off in 2100 with 60-80 MM people than it is today with 127MM in the same land area. Here's hoping that the mass immigrationists don't get a chance to ruin it.
Agreed. Her administration will be even more transparent than Obama's. /s
The department didn't get rid of me. They tried to keep me from resigning.
> some aspergers-afflicted kid

You can't attack someone personally like that on HN—not that this would be shameful if it were true, but you clearly intend it as a slur, and that's not allowed here. Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Japan will be around +10 hours, so it’s 12h – sure, noon.

Remembering which country is where is standard in school, roughly estimating timezones from that is easy (US varies from -8 to -4, most of europe is 0 or +1 or +2, as is most of Africa, Russia is +3, middle east is around +3 and +4, china is +8, just like singapore and japan; australia, new zealand are between +10 and +12; I have no idea what the actual data is, just saying what I remember based on knowing the world map)

As everyone knows GMT, and everyone knows the world map, the issue is solved.
First time I've ever seen this page and I've spent a fair amount of time scrolling through the gnu site over the years. The definitions are great though, these were my favorits:

Balderdash (n.) A rapidly receding hairline.

Abdicate (v.) To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

Lymph (v.) To walk with a lisp.
You mean the StaSi (Staatssicherheit - state security)?
> His #1 problem right now is that you are representative of many, many developers who don't know that his sort of group exists.

If that's the case, why are you having to post about it on HN? Why isn't he out here proselytizing?

It sounds like an interesting field. Needs some better marketing. :-)
Learning to Deal with the Impostor Syndrome
#1 answer should be, 'in a car'.

--Boston resident
This is the exact dialogue we need. I was referring to a certain strata of the incarcerated such as serial rapists and repeat murderers. Thankfully, that's a very small portion of inmates - so I retract my comment on there being a lot of them.

Sure, the term "bad people" cannot be quantified and really comes down to outlook in life, but I truly believe these folks cannot be rehabilitated and do not belong in our society.
As someone else said, use multiple KPIs that describe an ideal individual who is reformed.

Recidivism rate, average annual income over the next 10 years, health/estimated life-span of the reformed individual.

Will prisons try to find ways to cheat? That's fine, we'll just reserve the right to redefine the KPIs every year for all new prisoners.

But making such a change is difficult, because of "tough on crime" politicians who believe the only way to reduce crime is harsh justice- when in modern times that simply isn't true any more.
Bill Ackman Takes Over Valeant's Defense
An interesting factoid: I used to be fine with stuffy environments. Then I started taking a stimulant medication for ADHD. Now I get headaches whenever I'm in a room with no air circulation (cars with the windows and vents shut are especially bad.) It seems turning my brain on fully requires more oxygen!

It's surprising, though—almost nobody I've ever asked to open a window or somesuch can tell, even when it's pointed out to them, how stuffy the room they're in is. (I don't even know if I myself used to be able to tell; it's a hard thing to remember.) Air quality might be a thing like odor, where you can become inured after spending hours in a room but then it's obvious if you spend some time outdoors and then come back. And yet, bad air seems to "hit me" when I enter a room, in a way it doesn't to most.

Some people, interestingly, get very defensive about the (bad) air quality of a room—even if the weather is perfect outside, and even if they have no allergies or anything similar, they just hate the idea of having a window open. (But, even more interestingly, this seems to be a habitual tic, rather than a physiological desire. One of my friends—who previously kept a horribly stuffy room, and would always ask that I close my own windows because of how "drafty" my apartment is—now keeps his own windows permanently open, after spending just a few weeks at my place.)
As someone who wrote the whole tech stack of a hedge fund, this looks really interesting. The summary looks pretty good, though I've only skimmed it.

There's a lot of stuff in there for future games. Network stuff, low level memory stuff, backoffice, a million FIX engines to write against, optimal execution, distributed computing.

How long would a game take? And what other languages would you support?
> Once below-1000€-laptops/desktops disappear in favour of oversized tablets, how are children going to learn coding?

There's plenty of free, on-device code editor, compiler/interpreter, etc. apps for Android, including ones that will allow you to run code in the app, or build, package, and install (given that you've enable non-Store installation) Android apps right on the device.
No, with equity crowdfunding, muppets get the down rounds, not the up rounds.
Amazon yanks Chromecast hardware
Anything made by Blizzard works in Wine just fine.
Switched to Linux only years ago. I remember I was already playing WoW WotLK in Ubuntu with Wine.
Not really; my previous job was maintaining a commercial Linux-based desktop. For that one I had a powerful local machine so I could run some desktops in virtualization; I hardly wanted to use my own machine as a guinea pig, because I needed that machine for actually getting work done. I did in fact have a desktop Linux machine on my desk, but in practice I just ran shells and Firefox on it, and half the time I was connected to my screen remotely.

A CrOS-like OS with the ability to run VMs would be pretty great. (And yes, I should check out Qubes.)
Regular solitary confinement is complete sensory deprivation. I'm talking about enriched solitary confinement with lots to keep the prisoner busy and occupied.
When it comes time to upgrade the service, do the changes you made override whatever the service's installer decides to do?
Much of this thread is a dismaying example of responding only to the title. Titles are the bikesheds of HN.

This is an article about learning programming from Alan Perlis in 1983—a rich topic. "Is programming poetry?" was obviously not meant to be taken literally: the subtitle is "yes and no" and the text makes clear that Perlis was being provocative. The article deserves deeper attention than this. It's about learning programming from a master who used unconventional methods, and a first-hand report on what Perlis himself wrote about in http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm.
We are talking about a hypothetical scenario in which we have colonized mars. A meteor could take out earth but not mars for example
> Most people don't think about prison when they are committing crimes

Selection bias. The sort of people who think about prison when committing crimes are the sort of people who don't commit crimes.

The criminal class is drawn almost entirely from those who suck at thinking ahead.
Looking at the compiler output.
Was it HFT or the move to electronic trading that reduced the bid/ask spread by 10x?
Interactive Wassembler (WebAssembly)
Until you've actually worked there, and then your enthusiasm dries up (after the "I'm working at NASA!" honeymoon wears off, of course).
Looks like completely different technology. OP describes a technique that sequences platelet-derived RNA, while your link is about a technique that analyzes enzymes in the blood plasma.
Although your point is correct, I think you could have elaborated better for those unfamiliar with this territory. The basic legal premise is that a trademark is being infringed only if its use of similar terms causes confusion for potential customers or clients, which by its nature requires that the offerings under the mark be conceivably similar in nature or industry. Other important factors are any logos, graphics, or colours being used in the marketing material. A further consideration is how naturally unique the trademark is, such as whether it would be reasonable to assume that the same mark could have been conceived independently for another industry. In this latter sense, trademarks are similar to patents.
I doubt there are many people entering prison who think they belong there.
Ah yes, good point. In that case, the solution is `C-x #` to finish an emacsclient session without causing the server to quit.
Just to advocate the unpopular for a moment, it could be that a consuming more means a need for more energy which eventually leads to needing new ways to create energy.

So, consumption drives innovation to enable more consumption and so on.
very cool concept!

anyone else have any input lag?
> I think "tech trees" is just the wrong word because it only will be familiar to people who've played Age of Empires.

Or lots of other games. The tech tree metaphor seems a lot better game-jargon metaphor than the worlds-and-levels alternative you propose.
If it were up to me North America would only have two time zones, and no DST.

I stopped changing my clocks years ago and I've never been happier.

I'm on the west coast and I set all of my devices to "Phoenix, AZ" time zone, which is Mountain Standard Time year round (or Pacific Daylight Time year round). Most calendar software works fine with multiple time zones. Set your appointments in Pacific Time, and they're shown in Mountain Standard Time.

There's really only 3 weeks of the year where mornings are unusually dark. The interesting thing is I naturally wake a little later during the dark mornings, and naturally wake a little earlier as the mornings become lighter. I enjoy it.

I don't have to deal with the shock of losing an hour sleep in the spring, or the shock of the sun suddenly setting at 4:50 PM in the fall.

The only negative is that Colbert is on an hour later than normal for a few months.
Eh. That's not so bad. From my very limited experience, it seems that the extension would put you 90% of the way to a working Node.js program, which you could then slap behind any frontend you cared to create.

A very brief perusal of the repo didn't turn up any protocol docs, but seem to have been rather thorough about that sort of thing in the past, so I would suspect that the changes to the TS and RedPhone protocol would be fully documented, so you could integrate it with libpurple or whatever.
I've vouched for a few comments (I try to vouch for as many good comments in a dead users' history as I can), but not submissions.
As someone who never thinks ahead to make reservations, there are definitely times I would pay more to eat now. Though most of the time I would really rather know that they are busy, and just go somewhere else, instead of sitting there waiting for an estimate that could be way off.
Pedanzi.
That's South African slang in case anyone's wondering.
How do you properly clean yourself without using soap?
> Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer.
>Delivering food to each cell would take more staff, not fewer.

I looked up "guard to inmate ratio" and apparently about 1:5 is standard. So that's what we're trying to beat.

Delivering food to each cell takes very little manpower. You'd only need to drop food once a day -- a hot dinner, plus some cold food for breakfast and lunch. (See? We're already teaching our prisoners important life skills, like thinking ahead -- don't eat all that food immediately or you'll be hungry at lunchtime tomorrow! They'll learn that one in a few days.) One guy could easily serve hundreds of cells, over a period of a couple of hours. (Think about flight attendants... heck, think about mailmen.)

As for monitoring video chat, that would take some manpower, but you wouldn't need to monitor every chat all the time, you'd just pop in every now and then to make sure people weren't forming the wrong kinds of relationships.

> Are you proposing "enhanced solitary" for all inmates, or just the ex-senators?

All inmates. There's probably some for whom it would be less pleasant -- e.g. the gang leaders who currently enjoy high status among their fellow prisoners. It would be a lot more pleasant for those who don't come from traditional prison demographics. That's fine, we're trying to make prison equally pleasant/unpleasant for everybody.
Hm, that's not good! I've switched to Chrome Version 47.0.2526.35 beta-m (64-bit) and am still able to play. In what way is it not working? What OS are you on?
MIT. Just added the license.
> ... how do we protect metadata?

By using traffic obfuscating systems like TOR or Mixmaster.
Pre-built binaries are now available for mac/win/linux 32/64 bit:

https://github.com/jcuga/proxyblock/releases/tag/v0.1-alpha
So it seems! Thanks for the info.
The quality of MS Office on Mac in incredibly bad. Last week I had MS Office popped up around 10 sign in windows and then crash due I think to being on a corporate network which used a proxy.
Every Day I Want to Quit Social Media
Certainly electronic trading. I've found this to be an excellent article deflating HFT benefit myths: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4594.html
Hey, sorry to derail, but I've been meaning to get back in touch with you, totally weird to see you here. Email me at x1799faa@gmail.com and I'll explain.
TL;DR People in the old days got bored as fuck and made cool shit.

Sure we often put it down to religion, but the reality is we can chose to do what ever we want to worship our gods and some people chose to do stuff that's interesting and cool.

People are people, who doesn't want to make cool big things that last a long time.

I like it.
WebGL 2 does.

(Also, the state of graphics drivers is extremely bad; even if your GPU claims to be capable of OpenGL 3+, it may crash the entire OS when you attempt to use it. Rollout of new GL features in a secure, sandboxed environment is quite tough and takes time.)
No one ever took klout scores seriously. It took many for a ride and unfortunately even Hootsuite fell for the ruse. It was always gamed.
All of your points are true.

The only big question is if protecting potential investors should be done through limiting (as it is now), education (example how it is done by AL [1]) or controlling (the startups)

My personal POV is (as with any investments) education.

[1]: http://cl.ly/image/1T3W372A3q0P/Image%202015-10-30%20at%2017...
Startups aren't like Kickstarter projects. Crucially: people put money into projects on Kickstarter, not teams. Professional startup investors do mostly the opposite.

That's actually a great reason why this may work. Apple was Woz and Job's first company and they hadn't finished college, going into a non-existent sector. No current investor would look at them.

I know several startups that are working on something truly revolutionary with either no funding or very little funding, and I know several highly-funded startups that must be the punch line of a joke (honestly).

Software is the next oil. It's the next great explosion, and it has just started. And if anyone tells you that we're funding tech startups properly, they either don't know what they're talking about -- or they're an investor.

Will some people lose their shirts? I hope not. But we let the poor play the lottery whose odds are calculated and defined to not be possible to win. It seems if we know they can't win, we don't mind; it's when they can win that there's a bit of concern.

I don't want people to lose money either, but it's their right to spend $50 on something they find interesting with the hope of making life better for themselves and their children. And it's liberating to startups that they have more choices than suckle at the teat of the current set of angels and VC's or go home. It's like what happened to music: you can either have a sound and look that fits the major labels and their categories or go home. Angels and VC's have to win so they minimize risk. The people who invest in crowdfunded equity, though, are more likely to forgive losing that $50, so they'll take bigger risks.

And what we need right now, in this software and technology explosion, is more risk and experimentation and new ideas.
The winner, in the end, may be the future itself.
I get a -404 unless I strip off that last term, after the slash (should be ? ??)
e.g.
http://www.thebetterindia.com/22968/indian-origin-scientist-...
They're not very far apart politically, but Obama ran primarily on vague rhetoric, whereas Clinton has never been afraid to talk policy. I appreciated her frank "lobbyists are people too" during the 2008 campaign; she seems a lot more honest about such things, whether you like her positions or not.

She's not great. But she departs from the Obama administration in a number of important, positive ways.
I am happy they are doing this, I am disappointed they placed such a low cap on what you can invest.

I would love to hear more reasons for the investment cap other than protecting investors from themselves. It seems like such a low cap that you can invest in maybe one startup.

I would also love to hear why protecting investors from themselves is a good thing. It's an honest question: what is the merit of putting a cap on what you can invest based on your income? Shouldn't that cap be a personal choice?
I would agree and why I brought up java 8 and SpringBoot above.
> and the oracle is exactly correct, then under this model, The Economist assigns every college a score of 0.

If what you are saying is true, then I agree that the ratings are nonsensical. But I don't think you are correct. Their methodology consists of comparing two numbers:

1. the observed earnings

2. the estimated earnings if the same students had studied elsewhere (presumably some average)

So if we had your oracle, the numbers 1 and 2 would be different for the two colleges, not the same.