skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always shocked to read about how academia -- especially scientific fields -- punishes failure of the 'Experiment did not succeed' type.

My 6th grade science teacher was adamant that the scientific method is about testing, logging, and refining... While I get not working doesn't usually make for an interesting paper, isn't it important for scientists to share what doesn't work as often as what does?

Or have I just gotten the wrong impression from a few articles I've seen pop up on HN?
Fair enough with Nazism. How about war instead? Malaria seems to persist quite well, and doesn't vanish.
Check out this:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...

Deaths per year (trending down is nice!):

Weapons	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Personal weapons 1	869	875	817	769	728
Other or not stated	1,005	999	904	872	853

Anyway, broken jaws and teeth are really expensive to fix. Like a bottomless depth of debt could result due to liability and personal injury. Even if you don't go to jail, it could be a life changing event in a bad way.
I think the takeaway had more to do with the shift from "man life really threw me a curveball and I could use some help" to "my spewcial schnequflake needs a new violin and we renovated the kitchen last year, someone else please pay for it"
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Regardless of whether this is right or wrong it's a good reminder that you should always apply critical thinking and skepticism to everything you read or hear, even if it's from people that you respect like Paul Graham. Everyone is human and our flaws are many.
All these tax schemes need to be standardized in the global market place. Weird taxing schemes are a huge burden to business.
Volkswagen managers afraid to travel to the U.S.: paper
Not useless, it's a useful thing to have when you're trying to learn how to write Hello World as an OS - http://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones

Are there any bootloader specs that are standard across architectures? UEFI comes to mind, and I'm sure you could boot an x86 board via u-boot.
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I disagree with the surveillance society, but I can't control that policy.

So I choose to focus on what I can control.
You don't have to live in San Francisco to work there. There are plenty of people who live on the other side of the bay and commute by train. This gives you a much more affordable place to live than San Francisco.
Given lots and lots of time, sure. :D

I have to admit that so far I have been completely unable to use my coding skills for anything practical. There would have been a situation where HTML chart had to be converted to excel chart. It was way too corrupted to automate in any meaningful way.

But coding gives me perspective. If somebody tries to sell software at my job, I get to interview them. Nobody else there is quite as good at spotting computer related bullshit.
Buildroot can be quite intimidating to the newcomer - I had to ask many questions on IRC to get my build tree down to something I could share [1]

[1]: https://github.com/voltagex/serial-vm-buildroot
Uh, sort of, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_punch

http://www.fightingarts.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showfl...

You'll probably want a degree of comraderie in a fight, otherwise you might be gambling with your larynx or maybe some other valuable vital organ.
Because it's 2015
These kinds of tools are very relevant when creating Docker base images - not all of us can afford to download 1.6GB just for Ruby. See the official Ruby baseimage vs Alpine + ruby package for example
I agree. I mentioned a couple of times that they should learn the platform, or at least the underlying language. If not enough to code, at least enough to do quality control (code reviews).

However, they are both working apart from the startup (I believe) so it's tough for them to pick up one more thing.
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The best things happened to my career is exactly after i took a job at the bank.

From taking a mediocre contractor's position to manage crappy enterprise piece of software to being a speaker at a conference teaching other people from international banking industry on detecting fraud and cyber attacks.

All happened within 16 months.

You'll never know - take an opportunity and squeeze the most out of it.
Is the problem discussed in this article something that has to be worried about still? This is hideous ... By my understanding the only way the solution discussed in the article can work is by including the native libraries for every architecture inside the apk which seems like it will make the app larger than it needs to be ...

I think I'd rather just detect the issue and throw up an error telling the user that they've managed to install an apk built for the wrong architecture and need to install a different apk ...
Cool, thanks for the feedback. I think your suggestions are applicable for development teams regardless of location.
What a good advice man, I have to change the message I am trying to convey. I will put on practice all of this... I think that, like you said, I have the skills to do the work.

I changed the font and i am reading the article. Thanks a lot !
The meta behind stories like this is far more interesting than the story itself.

For every hit piece published -- by anyone, about anyone -- ask yourself why you are hearing this story, and why you are hearing this story NOW.

I have no particular interest one way or the other in this story or Ben Carson. But the story tells a lot about The Guardian.

And the stories of other candidates' homes -- the stories that The Guardian did not write -- now THAT is interesting.
That's an attack on other positions this person has taken re Snowden, not the one he took in the article I linked. Mentioning that in this context seems like an ad hominem.
Biggest rules I've seen from working with chinese JV's;

1) Employees will attempt to steal IP and copy the business. This may happen while they are still working for you. If it's easy for your business to be stolen this way don't even bother setting up.

2) You need locals to handle staff. You're just a foreigner to be taken advantage of. They push rules and issues at you all day trying to get more. A local manager will tell them to bugger off in a way you can't.

3)The great firewall can be a bastard and your best with infrastructure inside the country and local knowledge. Things like don't use one time click links as these are used before they even get to the customer.

4) Chinese will often find a way to get something done with horribly inefficient routes and deals to the goal. Don't stress trying to make it efficient, this is China.

5) Dont expect your JV partner to work in the companies best interest.

While China is a huge & interesting market, if there is anyway 1) is going to be the smallest concert or your reliance on a JV partner delivering something I'd look at other markets first.

I'm genuinely surprised the west hasn't made China create a more level playing field for the right to trade/invest in our markets. One day the rest of the world will realise what a one sided deal China has become.
Add an imperative if construction to OCaml
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I wonder if there's an Android bug report for the first part. And I wonder if Google cares.
I think I switched one to miles and then dropped a zero.

I should probably return that math degree :/
Cool story, bro
I can't hope to enumerate all topics they ought to cover, but math (arithmetic), history, science (scientific method), and language (reading, culture, literature) seem to be pretty important cornerstones wouldn't you think? It's hard to imagine living in a modern world where citizens could not read, write, add, subtract, or conduct simple experiments.
Remote work is an excellent paradigm when you get an assignment, go work on it for a while in total independence/isolation, and then turn it in, i.e. when developer-hours are perfectly commoditized. Not every software project is like this at every part of its lifecycle.

The same pitfalls that apply to outsourcing to low-cost-of-living countries should apply to hiring American remote workers: communication overhead, lack of context and understanding of what the product should be, etc. If a projects works well with remote workers in developed countries, consider that it's probably irrational and a borderline violation of fiduciary duty to pay extra for them rather than equally skilled workers in India/China/Eastern Europe.
Refining a gallon of gasoline uses 6kWh of heat. Turning that heat into electricity involves great inefficiency. You can only convert that amount directly to miles if the heat comes from electricity, but my understanding is that no refinery does anything so wasteful, since they have stuff they can burn on site.
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> And now here is the fun fact. Most german politicians inside the EU are politicians nobody wanted in the foreign country.

That's funny, it's exactly the same, here, in France!
https://www.google.com/search?num=50&safe=off&q="index.html....
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and compared to what you could have had if you gave up on living in an absurdly expensive city?
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same reason gun control is a good idea?
I'm still wondering what YC's value proposition is in this space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998739
I guess you could delete the not needed libraries post installation? Then only the APK would be needlessly larger.
> Well the idea of a DM critter implicitly assumes DM particles can interact with each other through other dark forces

If you say that, then all bets are off. I was talking about a gravity only particle.

> A measurement of tidal forces only requires the ability to measure space and time between events/particles.

Except gravity only particles are not able to measure space, they have no ability to measure distance.

> so DM particles can be used as clocks to measure redshift.

Without some "distance" forces other than gravity, they have no ability to compare clocks. How would you use gravity to compare clocks?

> You really do need mass for gravitational attraction

No you don't. That's inaccurate. Gravity is caused by energy, not mass. (And obviously mass has energy.) So an object moving fast has more gravity than one moving slow.
> never mentions the big brother surveillance

That's false.

>immense value for society of it

The question we're addressing here is not "Did Snowden do good things?" The question is whether he is a hero, and the fact that he did bad things is relevant. You could argue that he did more good than bad, and I might even agree; but doing more good than bad doesn't make someone a hero.

the data-mining program that slurps up e-mail and phone data of American citizens

>Even if some published documents were harmful to US government, it is not Snowden who published them.

He gave them to journalists that published them. How is it not his fault?
Right, and it's not a bad use of mobile devices, but my point is users can't introduce anywhere near as much input. If everyone were to go in that direction, written word - not to mention programming would take a huge blow.
Can't you wake it up every few minutes or so, send the temperature, and then put it back to sleep?
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I guess what I really mean is that I think it is good to critically and emotionally analyze others' lives ... try to understand what's led them to where they are and how they feel.

I've had to work hard at this, and maybe it takes a fundamental belief in the value of everyone, but whenever I find something positive in others, it doesn't make me feel upset or stressed... I'm just inspired and want to learn.
It makes no difference but for some reason I feel the urge to shorten the last line to:

lightsOn = !lightsOn;

I'll see myself out.
Github is the worst. They charge vat but do not provide vat receipts. So frustrating and i'm pretty sure illegal.
The real point here isn't really Hollywood vs SV but rather that VC portfolios can outperform on just one stellar investment despite the rest being losers bc the ROIs can get so high. So paying a premium to get into a contested round of a high growth startup is worth it if you think the company can be one of these outliers. For example: a "mere" 20x return on one of ten companies will more than pay for the other 9 companies that lost you money on.
Adwords and to a lesser degree Analytics appears to be slowing down. I've also wondered if the data levels are getting massive and the systems need to have some next level discovery/overhaul.

More generally it's amazing how good Google search is. You really feel it when you try the alternates with the exception of long tail searches. I find these days if I do longer search strings Google gets a bit lost, more so than in the past. This being a small % of searches makes it a limited issue.

I think the next search engine revolution will happen when someone does to Siri/Cortana what Google did for text search. Something that can do more than show information and be more a PA that can complete tasks.
Been there, done that, but it can turn into a bad habit. Oh, look Daddy got home just as the kids are all prepared and in bed.
The common definition of a duel is: FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Typically with weapons, not limited to pistols, and pre-dating pistols, swords were used.

And the above cited law states that it's illegal to CHALLENGE someone to a duel OR ACCEPT SUCH CHALLENGES. Probably because it's interchangable with threatening to murder someone. Note that the provided law doesn't mention the actual fighting OF a duel.
Remember all these sites that ban hyperlinking to them in their ToS:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Hyperlinking+to+the+Site+fro...
For sure, but I was commenting on the parent's $400/mo.
Let it pass. Let these nimwits embarrass themselves.
Lol. Just saw this trend on HN after my friend messaged me to help fund his Kickstarter. I really wonder how many Ks projects wouldn't be funded minus family and friends.
Good point, you're right that gaining root/admin isn't the only way to ruin someone's day.
You may "How to blink a light extremely inefficiently 10 different ways." ;-)

Seriously, not even one Asm example? If you have a PC that has a parallel port and can boot to DOS, you can stick a LED in series with a 100-ohm resistor across pins 2(+) and 18(-) and do this:

mov dx, 378h
xor ax, ax
blinkloop:
out dx, al
mov cx, 36
call delay
not ax
jmp blinkloop

delay:
hlt
loop delay
ret

I find it somewhat amazing that this program, in Assembly, is actually shorter than the 10 HLL programs in the article.
Since it's also being discussed, I blogged about my experiences learning SuperCollider: http://subnaught.org/supercollider/archive/
I used to get upset about these endless ill-deserving requests.

Then I realized I have a simple option of just not giving. Much like reality television, I find it pathetic and am unlikely to be friends with someone who uses it for long, but it doesn't pose an existential threat to society.
If you are distributing through Google Play (or, I assume, most 3rd party app stores), then you can provide a different apk depending on the target architecture. The problem they were running into (after they worked around the installation bug) was that some users would sideload their APK, but sideload the wrong version.

As far as I can tell, their ReLinker solution is only a workaround to the installation problem.
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I am sure there is demand for authentic foreign food in China but I wonder how foreigners get in to open restaurants. I am not sure if you can just come in and open a restaurant in the US if you are not a legal immigrant. Legal immigration into China is a lot harder. For non immigrants it is not clear that there is any Chinese visa that allows for this type of activity. For example the only Chinese visa that sounds related is the M visa for commerce and trade (http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/visas/zyxx/t1071018.htm), but the type of activities permitted under M visa does not seem to apply to restaurateurs:

"What is required to obtain an M visa?

...

An invitation letter from a trade fair such as Canton Fair or from a Chinese firm (in the event that you get your visa through a Chinese agency, it’s possible that they will be the ones to procure the letter for you)"
http://www.saporedicina.com/english/business-visas-for-china...

"Which situation does NOT count as a short term working (M)?

Mechanical after sales team come to China to repair, install, maintain, remove, guidance, training (Apply M visa)
Bid Winner come to China to do the project guidance, supervision, checking (Apply M visa)
Foreigner from head office goes to shanghai branch, representative office to have some short term work (Apply M visa)
Foreigner comes to China to attend the sports event, including coach, athlete, team doctor, assistant etc. (Apply M visa)"
http://www.visainchina.com/fvisa.htm

The above site also makes it clear that the Z visa is for short term work (under 90 days).
No, it isn't.

"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."
-- Lord Kelvin

The physics didn't change, just our understanding of how to manipulate them.
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> I'll accept that it's a cultural change when I get these sorts of requests from people I know, rather than from random strangers.

I get these ridiculous GoFundMe requests from people I know (including relatively close friends) on a pretty regular basis.

It's different from the classic "charities" in that the pressure is much higher when it's a personal appeal from a friend.
Would this also work as a "music for programmers" course?
What has worked wonders for me: when/if there's a baby shower, invite your buddies out for a "diaper party" (bowling, driving range, pub crawl, whatever) where the "price of admission" is everyone brings a box of diapers. This can save your bacon (the trove can last 6+ months), and also can provide male friends with a way to be involved/contribute, which in my experience, many appreciate.
First look at Amazon top 5 Sci-Fi hit Black Book as audiobook
Honestly, I think that's the whole problem with personal appeals (even worthy ones, like your friend's). There's a reason we have a society, with organized charities, to funnel money to the most deserving causes, instead of those with the most well-networked beneficiaries.
I love the idea, I think it would be sweet if you get a dictionary with your cuneiform so you can actually decode it.
That's really not smart. By paying it up you just incentive them to do it more often. Not only to yourself but to other websites.
But if it buys you time to upgrade your infrastructure it could be worth it.
Is there anything that Promethease doesn't already provide?
I wonder under what US non immigrant visa category a foreigner can come into the US and open a business and work as an owner/manager?
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/all-visa-ca...

For example the requirement for B-1 (business visa) makes it clear that you are supposed to stay temporarily and not here to work:

"For example, additional requested documents may include evidence of:

The purpose of your trip;
Your intent to depart the United States after your trip; and/or
Your ability to pay all costs of the trip.
Evidence of your employment and/or your family ties may be sufficient to show the purpose of your trip and your intent to return to your home country. "
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visitor.html
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Rekognition has an API for processing faces, the API is shutting down like next week though:
https://github.com/dennisdevulder/rekognize
I think there's been a social cost from the start, it's just hard to tell since you, as the beggar, have no way of really seeing it. When I think poorly of you for making an illegitimate request, I'm probably just going to pass it over—there's no personal and immediate repercussion.

The damage in the long-term is though: I'll definitely think less of that person and won't respond to their otherwise legitimate requests.
I've been using Zoom.us for video chat. Really like it.
That is not a good comparison because the absolute return is 1-2 orders of magnitude below what Peter Thiel and Accel made from their Facebook investments.

Given the amount of funds VCs and big Hollywood firms control, an occasional $100-200M absolute return does not significantly change their portfolio success.
Scientists are already doing what the author suggests. At least one very fine hydrologist and climate scientist of my acquaintance lived by Beckett's motto.
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The answer is probably close to why people view banks as some sort of public service organization rather than a business. I used to work at a bank, and it was amazing to hear comments from people.
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OP here. I wasn't aware of this policy. I rewrote the original headline because I found it not very descriptive. Headlines are often clickbaiting or impressionistic. I'd rather have it say clearly what's in the article.
As an archeology nerd, I appreciate this.

However it feels like you're lying when you say "Just tweet or text us", when you actually need to manually type out the message on a field in a Gumroad checkout widget... I think you should add better tech integration, or drop the tweet/ text part.
Or, if you want to do good while having fun (why not?), you should pay for the expenses.

I'd be much more willing to support these sorts of events if the participants underwrote the costs themselves.
I tried to found a subreddit with the idea that if some article is still interesting 6 moths after it's written, then it's actually interesting stuff. Most things in the world don't happen in a day. And even those that happen, are often understood only with time.

But I can't keep a reddit account. The amount of misinformation in reddit and my tendency to correct people just gets too consuming.
Here are some parts of the KeyKOS source code: http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2011/readings/keykos/
That has its own set of trade-offs. Prepare for at least an hour commute each way by BART if you work in SOMA, for instance.
Indeed. The bulk of my furniture is Malm series stuff. It also looks quite nice in my apartment!
> There aren't many hardware devices sold that can do the encryption at the 10-100+ Gbps speeds

You are vastly underestimating AES-NI. Most modern Intel CPUs can handle that kind of encryption throughput (when paired with fast enough memory). Even my old Sandy Bridge-E CPU from 2011 gives me ~96 Gbps of AES throughput (with quad channel memory).
Have you asked them for one? VAT receipts need only be issued to VAT-registered buyers, so they might not issue them by default. (I've never dealt with Github, so they might genuinely be being dicks about it.)
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That's fair, I guess. Although I thought browsers like chrome run every window in a different process, thus each has their own virtual memory.

I guess the browsers should specialize on very large typed arrays, because with asm.js etc they will most likely be very sparse (e.g. allocate 2gb of zeros, use 50mb).
Loved the comment at the bottom:

'So basically ProtonMail said "We're incompetent and fund criminals… give us money."'
userbinator's example does not conform to the API, which writes to a file (and on some platforms, uses best practices to write atomically and check for errors to boot). I took a stab at it elsewhere.
I just don't see how that invalidates the anecdote. Because if you're investing "$100 million in a $1 billion company" you're probably aren't expecting a 20x return, not to mention a greater one. So that would suggest that there is something else going on, which is the greater point of the NYT article.
Wasn't able to get on site earlier at protonmail.ch