skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another potential use case: improved accessibility to mitigate color deficiency.

"Help us Test the Adjustments for Color Deficiency"

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/09/intellij-idea-15-eap-...

I was delighted to see this feature. One of those facepalm moments that quickly transitions from "neat!" to "why didn't I think of that?"

Having an OS level system wide setting might be useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
A landmark insofar as it was the first ARM-based computer. Planned as a successor to the Acorn BBC series of educational machines, it was a bit of a dead end in personal computing terms -- a British also-ran to the Amiga and Atari ST families -- but the descendants of its CPU are now the only personal computing architecture out there to still be competing with Intel (aaaand if you classify tablets as personal computers, they're trouncing the x86 family on volume).
Two companies working on this were Chomp and Mimvi but both got acquired.

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

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/chomp#/entity
I don't want to get into a semantic quibble, since it's really besides the point, but to quote your link:

> You can use ​cocoa ​powder to make the ​cake ​rather than ​chocolate - it's a ​bit of a cheat, but nobody ​notices the ​difference.

If you're trying to produce cheap cakes and your competition also uses cocoa powder, it's a mark of intelligence to follow along. It's still a bit of a cheat, though.

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If you don't accept this reasoning, maybe I'm wrong and the word is unfairly used here. But please at least accept that I meant no insult, regardless of whether I have to vocabulary to express myself correctly.
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Client-Side Encryption: The Right Security Model for the Cloud
If you use Zenefits time tracking, Self Driving Payroll will automatically pay your hourly workers approved hours.
I'm confused as well. What if you have a part-time employee who doesn't have benefits? Or what if you're a small business that doesn't offer benefits?
SUNNYCLIST:An autonomous vehicle that produces the energy it consumes
What makes you so sure that education is that way because of Orwellian goals of conformity? Perhaps it's just really damn hard to custom tailor education to each individual student?
That's not what the article says:

"Jessica and I decided one night to start it, and the next day we recruited my friends Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell."

At least in the article, it's pretty clear that they decided to start the company together, and then brought on a couple other friends. (I've read elsewhere that the actual story was more like Jessica was looking for jobs at VC firms, the VCs were dragging their feet, and so PG was like "Fuck it. We'll start our own.")

"Brought her on to handle marketing at YC" is something you're injecting into the text, it's not anything that they wrote.
And bookmark this current thread for when they reintroduce sidebar navigation in 2017. :)
Yeah, I think it's a little confusing as well. But, basically if Zenefits manages all of your benefits, Self Driving Payroll will be your best bet. If you offer a benefit that Zenefits doesn't manage, you'll need to go Pro.
Does it support changing temperature gradually when it's starting to get dark outside? This is one of biggest features of f-lux and redshift I believe.
Where in the post did it say it was running on windows? It was stated that the User Agent string wasn't identifiable, nor did it send any identifiable headers.

edit: thanks for the clarification, I totally missed the file name
What do you find tone deaf about it? I'm unable to extract this message from the essay: "No, really, my girlfriend was around to be the work mom and handle the social stuff!" It reads more to me like "despite all she's accomplished, the press is never going to do her justice, and if no one's going to, I will."
Dealing with DNS packet floods
It seems clear who's footing the bill:

China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd plans to invest 300 billion yuan ($47 billion) over the next five years in a bid to become the world's third-biggest chipmaker, the chairman of the state-backed technology conglomerate said on Monday.

Chinese government wants to be in CPUs. (Edit: Oops, the article talks about NAND. Well, they want to be in memory chips then, I guess.)
Hopefully more incidents like this will prompt people to question whether granting patents are actually useful to society or not.

Patents are after all an artificial (and supposedly temporary) monopoly enforced by society on behalf of a private entity, because society deems the value of this protection will create something beneficial to society as large.

Using patents to bump prices of existing, already profitable medicines hardly seems what patents were made for.
There are other things they can do to help compliance with treatment, like doctor-administered injections instead of pills. The thing is that even when people agree to treatment, they might forget their medicine and then be off in a psychotic episode and too detached from reality to take it.

I know this entirely too well because my mother was violently murdered by someone off their meds and the doctors managed to decide that nobody was at risk in spite of her telling them she feared for her life.

So I'd be more inclined to say that doctors have good reason to make sure people stay on their meds and to change treatments to ones where compliance can be better enforced whenever necessary.
> I think the accurate statement is below

>> "Only three people have been able to solve three out of the seven millennium problems in the past 16 years. Dr Enoch is the fourth."

Nope. They didn't even get that right. Only one of the seven has been solved (Poincaré conjecture).
Yeah nothing says "off topic" like relating to the topic by agreeing the games are hard. A little nostalgia never hurt anyone. Instead of letting the downvotes do the "voting" you had to outline why you did it, contributing to the off topic discussion. Thanks for "providing interesting insights to the post at hand." Thanks for making HN a better place.
"Turns out a non-descript office building in Richmond contains the DNA of every person born in California since 1983."

"But the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is not the only agency using the blood spots. Law enforcement can request them. Private companies can buy them to do research – without your consent."
It's not because of American value in conformity that school is the way you describe. It's logistics. If there were 1:1 teacher:student ratios, of course things would be very different. After math, you go hiking with your teacher. As you're hiking you discuss life and world events. Very personalized and balanced growing plan for your child.
Ask HN: Please provide resume templates?
Hi HNers

Please provide your resume in word format. If you want please delete your name or personal information.

I am not getting calls with my current resume. I just want to compare with others or want to know how others present their-self.
Please share your resume if possible it might help others.

Thanks
From a cursory reading of the article it sounds like they optimize for the best annealling schedule which of course is what every manufacturer of steel has been doing with varying degrees of success for at least a thousand years.
OK, here's the real $9 computer. Screen, USB port, TV cameras, audio, storage, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GSM, all in a nice little package. This could replace the Raspberry Pi in many applications. What does it take to just use it as a computer, with no cell phone account?
How do new startups expand to other countries to use their product or services
check out http://react-components.com, they have a nice collection there!
In a world of extroverts, people who STFU and listen often acquire seemingly magical powers.
Bgfx: a cross platform and BSD licensed graphics rendering library
I don't know much about pharmaceutical policy, but I have an idea. I would like to have it torn to shreds if it means we can have an idea of a more equitable process of creating medicine.

What if, in a single payer model, a resesrching entity that creates a new treatment which is in turn approved by the government, automatically forfeits any rights to the drug, but is guaranteed royalties for 20 years or so? Manufacturers don't have any limits on what they may or may not create, but there is a minimum price at which the government will pay for it, similar to the "cost+profit" model seen in the defense industry. Likewise, the obscure cheap drugs that get abandoned then have the rights purchased by sociopathic hedge fund managers would instead be manufactured by the state and sold at cost.

Is that so crazy?
> This is the opposite of what I usually tell people to do

How come, out of interest? In terms of peformance, cloning for HTTP is fairly efficient these days although I would concede an authentication argument.

(As an aside, SSH can be blocked on some corporate networks)
In so not to edit posts and context, our talks were about the current shoveling of the mentally ill in the prison system instead of treatment.

There was a recent reddit article in /r/news that talked about a Hawaiian prison that screaming, throwing feces, and other illness had taken over as the makeup of the prison. In general, we have collectively decided that there will be no/little support for the mentally ill, and that the jails and prisons will be the tool to stop them.

With the side effects as they are, how ethical is it to imprison them? They are ill, and we do not generally charge people if a legitimate illness causes a crime (no mens rea). And with the side effects, how ethical is it to force (by court) the drugs that 'cure' them?
Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky?
Especially if they don't conform to expectations...
IOW: Step on toes and throw elbows, but don't smash kneecaps. Know the line.
one day we're going to look at crashes due to faulty drivers, like we look at crashes now in the days of DOS/W95/W98, where one process could bring down your PC. It's unnecessary.
IMO Java doesn't shine anywhere. It's statically typed, but lacks support to be flexible. Thus many Java programs rely on reflection at runtime or casting. This negates all of the benefits of static typing, turning the language into a dynamic one.

The main choice is then either Clojure or Scala. This comes down to dynamic versus static type checking. With a dynamic language, one is significantly less sure if a program is correct. In large programs that use dynamic languages, many tests must be created that are essentially doing the work that a type checker in a static language would do automatically.

In a static language, entire classes of bugs are eliminated. Scala provides the best support for strong, static typing on the JVM.
Not at this time. But yes Ragel 7 will make it much easier. The first round of new languages I added helped me polish the technique. Once 7 is out and vetted it will make sense to add more.
I have some posts on my experiences of using ATS here http://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/

They're for the previous version of ATS but are still pretty relevant.
Yeah, maybe s/loans/government grants/g
Quite respectfully, your tone is disparaging and I don't think you understand what's going on over here.

I might be wrong in this, but YC is not in the business of precisely predicting the future. It is within the business of creating and curating a network. Let me explain why, most VC funds are organised around a theme - they have a particular industry that they look at and then they create a narrow window around it and predict that by time X, this will be worth a lot, so they'll find people to capture Y. YC on the other hand has a thesis focussed around its own network. Yes, they seem to fund around general trends, but mostly they give smart people money and get out of their way.

Let's unpack that. Let's say you have 20 smart people and you want to guide them, give them resources, and then stay out of their way. What's the best way to do that? Well, the best way seems to be to create a peer group - a band of sister + brothers - who have set out to do something extraordinary. And then let common stress signals bake in the ties.

Now let's assume that you have these ties between people i.e. they become good friends. What happens when one of them achieves success? Well they'll start getting approached by people asking for help too. Young people, lost, and trying to do something extraordinary. Where do you think they'll refer these people on to?

So what started out as a support group, suddenly starts growing organically, and YC starts getting its pick of founders provided that the original people they seed it with are the right kind. The kind of people who attract other intelligent people. And identifying that is literally the core job of YC, which seems to be jl's job...

Is it unfair to say that she made YC given that?
My pleasure, thank you for the note!
This. So much this. The whole "writing software only for the hardware elite" thing is really holding us back as a society. Sure they have money, so they might have some for you. I get that, but it's going to be pretty rotten for everyone when the cash stops flowing and people learn the hard way that you can't redraw 120 times per second on crap hardware.

/rant of a classic hardware enthusiast
It's downloading a curl release based on mingw32, aka gnu for windows.
Congressman continues pressuring NOAA for scientists’ e-mails
Jessica,

Any chance you could write up what it means to have social radar? Right now you might as well substitute the word "magic." What is it that you see that other people don't? Do you score especially highly on reading micro-expressions (http://www.paulekman.com/micro-expressions/)? Is this a familial trait? What is your subjective experience when talking to a 'faker?' Have you ever tried to track you first impressions against later behaviors?

I'm super curious about what seems to be a real life superpower!
I remember being an FE at the time and having to work on these beasts. FE uniform at the time was a dress shirt and tie, and working inside one of these things resulted being covered in a cloud of toner dust in most cases. I'd buy oxford dress shirts almost in bulk, because the day you worked on a 3800, you went home and threw the shirt out.
Foursquare joins growing ranks of Apple Maps data suppliers
This essay has a thesis, and gender isn't it. I'm not sure why an article showing appreciation for someone would sidetrack itself that way.
I doubt this is a response to ADP; ADP is a horrible product, and Zenefits knew they could make a better solution (like ZenPayroll/Gusto). They've probably been working on this for a year, to be honest, given the requirements for payroll providers and syncing with the IRS/etc.

What's more interesting is that the payroll is free only if the company manages everything else HR related in Zenefits. Talk about lock-in.
There is no patent on the drug.
Their tutorial[0] also recommends using ssh-agent which means you'll only need to enter your passphrase once, and it integrates with your OS keychain.

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/
Ah, no yak shaving was necessary, cheers.
It's not the ingredients, it's the future they are missing.
Car companies wanting to generate money and not the future.
They lost their vision.

Once upon a time a new guy will come with a vision. Hopefully he has enough money too change something.

I really don't understand why we are still driving with fossil oil. That's prolly due to the lack of competetion. car manufacturers thing we will buy their cars anyway.
Wow, that's the first I've heard of it. What Ski resort, if you don't mind me asking?
I much prefer to use an ssh key for auth than copypasta'ing the same passphrase I use in my browser.
Thanks, PG. From my vantage point, authenticity is probably the not-so-secret ingredient of YC. This is a great essay and I hope that it impacts others not only in shining a light on the important contributions made by Jessica in the founding of YC but also in showing that one important tactic in the fight against sexism is to make sure to give credit when credit is due.
The question is, how much is this phone's manufacturing cost subsidized by Tracfone so it can be sold at a loss?
It's a bit more than that she handled the "social stuff". Her judgment being the center of how YC was built. I find it amazing that you can be so condescending about what she did.
I think I covered that under the 'cargo cult' part. Bitcoin is a true breakthrough, it does what after CAP theorem seemed impossible, and this is why it is so interesting and popular. They want this popularity - so they use the names that suggest that this is about the same thing - but in fact what they plan has not much in common with a decentralized system.
KitKat wear is vulnerable to hackers? :/ I recently morphed our current project to target KitKat. Perhaps I should do some research on this.
One example would be if your company is offering benefits not managed through Zenefits, such as an outside 401k plan or something. In those cases you'd want to make custom deductions for the 401k plan. (I don't work for Zenefits but I do work in the industry).
Are else statements best avoided? Nodejs has only 15% Else
Without more information, I think the indignant tone and format of this article are unwarranted. Before we learn anything, we hear about the human toll: innocent babies will die, parents are distraught, and doctors are furious. But we're provided with no clear information on the reason for the price increase.

"When Mallinckrodt acquired Questcor in 2014, Synacthen Depot was one of the products in the portfolio. It was losing money then and still is. Moreover, in the spring of 2014, Mallinckrodt was told by the existing supplier of the product that they would cease production in early 2016," a Mallinckrodt spokesman said in an email to CBC News.

So the company faced an unexpected reduction in supply, and the drug might have been unprofitable at the previous price. One can object to the fact that the means of pharmaceutical production are privately owned, but given that these are not currently non-profit institutions, the outrage seems misplaced. There's nothing "absurd" about it.

Edit:

I'd like to address some of the commenters, who seem to have misinterpreted my comment as a defense of this company, or the pharmaceutical industry in general.

This comment is an objection to the style of journalism in this article: light on information, heavy on emotion. I've said nothing in defense of the corporation.

Some have suggested that these corporations should not increase prices in order to uphold some set of moral principles. I take it for granted that corporations are only answerable to power, and any limitations you might wish to impose upon them must either take the form of collective action (boycotts/protests) or regulation. Perhaps motivating either of these was the intent of the article, but if so the author went about expressing this wish in a way that I find objectionable, by appealing to emotion rather than reason and disguising an ideological belief as factual reporting.
"The purpose of art is to ...." Um, no, Art can have any purpose its creator bestows, including none at all.
I would think that if he focused the essay more on gender discrimination instead of just on Jessica, she would not be comfortable with or allow the essay to be published.

> Those may be true, but that's not enough to answer the question.

I think the "he's vocal and she's not" answer is a perfectly good answer to the question "why do people tend to ignore Jessica?", since it does seem to be the main reason. If the question had been "why do people tend to ignore women?" then maybe that NYT article might be relevant.
It's incredible how they can plan to create an entire industry by investing so much. It's slightly different from how India approaches such problems by forcing companies to manufacture stuff locally. I wonder what approach will work out best in the long run.
gladwell credited coaching and resources above the age / maturity line he suggested. he's a statist who can't see a harvard degree's a more compelling investment than the same from a state school.

on point, what's "structured" about 20 6 year olds to a single teacher? sounds about as chaotic as it can be. the sooner we get away from this monolithic public education way of thinking, the better off our kids will be.
Glad it was useful and motivating! This one I feel a bit bad about, because I wanted to write a patch and test that hypothesis, but I didn't (yet) make the time for it.

I feel like I could after maybe ~30h (really I don't have enough information to determine beyond it probably being between 10 and 100 hours) of focused effort. I did read a bunch of The Design and Implementation of FreeBSD and I felt like I could understand it reasonably well, using the mental models I picked up studying xv6.

The reasons why I didn't do it (yet) are interesting in themselves. There was nothing in particular that I felt was missing from FreeBSD, and I hadn't used the "advanced" parts of the OS enough to run into any bugs. Because of this I think I lacked a sense of ownership, and the artificiality of a bug hunting activity caught up to me, motivation-wise. To do this I think you need to be motivated to dive into the nitty-gritty of a particular part of the OS, in addition to having a good understanding of the OS as a whole. Instead I ended up exploring some of the more advanced parts of FreeBSD (Jails and ZFS) with http://experiments.oskarth.com/netpowder/ - hopefully I will find something useful that I want to either extend or a bug I want to fix, or perhaps I get to test the hypothesis with something completely different (such as Mirage OS).
Lex solves a restricted subset of state machine code generation problems; Ragel aims to solve all state machine code generation problems generally. You can do anything you can do in Lex in Ragel. The reverse is not true. Lex is simpler, but less powerful than Ragel. It's sort of like awk versus Perl.

I'd rather use Lex where Lex is good enough.
Very cool. My plan is to use it to make a 4004 out of acrylic :-) (probably 36 " x 35" )
Async IO for Rust (Part 2)
Computing's Lost Allure (2003)
Thanks but you know some times you can not show yourself in 1 hour or less.

I agree with you but some companies did not give value to your technical talent and they need communication skills. I have seen the interviewers saying we need communication skills also and some candidate reject basis on that.
There's one part of the GitHub UI that I still wish they'd change: the way "contributions" are displayed.

Right now, there are accounts that seem to just fork a bunch of repositories and then do nothing with the forks. This makes those people look like massive contributors to open-source because GitHub gives them a nice "Contributions" tab with a list of popular projects under it.

They also get free advertising in reverse because they automatically appear as a "Member" of the parent project's network, despite having done nothing at all in the project!

At the very least, GitHub should require the forking person to have made some pull request that was accepted. If those forks aren't actually contributing, they shouldn't even be mentioned as a sub-network of the original (except perhaps as an option for the project maintainers to see, if they're curious where forks have occurred).
If you're waking up it's a hypnopompic state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompic).
Is it really less risky?

If there's any chance of a treasury default or other disruption, what happens the next day when nobody wants to be left holding the bag? Seems like in a scenario where something is up, daily liquidity is more dangerous.