skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site appears to be struggling, but you can view the Coding Math videos on YouTube [1].

These are really useful. Whether we like it or not, mathematics underpins most of computer science and often beginners don't even know what to search for to get started. A resource like this is an excellent way to get somebody going.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/codingmath/videos
Trains run every five minutes during normal business hours. It's great. Ten minutes at night, weekends, etc.
What do Mormons Believe
Well, yes, you're right. Seeking a perfection usually means never releasing anything. That's spot on.

Yet, I'm particularly against about the BrowserID adoption because it helps to cement the idea of leased identities. At the moment, we're still with in the "warring states" world, where no particular scheme had won. This could've changed with BrowserID embedded in the User-Agent, so I fear it would be at least a decade until we'll be able to talk about something else.

WebID, being a W3C WG, could've also hit big... It's not perfect, but from my understanding of the drafts it looked better than BrowserID to me. But no luck here.
That's nice, but why would anyone use this instead of Redis, CouchDB or a local database?
> In Phase I, the team will insert an optimized DNA sequence for insulin into E. coli bacteria

That is an unfortunate naming choice. Phase + Roman numbers have a well defined meaning in drugs development (clinical trial phases). I saw you refer to phases elsewhere in the comments and misunderstood what you meant.
I am not sure if it was telegram who found it. I don't use it so I don't have any loyalty here. The discovery probably came from investigations. Maybe they caught some terrorists and found Telegram on the mobile device.

I believe the intelligence has learned terrorists are using Telegram or similar software for communication for a period of time. They just couldn't hack out the actual messages, hence why the governments are constantly asking for less encryption on civilian communication, or the ability to intercept the traffic for analysis. But you know what, you have to trust the software doing its claim. I know there are people eager to do reproducible build to verify that the client software is actually what it claims to be.
The Transparency International website that you've linked does talk about financial regulation in the EU, but Transparency International's position is that the regulators have failed - that they have not, in fact, clamped down on fraud and corruption, and that close ties between regulators and the banks they're regulating have made them unwilling to act. You're using a web page criticising regulators for failing to take action as proof that they didn't fail to take action.
Fair enough. It's just that 'kills you in days'-phrasing that sounds strangely ...not urgent, given the context of all the other things that'll kill you right away.
Ask HN: Would you include your HN username on your resume?
Assuming it is for a technical role, would Karma be interesting for the person hiring? Would your comments be useful to know if you're a good fit? Or is it just too risky?
Perhaps in a post-apocalyptic world this will be all that is left of the Internet. Though in a post-apocalyptic world there would be no one there to license the radio spectrum, and so why limit ourselves to HAM radio bands? -- Plus this all overlooks the need for power generation and storage in such a world :)
I wonder: The arms race between bacteria and other organisms has gone on for a long long time, is there a defense mechanism against every bacteria? Because otherwise bacteria would be the only organism to inhabit this planet? Or is the only thing that historically prevented world domination by bacteria the lack of transportation to remote places? If that's the case then has the proliferation of mass transport ultimately shifted the odds in favor of bacteria?

And are antibiotics a catalyst for the evolution of bacteria or its demise?
For all interested in alternative approaches to education, I recommend A. S. Neill "Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing" (1960), especially chapter 1 (about the Summerhill school itself). The schools started in 1920s, and sadly, we made no progress in that direction in the last century.

Link: https://trisquel.info/files/summerhill-english_1.pdf
Additionally, "found" may never be true if you don't find what you're looking for. Instead, you would want a boolean for whether or not you've searched all array elements.
I've said nothing of my experiences with people of religion. Please control your knee jerk.
My thoughts on that are... atypical.

VS Code has a pretty simple auto-complete mechanism for C - pretty much, it will auto-complete words that have been used before in the current file. That works for me, because I generally write APIs that have simple interfaces with a... I'm not sure how to describe it, parameter ordering that I expect.

If you're working with a bunch of libraries where function signature completion would be useful, then maybe a more functional IDE is useful. OpenGL is an example that comes to mind... I have no idea off the top of my head what the parameter ordering for glTexSubImage2D is. Generally though, I personally prefer the delay when occasionally having to look up an API over the delay caused by using a heavy IDE. On non-Windows, I'm an emacs guy. I've tried Emacs-win32 and it just feels like a UFO on Windows.

To answer your question, I personally do use VS Code on Windows, even when I'm working with crazy APIs like OpenGL. It subjectively feels faster to me than Visual Studio or Eclipse, although that might just be in my head.
Perhaps a captive portal and redirect would be a "nicer" way of doing this. At a bare minimum, it's less intrusive, and it's an accepted practice when using a provider's internet (especially wireless). Injecting JS into a page that I've requested from a third party server would erase my trust in that provider, and I would immediately cancel my service the first time my provider performed that action.
So they basically left money on the table?
Design for Virtual Reality
The New Carbon
One problem is bacteria develop resistance to the new drugs very quickly. Usually within 2-3 years.

It's difficult to recoup your investment costs for a drug that has an effective use window that small.
Github or Stackoverflow, why not? But HN? I don't think so, there is not really something to show here.
Just looked at my copy ;-)

Only The Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove (Author)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Andrew-Grove/d...
Paradoxically, the economic incentive is weak. The research is expensive and anything you discover will be very sparsely administered (as last resort, to slow down resistance). For this reason recovering the cost might be problematic.
Remember, not everyone has the cash to shell out for a shiny new Macbook (or an IT department willing to do so!).

There are more than enough people who don't have the resources.
More generally it just makes someone's job suck instead of improving the ecosystem in which films can be distributed.
But are they really outliers?

As of this moment I'm 5'9", 187, and borderline ripped. People often compliment me on my physique.

But my BMI is 27.6, which makes me "overweight."
FreeBSD News Roundup 7: ZFS, Chromium Bounty, Bhyve, HardenedBSD, Documentaries
We had a very nasty experience where my teenage son got a bad eye infection and they had to try about five different antibiotics before falling back on something that is basically a simple antiseptic that eventually fixed the problem.
> Given that I pay taxes and am subject to immigration laws a lot longer than a person born anywhere else

So? The United States or [Insert country] is under no obligation whatsoever to afford special treatment since a foreigner pays the same taxes like the rest. I'm an Indian citizen and I did a quick search for work visas in India. A foreigner pays the same taxes as an Indian citizen in India[0] and isn't given special privileges when it comes to immigration laws.

> I don't see why I can't complain about a law that reflects nativist compromises of the Civil Rights act.

Source? How does the gc allocation compromise the Civil rights act?

The gc allocation is 7% per country[1]. If you fall in a country (like me India) where the number of applicants outstrip the 7% quota per year, you're out of luck. How is that compromising the Civil rights act?

Here's my take: I can keep complaining and waste my time and brain cycles over this. I don't have any voting power on this issue; all I have is a modest amount of talent and more importantly the drive and the persistence which I would like to use to further my career and make smart decisions. Personally for me, the immigration laws aren't as debilitating as people make them out to be.

[0] http://www.expatarrivals.com/india/taxes-in-india
[1] http://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit
Ugly Law
Alarmist article. Telegram is banning ISIS's public channels, not snooping on and censoring their private communications. That is moderation of a public facing platform which isn't an invasion of privacy and doesn't necessarily compromise Telegram's security.
The simplest defense against any kind of scams is this one: if you did not initiate the conversation be extremely careful, especially if that conversation leads to you parting with your money somewhere down the line.
Did real-time epidemic modeling save lives in West Africa?
With this we can also conclude that the US has now made a claim to the rights of "Space", in general.

Very much in line with the Guano Islands Act of 1865.
Benefits of Sarcasm
But I love funny women! I particularly like my funny wife.
> Or how about this: a break-through that goes beyond classic antibiotics. Something that hasn't been thought of yet.

So what should the BBC headline read, then? "We're running out of antibiotics, but surely some clever person will think of something!"?
Persona is not dead, it's just open source community run and underutilized. We could still save it, we have the technology.
The sad thing is, the government broke up AT&T before they had a chance to connect every home in America with fiber. The project end dat was 2000 :/
> I also don't understand what you mean by "low quality muscle mass".

Muscle with a low weight to power ratio, and/or with an unfavorable type I to type IIa/b ratio. E.g. you can quickly bulk up by lifting 3 x 3 at a high weight (or whatever Starting Strength recommends), but you're going to develop much lower quality muscle than if you just do 6 x 10 or whatever in terms of power. And similarly if you're not doing cardio in at least 90 minute increments then on a regular basis then your type II muscles aren't going to be able to properly utilize fat, because they'll never get past the point of just relying on stored glycogen or whatever.
Square spikes 50% in debut after opening at $11.20 a share
for (size_t i = numBurritos - 1; i != -1; i--)

This will fail on a platform where sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(int). I admit that I don't know of any such platform, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible.

A better way to write this is

for (size_t i = numBurritos - 1; i < numBurritos; i--)
> The main problem with IE, regardless of how good it is, is that it is windows only.

This is not true, there was IE for several UNIX operating systems.
The censor as hero... a new trope ushered in by the attacks on Paris.
> Just because something isn't necessary doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. Your comment isn't necessary, and it isn't making a friend of me. Does this mean that it's your fault if I attack you? That you should have backed out and minded your own business?

Surely you can discern why disagreeing with someone on HackerNews is different from invading their country, seizing their resources, and killing their family members.

> So you say. But I can't distinguish that whether that statement is fact or ideology. So I don't believe you, and I shouldn't until you've got some convincing evidence that it's true. You can tell me a story. I don't want a story.

And you can distinguish fact from ideology when people say that the solution to terrorism is more of what we're already doing?

I can understand you discarding information because you don't believe it's reliable. What I don't understand is that in the absence of information you believe to be reliable, you've still decided to form an opinion and argue for it. If you don't have enough information, it's okay to admit you don't know.

> And I really don't see how people committing acts of terrorism are making good decisions that we should support by giving them what they want for doing so.

I really don't see anyone proposing that.
Naive question I have about telegram. Even if the end to end connection is encrypted, you know the ip address of both sender and receiver ? So you have a fairly good idea where the packet are going ?

Basically even if the messages are secure, Telegram owns all the metadata, i.e. who is speaking with whom, at which frequency etc ?
Depends how bad you want the job, how worried are you about your privacy and what you are planning to do on HN which is more important than what you have done before.
Custody battles over frozen embryos just got a lot more interesting
My bad. I said mutually exclusive. I meant and should have said independent.

Which I would have meant to mean, since ethics pervades all human endeavors, and science is a human endeavor, they are not completely independent.

So yeah, that's what I was trying to mean, but clearly said something else.
Here, "last resort antibiotic" means that is given only if nothing else works, because it is too nephrotoxic for normal use. This has nothing to do with the inherent effectiveness of the drug, although it has probably become more effective through the disuse that resulted from its nephratoxicity.

Bad journalism again.
So I like this. Here's how I see this working for the majority of people who don't know what SSH is:

1. Browsers support syncing between different devices using some type of cloud provider (think Google's sing into Chrome, Safari's iCould integration, etc.). This obviously would need some type of client side encryption to be secure. Could be achieved with a plug in as a stop gap.

2. Browser support for this type of auth. Basically, you'd do <input type="identity" protocol="ssh" nonce="abc">, which would render as a drop down with a list of identities the browser has (which correspond to your private keys). You simply choose one, then submit the form. The server sees your public key (which it may remember after registration), the nonce, and the nonce signed with your private key, verifiable against your public key (I am hand-waving the actual authentication here. This implementation is susceptible to at least replay attacks unless the nonce is remembered by the server.)

That's pretty much it. If you think about it, this is how LastPass works now, except instead of sending a one time signed nonce back to the server it sends a username and plain text password.
Do you have any consideration for the animals are suffering from this research? Just curious.
Some valid concerns indeed! You may run dedicated uploading infra which allows more connections (different subdomain/IPs), but it's something we want to be explicit about in our developer guidelines, I'll also see if we can make traffic shaping part of the js browser implementation, as this seems to need it most - thanks!
I'm Irish, I laughed.
Why a mouse sperm is longer than an elephant's
I would call the great firewall of china injecting a script into people visiting baidu, as a means to DDOS github, a gross abuse.

just for context.
Ethics can't increase the rate of scientific advancement. (Feel free to disagree but your going to need a lot of evidence.)

It can and has slowed things down when review boards rejected some research on ethical grounds. Q.E.D.

Technically I only need two example studies. But fetal tissue research does not cause direct suffering or death and has benefits. It also involves significant review processes even when approved.
There is also an inherent risk in trusting that the tumbler operator is not willing to cooperate with (or happens to be operated by) western governments. It doesn't seem like a reliably sustainable strategy, especially for any substantial amount of funds.
I would expect some smart one using Tor or using throw-away cards / using false identification to obtain a mobile plan. But every trace of someone on Earth will eventually lead to somebody and then somebody else, and finally "you."
"Carpe Diem!"

Sincerely,

Your banking industry
I think that some psychopats can be quite productive in healthy teams. It's just that they're the first ones to use any flaw for their own benefit.
Some of these errors remind me of Rust and the attempts in that community to give every error an exhaustive description [1].

This looks fantastic, and shows a true commitment to reducing friction with the language - a goal which often goes too long without attention.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24407
That is, until SModem killed the ZModem star ;-)

Good times. Sad to hear Chuck has passed away.
It depends on the relative sizes of size_t and int. If size_t is at least as large as int, the coercion goes in favour of size_t.
Why not do both?

Negotiate a part-time role with the mainstream company, work around your class schedule. The boss surely wouldn't want to feel guilty that he kept you from completing a degree.

College value can be difficult to calculate. A good campus environment can expose you to some wonderfully random, useful people and ideas found nowhere else. The Steve Jobs calligraphy story is a classic example> http://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/
> DEC engineering, especially in VLSI, was easily the best in the world. Alpha was a thing of beauty, and an affordable Alpha PC would have killed Intel, MS, and maybe even Apple, and advanced the PC market and perhaps the Internet by five to ten years, and created a completely different culture around commodity computing.

DEC's Alpha PCs were actually quite reasonably priced, but all the software was written for x86. There was zero chance of Alpha killing Intel or Microsoft without broad software support, and even with it, there's no guarantee it would have won.
> Because without money, you can't do anything but let dictators and mass-murderers trample around like vicious kings.

But with money, you can arm those dictators and mass-murders so that they can become actual vicious kings.

> Turning a blind eye to your abused neighbors isn't a way to prevent terrorism, either.

That's true, which is why it's so puzzling that we so frequently turn a blind eye to our abused neighbors and fund the abusers.

I'm definitely not proposing isolationism. I'm proposing we spend aid money actually helping the populations of nations instead of funding whatever militant promises to protect US interests.
The article never claimed they were. It is posing the question; "what happened?"
This topic (not this project) was last discussed 5 months ago with 150+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8970402

There has also been mention of a few other SSH + browser ideas:

http://sshkeybox.com/

https://www.minaterm.com/
Google App Engine has been a pretty terrible experience in comparison to AWS services.
It depends on what aspect of it you are talking about, and what time frame you are comparing it to. Drupal has a lot of nice features, and once you learn how it is structured, it's very easy to extend.

For that matter, the Drupal community have been trailblazers over the last decade in many aspects of CMS design and, in turn, what people and developers expect from a CMS. I'm not saying that it is perfect, and sometimes it lags in UI, but it is always moving forward.

Personally, I'm looking forward to exploring D8.
These days, you "have to" leave money on the table, or your IPO is deemed a "failure" (see: Facebook).
Why you need (or don't need) a NoSQL database
> They allow you to work out more and recover quicker.

They also act as anabolics, so you could argue that the muscle mass gained due to their anabolic effect is "low quality" (that's not what I'm doing, though).
Generally, the large bitcoin thefts never get traced because the trail of bitcoin transactions leads to an exchange and then you can't follow them any more without the co-operation of the exchange.
When you're reading tedu's blog, it's safe to assume that anything which looks like C is C.
WDC Re-releases Classic 1986 6502/65816 manual “Programming the 65816”
'Stand-Bahn'? Never heard that, although haven't lived in Berlin since before the 'meltdown' in 2008. Traditionally the S-Bahn is Berlin's favorite transit system (you can look out the window!), the most far-reaching, and the most interesting historically.
The article was not about praising or condemning Telegram, but reporting on an incredibly sudden shift in policy.
That regulation of some sort exists, not that it is effective or "clamping down"
Shane Harris' looked at ISIS' use of Telegram in the Daily Beast a few days ago. [1] And Marcy Wheeler's post yesterday [2] relates John Brennan's complaints about the challenges encryption is causing for law enforcement "especially in Europe". Marcy writes:

"If terrorists were using WhatsApp (which a lot of the fearmongering focused on), the metadata, at least, would be available via Facebook. But since Telegram is not a US company, it cannot be obliged under Section 702 of FISA, and that surely creates just the kind of gap Brennan was talking about."

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/16/this-is-isi...

[2] https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/11/18/brennan-was-probably-t...
Direct to the paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:d...

New Scientist article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28506-pigeons-taught-...
Bitcoins are fully traceable. Every transaction is made public and every key is traceable to its origin block.
Could Qualcomm Be China's Next Target?
> It is great to build a culture where nobody is fired

It is great to build a culture where you never need to fire anyone because you are good enough at hiring, and at placing, moving, and counseling (a two-way process!) those you have hired to be able to effectively utilize them. And, if you've done that, then its good to actually not fire anyone.

But, outside of that, I don't see the value of a culture where nobody is fired; especially if it achieved through internal segregation where it cannot avoid being visible to people within the organization that the "not firing" is largely a charade.
Not entirely, we have a far better understanding of disease control, quarantine and aseptic practices.

It's going to suck though for those people who have anything that is resistant to multi-spectrum antibiotic treatment.
That doesn't really fit with "custom antibodies for a specific person for a specific virus or bodily activity".
Seems like you did the best thing you could have, in the circumstances. When I was bored in class, I didn't study the textbook, I read science fiction novels.
Basically yes, you are selling for X something that the market is willing to buy at 1.6X, however someone must have made a lot of money on that spread today.
Systems do not change just because a sufficient mass of people believe otherwise.
While true, none of those address or refute the points raised in the comment.
From what I remember, IPO prices tend to aim about 15% below what the market value should be. It's a big incentive to get the big players (institutional investors) to get in on the IPO and get the stock moving. Pretty sure Square might have offered a deeper discount to make the offering look successful.

Regardless of the actual prevalence of that strategy, I don't think we'll have a meaningful narrative about Square's IPO until the market has it for at least a few days.
Tinder IPO
Direct link to paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:d...