skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice equipment, but yeah that seems really unpleasant/unproductive.

Random aside: I hate those lights so much. They often give me migraines as they reach the end of their life. Fortunately they have defused LEDs where I currently work which don't have the same issue (and are actually white not orange/yellow).

I want to work somewhere (aside from home) where I can work in the dark. We occasionally get power cuts (and our generator doesn't power the main lights, only emergency lights and equipment) and it is the most pleasant day ever...

http://i.imgur.com/UUw0ANK.jpg
I was just using it as an example of it long being on the mind of terrorists that they need to take extreme precautions to avoid their electronics being compromised. Snowden didn't alert them to the concept of decryption. Sorry if I implied anything more.
At 1mb+, maybe it should be modularised?
Chomski virtual machine
Compile times ?
Flexibility over the backend ?

That would be my hunch. I think it makes a lot of sense.
Also, note that there is that project which exists :
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llgo/
>And as you might expect from a Silicon Valley giant that believes in moving fast and breaking things

They also believe in thinking differently and putting a PC on every desktop.
What features did you find missing from Chart.js? I'm one of the maintainers, so getting this kind of feedback is great!
I really don't like multi-column layouts. It's impossible to read. arstechnica is a really good example. There are three columns, each with blocks that are different sizes.

So, I end up reading all the headlines from the left column, scrolling back to the stop, reading the second column, then scrolling back up for the third column.

I've tried to use Google+ on my Android device and the experience is awful. You get a few words and a huge picture that doesn't tell you anything about the post.
From 700 Expected Attendees to 1500 Actual – The Philippine DevCon Event
To be fair, an ultra-secure compound that the owner/resident of doesn't ever leave for fear of his own safety can be indistinguishable from a luxury prison in terms of outcome, even if it wasn't intended that way.
If you use Apple Pay there can be no fraud by hacking the retailer since Apple does not give the retailer your CC number but rather a token. Apple Pay is very quick and convenient and secure.
Could you please provide some sources for this claim? If this is legitimately true, I would like to know this, but a random statement on the internet leaves me rather skeptical.
Also fails google.com on mobile. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ however is a 99/100.
So I am of two minds with regards to foreign intervention by the US.

On one hand, I'm horrified at the things the US does. We kill innocents, we send our own citizens to die for really very little reason, and we spend an epic fuck ton of money with very little to show in terms of tactical results. We stick our nose in situations that don't involve us just because we can, and I'm tired of the US always being the world's police force.

On the other hand, global power politics aren't about playing nice. As far as hegemonist world powers throughout history go, the US is relatively benevolent (wiretaps and extrajudicial renditions are nothing compared to the genocides perpetrated by nearly every preceding global power). In the absence of a dominant global power, you would have multiple equally-matched regional powers vying for supremacy -- a situation that would almost certainly end in war and the emergence of a new, potentially less benevolent global power. A lot of innocent people likely die in this scenario too.

The world is undoubtedly a safer place because the US does horrible things to bad people (and yes, at times to good people too). The fact that there is a single superpower that can and will defeat anyone, anywhere deters a lot of large-scale bad behavior -- the last 70 years since WWII have been some of the most peaceful in human history. Casualty counts from armed conflict measure in the thousands to tens of thousands; not the hundreds of thousands or millions that you'd see in a major war.

But that still doesn't make what the US does in regards to surveillance right. Can there be world peace without a dominant military power to keep everyone in check? I don't know, but we should at least try to find out.
Underneath it says "& be nice to people".
Hey, where do I sign up? None of my geography classes talked about middle-eastern politics or sources of unrest.
Same goes for the Skype Client. These apps seem to want to treat PCs like mobile devices where the app owns the whole screen.
While I respect the Pomodoro technique, I found that its focus on 25-minute chunks is largely incompatible with the way I (and many others) program. When it takes 10-15 minutes to load everything up in your brain, that only leaves you a few minutes to actually work before you take a break.

It remind me of the "This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer" comic: http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-..., except in this case, you're interrupting yourself.

These days, I use SelfControl to disable access to my distractions all day long to get a ton of stuff done.
Conservative Couple Jim and Marge Talk Back to the News (humor)
So you are saying that we fought for independence because British were invading our privacy?

Not only is he saying it, so is the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, whom he quoted.
Opposition to such searches was in fact on of the
driving forces behind the Revolution itself.

Did you even read the above paragraphs?

Yes, there were obviously other factors as well.
Seems like a potential startup opportunity.

We already have shared buildings but often these places are "bare bones." Maybe someone needs to have the building kitted out (phones, internet, desks, chairs, etc) allowing a startup to move in and be up-and-running within a day.

I know around here they have a couple of those, they're expensive, but they do what they say on the tin.
I may be in the minority here but Reddit is MUCH more interesting to me than fb these days. My friends' content is simply not that interesting to me whereas I can find a SIG on Reddit that has what I want.
No. Clicking a link does not constitute consenting to ads, as the link itself does not come with any legalese saying so. And since I'm already using an adblocker by default, the content as displayed on my screen gives no indication whether or not I'm missing anything. So me being a return visitor is also not any indication that I've consented to whatever my browser is not showing.

There are a few sites that don't work at all with an adblocker, and those sites I'm happy to not visit again. But the whole "consent by default" is not a valid interpretation of consumer law in the EU, whether you phrase it as freeloading or not.

In fact, my browser is muted by default, and I always mute TV commercials (used to have a mythtv plugin for it, even). Are you now going to accuse me of stealing for protecting the silence of my own home?
I stand by my position that the existence of interpretations that said the bible is a history book and the events in it occurred as depicted, is not relatively new. If you use the term "literalism" in an academic sense that means something subtly different, then fine. The fact remains that creationism is definitely not even remotely new.
A Tale of Two Certs
The iPhone Thought Experiment
“At least a bomb mockup” found in the train in Hannover, destroyed by the police
I'm of Bristolian origin, and here's the local hero.
> Compile times ?

There can be a compile time hit, but you can use FastISel, which is not bad. The compile time hit is mitigated by the fact that you get a far, far more mature series of optimization passes. Since the Go compiler is itself written in Go, more optimizations would make the Go compiler itself faster, further reducing the performance impact.

> Flexibility over the backend ?

Writing to LLVM in no way restricts you to a backend. You simply need a language-level IR that you can retarget to different backends as you would like. This is what Swift, for example, is doing with SIL.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
He didn't solve any problem. He stole the Winklevosses work.
Maybe in terms of various metrics (though I'm not so certain things are progressing that quickly), but not in terms of source compatibility, which was the point I was trying to make.
I'm not disputing that there are differences between the US military and IS. I'm disputing that the difference is the legality of the actions or the existence of "rule of law."
Do you have any evidence that chemotrophs do not have an isotopic preference? That would contradict the "all life" from the Wikipedia quote, and contradict what little I know about the universality of the mechanism. A quick search finds:

Detmers, J., Brüchert, V. Habicht, K.S. and Kuever, J. (2001) Diversity of Sulfur Isotope Fractionations by Sulfate-Reducing Prokaryotes, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 67, 888-894. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC92663/

> All of the 32 sulfate-reducing bacteria discriminated against 34S during sulfate reduction. Desulfonema magnum showed the largest fractionation (ɛ = 42.0‰), and Desulfovibrio halophilus showed the smallest (ɛ = 2.0‰)

It looks like the scientists working in this field have not made the assumption but have actually tested it.

> This is why you only see chemotrophs around local high concentrations

I lack the biochemistry knowledge. My limited understanding is that life was restricted to the ocean. If the Fe and O react on land (with limited oxygen, that produces iron(II), yes?), then it will be dissolved in fresh water. But when it hits the ocean, it's going to interact with the salts and other substances which a billion years of rain bought into the sea.

In that case, the ocean edge will have the local high chemical concentrations. Sure, over time that will equilibrate. But any life at that boundary will be able to take advantage of the chemical gradient in the way you mentioned. We see this now, where continental runoff is a source of nutrients for ocean life, similar to how volcanic eruptions can add nutrients to soil through the weathering process of volcanic rocks.
Still pales in comparison to the number of currently active Islamic terrorist organizations around the world.

Just take a look at this list[0] and see for yourself how many of them are Islamic and how many are not

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...
Americans do care more about Paris than Lebanon – here’s why
The benefit of external deadlines, for me, isn't so much about motivation, but about prioritization. When you have a lot of stuff you could be doing, deadlines are an effective tool in ensuring you work on what is most important. I don't think they should be the sole or even primary tool for this, but they're pretty helpful.
None of that seems like a big difference compared to what the leader in that space, SoFi, is doing.
Dear Facebook Notify. The internet wasn't just built for a handful of companies
As of 2014, it is explicitly legal to unlock a phone:

"Circumvention of a technological measure that restricts wireless telephone handsets or other wireless devices from connecting to a wireless telecommunications network ... may be initiated by the owner of any such handset or other device ... solely in order to enable such owner or a family member of such owner to connect to a wireless telecommunications network"

- Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, 2014 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1123...)
Yes, I'm over-simplifying. But this is HN not the NEJM.

The point still stands: most heart disease is preventable. Estimates range from 50% to 80% of all heart disease being preventable by lifestyle changes.

http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/simple-daily-st...
Same here, one thing that sometimes works for me is making sure I have no browsers open at all. Then the inevitable speedbump of opening a browser and waiting for my machine to recover from the 50 tabs all suddenly coming to life keeps me from doing it, and instead I stare into space and think deep thoughts for 10 seconds.

It sure is hard to close that browser once it's all warmed up and full of interesting things though...
ISIS wants to conquer Kurdistan, not least because most Kurds ar Sunni -- ISIS is especially vicious to Muslism who aren't Islamic enough. They have no hope in the near term of conquering France.

I'm not arguing ISIS are good people. I'm arguing that, if you don't want to be on the receiving end of terrorist attacks from ISIS, the best way to do that is to stop bombing them.

Otherwise you should assume that they will happen as a matter of routine.
../../Sirupsen/logrus/text_formatter.go:28: undefined: IsTerminal

The logrus library we use for logging doesn't support Solaris.
Could you provide some more reasoning? I don't follow.

Maybe the article phrased this sentence wrong, but I think the basis is true. Anyone who has tried to find accurate information about drugs on the Internet has likely visited Erowid.

As some evidence I've tried some queries I might search if I wanted to learn more about psychedelic drugs. Erowid is on the first page of Google results for:
"psychedelic drug information"
"lsd mushrooms"
"magic mushrooms"
I wonder why Google is unable to do what Microsoft has always done. MS generally never leads markets, but they usually can put together a passable product that gets at least double digit share on their third try.

Google seems to lead some charges (i.e. Android) but definitely don't have the third-time's-the-charm luck. Maybe these are mutually exclusive properties of different organizational principles.
Distributive Rule is understanding rectangles
I don't think the 25 minutes matter that much. I always did 30 minutes, and then if I feel like I wanted more time, I would ignore the alarm.

The principle is to give you a small amount of time you have to focus. Then once you did that, everything else seems easier.

Pomodoro is not really a time management technique, rather a motivation/anti-procrastination technique. But OP is trying to sell his product so... buzzwords.
Or just onboard remote workers?
It doesn't seem very likely that anyone has broken a modern symmetric cipher like AES or ChaCha. If not, a small random key is just as good as a one time pad, and you can reuse it for as many messages as you want. The bigger risks are that you reveal the key or that your hardware is evil, but OTPs don't save you from either of those.

With public key crypto it's a lot more likely that something might be broken. But then again if you somehow solve the problem of swapping secret keys/OTPs with everyone you want to talk to, you don't need public key crypto.
I suppose that's more the vibe I was going for. Lady Liberty isn't indicative of life in NYC but it is a lasting symbol, and the ethos in the city has certainly grown in its presence.
This is really interesting. People often accuse reddit of manipulating which post go to the top, but those claims pale in comparison to how...blatant this feels. I don't mind Facebook being the dominant platform, I just wish that they didn't also manipulate which content I get.
Mutated Gene Wreaks Havoc on White Matter
We're talking about a country that's been used essentially as a pawn by the major imperial powers of each era for the last 200+ years. (This situation is not unique to Afghanistan - which is why many other countries have similar problems - but Afghanistan's geography compounds the effect).

The British, Russians, US, Ottomans, Mughals, Safavids - all of them have spent significant time and effort (not to mention military power) trying to secure the region for "their" side. All of them struggled with it, to the point where it's debatable whether any of them ever succeeded.

This situation continues on today - so no, I don't think Afghanistan can ever be politically stable as long as it continues to hold this role in global geopolitics[0]. Perhaps circumstances will change and we'll start to see a more stable regime emerge there, but it's kind of hard to force that when one of the major causes for instability in the last two centuries has been external influence in the first place.

EDIT: Unrelated to the answer, but I find the use of the word 'balkanized' particularly amusing given the etymology (it refers to the fragmentation of parts of the former Ottoman empire into many states that compete with each other for regional influence). Afghanistan is not part of the Balkan peninsula, but it did have its own fascinating power struggle with the Ottoman empire, and the breakup of the Ottoman empire in the early 20th century was a major turning point that influenced the current state of Afghanistan today.

[0] I'm not sure any country really could be, for what it's worth, but we're talking about Afghanistan.
Wow ... that exploded fast. I hadn't noticed much noise when I submitted it.
Music companies really seem to like building time series databases (See: Prometheus.io)
And I'll take my office, thanks.
No, the point I was trying to make has nothing to do with communication. Molenbeek has been known to host radicalized Islamists for twenty years, I've heard on French TV this weekend. Encrypted communication or not, as long as governments sleep on such facts, we will see further attacks.
"We help early stage professionals accelerate their success with student loan refinancing, mortgages, mortgage refinancing, and personal loans." - SoFi. Seems like they are both targeting the same niche.

Does SoFi also service the loan? It's not clear from their landing page. Side-by-side I think Earnest has done a much better job on their site as far as promoting their technology and differentiation.
1. If they want to.

2. If they want to.

3. Everyone should be kind and compassionate. Many are sadly not. This industry glorifies the Steve Jobs type far too much.

It's misogynist to assume that her relationship with PG somehow makes her achievement lesser. One does not assume that of PG, hence it's a double standard. You're assuming (despite having just read an essay by PG to the contrary) that he's the one with the talent and she's just along for the ride.

It's the same sort of backwards gender feminist bullshit that criticizes women for choosing to stay home with their kids. If a guy chose to stay out of the spotlight you wouldn't consider that misandrist, but when a woman does it's misogynist?

Sexism is a double standard, and you're applying one here in some sort of odd, backward attempt to be an SJW.

If you knew Jessica you'd understand, she's as impressive as PG in her own right. It might not make a good movie but it made for a damn good seed funding organization.
Erlang beauty
I'm friends with an ER nurse. Her and her coworkers read Erowid to learn about the street perception of drugs, like what is becoming popular, what risks are the public aware of, what dangerous mixtures are people trying, etc. She mentioned the site to me once and was surprised that I had heard of it, since I don't work in medicine.
Admin interfaces still need to be usable and look good. Bootstrap takes care of all that for you.

It just doesn't matter if they all look the same, which is what happens if you use Bootstrap out of the box.
An airforce able to rival the Marines does not "fall into the hands of terrorists". Saudi Arabia wants to be a regional power and wants to back that up with force. Oh and suppress domestic unrest.
That crowd is already camping out on Facebook, while G+ was being adopted by more techy people.

Companies running for the same average Joe and forgetting about other groups of people leads to quick deaths of services.
I can attest to PCG being fantastic. Not only is the algorithm fast for one-off generation (the GNU GSL is quite slow comparatively and MKL is designed more for vectors of random numbers) but the API is really well designed. Anyone doing monte carlo simulations in C/C++ will really appreciate using it.
I am a regular HN user and sometimes commentator. I am Muslim, both by background and choice. I am glad that HN is having a conversation a 100 times more serious and intellectual than I am seeing on popular Western and Muslim media.

First of all Daesh are a bunch of psychopaths and a far greater threat and problem to people like me. Their every move has been against not just non-Muslims or moderate Muslims but also and even more so against mainstream and all major currents of Sunni Islam. If people are interested, I can provide specific sources to support this assertion.

From the Muslim world side, we have a huge mess. I wanted to put in my two cents for Westerners trying to understand WTH is going on with the Muslim world. Basically, the Assad regime, nominally "secular, progressive" tyrants such as the Egyptian and Algerian militaries or Kurdish marxist armies, numerous "radical" Sunni and Shia groups have all been at fault since they could not agree on a set of principles on which disagreeing parties could come to peace. The long Iraqi civil war brutalised already damaged societies. This produced the sort of psychopaths such as Zarqawi and Baghdadi and numerous others. Also, even otherwise somewhat moderate Sunnis have been driven into ISIS's arms and somewhat moderate Nusayrites and Shi'ites have been driven into Ass'ads arms because they don't see another option. The biggest problem now is that while many people are disgusted by all this, there is so much blame to go around that one can be completely justified in blaming everyone else. So the problem is that people sympathetic to Assad (old-style socialists, Shi'ites etc.) sit there blaming the Saudis, Turks and the "West" for the supporting rebels who they say are all Daesh. On the other hand, Assad has killed and driven out many times more refugees than Daesh, and many Syrians and Sunnis find it hypocritical and self-serving to support Assad like Putin is doing while neglecting the plight of the Syrian population being hammered both from Assad and Daesh. The conspiracy theorist streak finds it easy to blame the US, without trying to eliminate the local actors who are instruments of said conspiracy, if they really believe there is one.

Unless all sides are brave enough to not only fight for their principles but more importantly admit their own mistakes it is hard to fix this. But this requires some trust, which only gets harder to find the more precarious your own situation becomes.
Is it possible that writing the compiler in go makes it easier to add efficient implementations of these missing features?
SoFi do not service their own loans.
Avoid trans fats. These are manufactured fats that are solid at room temperatures. Imagine what they do in your body. Butter melts at 95 degrees, the body is 98.7. Crisco melts at 117 Fahrenheit.
In pomodoro if you get interrupted to the point where you need to stop what you are working on you are supposed to stop the timer and start over when you can.

It forces you to make sure interruptions are actually worth dealing with vs putting them off till after the timer is up.
He'd rather respond to us disgruntled customers instead of doing PR. I'm very concerned about the future of this company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578397
You know, someone has to say it. Working in 25 minute intervals with a 5 minute break is hardly a technique. It doesn't need a name, and it doesn't need an entire page to explain. A to-the-point definition followed by anecdotal commentary would have been far less insulting than the format of this blog post, which basically reads like a diet pill ad.
Preventing heart disease means lowering LDL. The standard American diet has a lot of cholesterol. Are you suggesting it is genetic?
People have been submitting this crap for over a day now, and just as many are submitting the refutations, which are then missed or ignored. One article in a dubious publication, picked up and repeated endlessly without checking. Modern media circus at its best.