skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting changes, seems like the trend of pulling items out of icon-based menus and into persistent nav is gaining speed.

I'm not sure how I feel about the full-width pages yet.. easier to read commit messages but stylistically I did like the icon menu on the side. The narrower version also seems ever-so-slightly easier to read, but it's hard to say without trying it first. Looking forward to demoing once the roll-out starts.
I hope the removal of the sidebar doesn't result in wider README views.

The current design has a fixed width of 790px (including 30px of padding on each side), which leads to a comfortable number of words per line. I find readability much worse when line lengths get longer.

Other than that, I think the simplified navigation is a big improvement.
> “We are just trying to fully understand the full context of the decision-making process,” a Republican committee aide said of the demand for correspondence.

I look forward to the day when all email between members of Congress are public by default, to fully understand the representation process that they conduct on our behalf.
Interesting. This is closer to the older UI, before they rolled out "Repository Next" - https://github.com/blog/1529-repository-next
I agree. I found that the best part was that founders went on length answering the questions. The text could be verbatim or it could be how the book is edited.

I usually find interviews annoying as the interviewer interjects a lot, breaking the chain of thought, diverging the discussion or some times cutting them off to inject their own opinions.

This book I thought had none of that. And I learned a lot reading it.

As for PG's essay, I think I came across this exact content some place else (my memory fails me).
It says over the course of the next two weeks, you'll be able to opt-in so its being slowly rolled out.
Are you kidding me? If you really know so little about US history as to have to ask that question, then read the Wikipedia articles for the topics I listed ("prohibitions against voting or owning land, the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow laws, the American Indian boarding schools, redlining, the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, and Japanese internment camps").
"Stereotypically selfless"? She's a founder of Y Combinator.
I would like that. For comparing many software projects I sometimes use "how complete is the Twitter profile" as a metric, just like a lot of people use "how does the website look".

One software project that I've been involved with for over a decade still uses the same old stale graphics, and it's basically telegraphing the fact that the SABDFL is not big on letting other people contribute to areas he's not comfortable with.
To be nice to the more important relevant parties, I didn't
want to blurt out the
old story. So, my post
was only for people who
knew the old story, but I
did assume that nearly everyone
on HN would. E.g., essentially
the story was in the movie.

My point was not the old story
but a conjecture that the
article that is the subject
here was aimed at a reminder
to the enemies of Israel.
I didn't want to mention
Israel.
This is a republished copy. The original story is here:

http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2015/11/14/paris-you-dont-want-t...
I totally agree with your take on the hedge fund industry as a whole. I probably should have clarified. I was speaking specifically about a very small group, like Michael Burry and Gary Schilling, who I admired for their outspoken and transparent economic trend analysis.
thanks for sharing this --- puts a lot in context!
I wonder if it's easier to judge people's honesty/character/civility/etc. if they're interacting mainly with other people under your observation, rather than with you directly. I suspect so.
http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/d...

As you wished.
> It's like nobody on the US side had studied any history whatsoever.

It certainly seemed like that, though its more likely the actual problem was that the people at the highest levels of authority on the US side consistently ignored and overrode the people that had studied history and learned from it, listening instead to the people that had not, because the latter were saying more pleasing to the decision-makers ideological preconceptions.

Its not like the uniformed military leadership of the time somehow, in a historical aberration, managed to include only people who were completely ignorant of every past experience of occupation of formerly-hostile territory everywhere, including the occupations of Japan and Germany after WWII.
That's an interesting choice of rollout if you enable it for all users that see your repository instead of enabling the view for yourself for all repositories that you browse.
The Swiss Cheese Mafia
Wouldn't lending money for 24 hours be more risky, since the debtor has less time to raise money to pay you back?
Walmart's $10 smartphone isn't actually $10
This is great! I did an experiment a long time ago, before Twitter closed their JSONP API, to make brownian motion visualizations with a similar concept.

http://binarymax.com/brownian_2.gif

I'll have to find some time to recode it to use this service :)
No.

A state has the right and responsibility to fight criminal activity, so one could argue that surveillance, data-sharing between intelligence agencies and policing are necessary for governments to fulfill the obligation that their monopoly on violence entails. No sane person, not even the most die-hard anti-statist anarchist, wants to live in a world where something like the Paris attacks go unpunished.

But, after Snowden, we've observed that scaling the surveillance power of the state doesn't apparently lead to greater security, only the desire for greater and greater power. How many credible terrorist attacks have actually been foiled by the apparent global panopticon the world has been living under? The truth is, we don't really know, and the answer is probably n > 0, but there are obvious cases where the system has failed, despite that.

The implication hidden in questions like this is that the latest attacks could only have been prevented if governments had more surveillance power, more control over autonomy, more ability to project arbitrary force around the world, regardless of sovereignty. Yet no amount of power will allow a government to be right in preventing crime 100% of the time, it's impossible. Even if systems like Tor and cryptocurrencies allow some criminal activity to thrive (and are arguably intended to do so,) it's better for the sake of free society and civil liberty to have the state be half-blind than all-seeing.

I don't know what a proper balance looks like, but I am certain it's weighted too far on the side of government power as it is. We should continue working to interfere with and to reduce the surveillance powers of governments, support pervasive encryption, and to oppose greater collaboration between government agencies, particularly across national lines. Doing otherwise only further legitimizes the violations of human rights that have already come with global surveillance, rendition camps, drone strikes against civilians, etc. The actual threat from terrorism throughout much of the Western world doesn't appear to be commensurate to the degree of power that the governments of the world are demanding to be able to fight it.
Regardless of the legal details, they don't get to keep their .gov emails private if someone with the proper authority requests them. That's part of the deal when you sign on with Uncle Sam.
I just got a notification/alert at the top of the site saying something to the effect of "would you like to try out our new layout?" yes please. voila.
If Intel is desperately looking for stuff to put on silicon besides yet another core, and they've already "gone there" for Graphics, why not an FPGA.

How far are we from a gigabyte of on-die cache, anyway?
As long as you know the technical shit and can somehow communicate where other party understands you and vice versa - it's fine.

You're up for learn-as-you-go.

That's for technical/engineering positions.
Today's startup of 10 people has 8 from different countries speaking with a horrible accent.

If your position is marketing - then my advise is less valid (unless you'll be marketing on your home language to your home audience).
For sure, persuasion is all about exploiting the backdoors of your consciousness to influence your free will.
Powerful stuff man.
Some people like climbing mount everest, others like giving speeches, others still like flying planes, driving fast cars.
You have 5 fingers on your hand and they are all different sized. Expecting them to all be the same is imbecile.
The Cell Method: An Overview on the Main Features [pdf]
How to Install Magento on Vultr Cloud Server Easily
> Where people are not economically well off, these will happen, people are terrorists for a reason and it wasn't because their life was great.

That's false, there is absolutely no correlation between being poor and wanting to slaughter thousands of innocents. One simple example : Bin Laden who comes from a filthy rich background. He never lacked on something in his life , his family was ultra rich, yet he created and financed a terrorist organization.

There is however an absolute causation between giving loads of money to folks in KSA who spread an hateful ideology like Wahhabism and terrorism.

I'm absolutely sick about this b-llsh-t explanation that just paint the poor as potential terrorists just because they are poor. No. No.

> Our strategy in Iran (and Cuba) is actually the best one we have going.

It's funny you talk about Cuba because , it contradicts what you just said. There should have been cubans terrorists blowing themselves up in the streets of USA because of they've been forced into poverty thanks to US blockade for 60 years. In 60 years it never happened. And the reason why is that they don't subscribe to a specific ideology and culture.
I don't get what is different in third screenshot.

Otherwise, a nice incremental change.
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> People who live in trailer parks are vulnerable to homelessness.

This is another generalization that doesn't hold up in this particular situation.

This trailer park cost $830 a month 5 years ago.

Don't paint this as 'being cruel to humans' and 'human beings need a place to live'. Yes there are a lot of rough edges, but this idea that rising housing costs due to market pressures are some sort of inhuman dynamic in this extreme outlier situation isn't reasonable. People might have to move and ideally they would get some sort of money to help them do it as a deal with the developers.

To think that the way something was is the way it needs to be in the future is irrational.
How does the same argument not apply to everybody with full-time employment who works on FOSS projects?
>Hire two and have one check the other.

Not if you don't trust the field. It's like saying if you don't like your numerology readings hire a different numerologist and compare the results.

Not saying I agree with the view but science is a lot less convincing when when you can't setup repeatable experiments.

>And no, it's not unreasonable to expect a non-technical person to review the data or the methods either.

You're going to review PHD level work that ran weather simulations on supercomputers and compiled various data sources with highschool level knowledge in your spare time ?

Perhaps you could do a security audit of OpenSSL if you have some free time on your hands - I'm sure people will even pay you if you manage to find security issues and you' be doing the community a big favor. Maybe we should hire some highschool grads to do it - start a kickstarter campaign and I'll pitch in.
This is a great outcome for that story. I must admit, I did too assume it was trolling behaviour when I saw the bidding on HN.

He wanted to do the work, he got what he wanted, and the US Government got the job done for just $1!

Not sure how anyone can see this but a victory for the US public.

18F is, I think, a fantastic initiative; I hope HM Government takes note - could be fantastic here in the UK too.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/cheat?...

Those programs are not intelligent agents, they cannot cheat.

When you say the program cheats, it is a direct criticism of the author's intentions.
Another obvious example that can benefit from the setup is a crypto coprocessor, whereby private keys are side-loaded onto the coprocessor by means of a separate hardware bus, such that the key is never exposed to the CPU or main memory, and the coprocessor can handle all encryption/decryption with said keys.
LOL! It's going on right now! As part of this exact research project!

The BBC article only mentioned infrared, but http://www.popsci.com/archaeologists-will-scan-egypts-pyrami... says the researchers are "[a]rmed with thermal imaging, muon detectors, and drone-mounted laser scanners."
Software development is deteriorating into abstract paradigms and cool tools
AFAIK, it's only C++.

EDIT: you can pass it the -x c flag.
Ah, "had Christmas", to me, implies being on Christmas, i.e. "we had Christmas at Aunt A and Uncle B's last year".
"At one of the first she did, the reporter brushed aside her insights about startups and turned it into a sensationalistic story about how some guy had tried to chat her up as she was waiting outside the bar where they had arranged to meet. Jessica was mortified"

Interestingly I read the article he refers to earlier today and I was really surprised (I took it at face value, apparently I should have been wiser) to read that someone like Jessica was so "shaken" by a guy hitting on her in what sounded like not-that-aggressive a way to me. I've never met her, but I've read enough online about her to have the opinion that she probably isn't someone who gets off on playing the victim.
CINT is old. Their new interpreter is called Cling and is based on LLVM.

There is also the Juce projucer which claims live C++11 on mac (and windows at some point). I haven't had a chance to use the live programming but at least the interface so far is slick.
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Hey, I was just looking at Shipito, and it was looking pretty handy to me as a Canadian. What did you dislike?
The sidebar with label/milestone etc is slightly larger to fill out the space from the navigation being moved up.
I'm holding my thumbs for a GitHub with a responsive layout. The separate mobile site is pretty nice, but it lacks tons of functionality (and it's hard to access on non-mobile).

Even HN is responsive these days!
What happened to Microsoft's Midori operating system project?
Yes, now get into a debate about the time it took those seven days. My original statement stands, and I expect just as much FUD this time as we had in the 60's.
And some economists still think that "rent seeking" is not a thing :-)
Facebook Pseudomoralismus
I can read the constitution to get the ideas of those who wrote it just like I can read the Islamic text to get their ideas. To know the exact implementation of the ideas we'd have to study the US law or the law of some other country (and we are sure to see that not all ideas are even implemented in practice). But to learn about the general ideas, reading the original material is actually enough.

And it's actually a good exercise to read both the US constitution and then read Quran and compare the ideas in them.

Let's start with the constitution. I can search through that too.

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt

God is never mentioned, religion is mentioned twice:

"no religious Test shall ever be
required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United
States."

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
> however, for the ISIS project to work, it is not necessary that all Muslims agree with them.

Perhaps, but how far will they get? There are Muslim nations that are fighting ISIS, both in military and in talking about their corrupt ideology and explaining how they have gone astray. For example (if you speak Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb2yAczRc5g

> Your theological objections cannot be taken seriously because they're a state power

While ISIS may not take what I mentioned seriously, the goal is to educate people (especially the emotional and easily charged youth) into showing how misguided ISIS are, and answer their questions in an attempt to prevent the corrupt ISIS message from influencing them.

> where one side of the argument is a state

Just because they call themselves a state does not mean they are :)

> are best settled by war.

We try to educate first and bring truce, but yes, sometimes fighting is unfortunately necessary: http://quran.com/49/9
Sorry. Not my most carefully-worded comment ever.
It's more like morality is unchanged (Justify something other than: 'do unto others', without falling back on an obviously illogical subjective value system) but society's dirty excuses for immorality change.
It's for CRT Controller (probably after the Motorola 6845 CRTC chip that was in the original PC)
So I think most people completely miss this when they see it, but I love it when people call "socialist" things selfish. It's the very definition of irony that something done "for the benefit of others" is deemed to be done solely for the person's ego. Personally, I don't see open source as inherently socialist anyways, but that's another topic entirely.
I think it's that the sidebar menu is not present anymore (on the right hand side). Usually in this view it is the icons only, so pretty narrow anyway.
I think I understand what you are trying to say, but, the ground truth is there are people who've lived there for 30+ years and pay $1000/month for their home (which probably has a net value of $5k or less) - and when the trailer park shuts down, they really have nowhere to go.

So look, I read Ayn Rand when I was in college, I get economic impact of rent-control, and how it actually ends up hurting the lower socio economic strata - It's not like I'm ignorant of all these things.

It's just, at the end of the day - I can appreciate how it would suck to have your entire world ripped apart.
Also a meta-rule: People lie. Or often times, they just omit and hope nobody asks. That's how they manage to cover up what the actual rules are.

If you think that life is unfair, it may be more productive to ask yourself "What am I missing here? What have I been told that doesn't square with how I see people act?" and then update your mental model accordingly. Once you build mental models that derive the rules from what people do and not what they say, you'll often find they can take you surprisingly far.
A Direct Discrete Formulation of Field Laws: The Cell Method [pdf]
Thanks for the links, I found the OP's message just insulting to the poor people. Those who pull the strings of terrorism are well usually off and with a political agenda that couldn't care less about poverty.
I tried to find a good quote to summarize, but really, it's probably just worth reading the "Motivation" section of the guide[0], if your question is asked in good faith.

Note also that Ragel isn't some new-fangled thing. It was first released in January of 2002, and is very mature.

[0]: http://www.colm.net/files/ragel/ragel-guide-6.9.pdf
IDEs were created for Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar.

Were popularized in the PC, Amiga and NeXT eco-systems, thanks to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, VB, AMOS, GFA, Objective-C, Eiffel, Oberon, ...

Java wasn't even a thing in those days.
This is neat. Thank you.
Yes, they quote the bible. Yes, many Christian churches quote the same text and call it the same. No, it does not mean all Seventh Day Adventists are young earth creationists.
I think both reading and watching tutorials. one best resource i followed is Mackenziechild youtube channel. Also michael hart tutorial is great resource to move on.
The best way might be to use TinyCC.

You can compile C to a byte array, cast it to a function and run it.

I don't know of any REPL so far though (which is surprising).
I imagined Ron Swanson narrating as I read this.
The existence of fifty peer-reviewed articles supporting intelligent design (http://www.discovery.org/id/peer-review/) suggests to me that peer-review is not always the be-all and end-all of a scientific investigation.

There have been numerous accusations that raw climate data is 'processed' using questionable assumptions. I can’t judge that but I would that thought it's better to get to the truth rather than dismissing such claims out of hand with a demeaning personalized epithet. This is especially so given that truly enormous sums of money are at stake.

Getting to the truth might well involve examining professional communications between people people supported by taxpayers' cash.
Interesting work. I don't remember who said that "formal verification is the way of the future... and it's going to stay that way!"

Quite strange that the article doesn't mention CompCert though, which has an extensive bibliography:

http://compcert.inria.fr/publi.html

Edit: The person I quote is a researcher in formal verification, I think it's Gérard Huet from Inria.
Apple Maps Now Using 'Business Listings' Data from Foursquare
That's quite disturbing :P Any idea why they didn't implement channels as a lock-free list, ala java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue?
It's pretty ridiculous.

First of all, the Sales Tax is tacked on when you buy a phone, and in the case of subsidized phones it can be more than the advertised cost of the phone..

As far as monthly bills:

1) there are a number of legally mandated taxes that are added on.

2) There are legally required services (e.g. emergency phone calls, our equivalent of 999) that the phone company is required to provide, and the phone company won't include the costs of these in the advertised price.

3) Whatever the hell else they want to add on as a fee. My provider adds a $10/mo. fee for a smartphone and another $10/mo. fee if the phone is capable of 4g. This means any smartphone that isn't more tan 2 years old will be $20 more per month than advertised.

I end up paying about $180/mo. for two lines with unlimited data where the advertised price is $99/mo. for 1 line and $20 for each additional.

[edit] And if you're curious, this does not include tethering, which would be an additional per-month fee were I to want it.
I always love seeing clever ways to be random. Hadn't considered this one but it's a pretty good idea, and I'm sure there are even better ways to run with the basic concept (maybe analyzing color values of recent pinterest or instagram photos).

If you can find a private source of community-driven-randomness that'd be even better.
I don't think the mined bitcoin is meant to be thought of as a revenue source at all.
I think the intention of the 21Inc machine is to have a computer that is automatically connected to the blockchain and can transact with others programmatically.

I think the mined satoshis should be thought of a stream of digital ink -- ensuring your device always has enough ink to at least write into the ledger (blockchain).

If successful, and 21Inc units become an inherent part of IoT, I think we would see a lot of satoshi level transactions that aren't meant to be quantified in USDs; the transaction will just be meant to show proof of interaction between two machines.
Ex. your vehicle passed X checkpoint at Y time - use a satoshi to write it into the ledger.