skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not a "win" in anyone's book.

It was a great win for two reasons -- they could do it technically and they proved it, even automated the whole thing (just like Zimbabwe right ;-) ). And the other win was they realized this was an expensive endeavor and not a very good approach to taking people into space.

It took Americans many hundreds of billions dollars and lives to realize that?

> We're between systems, like the seven years between Apollo and the STS.

That makes sense, hadn't thought of it that way. It has been only 4-5 years since last launch. Yeah I am looking forward to Orion/SLS!

> Its a happy coincidence Russia still has a legacy system for lifting people into the largely STS built and ferried ISS.

Is it? From a country that did pretty well with many firsts in space, builds reliable military hardware, killed less astronauts/cosmonauts than our Shuttle. I mean, yeah, we all hate Russia and their commie regime, but I think it is a disservice a bit to downplay their engineers.
The Lord of the Rings metaphor is apt. Musa Cerantonio preaches that ISIS is part of Allah's plan as laid out in the Koran. And that most Muslims should expect destruction.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...
Ugly UI? Oh god. I love Craigslist precisely because it has a simple, clean, straightforward UI that hasn't been larded up with a lot of crap. It's still functional and it's still useful. It does its job, which is to connect buyers and sellers. It does not waste my time trying to impress me with some designer's ego.

Craigslist's UI is beautiful.
Realistically, are you going to drop python+numpy+scipy just to get away from matplotlib?
Is the plan still to force it onto users/victims? If they fixed that part then it's a massive improvement
Dudes, I don't think this Google Search here.

Say you're one of the 75 people they hired this quarter. Do you know what fields are mandatory on the 179c form in Maryland? No. Does one of those people around the table know it? Hopefully yes.

This is a multi-thousand person company to do something that has zero CS challenge to it. You need people constantly communicating changing business requirements and teaching each other evolving internal tools. If you have to get up and [guiltily] knock on someone's door to find this stuff out, the real work is going to suffer.
I wonder what Facebook will say when the governments of the world realise they can use this capability to contact their own citizens - especially if Facebook's continued operation in that country is contingent on its cooperation.

'Safety Check' is just the end user experience; the underlying mechanism is a way to propagate messages invasively across a geo-social network. Like any technology, 'good' or 'nasty' depends on how it's used.
As someone said[1] the damage is already done.

Now everyone thinks that the terror attacks were perpetrated by Syrian refugees that were communicating through the PS4 network using encryption, and that nothing of this would have happened if videogames didn't exist, encryption was forbidden, and they hadn't sheltered refugees.

[1] https://openparachute.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/amount.jpg
Do you really think every single one of them is a psychopath?

I think it's more like gangs. Kids join gangs because they want to belong to something bigger than themselves. ISIS offers something similar to people who feel alienated from the West.
I agree 100%; compile times must be fast or I get distracted. Right now I'm waiting for tests to run which takes ages and ages; it's the same problem.

I've found that I'm extra productive in lisp because I'm evaluating and compiling a single function at a time, usually. I can cycle between testing that one function and fixing/finishing it very rapidly since it never has to build or reload the whole thing. A lot of the time it doesn't even require leaving the editor.

Too bad I've so far only been able to use lisp on personal projects.

3/61 tests passed...
Isn't "trafficking" determined by amount, not activity?
This is exactly what Web Components are: a standardized, minimal, HTML-compatible, component model that's understood by the browser. It solves DOM encapsulation, style scoping, element lifecycle, and DOM composition.

Frameworks and libraries can then build on top of that to provide templating, data-binding, additional lifecycle stages, and other helpers, which Polymer and X-Tags do.
How do you explain the women joining ISIS?
Venona project
My mistake. Bosniaks (who are predominantly Muslim) do only form the largest ethnic group, ie the 'relative majority'. I've actually visited the country and have 'extended' family (or whatever the proper English term for family you're only 'related' to by marriage is) that hails from there.
That preprint seems to be missing every single figure. From the text,

> The key feature of the model neuron is its use of
active dendrites and thousands of synapses, allowing the
neuron to recognize hundreds of unique patterns in large
populations of cells.

"active dendrites" and "thousands of synapses" sounds an awful like abstracting away a complex mathematical model to fit a particular definition of "single neuron".
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> If you head over to Google+ today

I literally have no idea how I would even do that.
Maybe I'm over-interpreting, but how is it possible we didn't know something so basic?
I would have expected neurons to have been thoroughly instrumented and tested.
To everyone defending JS frameworks: create a challenge that you believe requires a framework and see if someone can solve it more elegantly in vanilla JS.

Years ago when browser compatibility required 100s of workarounds for each browser and version, it made sense to use a framework to hide the complexity and keep up to date. But with modern browsers this just isn't the case.
Th whole article is basically saying what is a well known fact that if you share values and culture you feel more affinity. But that's the point of the outrage: empathize for humanity not just for your own kind. At least try. Also nothing for 220+ people dead on Sinai plane because west hates Russia or 100s of 1000s of people dead in the last decade in middle east because they are don't share "western values". Obama sees "humanity" attacked only when terrorists attack the west.
Yes - a lot of this is on the edge of what I understand about low-level programming, but I find it fascinating!
The Citadel letter mentioned in the article (http://www.sec.gov/comments/10-222/10222-16.pdf) is a very good read. I work in the industry and they hit all the main problems with IEX's approach.
Wow, the mobile version fails badly (62/100). The desktop one doesn't fair that well either though (77/100).
The way the post you're responding to was phrased is indeed hyperbolic. But I think there is a valid point that compiler performance concerns are a pretty unconvincing reason to not have generics, especially in light of a demonstrated high tolerance for compiler performance regressions.
very interesting links! but far from damning - they make a couple of percent of their income from the heart-check logos which were put on several lean cuts of beef. ConAgra donates some money (they were among the top couple dozen contributors - most of which were medical companies.) color me not-outraged, but more informed.
Ask HN: How can the HN community help prevent the spread of extremism?
In February, the White House held a summit for technologists to collaborate on counter-extremism: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/opinion/wiktorowicz-tech-fighting-extremism/ From that article:

> The reality is that ISIS operates like a mission-driven, agile start-up to spread its evil ideology, and we will not defeat it through government and large corporations alone.

The way I see it, this is truly a war of "applied memetics," in which violent groups are using information technology to attempt to control a global narrative, and to move it towards fear and oppression. The good news is that if there is one community that specializes in agile systems of applied memetics, and the technology to support those systems, it is ours. We make a living by choosing (or attempting to choose) what becomes "viral." So why don't we see how we can apply our talents towards this crisis?

With Anonymous declaring "war" on Daesh (deploying a large set of ethically questionable tools that many of us cannot contribute to for various reasons), I'm sure there are other, more white-hat ways in which those of us with coding/machine learning/viral marketing talent can contribute.

Is there a Kaggle competition for Daesh recruiting tweets, or an open-source classifier for those messages that needs contributors? Startups to address Muslim youth needs that could use visibility or advice? Other things I'm completely missing?

Let's brainstorm as a community.
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Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
toxicologists are the best psychonauts for obvious reasons
ahh thank you! So instead of trying to prevent attacks by intercepting them (which is probably doomed to fail anyway), we should work on the greater issue of diplomacy in general.
I agree. There's also that fairness can be applied to the social structure that generates the rules for the market. Suppose that there is a fairest market structure. We may even call it the "free market". It may be the case that you can enforce the structure of the free market on everyone else, but a lot of people would be rather angry with you if you did it like a violent dictator.

So it may be the case that a system that tries to enforce free market conditions must be allowed to deviate from that ideal in order to be itself fair.
One of the main problems with the NSA programs is that it targeted _everyone_. That just makes no sense. If you have a lead or probable cause on someone, great, track them and hack their messages. Collecting everyone's information to catch a terrorist only dilutes your search.
The best salesman is someone who believes in the product. I'm willing to take them at their word.
That's literally the scene of almost any SV startup. They don't "do" remote. Nor work life balance. It's all about asses in seats. Stay very clear of a work environment like that.
Card Skimmers will only copy track1 and track2 of the magnetic strip. In order to get the pin you need an additional piece of equipment that records the pinpad, such as a well placed camera.
A good introductory overview: Jonas Boner on Resilience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjPVJ7ZKLnY
Activists Are Tough on Companies They Don't Own
> What I'm looking is a Windows RPN calculator

I've been using Xcalc for years. I love it.

http://www.tordivel.com/xcalc/
Push Notifications on the Open Web
I'm not suggesting that the proposal is more fair. But in the name of fairness an unfair system must be changed in ways that benefit some system participants over other system participants. Likewise I am not suggesting that the existing system is unfair.

Only that the argument that some participants will benefit from changes more than others does not imply that the new conditions are unfair.
The cholesterol guidelines have just been relaxed because of very little link between dietary cholesterol and blood lipid levels.
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Dart's html library used to make all methods that cause layout, be asynchronous. Instead of Element.offsetHeight, you had Element.offset which returned a Future<Rect> (Promise in JS). Code ended up looking like:

fooify(element) {
element.offset().then((rect) {
// do stuff
otherelement.offset().then((rect) {
// do more stuff
});
});
}

Understandably, developers didn't like it, and unfortunately it was removed. This was before Futures and Streams had been made completely ubiquitous in Dart, and before async/await. Now the code would look like:

fooify(element) async {
var h = await element.offsetHeight;
// do stuff
var h2 = await otherelement.offsetHeight;
// do more stuff
}

which is much more palatable.

> There'd also been talk of doing a subset of HTML that includes only the operations that can be done quickly, but to my knowledge, that never went anywhere. You run into problems with the whole huge installed base of the web; if you're going to throw everything out and start from scratch, why not just use a native mobile app, or even raw OpenGL ES commands?

Interestingly, this was basically the origin of Flutter. It started as a fork of Blink with the worst things removed, but still used DOM and JS, but they kept removing and removing, eventually removing CSS and the DOM entirely, and replacing JavaScript with Dart. Now things are fast, but they aren't like the web either.
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These aren't "small efficiencies". Ember TodoMVC takes over 40 times as long to start than the vanilla JS version.
Num is much simpler than GNU Octave or J.

Num takes command line input, such as file of numbers or a standard input pipe, and outputs common statistics. Num has a goal to be similar to Unix standard tools such as sed, awk, and wc. We're working to make Num fully POSIX compatible so we can write fully portable scripts.

GNU Octave and J are full featured languages, with excellent data structures, and you can do much more in these environments. R/CRAN and Python/pandas are similarly powerful. These all require installations of binaries or compilers, and involve ongoing updates of versions, libraries, dependencies, and the like.

Why use Num? Num is great when you're writing a shell script and you want a lightweight way to do simple statistics. Num is great when you want your script to be able to run on a wide range of standard systems and be able to run as is for a long time. For example, we use Num for our system monitoring scripts, continuous delivery processing, and Ansible deployments.
How about Matthew 25:35-40? How well is that going? People paying much attention to that one, or are Syrian refugees excluded from "one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine"?

Especially in light of this: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/17/te...

Which shows that the people fleeing are mostly Muslim. Muslims are more likely to be the victims of terrorist violence, not the perpetrators.
I'm not dave, but the comment seems to point at the fact that alcohol is a much more destructive substance, on a national scale, than the substances covered on Erowid. Given the phrasing of the sentence, I don't think he is out of line. It would be charitable to say that the phrasing was wrong. The paragraph breaks the audience of the website into two sets: those who are "unfazed by strangeness", or toxicologists and E.R. doctors. Anybody familiar with media coverage of bitcoin or tor should immediately recognize the template.
Nobody with a "weight problem" eats fewer calories each day than their body burns. Nobody.
Are you being funny? If not, how do you suggest they do that?
Sometimes the dog food on the other side of the fence does taste better.
Have you read "Submission" yet? I feel that his works have been on a consistent upward trend in terms of "literary merit", and this latest book is very well-made.
Looks like it's this:

http://magculture.com//wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wallpaperb...
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>> the problem with Pinterest is the aggressive user hostile "sign in" stuff on the apps and mobile pages.

Spot on. Desktop pages are just as bad. It seriously annoys to no end. If it was a paid service, I could understand.
> Unfortunately the NSA doesn't seem to use their resources to secure the nation, and just ignores all the large scale violent crime that goes on daily.

The NSA is part of the Department of Defense charged with foreign signals intelligence for national security purposes, its not a law enforcement agency. (And many of the tools it uses would be flagrantly unconstitutional if used for domestic law enforcement.)

Generally, blurring of the military and law enforcement roles is not a healthy thing; it may be good for order, but rarely for liberty.
Brunel makes occasional appearances along side Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in Sydney Padua's alternative-history web comic "2D Goggles", which is worth your time...

http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/cast/
> Apparently they found recent grads with very large student debt load but commensurately high future earning potential had inaccurately low credit scores.

Credit scores measure the risk of future default based on past borrowing behavior. A borrower's credit score is not "inaccurately low" if there is little to no past borrowing behavior to apply the credit scoring model to.

Lenders can and frequently do take into account criteria other than credit score, such as income, when underwriting loans. In some lending markets (mostly commercial), individual consumer credit scores aren't even used.

That Earnest and other upstart lenders are choosing to more heavily weigh factors other than credit score is not particularly interesting. The true test of their underwriting criteria will come in the next down cycle. Having worked in this space, I should point out that there are many consumers with high incomes (or high earning potential) who are vulnerable. As such, I'd suggest that income and earning potential alone are of limited use in underwriting. It's not uncommon to see borrowers with high incomes who also have very low credit scores because they were over-leveraged and had serious negative credit events occur.
My father wanted to name me Isambard, but was overruled by my mother.
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It always seemed like MSFT was about to position M# right into same niche as Rust. Both languages had the mantra of safety and zero cost abstraction.
The future of software development
At launch, the actual search functionality wasn't noticeably better than Altavista. It was, however, much faster and aesthetically pleasing.
http://www.ami-oimc.org/news/un-sondage-affirme-que-15%25-de...

Basically the question used two denomination for Daesh, none of which being widely used by the media... Add to that people too proud to admit their ignorance, and you have the recipe for a totally worthless poll...
It's hosted by Google, so they control the cache time.
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This is rather depressing. Debian Live has been an important part of Debian for quite some time, and I have used that guy's work quite a lot.
I didn't mean to be derogatory at all -- I just mean phrases like 'open society' are used in discussion and argument by a large variety of people with a large variety of beliefs, and it always essentially means 'an implementation of my particular belief system'. Libertarianism provided an excellent example because of how prevalent it is on HN -- so prevalent in fact that I had a real life Libertarian pop out to defend it!
Your point about the first click does necessitate revision. Let's exclude unknowing clicks from my original claim. That leaves at least two (a) the domain name makes it clear there will be ad-supported content on it and (b) the second or later click on one which you now know has ad-supported content. Block ads while consuming their content is a parasitic relationship with less benefit to them at the least and piracy at the worst.

Definitely not a "duty" people have to do such a thing. The malware issue is a valid concern and people may decide on that issue. They're still pirating the content if they keep doing that on websites they use. Web metrics show this would be the majority of site visits for majority of people following his recommendation.
> If this is the case, then it probably means that a majority of people find the less-dense layout easier to read.

Maybe. But the service doesn't exist for the people using it to read, or to post either for that matter. They're not paying for it. If Google knows people would rather a different layout but don't care, it's because the people who are paying for it prefer it this way.
> Even in silly valley, people do not cost $500k/year.

And Silicon Valley isn't exactly a hotbed of basic biomedical research, so I'd be surprised if the team that writes the application that wins the grant is based there.
New Research Finds That Algorithms Are Better Than Humans at Hiring
They don't seem to be doing that. They brag like crazy on most of the terrorism related arrests they make.
Instagram Kills Off Feed Reading Apps
Cool! What's the Go memory model look like? Is it stricter than ARM or could possibly working programs be broken when run there?
I have tried both, Bokeh (without the server) and plot.js (their python lib offers a JSON encode option so that you can use their Python lib with plotly.js without sending data to plotly).

However, I found both to be very similar and still don't have a clear favorite. Any opinions on which solution is better suited for (internal) interactive dashboards?
That's a false dichotomy. Freedom is not absolute, it's already limited through various laws.

Why should speech be absolutely free when I am not absolutely free?
I didn't downvote you but I think you are being downvoted because you give the impression that if I asked the leading experts in cardiology how to avoid heart disease they would give me the definite answer you have. However if you talked to the top 100 cardiologists they would not all share your views.

For instance everyone agrees vegetables and exercise are great.
The information about COQ10, PQQ, and omega-3s are still very much in their infancy. Many doctors would disagree with out about red meat. Exactly what is healthy fat, and how much we should intake could be debated for eons. One of the top cardiologists in the U.S. just told my friends father to stop eating all fats and meats to reduce his risk of heart disease.

With regards to legumes, people who live in a "blue zones"(places with very large number of people 100 years or older+) eat a legume heavy diet.

So I don't think that the problems is as simple and solved as you make it out to be.
Anyone have details on how Mohamed Osman Mohamud's family came to the U.S.?

Were they refugees? (He was born in Somalia.)

Carrots and Sticks: The U.S. is great at giving individuals carrots. It needs to start giving individuals sticks. This teen's family should be stripped of their citizenship and sent back to Somalia. Reason: this kid probably learned at least some of his hatred for the U.S. at the dinner table.

Edit: I'm a foreigner myself in the U.S. myself. And I love the U.S.
The CIA must surrender unconditionally to the IRA.

God talks. I win. You lose.

God says...
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AltaVista was good. Google was better than AltaVista, but not exponentially better. It was just a nice improvement - enough to get me to switch.
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