skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comes from the same guy who wrote the memo that started Google+. So I'd take it with a boulder sized grain of salt. 3 years in Google is still having trouble putting up the table stakes.
sky-high real-estate prices ? May be minority of places, but most of the real estate prices are cheap. Very Cheap.

May be what you are referring to is Tokyo. And even then its not even SKY high compared to San Fransisco or Hong Kong.
It seems to me, as if they also do some magic to intercept requests to the currently visited page. They use a relative path url (SYS_URL) to poll for a state and to send the acknowledgement (functions checkBulletin() and sendAck()). From my understanding that would be a request to the current domain/visited page, right?

So they just intercept their 'own' magic url, but it bothers me somehow.

Can anybody confirm this? My uptime is far beyond reasonable.
> I disagree. Before the game plan was to keep everyone in windows.

Three things:

1) That describes a corporate goal, not a set of behaviors used to achieve it. There are many companies out there who also have the goal of "Keep everyone using our software.". Not many of them have utilized such destructive techniques as Microsoft has in pursuit of that goal.

2) Your second sentence would be more correctly spelt "Microsoft's game plan is to keep everyone using Microsoft software, wherever possible.". When you spell it that way, it becomes clear that the big picture actually hasn't changed. Windows was (and remains) a big part of that game plan, but for the past decade or two, it would be hard for an honest observer to make the claim that Microsoft was only interested in keeping folks on Windows.

3) Many of us have seen Microsoft play nice with the wider community. They never play nice for very long. The more cynical old-timers would say that this "play nice" phase is -itself- a part of the EEE strategy.
The Smithsonian is using 3‑D printing to copy artifacts
MyBlockchain is your private blockchain without the blocks or the chains
Presumably they would sell other things in that case.

Once you are a store you can sell basically anything. Right now they focus on certain things, no reason they can't switch to something else that's in demand.
I have a really hard time taking this project serious. Plenty of people in my surroundings have diabetes so I can see the impact would be huge. If you asked for a few million then I would find it a lot more believable than the amounts that are requested in the crowdfunding campaigns.

If someone asked for $25000 to build the next electric car I'd not believe them either, there is more to making the next electric car in terms of process and design than being able to buy a battery and some motors.
So is this a program that makes it easier for people to change jobs after coming to the US on an H1B? Doesn't sounds like they're gaming anything, but it does sound like something that's sorely needed.

As and aside, with all the offtopic comments going one: while the H1B program is definitely flawed I think it's amazing that no one stops to consider the ethics of draining the 3rd world of its talent.

If there are all these amazing talented programmers in India or wherever, then maybe YC should open an office there
Hoverboards now illegal in NYC
Time vampires often feel that they have the best of intentions, and are often unaware of what they are.

Having said that, even the best of us finds that he has accidentally turned into a time vampire on rare occasion.
The only way to deal with any form of mass shooting is to have systems in public places that can automatically detect and disable the shooter within milliseconds of their first shot. Anything else - encryption backdoors, etc. - is absolutely pointless and will at best prevent only a small percentage of incidents. If you want to deal with the problem, do it directly.

We all know that while terrorism gives these initiatives fuel, they ultimately have little to do with terrorism and much more to do with governments wanting as much surveillance and control over their populations as possible. The odds of dying in a terrorist attack are approximately 1 in 20 million; for comparison, you are 25X more likely to die by drowning in a bathtub and 1,000X more likely to die in a car crash [1]. If terrorists are 1/25th as effective at killing people as bathtubs, how many of our civil liberties should we be willing to give up to stop them?

There are currently at least 3,278 prisoners in the US serving life without parole for non-violent offenses [2]. Perhaps we should stop terrorizing our own citizens before we worry about foreign terrorists that can't even keep up with bathtubs.

[1] https://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrori...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/111813-lwop-complete-repor...
Can you explain if this is any better than redshift, for people who are perfectly okay with redshift’s footprint and dependencies?

When I looked at sct itself, all I could see is the same color values that redshift uses (minus a couple of steps, so the transition is less smooth).
I guess it is a right for every client to know if the Therapist they rely to can be truly trusted, so I must say good thing they too undergone a process of evaluation.
If knowledge was power then by the argument advanced above, they would be able to stop terrorist attacks. Why don't they? Surely the obvious effective program being claimed to not exist would be an excellent argument to expand surveillance operations.
Estimate of the year, based on the month.

So they billed for $1B / 12 for the month, though that includes the driver's cut, so it's more like $16 million which is obviously very nice to have.
A lot of ISPs are anything but, including business or datacenter connections.

I had to deal with one of them using transparent DNS proxies without disclosing the fact. Only found out when something broken on their end. The only way to have functional DNS is to tunnel it over another protocol because their equipment will intercept DNS queries to any server and reply with a bogus IP.
My point was more that food or other useful commodities might be a more useful form of currency than gold in the complete-societal-breakdown scenario.
Doesn't cgo allow for using sct.c (possibly slightly tweaked e.g. removed/renamed main and added header) more or less directly rather than have to reimplement it?
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-11-power-wi-fi-year-game-changing-..., which points to this.
Interactive and composable charts with Haskell
There are already multiple lab spaces online with many active members participating in this project.

As far as FDA trials go, it is something currently outside the scope of this campaign. This is from the crowdfunding page:

"

$6,000 is needed to initiate Phase I of the project. In Phase I, the team will insert an optimized DNA sequence for insulin into E. coli bacteria, induce the bacteria to express insulin precursors, and verify that human proinsulin has been produced.

If we raise more than the minimum required for Phase I, we will proceed to establish the protocols for cutting and folding the proinsulin into its final, active insulin form, and develop purification methods sufficient for research and potential pharmaceutical use.

All protocols we develop and discoveries generated by our research will be freely available in the public domain. We will also be proactively investigating strategies to protect the open status of our work.

"
Sure, that is an option that's always available. You don't have to worry if Python's string methods are wrong if you're opting not to use them.
I have been using NoScript (a browser extension to black list all JS by default) for quite a while now, and I don't see myself turning back anytime soon.

Everything feels much faster, and sober without Javascript, especially news site (looking at you, lemonde.fr)

I still allow some JavaScript sometimes, most of the time to unbreak site, but if you start you using it you will realise that most of the JS running on each site is at best useless from a user point of view.
> Why do you feel this way?

For the same reason why I feel whiteboarding and having someone breathing down your neck are generally not reasonable conditions to place on a candidate (and you seem to agree with me for these two points, so I'll only expand on the point about internet access): It doesn't make sense to place artificial limits on candidates' abilities to perform their work, when that's exactly what you're trying to gauge in a technical interview.

RE: internet access.

As with natural language, developers tend to have an active vocabulary (concepts and APIs that they come across often and can recall on demand), a passive vocabulary (concepts and APIs that they may be aware of and recognize, but cannot apply immediately or without reference), and a set of completely unknown vocabulary.

Yes, developers should strive to build and maintain our active vocabulary to the greatest extent possible (i.e. memorize all the things) since it would make us more productive. However, human active memory is severely limited compared to the vast amount of knowledge developers often need to perform their work, and as such the vast majority of most developers' knowledge tends to reside in their passive vocabulary.

To force candidates to develop without internet access means limiting them to their active vocabulary, when this is only a tiny subset of their total vocabulary. This means you won't get an accurate picture of their ability to perform their work, which is exactly what we're trying to gauge in a technical interview.
It's a spectrum. Some, like this 6 year old (http://theadvocate.com/news/13907799-176/few-details-emergin...) leave the officer in greater culpability than this active shootout with police (http://www.pe.com/articles/riverside-784400-officers-stop.ht...) where the driver sped away and died in a car crash against a barrier.

If you scroll through and read the stories, most of them seem to be either terrible car crashes or violent criminals.

Presuming that officers work 2080 hours a year and there are 765,000 with arresting power, you are 1755 times more likely to interface with a not-a-cop than a cop on the job. Therefore, you are 160 times more likely to be killed X minutes with a police officer than X minutes with some stranger. 15 seconds with 1 cop is as dangerous as 15 seconds with 160 random people.

My friends in south LA from different backgrounds have a mantra to never call the cops under any condition. The idea is that however bad a situation can get, introduction of the police will incontrovertibly make it a de facto worse situation. Whether true or not, this seems to be a gut intuition to many (search google for "never call the police" to see people express this view).

The crux of the question is two-fold:

1. Does bringing police into any situation generally lead to worse consequences than avoiding them?

2. If we believe that violence is always an inferior solution that lacks efficacy, then why should we invite state-sanctioned violence into our lives voluntarily? Stated another way, why is the government provided service to someone with psychological distress two people with firearms locking them in a cage? Shouldn't we provide a more appropriate government service for this?
If you read the original post[0] sct is not intended to be better than redshift (and probably isn't since as you note the whitepoints are a lifted & pared down version of redshift's), just to be a simpler bridge to the same underlying mechanism.

If you're fine with redshift, sct has no value, and thus neither does go-sct (since it's a port of sct) except maybe as a tool to understand how redshift ultimately does what it does.

[0] http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperatur...
I read one of your posts, the one on security challenges facing IoT devices. It just didn't seem to have been informed by a difficult technical challenge for which you had created a novel solution. Just a small amount of advice that, truthfully, I think would have been obvious to anyone working in this space.

I'm inclined to believe that blogging with the intention of attracting attention is more likely to embarrass than earn you professional credibility. If you happen to have some truly original thought, or you've discovered something interesting that someone might benefit from learning, or even if you've just organized a collection of useful technical information that had previously been scattered across multiple sites, then write a blog post. Otherwise it's just one of a billion other walls of text written to directly or indirectly make money, which nobody whose attention is valuable has time for.
To be honest, a lot of demo ware is used rarely just to test functionality, then left to rot in the old file system, sometimes uninstalled entirely and never thought of again.

It would make sense if it was 30 uses, instead of 30 days, but with the same token, the frequency of use is often the telling sign of whether the software is worth purchasing or not.
I agree that University is worth going to. But not for any of the reasons you mention.

I've had a very successful career in this industry not being able to do any of the things you ask in your first paragraph. Sure, I've taught Normalization to new devs (without needing to recite the actual forms), but I find that Google is pretty good at memorizing algorithms, and it did in fact have A* ready to go every time I've done pathfinding. It probably still will when this kid needs it.

University, in my mind, is for two things: It gets your brain shifted into "Engineer Mode" (or painfully informs you that you are not capable of thinking that way), and it teaches you how to be an adult.

The actual algorithms and interview trick questions that a CS degree give you aren't very useful at all in the real world, and I'd actually go as far as to recommend getting your degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering instead, so you can focus more on mindset and preparedness. You'll find it easier later to forget the trivia about Brunell Hardness and Eigenvectors when they're far removed from your actual field. And you won't be that annoying guy in every meeting talking about Big O notation instead of actually solving the issue at hand.

But yeah, go to school if you have the chance. The big offers will still be there in four years. You'll have many of the experiences that you'll spend the next 50 years reminiscing about. And you'll come away with a whole pile of other benefits that you never expected. (And some trivia to get you through your first job interview that you can then safely forget forever).
This is got me cry a river
Exploring Symmetry in Mathematics and Art
That still seems incredibly cheap to me. On another note, I'd be happy to back your campaign (I'd see it as contributing to your education rather than that I would expect you to succeed but that's just my totally un-informed opinion), but the requirement for becoming a backer are apparently that one signs up or uses facebook and that's a bridge I will not cross for any good cause. Is there some other way I can contribute?
And the irony is that Switzerland isn't actually in the EU. However, they act like they are.
It's also how we prevent forest fires...
One of the reports on the Osama Bin Laden raid stated that he had a porn stash, I wondered at the time if this was for use as a starting point for steganographic communications.
It looks to me like that's what they're doing.
The banking crisis (as big as it was) did not result in people losing access to their normal checking and savings accounts. So at that time people still just traded gold like any other commodity (i.e. with cash).
I live in a country that has bomb detectors in every doorway. It's not that bad - at the very least, everybody preferrs a bomb detector to another suicide bombing.

I think that when terror is something that can happen constantly for months at a time, people learn to keep living their lives without fear, but also to take measurable actions that really prevent the next attack.
Hiding this is counterproductive; trivial as it may be, and this goes for everyone, please don't publish such an extension. People need to see this and get pissed off, complain to comcast, understand why https is needed.
The Programmer's Oath by Uncle Bob
Yes, Byrne is a libertarian.
Sure, "a lot" as an absolute number because, hey, Internet. But I bet, relatively, the number of sites doing that is tiny. I've seen it myself, but it's terrible practise, and I'm sure it's easy to avoid those sites or, if you must, whitelist them. Teach the site owners something, vote with your HTTP requests!
We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)
It's so weird because we just went through a global banking crisis, the largest in history -- and cash had no problem whatsoever. There just isn't a realistic scenario in which USD has 0 value and Gold is useful.
What about the ioccc (International Obfuscated C Code Contest)?

http://www.ioccc.org/
I think you could also insert a script in the document head that adds an event listener for beforescriptexecute that checks for and cancels execution of the comcast script. A website could do this themselves even.

Better yet, block the script if detected, then fire the acknowledgement.
guys, please tweet or share this news to your friends.
Disabling JavaScript makes the headline font on Wired.com much, much more legible. I'm completely serious.
Why is so important for you the wordcount feature? I don't get it.
Those "company" should try Shanghai's car plate lottery system as well :P
In the event of the apocalypse I think cheap cookware will be more valuable than gold. Consider all the things you can do with a pot post-apocalypse:

* Cook in it, clearly

* Use it as a shovel

* Sit on it

* Drink out of it, or eat out of it

* Use it as a toilet (might want two pots)

* Use it to collect fruits and berries you gather

* Use it to collect rainwater

* Conk people/animals/zombies over the head with it

* Sharpen the lip by rubbing it against some rocks and use it as a knife

* Use it as a helmet during the radioactive hailstorms

That's just what I've come up with in a few minutes of thinking. Other than conking you can't do any of the above with a gold brick.
doesn't all music sampling rely on the fact that creating derived works without permission is completely legal?
In India it is similar.

Also they (Indians) say "if you see a dead body don't call the police, you will end up in prison for murder"
Better not go blowing up paper bags then. False positives would be a bit messy and would likely kill more people than any terrorists ever would. It would have to automatically and reliably detect and disable the shooter, and they'd still be able to fire that first shot. It also does not protect against bombs.
Gender pay gap 'may take 118 years to close' – World Economic Forum
I have stopped using a number(Don't actually keep a total count, maybe I should begin doing it) of sites, simply because of the fact they do it
Hah, this is interesting. MacHeist just added PopChar X to their bundle¹, so I tried it out, and I was surprised to find it actually shows the keyboard shortcut for your selected character (if any exists) based on your current keyboard layout². That’s pretty convenient.

――――――

¹ — https://macheist.com/bundle

² — http://f.cl.ly/items/0p330J1Y3K2v0N1t2M2p/popchar_shortcut.p...
There are many others, of which Wing IDE[1] and Komodo[2] are probably the most well known. There's also a page[3] on the Python wiki listing a bunch more.

[1]: https://wingware.com/

[2]: http://komodoide.com/

[3]: https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironmen...
That's why I didn't believe parts of the article. Yes the web loads faster, nothing can load faster than a blank page from blogger.com.

I now browse the web with curl | less
Paper bags don't emit projectiles traveling at 1,700 mph. Bullets fired from a gun have a very specific profile including speed, size, and shape that are shared by literally nothing else. There are multiple ways to track the speed, size, and shape of objects traveling within any public space. With this kind of detection, even attackers using silenced weapons could be targeted and neutralized within milliseconds of their very first shot.
Try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/, that will make it even more interesting and show you that _everyone_ is including jquery from Google.
I usually default it to only enable scripts on the same domain.
> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview

try http://typora.io ?
I doubt if there is some alternate for the wonder full things that we can do with JS. But Its true that at sometimes things are missused and in case of JS its a top business now a days
*signed 32-bit integer
js;dr

http://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-dead
Boxer turned fish salesman on selling $15M per year
Have a look at banggood they have a huge selection shipped from China.
The people who say US is the best haven't seen the world. Europe and Canada has a fair share of brilliant SEs. The people I've worked with in Europe are not an ounce less talented than the US SEs and I feel much more productive here. Pay is lower, but honestly. I will take my social healthcare, 28 leave/year, unemployment insurance, kick-ass public transport, and well traveled multi-kulti friends over $200K in SFO living in a bubble.

If you're looking for options out of USA, I would seriously recommend Canada. It has a culture similar to the US, but better visa regime and healthcare.
Buying a large enough quantity of ingredients to save money is going to cost a lot initially. Need to consider that.
Sourceforge. What else is in that cute package?
Backend? IANAL, but using a frontend JS library under the GPL doesn't have implications for your backend per-se; they can be entirely separate works.

You could argue about their frontend, though.
Not to agree with killing someone but a bike is more than metal and rubber. Sometimes it is your method of transport to and from work or other more important things.
U.S. doctor group calls for ban on drug advertising to consumers
Did Facebook Just Build a Kickstarter Competitor?
The company being Simple?
To use a sample you have to get a license from the original artist:

>Today, most mainstream acts obtain prior authorization to use samples, a process known as "clearing" (gaining permission to use the sample and, usually, paying an up-front fee and/or a cut of the royalties to the original artist). Independent bands, lacking the funds and legal assistance to clear samples, are at a disadvantage - unless they seek the services of a professional sample replay company or producer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_surrounding_music...
Well, most people have email and the ISP can just require that they have a working email address on file.

That's how ISPs in Germany do it and it works fine. Or if it's urgent, they'll just call you.

No need to invent a new form of communication or do evil things with Squid.
It is indeed a low number as far as science research goes.

It's pretty staggering how inexpensive experimenting with DNA can be. Recent advances in DNA synthesis are outpacing Moore's Law. Creating genetic constructs for insulin is also cheaper because insulin itself is a relatively simple protein.

And fortunately there are also a ton of extremely qualified people on the team who seem to love working for free.

EDIT: you shouldnt need to use facebook. you can sign up for experiment .com with just an email addy.
There are a lot of cases where turning off JS is impractical, and I don't do it myself.

But, to me, Blogger is a great example of a site that is poisoned by its reliance on JS. Blogger is so bad at showing a page of text that it needs a splash screen.
It's actually pretty easy. Just find a job and apply for Blue Card and you're all set. Lots of startups are sponsoring visa and desperate for talent. The visa regime is pretty humane compared to USA, and please learn the local language (A2 minimum) before moving :-)