skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep saying it's a slur. Since we obviously have some kind of basic disagreement on what this word even means, I'll just elaborate why I think it was appropriate speech:

I think you'll agree that giving a charitable reading to what a person says is the best way to have a clear discussion. While that first sentence, taken by itself and without context, could possibly be interpreted as a bigoted or racist statement, in the context of the whole post I took it to mean "Islam has a reputation for violence, but this reputation exists in part because adherents of Islam in the West support violence more than the rest of the population". I don't think I am going particularly out of my way or being overly charitable in reading it this way. Moreover the grammar "X spoils the reputation of X" is not harsh language, nor is it a tautology - it can be proven wrong. Therefore, I don't think this was an inappropriate comment. How am I wrong? If you bother to answer, please be specific.

That said, I don't fully agree with the statement, actually, as I already mentioned. If you look at support for violence and religious law, etc., in places like the US and Germany, it looks like Muslims do not support that stuff any more than the general population, or they support it less. But looking at the data for France OP might have a point. But, I don't know if he meant only France, or Islam in general, or what, because he never clarified. Maybe he didn't clarify because he stopped reading, or because he doesn't care, or because he realizes he's wrong. Maybe after elaboration he would have outed himself as being a simple Islamaphobe who cherry-picks facts to justify his bigotry. We'll never know that now. But, he also may have stopped posting because you inappropriately called him out in this thread before giving what he said due consideration.

Emotions were probably running high at the time as it was shortly after the attacks and so what you did, in that case, is actually quite understandable. Even if I think you were wrong here, I don't hold this one against you at all. But as the moderator of HN I have seen you time and again shutting down discussion because you perceived something that wasn't there. You are making HN into more of a boring echo chamber and that's sad.
Hello Barbie Security Concerns
The (literal) money quote:

> Citrix shelled out $165 million in cash
> for Grasshopper, plus about $8.6 million
> in stock that would vest over time.
> Grasshopper’s cofounders still owned about 90 percent
> of the company; Taghaddos’ father, Schiavone,
> and other key employees owned the remainder.
> Compare that to the founders of tech companies
> like Box or Zendesk, who both held
> less than 10 percent of their companies
> by the time they went public.
Freely available Programming Books
This certainly catches the eye. Any reason to sell now?
Ask HN: Judge my startup idea
An online tool which allows non-UX people to create UI elements with best-practice UX.

For example, a founder looking to create a wizard. She will be able to browse examples of current best practices (B2B or B2C), choose one of them and then customize - change the fonts, colors, padding, copy, etc.

Basically what Optimizely/Lander have done for landing pages, I want to do for UI/UX components (e.g. sign up flows, call to actions, menus, support requests, etc.)
Kashmir: A statically typed Lispy language compiling to Go
From the linked article:

> The government said that H-1B workers were only "paid for time spent working at a third-party company and only if the third-party company actually first paid Dibon for the workers' services.

> "The conspirators falsely represented that the workers had full-time positions and were paid an annual salary, as required by regulation to secure the visas," said the government, in a statement announcing the conviction.

Do you know if Infosys, Tata or Deloitte treat their employees similarly? Or was it garden-variety-H-1B-hatred which prompted you to post this?
Depressive thinking existed before the Internet.
Appears to me what you really want is a full-featured IDE working in the terminal. I guess the market for that would be too small.
Project Jupyter
> A Turing tarpit (or Turing tar-pit) is any programming language or computer interface that allows for flexibility in function but is difficult to learn and use because it offers little or no support for common tasks.

Which common task could you not perform with Lisp?And if you are stressing on the `Little or no support`,then thats true any of the lesser popular languages isn't it?
A mind is a fabulously diverse collection of parts, and each one of everyone's parts is shaped a little differently from everyone else's. It might be a little simplistic to assume that one strategy will work for anyone, sight unseen.

In my oughts and teens, I trained classical piano. Some days toward the end I was practicing for 4-6 hours during and after school, and I interviewed at the Boston conservatory. They told me they most likely would not accept me, but that's not really why I stopped. I knew I had to stop because despite over 15 years of serious intensive practice, I could still not make it through a 3 minute piece without my mind wandering off on some tangent of curiosity. At best my playing was distracted and unconvincing, and at worst (usual) I would screw up in the middle when my conscious attention came back to the present.

The only way I can stay task focused for longer than a few minutes at a time is by putting on headphones with a driving beat (EDM or similar) and stimulants. Caffeine is usually enough to get me through the workday. I'm a programmer now.

I made it through grade school and undergrad with respectable grades thanks to aptitude and quick learning, but I probably have an attention disorder that went undetected because of it.

>thinking and willing

One doesn't simply think away the structural defects in one's mind, any more than neurotypicals could transform themselves into genius IQs through force of will. A mind is shaped over time by internal and external influences, but plasticity drops off rapidly after the developmental years. Don't know your history of study, but why not browse through some videos of congenitally or traumatically brain-damaged individuals on youtube for some insight?
Hi Mike!

I use some of those methods. I am an open source conference goer, casual MOOC and YouTube how-to addict. My big one though is side projects and contract work. Short contracts are a great opportunity for implementing something fairly new to me, though not for the first time learning something and playing with it. More like a second step in the learning process.
I just googled it, I don't know a lot about Jupyter, but yes:

http://blog.dominodatalab.com/lesser-known-ways-of-using-not...

http://ipython.readthedocs.org/en/stable/interactive/magics....
That is all fine and dandy if the presenter didn't lie to the audience:

"Before C there was assembly language...."

Is clearly a misinformation given to the audience.

Just because it wasn't a scientific paper doesn't make it less wrong.

The presenter has clearly driven all in the audience that don't know better, that C was the first high level systems information programming language.

Had he said that C was the systems programming language that won the hearts of the systems programmers we wouldn't be discussing this.

This misinformation has been happening since the mid-90.
there is no european startup scene* - if you are mark zuckerberg and building something that you intend to scale to every single person on earth, every single person you meet will look at you like you have two heads or something.

europeans write essays like tihs - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3972-reconsider

that is literally a european essay urging you to reconsider.

* obviously they use the word, they just mean something different by it. i'm cmparing it with s.v.
Did memento mori comprehend death in the modern way, or did it assume an afterlife that completely changes the meaning of death?
He is probably getting money together for that motor home he has been wanting to buy.

Seriously, he probably wants liquid cash to do what I guess he most enjoys: investing in new companies.

Sorry if this is really off topic, but I think that it is most interesting to understand what people really enjoy in life. I like to ask people what their hobbies are before asking them what they do for a living.

Marc Andreesen strikes me as the kind of guy who likes to be in the game, startup wise.
My favorite Turing tarpit is FRACTRAN, devised by John Conway. It's flabbergasting that it is actually Turing complete, but it is.

A FRACTRAN program is a list of fractions, rational numbers. You input an integer and then you find the first fraction that gives you an integer when multiplied by your input. That process is repeated with the new, multiplied number until there is no fraction that produces an integer when multiplied.

Conway wrote a program that generates primes, there's others that mathematical sequences, but my favorite is just the addition program:

3/2

Given an input 2^x * 3^y, it will stop at 3^(x+y), which adds x and y together.
There is 6000 europeans terrorists in Syria; 1000-2000 french, letting them settle there give them fantastical capabilities to recruit more, and project more power on european countries with trained terrorists.
They fight for ISIS, a terrorist group, anyway French are not allowed to fight for foreign entities.
He's tolerating your argument right this moment. He's not agreeing with you, but he's not asking you to be fired or kicked out of this forum either.
Yes, most easily through so-called "cell magics".
"Suckless inspired my naming of sxi: https://github.com/serprex/sxi & dwm served as the base from which I learnt to create nobox: https://github.com/serprex/nobox"

Any screenshots of nobox that I could see ?
Read my mind !
Looks like the Nanda brothers had a fall out in 2012[1] and this might have come out as part of that spat.

[1]: http://600commerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dibon-Solu...
You are comparing independent consultants/contractors to slaves, seriously?
A Common Political Problem That Economists Can’t Explain
I usually use cython for optimizing python, which is a lot easier than working directly with the CPython C API. You do need to know C to get the most out of it, but you can go a long way just adding type declarations to python to speed it up.
There is a start for Julia bindings, but not currently maintained.

https://github.com/JuliaComputing/ArrayFire.jl
> The Philippines was a large American holding in the South Pacific

"holding"... looks to me like the whole history of the Philippines as a US colony has been written out of history.
Gödel Numbering
The only permission you need to ask for for beacon scanning on Android 6 is "coarse location". Fairly reasonable I think.
Then they're not very good learners. Learning to see both sides of an argument is part of what education is about.

The debate team doesn't get to choose which side they argue. It's assigned randomly. More people should do that because it actually increases empathy.
Congratulations!

By the way, where can I find perf.h in the benchmark suite? perf.c is there but perf.h seems to be missing.
The problem I have with these kinds of comparisons is that they seem to compare with Silicon Valley and not European countries that overachive in terms of startup like, say, Sweden which isn't very close to SV culturally.
In case you ever want to try one again; dwm most definitely supports resizing windows independently and floating them. See http://dwm.suckless.org/dynamic_window_management.
Por moi, his Tweetstorms, and his Twitter feed, might be the most educationally beneficial thing I've experienced in my adult life (in addition to Nassim Taleb's Twitter). If you're reading this pmarca: thank you.

Hope he invests in Twitter to keep it alive.
The section of interest here about "Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison" starts around 33 minutes in.
In theory that would work but in practice I've found that they still don't quite work correctly.

Some need to compile the program to work. (So they can't work if the code has compile time errors) Some still don't retrieve all the correct candidates for autocompletion.

Also, it's been awhile since I've tried a clang based plugin but I can't recall any of them controlling the syntax highlighting (eg. Show false #ifdef sections similar to comments) or providing a call tree or jump to caller feature.
Paris terrorists suspected of using PlayStation 4 to communicate
Yeah the Nordic chips are really great. I've created a device that is both an iBeacon and a normal BLE device, and another that is as many iBeacons as you want in one.

I did try spamming hundreds of random iBeacons to see if it would crash any phones (apparently that used to crash old Android phones) but it didn't really do anything.
This is something that should be possible eventually. All the Fortran dependencies make it difficult, but as you probably already know, Base will see some trimming and some of these dependencies will become packages (perhaps default, but at least not Base).
I think this article is missing a description of the phenomenon "accidentially turing-complete". Configurations langues or DSLs that over the time evolved and somehow got turing complete. I suspect these are the most common turing tarpits. And it's a horrible smell.
Well, I might be indeed wrong.
react-native-sqlite-storage now support both iOS and Android
react-native-sqlite-storage now supports both Android and iOS via either JS callbacks or Promise interface.

https://github.com/andpor/react-native-sqlite-storage
But buildings and bridges do oscillate. Architects just try to keep it below the level of human perception because they know people would freak out. The fact that we do not often see them oscillate has more to do with design and psychology than physics.
Yes, that is certainly part of the plan. We will be releasing details in a few weeks.
No, you're missing the point. If my understanding is still current (I suspect it is) these ETFs "decay" over time.

Which means you can be "right" but if what you're right about doesn't happen fast enough, you still lose money.

That's why people suggest shorting the ETF that is opposite your prediction.
Saladin's taqiyya
Reminiscent of the Indian contribution.
Selection by Consequences (1981) [pdf]
Also the fact that "Ok google, wikipedia foo" is far far easier than using (and possibly installing) a QR reader app.

Maybe if camera apps also functioned as QR readers automatically they might have gained some traction. But Google never enabled that functionality for some reason.
I highly doubt we can downsize the brain that much without serious drawbacks.
Let's stop speaking in abstractions. Look at the Silliman situation. Erika Christakis was persecuted not for anything she said, but for merely suggesting that the best way for students to deal with insensitive actions is to confront them directly instead of expecting the administration to do it for them.

If only more people behaved is way in the workplace.
If You Are Going to Hire a Stretch VP – Do It Early. – SaaStr
I guess it would be more accurate to say, when I was trying to learn Verilog, people I knew tried to convince me to abandon Verilog in favor of Haskell flavors. This gave me the (perhaps false) impression that this was common practice.
Thanks for the correction. I try not to assume neurotypicality and I should be more clear that everything I say is just a suggestion that may or not be helpful.

I agree that you can't think away structural stuff. What I wanted to say is that you can use clear thoughts and intentions to guide you to do things that deviate from your habits, which I think is mostly true.

For example, working around your attention problems by consciously using music and caffeine is something you could remind yourself of consciously in case you would forget. That type of thing.

I know that willpower is a tricky thing. That's why I emphasize thinking about something that you already enjoy and that takes you to a different mind state from the one that is causing problems. For me, that's cooking, but also riding bikes and walking. If I consciously decide to do slightly more of those things, that seems to be an effective and not-too-painful way of "improving" my average mind state.
Presidential candidate says he won't ban encryption if elected
FanDuel and DraftKings Fight Back, File Lawsuits Against NY Attorney General
For general computing the question is how to deploy a Julia-based app. For server-side stuff, I suppose it's no worse than Python, but not as easy as Go where you create a standalone executable. For client side, I think it will be quite hard to target browsers or phones since Julia has an unusual kind of just-in-time compilation.

This could be overcome but it's not really Julia's niche which is interactive use of notebooks by scientists or other people who are comfortable writing code.
Agreed. I don't know much about those times though and I can only really speak to what I'm familiar with.
I think you're confusing west Chelsea with the lower west side. We have plenty of trains down here :)
It's not even free beer. If I go to an event and get a free beer, I'm not forbidden from giving my free beer to anyone else. It is ridiculous that we are forbidden from sharing a video that was created 50 years ago just because Disney wants to make sure Mickey Mouse never falls out of copyright.
Sweet.

Windows client please :)
I would like to point out that the Julia and Python communities have a pretty good relationship. We have given talks at several Python conferences, and there is great interoperability as well.
>> Even in America there are restrictions about what federal employees may say to the media.

> Not outside of the military except in the case of classified documents or the identities of covert agents

I'm pretty sure that's wrong. I clearly remember the Bush administration restricting government scientists (and other employees) from talking to the media, requiring all communications to be approved by political appointees in their departments.

The scientists do have freedom of speech like other Americans, if that's what you mean, but that freedom doesn't protect your job; you can be fired for what you say, just not imprisoned or forced not to say it. It also doesn't protect you if you disclose your employers secrets that are protected by NDAs and similar agreements. For example (and speaking very generally), if a former Apple employee revealed details of some secret Apple tech protected by NDA, I'm almost certain the employee could be sued for damages.
Dessert sand? Is that a new luxury after-dinner dish?
Is this a Gmail account or a custom domain? One idea, although it may be a long shot. If it is a custom domain on Google, you may be able to convert the account to a business account. If it is a regular gmail account, you may be able to signup for a google business account with a custom domain (you can do a 30-day free trial, although you may have to pay $5, or at least put a credit card on file, to gain access to the free support).

Either way, with a business account you will then have access to live Google phone support for free (which is actually pretty good from my experience). Call them and tell them you want to move your mail from your old gmail account to your new business account, and use their support to see if they can help you gain access. Again, not sure if it will work or not, but at least it would give you a direct line to their support teams at little to no cost. Then once you have shut everything down, or have completed everything you what you want to do, just close the business account.
Dessert Sand

And sprinkle on Baked Alaska for a delightful extra crunch!
I recommend Jed's editor for a very friendly editor as well.
I'm a console-menu guy and like the EDIT.COM feel :)

Plus it's got some Emacs (s-lang) to it although I never use it.

Also, you can't argue with 8bit clean.

It's in the repos.

Homepage: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/features.html

On a sidenote. I am addicted to Jedsoft's console pager "most". Also in the repos. With colour, search and really the whole nine yards. It's the most. So much more than more and even more than less!. Pipe to
|most
and see for yourself!
We get some bad experience with estimote too. They are not mean to sell. For large scale deployment we end up using em micro [1] ones, cheaper, better, stronger and ability to reprogram the beacon OS.

[1] https://www.emdeveloper.com/downloads/embeacon/CoinStandardA...
Books and video games have really helped me not to think when that's needed.

"Worrying about misfortunes that will never happen" is also called "risk analysis" in securityspeak. Sure, a neurotic mind can find you those bizarre edge cases but it can also become a burden when you're needed to reset and tackle a new problem.
Pouring more fuel on a fire never put it out.
18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1
Can the Left and the Right get beyond ideological economics?
Not really. It's chromeless, doesn't render anything. So you boot into a black screen & Alt+Q opens st in the upper left corner (this could change by modifying nobox's st invocation with geometry options)

I have st invoked in my xinitrc so that st is open as soon as I start nobox. I don't use a file manager so everything I do happens through st besides opening firefox with Alt+A or showing time with Alt+C (I use to have more shortcuts but over time have reduced my usage. I use to have Alt+S to open SciTE but have since transitioned to vim)

Anyways since you asked here's a screenshot I took just now after having opened GIMP: http://imgur.com/pjSe3pN

Since nobox isn't a tiling window manager it doesn't have any issues running GIMP in multi-window mode, besides my preference for unique mode: http://imgur.com/Qf2PvhO
Show HN: A simple webapp in golang to manage tasks
The title of this article is an understatement. I'm a startup founder in Europe and we've been treading water for a year. How is a company supposed to get off the ground if nobody has a hand that is able to be reached out to any of us.

The government made it easier for startups to get loans from the bank. But they did it the same disastrous way as the housing market crash started. You can get a loan, the government takes a lot of the risk away from the bank. But you still have to pay it all back. All that means is that people are getting loans who shouldn't.

There isn't even a path through immigration. You're much more likely to be able to stay in Europe if you get a job. Otherwise they just won't let you in.

There aren't any investors here. When we look for investors, we have paid for tickets into large conferences and met leaders, owners, of Venture Capital organisations. There is a point where commonly they tell you after jumping through their hoops they do not have money. They say, we can give you 20k€ for x amount of equity where x is a two digit number. Everywhere you turn there are vultures, preying on startups. I get grilled by people promising to hook me up with investors all the time. People wearing business suits and trolling tech meetups only 5k€ for their help! They know people. Paid upfront.

Taxes are higher if you own your own company than if you simply have a job somewhere. Every single thing works against you. If a year ago we were able to hit the market we had 0 competitors, now we have 2.
> Funding gaps remain larger in Europe than in the US.

Well, of course. Engineers in the US take home five-figure sums each month, which explains why there are so many startups largely funded by ex-Google/Apple/MS/FB employees.

In Germany, wages are so low, and taxes and rent so high, that you have to be either fucking good or fucking rich via inheritance to save enough money for your own startup.

Not to mention that failure is expected and financed in the US startup culture, whereas in Europe you can't even get a small loan without putting your car/house/... as collateral, and you will get shunned for failure. Therefore, many capable people (have to) choose not to enter the start-up world.