skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article. Moreso for me as this is perhaps the one topic around here i have some first hand experience with.

That feeling is really really odd though. There's a moment when you go "wait, that's an apparently fully functioning consciousness that is capable of responding to my every thought, my brain/reality can DO THAT?". For me it took a long time to play off the many different possible solutions to that puzzle, and at the end of the day i settled for a mix of "currently unknown exactly how that is done" (sort of like consciousness itself, i guess) to "wow, reality sure does have some extra layers of "fun" i hadn't really been informed about.

If the voice(es) in any way confined themselves to the spectrum of being/knowledge that i as an individual acknowledged that i was in posession of, that would be one thing, but the world becomes a weird place when they go outside your acknowledged "knowns".

Now, i was lucky enough to have a very supportive and patient family that viewed it as something that could be managed outside of the realm of antipsychotic therapy. I'm not saying that handling it with prescribed drugs is necessarily a bad idea, if it works for you then i hope it continues to do so.

Sorry for the rant, but i was just reminded of how weird all of that stuff was to go through. Its been a while since i thought about it.
That's true, but the Iraqi government isn't trying to stop their citizens from fleeing to other countries and IS has done just that by using good old FUD to taint the refugees by association.

IS is more like North-Korea or the former USSR in this particular respect.
I never liked the side navigation, we stayed with top one in RhodeCode from beginning and imho it works much better, and i say no for putting icons on everything.
I have ridden in some old (1950s) American passenger railroad cars. If I stretched my legs out full length, I could just barely touch the back of the seat in front of me. (I'm 5'8".) At that point, the person in front could recline their seat to their heart's content without causing any issues.

Oh, yes, there was an adjustable leg rest, too.

I'd love to be able to travel like that today (but of course I probably wouldn't be able to afford it...)
I think this is the most apropos objection: 18F is trying to trial a reliable source of contracting for small-scale IT work.

If it turns out that volunteerism is reliable, then awesome! 18F just discovered that by spending time to nail down detailed reqs the govt can let patriotic citizens contribute to their society by helping on projects! Everyone wins and things are awesome!

If on the other hand your intuition is that volunteerism is unreliable, then this just short-circuited an early experiment by 18F to figure out a reliable piecework system for doing IT development.

My intuition matches the second case, but there's an existence proof that the first might actually be correct. It'd be a totally awesome story if it was, so I have a hard time being sad. And even if it isn't, it may give 18F folks a think, as in "hmm, perhaps some of these projects are appropriate for volunteerism; is there a context where we can develop tools for that use case? universities? job training?"
Having a song stuck in your head is like having a working player stuck on repeat-1.

Sometimes "one or more songs" manifests not as one song at a time, but instead like a cacophony of players all stuck on repeat-1.
How could you even tell the user that. The average user doesn't know what curl is so all they'd see is:

"!!!! Your computer is infected with MALWARE download this software now! !!!!"
As a practical matter, how do you make officers forget who they have arrested?

Which of course is not an argument in favor of permanent electronic records, but I wonder if the principle can really be applied like you are saying.
Why would you care about selecting the branch in compile time? We're talking about language features semantically equivalent to pattern matching, and, turns out, there are none. As for the importance of the exhaustion check, see the billion-dollar mistake.

Your solution with type and value checks in an if ladder was called "dynamic typing" exactly for this reason - you select paths dynamically in the runtime without any static checks on soundness of this selection.
Ding ding! Winner winner, chicken dinner!

As I said earlier:
"I do not think you measured what you think you measured."
> So, they either need to wait for a truly catastrophic attack

This one could have been a lot worse. What are they waiting for then, a nuke in a football stadium?
Not sure if it has support for shaders but fog of war seems like an easy thing to parallelise with textures and whatnot
> I believe there are other good alternatives, why still use Fortran for new code?

Just because they're good alternatives doesn't mean they merit rewriting software that cost millions upon millions to write the first time.

Plus when you're talking about code that runs on 5000 machines, even just a 5% difference is meaningful.
> If the governors can find a way to refuse health insurance to millions of their residents to spite the feds, they can certainly "refuse" refugees by some method, if only holding it up in courts for a year or two.

Well, holding it up in courts has them losing until a decision is made, since they don't have actual physical control of immigration (this is sort of the opposite of the case with Medicaid expansion, where they had to actively do something to achieve it, and so, even if the cases challenging it hadn't been decided before the mandate went into effect, they could have effectively stalled it until the a decision.)
I bought one of these for my little kid to play with. Does anyone know of a way to make it so he can't dial 911 or disable the call capability?
Ask HN: Why is contact management so bad on Android Lollipop?
Ever since they removed Groups on Android's contacts with Lollipop, I just find the experience of managing contacts miserable. Even Blackberries have this. Who in their right mind decided this was a good idea? Not even Gmail's web view for contacts is optimized for mobile!
In Texas, familes will often hold their children back so that they are physically larger and more coordinated so that they can excel in football. Not being from Texas, I had never heard of this but apparently its common.
Ah here's a solution: make a cURL request for all your history data.

Simple way to get a well formatted request:

* Go to the history tab (http://www.rdio.com/people/username/history/) and pull up the inspector

* Scroll down once or twice and go to the network tab

* Find the `getHistoryForUser` request and right-click it, select "copy as cURL"

* Paste into your editor and change the "start" param to 0 and the "count" param to 99999

* Make the cURL request. Boom, no rate limiting. I got 3.5mb of history (though it seems to only go back 1 year.
Batman was pretty bad, but you can't use any game from Bethesda to further your argument. It's pretty well known that if you don't want a super buggy Bethesda experience, wait for the game of the year edition.
I agree in part. It seems like in practice it looks like insurance companies have little interest or capability to reduce healthcare costs. However, I don't understand your reasoning as to why. The high cost of drugs puts the health insurance companies in competition with drug companies for actually ending up with money in hand flowing through healthcare.
Ask HN: How do you fire a “B Player?”
I've been struggling with this all week.

Long story short, we have someone on the team who is just OK. Not terrible, there's nothing specific I can point to that I can say, "This is awful," but the work they produce is just mediocre.

To be clear: They're a designer, and they're always asking me for specific critiques, which I try to give, but that can't be my job. It's pretty clear that it's just not good enough.

I know other designers we could hire who (I'm pretty sure) we could pay a lot less, would do a better job, and would need less hand-holding.

I've had to fire people before when it was not a good fir or they were obviously not skilled or talented enough, but this one is just... meh. It's not like he's a complete degenerate, but I think we need someone fantastic to get where we need to go.

This is someone I've known for a long time and I consider a friend, but I can't let the rest of the team/company suffer because I really like this guy personally.

How do you have that conversation?
Not all surveillance is bad but dragnet style surveillance of each and every person (abroad, because of course nobody would ever spy on American citizens) is apparently in-effective. Targeted surveillance could be an extremely effective tool against terrorism. As would be the more old-fashioned style operations (but with much more personal risk for those involved).
No More Silos
CIA Director calls for more digital surveillance in wake of Paris attacks
Amazon poster-child Netflix goes multi-cloud with Google, Microsoft too
> It seems that industry-wide, PC revenue is on par with or surpassing consoles, though.

Revenue is not profitability, and there are much higher costs shipping a PC game.
What an incredible app. Just bought it!
> Perhaps I feel so strongly about this because there is literally not one case where DNA information alone has resulted in harm

Wrong:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-dark-...
I found his blog http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/ not long before he stopped adding to it, and I found it compelling enough to check back regularly to see if the blogging itch came back to him. Everything sucks just a little bit more today - RIP.
> The other fun part is that, back in 2010, I also had to reintroduce a bug from the original Pac-Man code… but that’s a whole different article.

Any idea what the bug was?
Assuming this is Sweden, the full database is not generally handed out, although you can call the government agency and ask them to do individual queries (e.g. if you are trying to find someone but only know their name and not their address).

However, the database can be given out in full under certain circumstances. In particular, companies which do credit checks are given realtime access to it. In maybe an unanticipated turn of events, one of the the credit check companies (Bisnode AB) then decided to sell access to it more generally, so nowadays it's fairly widely available to companies. In particular, there are a bunch of websites (hitta.se , birthday.se, ...) which let's you cross-reference name, address, and date of birth for anybody.
Put it in airplane mode?
They just don't buy into the subscrption model at all and it is not limited to just games. A lot of major Japanese music labels pulled their titles from Apple Music lately because they worry that it competes with the sales of physical albums, without realsing that the market has been in decline for at least a decade.
I am of the opinion that web sites should never make noise automatically. Never, no matter what site. I often have my sound on without even realizing it. Nothing is more disturbing to me or those near me than me going to a site and having stuff come over the speaker. I almost always close the tab immediately. Please never autoplay anything.
Can't agree more. Also, autoplaying videos—never a good idea.
Having been hiding in the woodwork during YC's early days, this rings so true.
Sure they can. My son read like one halfway through first grade when he was done with Kindergarten. And he is in no way a gifted kid. Some in his class was even further along.
That's sort of like saying that really, Sherlock Holmes stories are too long, and the Hound of the Baskervilles merely was painted with phosphorus.

Telling a story in an entertaining way isn't just listing the facts.
I really don't like the last step of the post-mortem. "Who is to blame?" I much much prefer "how did the system fail?" We want engineers trying crazy things and hit bumpers when they, for example, autoplay sound. The alternative is being hesitant about trying crazy things.

I mean, yeah, personal responsibility, but google already has a preflight checklist with code reviews and tests and such. Treating it as a systemic feature protects a lot of stuff you want.
It probably includes 37% self-obsessed asses that think it's rude to wake them up to go to the bathroom.
You agreed to get into a tin can with reclining seats and bathrooms. Deal with it.
I was young for my year after being pushed ahead a grade. I did fine academically, socially, etc.

Two factors that make me want to start my future kids late:

-Social maturity: it's way easier to handle social dynamics with a year extra of emotional maturity. Particularly important in high school and college

-Physical maturity: older kids often perform very well in high school sports. I, for example, grew and gained ~15-20lbs after I graduated high school (playing sports). That would have made my HS sports career much different, and therefore college prospects as well

I don't see any reason to starting kids early for upper/middle class folks, besides parent's bragging rights.
As a point of clarification (I work at Pagoda Box/Nanobox). Pagoda Box uses an older suite of similar tools (https://github.com/stormpack-core) mostly written in Erlang. This newer project (written in Golang) is part of a group of tools (http://nanopack.io/) being written for https://nanobox.io/
The nature of the contribution is fully transparent in the commit history, so not a problem. Anyone employer who doesn't bother to look...
Good feedback; I wonder (operationally) which is trickier to switch (payroll or benefits provider).
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>It's not cult-like, but it does seem arbitrary.

To be clear, I did not say it is cult-like, only that it is unclear.

If YC does operate on a magic oracle, then I might argue that it might be a cult.

>Of course, that's what all job interviews are like. If they get a bad vibe from you or think you're not a "culture fit", they can quickly reject you based on a short impression. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I'm not sure what it means that a YC interview may be thought of as a job interview, but I share your concerns. I'm also concerned that the essays may encourage such behavior. While the teams of the sort YC are organizing may benefit from such a selection process ("culture fit"), without any logical explanation of the process, the essays essentially encourage people to go out to start their own cults.
The flip side is parents who delay their kids so they are the biggest kids in class and get to dominate at sports. This is also nuts!

The right answer is evaluate what's right for the child. Different kids have different maturity levels. My daughter started K at age 4 and was still well above average and bored by 5th grade. The productive thing that school districts can do is roll out pre-K so parents don't have to make a costly daycare choice.
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Go would be decent for applications asymptotically approaching web browsers if the user interface options were better. It's UI library support that makes Go such a bear for desktop applications, not any fundamental property of the language.

In general, I find Go works really well for anything I would normally code in C in userland.

A better way to put it: if you can reasonably write it in Java, you can almost definitely write it in Go. Nobody calls Java a "scripting language".
I guess it goes parallell to another question i have. How is it possible for a brain without anything but pretty basic musical training to conjure up a fully functioning, never before heard, tunable symphony. This was a place i occasionally ended up in the midst of all of the nightly mental hoolahoops i had to go through. (It would collapse on itself eventually, but still, the array of instruments and sounds was way more than i could ever make in my normal waking time).

It is basically the same question as "how does the brain conjure dream", i guess. But experienced from the awake state. And it just stays with you in a slightly different way when you experience it whilst awake.

I guess i'll never know.
Ask HN: Want to help make PGP-encrypting all chats effortless?
Thanks for reading this :)

The goal of this project is to build a tool that offers highly usable PGP protection for messages sent through already-popular chat services such as Facebook messenger and Google Hangouts. My goal is to get the entire install/setup process to only require about two clicks and no human interaction, and for the app to be almost entirely out of sight and out of mind after that point.

PGP works, but most people can't be bothered to use the tools out there today. PGP needs a usability revolution. This project's primary benefit is usability. Once PGP doesn't require exchanging keys with every single person you want to chat with, and once it only requires a single minute of setup once, people will actually use it.

Here's how this works:

(5-step process pastebin'd due to hackernews content length limit!)

Please read: https://www.zerobin.net/?fcf2d01c3d1e162a#x4dz6EAAaycNN/F/4L5hGkXSoZqceaiVPUXpDEL+mxM=

Let's recap the benefits:

- standard bulletproof pgp security with...

- one-click one-minute install a 5 year old could perform

- out of sight and out of mind

- no maintaining a keyring for all of your contacts

- frictionless encrypted conversation start and stop

- works on your existing popular chat interfaces. just talk on Facebook messenger and Hangouts etc

Server-side project
https://github.com/cgarvie/easypgp-server
Python
flask
peewee orm

Client-side project (This is my weakness. Help is desperately needed)
https://github.com/cgarvie/easypgp-client
chrome extension
Javascript

Anyone want to help out?
Yes, no flash needed.
Language Integrated Quantum Operations
For a few years, every time my mind was momentarily still it would repeat the word "death". It never bothered me, and I always interpreted it philosophically (eg. as a meditational aid) and put it down to reading too much Buddhist literature.
with benefits, it's like a one-pager. you sign an authorization form and they take it to the med provider who then recognizes the switch. it's like a one day thing.
Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590109

Or this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464375

Or maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969347

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pacman%20ghosts&sort=byPopular...
I work in a creative field (commercial post-production) so those social interactions at work often influence the work we do individually. It often starts with asking for a critique on what someone is working on or help solving a problem that rolls into a social conversation or vice-versa ("since you're here, take a look at this").

Bouncing ideas off co-workers is what I miss most about working in an office.
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Bacteria on the back of the tongue. Not so much on the teeth, I'm pretty sure.
Check out Songza if you haven't already. Curated pre-defined stations by genre takes things even a step further than Pandora as far as not wanting to manually curate.

I find it the "easiest" music app to use because you just pick a channel and go.

It was purchased by Google a few years ago.
Website crafted to put different content on the clipboard than the user sees
The map of where the views come from is expected (Russia, India, South East Asia).

The bit that I find most interesting is:
> Vass says that he keeps 500views.com running by paying a monthly retainer to "a number of high-traffic websites to have them run hidden scripts."
>"The script contains the YouTube link we need to increase views on..."

Looking at the map, you have to assume that the high-traffic websites are specific to those regions. Otherwise you would expect IP addresses from other countries to show up more often

Is there a (relatively) easy way of scraping for these malicious tags to create a catalog of what websites are hosting the malicious code?

You could pay for the view boost service. Scrape the top 5,000 sites in those regions of the world and hope your bot gets roped into being part of the botnet (as you could identify the video you paid to boost). Just an idea.
That is absolutely absurd. And probably simply points to your own intolerance.

We have many proofs of example (I mean, such a sweeping statement should apply to any society with more than "one culture" whatever that even means).

And even if you were right, that it hasn't happened before, you could say that about anything that didn't work the first time. "It never worked before, so it is doomed."
I remember reading his stuff. His posts used to show up on HN very frequently. Very sad news.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whydoeseverythingsuck.com&sort...
I don't think in your case it would be a lie to say "It's not a good fit." Design is a pretty subjective area so it's likely the case someone else will find his work to be higher quality than you do. Maybe he's asking you for critiques because he can tell you aren't digging what he's producing, or maybe the vibe between you is no good and you're perceiving that as mediocre work. In any event, best to get it over with; you'll both be better off without one another it seems.
The existence of people like Jessica is not just something the mainstream media needs to learn to acknowledge, but something feminists need to learn to acknowledge as well. There are successful women who don't like to fight.

There is another lesson here for feminists that PG does not fully articulate. In my experience, most women are similar to Jessica in that they do not fit naturally into an alphadog founder type role. The time-honored tradition for such women to be part of accomplishing great things, is to partner with an alphadog mate. Unfortunately, modern feminism is all about turning women into men, rather than guiding women to fit in as complements and partners to a strong man.

If Jessica was so important to YC, why don't more people realize it? Partly because I'm a writer, and writers always get disproportionate attention.

And also because she was not listed as involved when YC was first founded. I assume that Jessica was "The Fourth Man wants to remain anonymous for now"? https://web.archive.org/web/20050324095016/http://ycombinato...
> I don't think almost any kids can read in kindergarten, and I also don't believe they even attempt to teach it there.

Reading texts at the "emergent reader level" is part of the Common Core standards for Kindergarten; as a number of states have adopted Common Core, I think its probably pretty common for Kindergarten to teach reading.
I use MCNP very often. I'm curious if there are any goals or plans to transition it to something more maintainable? I once attempted to make my own modification regarding outputting more information but could not grok any of that code .. It looked completely alien coming from a C++ background.
How is this distributed?
Only the arresting officer(s) would directly "remember" your arrest if it were not permanently recorded in a database. California is a very large state. Your unofficial reputation shouldn't follow you from San Diego to San Francisco.
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Also to clarify (and yes I also work at Pagoda Box on the Nanobox project), this service was initially intended to provide push capabilities for rails and other web frameworks that can't natively provide a push socket layer. It has successfully filled that niche and has expanded to fill other needs as well.
This may not be universally true. The Rust docs[1] point out that as of today, compiled binaries use either jemalloc[2] or the system allocator:

> Binaries generated by the compiler will use `alloc_jemalloc` by default (where available). [...] Dynamic and static libraries, however, will use `alloc_system` by default.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/book/custom-allocators.htm...

[2]: http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/