skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title here confuses me. I don't see anywhere in the article that they make the case that it happened by chance. Seems like it was designed by a small team who were trying to design a distinctive bottle - The complete opposite of chance!
I've completely switched to ScriptCs[0] for my scripting needs. Works on all platforms that Core supports.

[0]: http://scriptcs.net
Yes, EPID panels are indeed used for dose monitoring and quality assurance of the dose delivery to the patient [1][2]. However, this is relatively new in the industry and is not universal. The fact that EPIDs have become so common (since Varian and Elekta like to offer them as standard) means that this will be used more as time goes on.

As an aside, TLDs and IVD systems are falling out of favor for patient dose monitoring because AAPM TG 62 (referenced in the link in your other post) is not directly applicable to IMRT and VMAT modalities, which are pretty common these days.

[1]http://www.sunnuclear.com/medphys/patientqa/epidose/epidose....

[2]http://www.sunnuclear.com/snc_site/solutions/patientqa/perfr...
+1 for VsVim. The vim-ish plugin for eclipse is a joke in comparison.
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I think triplebyte act as a standard recruiter in this case. Eg Dave moves from UK to US on a H1b woring for some body shop. Dave then applies to triplebyte saying "yo, I hate this gig, get me out". Triplebyte then shops his CV around to startups looking for people like Dave and once a match is found they take their usual 10-30% first year salary as fee, which should more than cover any H1B admin. At no point is Dave employed by triplebyte.
If OCW is too advanced to start, try Khan Academy first. It's great for K-12 material.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543181/crispr-gene-edit...
Hi,

Sorry for confusion; we ask for emails because we send you a copy to that email address. But you are correct; in the near future there will be a box that lets people either download immediately or have it sent to email instead.

All images are currently free and the plan is for it to remain so. Regarding the cart, that's a good point: its a hint on the additional features we have planned for the future, some of which may require a small payment.
That's not the correct analogy. The House has oversight to be sure money is not wasted, but not to monitor all dialogue between scientists.

For a summary of what's going on, better than I can do here, see this letter from another member of the House science committee:

http://democrats.science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.h...
Virtually every state in the country is at-will, which is a good thing. But the norms of this industry put the onus on the employer to (a) verify that candidates can execute before extending offers to them and (b) demonstrate conclusively that the fault is with the employee before terminating.

A trial period essentially tells candidates "your first three months on this job are a kind of extended interview". People are rejected after interviews based on standards of evidence far, far lower than the ones commonly used to terminate employees.
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Agreed, though I guess they happened to see an illustration of a cocoa pod when looking up coca.
I agree it is loaded, but after the Paris attacks, people are scared. So I hope you can be understanding at this time.

I went to school with Muslims during 9/11 (not many, but enough that I listened to them). I understand the frustration in your religion being singled out, misinterpreted and so forth.
Excellent timing. I'm just coming out of one start up that is now up and running successfully and about to launch another. I wish I'd had some of this advice with my previous company.

When we were first setting out I tried to micro-manage everything and while I got things done I nearly burnt out in the process. Assigning roles and responsibilities and holding people accountable to them is an infinitely more sensible approach to management!

It's also very easy to be busy when you're running a company. Too easy in fact, and equally easy to work on the wrong things. So to combat this I now follow these steps:

1. Identify a goal that contributes directly to useful output (e.g. shipping a product to actual users, making a sale, etc)

2. List the steps necessary to reach this goal. Make sure the steps are listed sequentially and that each step is actually necessary to achieve the next one. Eliminate "nice-to-have" steps or "targets of opportunity."

3. Do those steps, and postpone everything else. If some other tasks starts nagging on you, just put it off and tell yourself that you can do that after you finish the sequence of steps. Don't ignore it, just postpone it. Tell yourself that you are going to do it later.

As a result I now find myself less distracted by work that doesn't contribute to our big goals.

* Steps are from https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-ways-to-work-smart-rathe...
cc0 = creative common 0 which means its part of public domain. Here's an explanation: https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
Sqauare likely to price below range: Sources
Can you elaborate on static type checking? Is this the type hinting a.k.a type annotations outlined in PEP 0484 or something else? What is this even useful for? Better documentation or integration with an IDE like PyCharm?
Sure design goals, well I'd argue that Windows has had "improving security" as a design goal for some time now, and that this has had measurable impacts on the security of their products.

For example take SQL server as a good example, compare the number of RCE issues that it's had with say.... Oracle's Database server, another well funded company with loads of "PR" money. You'll find the SQL server has many fewer security issues than the competition, and I would suggest this is evidence of Microsofts improved attention to security...

MS default configuration are really very good. I'd compare to your OS of choice, but you don't choose to disclose it :)

So on the server-side I'd say that when I test modern default installs of windows based products they tend to have a good security posture out of the box.

Security Updates, well everyone has a load of those, are you suggesting the MS is worse than their competition? Counting OS vulnerabilities is notoriously difficult to it's hard to get an Apples to Apples comparison here.

Botnets, well there are botnets on linux for sure, and OSX has had it's share of malware to as has Android.

If you like a small open source OS then that's fine, but it doesn't necessarily make another entirely different OS have bad security.

now I know there's a reasonable chance you're thinking I'm an MS "fanboy" or similar at this point, but I'm not. I use OSX/Linux and Windows (as well as some iOS and Android) where they work best for me.
Well Ramanujan only needed one textbook to enable him. The tru e potential is in allowing everyone to get atleast a momentary ,fleeting glimpse of the worlds that the geniuses have opened up for us.
The evolution of his idea is fascinating:

"In the beginning, Stanton prized uniqueness above all else. He chose only the most flamboyant and oddball characters, especially the homeless and mentally ill, but also the elaborately fashionable and unmistakably foreign... But as time passed, Stanton developed a subtler taste in humans. His subjects came to look less like psychedelic superheroes, and more like the person next to you on the subway."
Very touching. He lost his friend during the ordeal.

https://youtu.be/HecyxhXDepU
By going to VS Code they're jettisoning themselves from the .sln (solution file), .csproj (C# project file), MS Build world.
Project management and build files are being pushed into external utilities. This is kind of the way a lot of the rest the world (ruby/node/python) is going.

IDEs are fine, but when you remove the need for an integrated debugger in favor of TDD the need for an IDE diminishes.
It is better for the kids to praised about what they are doing rather than what they are getting. Personally, I don't care what prestigious thing he got. This kid is amazing for having studied so many things on his own.

The real aim here should be to be engaged and to be learning; which are things this kid seems to be have done plenty of. It is so cool that we now have all these learning resources accessible easily.

It's interesting how this kind of thing makes one think about their own life. I went to a talk by a computer scientist yesterday. He is studying cryptography. You could tell that he was so engaged, getting so much joy from his subject. People were interested in what he was explaining. You could tell that he is just loving every minute of his job. This is the kind of engagement level I am looking for. And by the way, I don't think one needs to be top-level at what they do to get there.
> I hung around with the wrong people, didn't put enough thought into what I might like to do for a career

You say that like they're necessarily causal/correlated.

When I was in high school I was clinically depressed, smoked weed every day, shoplifted whenever I could just for the thrill of it, failed most of my classes, and in my afternoons, late nights, and sometimes up to 6am, I was contributing to opensource, writing phpBB mods that thousands of people were using in their bulletin boards. My most popular mod had over 10,000 downloads. They even accepted me into the official mod approval team for a while.

And despite my obsession with coding and working on my career, I was also an adolescent delinquent.

Life is funny that way.
The probationary periods in France and Germany address a different public policy issue than the trial period we're discussing here. After the probationary period in France expires, it is legally much more difficult to terminate an employee.

That need does't exist in the US, where employees can be terminated without cause.
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the target audience for the tool?
Note that "massive famine and likely fighting against other survivors" will turn an apocalypse of the second sort into an apocalypse of the first sort.

I also think apocalypses that start out as the first sort are also likely to produce famines and fighting against other survivors; survivors will be desperate, and even though the population has declined, the infrastructure to support it (particularly, the social infrastructure, even if the physical infrastructure is untouched) will likely have declined even more than the population.
I would much rather have ONT backed by Pacbio than ONT backed by Illumina. ONT is well suited for doing WES quickly, with better fidelity than Illumina and PacBio is much better for supplemental data to do genome assembly using reads from a short read system
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Debian shares all of my web or visits and searches with... whom, exactly? And I have to disable this on every update? Really?
"If you’re in a car, you see watches outside the car go slower. They only go a little slower, so you wouldn’t notice it in your normal life; it takes the best watches in the world to even tell that it’s happening. But it really does happen."

He said it backwards...
Consider something like, "2013-2015: built a tool that does (whatever) for a failed startup". Include details about what you built and in what language and so forth on the resume, but leave out the company name (which no one will have heard of anyway) and the sordid details about why it went south.

You can supply details in in-person interviews if you want, but you won't need to. "I built some really cool technology but I found out my cofounder was playing games with the equity and things fell apart" is probably all that any prospective employer will need or want to know.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10588264.
No, but it helps create a market for what is essentially a very valuable good that was being farmed by giant body shops. The underlying system is flawed but I doubt the us congress will ever pass a sensible immigration bill so workarounds like these are as good as it gets for now.
This is an interesting idea. H1B visas are entirely transferrable, but some employees never find that out (the shady outsourcing companies aren't exactly incentivised to point it out). That said, whenever I've transferred my H1B my future employer has been paying for it - if they didn't, I'd be suspicious about how committed they really are. So, if Triplebyte (a hiring agency) pays it instead of the employer then, sure, go crazy. But it doesn't make a huge difference to me.

That said, I can see opportunity for a hiring agency that is knowledgable about the H1B process and could even refer lawyers to companies. Many new startups have no idea what they're doing, and are turned off from employing people on H1Bs because of it.
But because of HN rules, we can't change it to something more appropriate and less clickbait-y
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Cross-site caching adds all the risk you intend to take away by adding the integrity attribute. What if someone makes a Jquery.js file that hash-conflicts with the version you have, but has a malicious payload. You visit bob.com, get the infected jquery with the hash 0xcafebabe, which just so happens to match with jquery's 0xcafebabe. You might say wow how unlikely, but with entire botnets dedicated to guessing matching hashes, something like this could be devastating.
Thats awesome!
Yes - both those positions are flawed. One leads to human progress, though, and the other to stagnation. I know which I'd choose.

It's also worth considering that people clamoring for "proof of safety" are usually the first to complain when you ask them for evidence to back up their pet projects (for example minimum wage laws). It's not even like they're being consistent about it.
But math is just a bunch of ideas expressed in a very efficient notation. All those notational squiggles represent ideas, and ideas can also be represented with words. It would be much less efficient, but anything explained by math should be able to be explained by words.
Sure they can:

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had this conversation with a co-worker recently. I complained about how I avoided partying in university years and wasted a perfect opportunity to make friends with diverse people from all kinds of occupations. He said he regrets that he partied a lot instead of sitting like me and engaging in creative hobbies and/or learning career-relevant stuff.

We came to the conclusion that no matter the path of life you end up taking, you'll regret missed opportunities. I could have studied hard since 9 years old, skipped high school and be a PhD now or something, but then I'd probably talk with some people and start regretting that I haven't the time to read the books and watch the movies that could have shaped my imagination.

So the real advice is - instead of obsessing over the road not taken, focus on what comparative advantage you got from your experiences. Even if you "wasted" half your life drinking with random people, there's still a lot to learn and use from those experiences. The reason we have brains is to figure out how to make the best of what we have.
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Yes. There are two lotteries: one exclusively for people with US Masters or PhD degrees (20000 winners) and one for the rest. If you do have a US advanced degree and don't win the first lottery, you have one more chance in the wider applicant pool.
Could we get started with .NET MVC on Mac OS?
That is only true for the languages that manage to gain some momentum. I could probably write a new language, given some time (I am not underestimating that task), but most likely it wouldn't bring anything new so nobody would use it. I'd say that language designers who manage to convince one person to spend the time to learn their languages for a pet project have already done a good job.
Formulating the Ethics of Programming
Guido knew this long before going to DropBox. Google is still on 2.7. IIRC I saw some mailing list posts back around 2008 that acknowledged that most large organizations will never upgrade to 3.0, because it just doesn't make sense when you have a large legacy codebase.

That doesn't make Python 3 a failure or unadopted, it's just the structure of our industry. By search & job stats [1], the most popular programming languages are Java, C, C++, C#, and yep, Python. Companies tend to pick whatever language is best for early adopters when they first get started and then language usage grows along with the company. So the most popular languages now are the ones that were cutting edge 15 years ago, when the biggest companies of today were tiny startups. Go look at what's most popular among startups today and you'll see what'll be the hot programming languages in 15 years.

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
tldr; it is free to use for personal and commercial use without attribution (per my understanding)
There is so much wrong with this comment, I don't understand how it's being up votes. Never heard of a Linux IDE? Hard core Linux user but never been able to even navigate vim?
That's coming. It's going to be an extension.
We do full technical interviews with applicants and at this point, we have a pretty solid dataset on how to calibrate them and would be confident any engineers we're working with have the skills startups are looking for.

Our goal isn't to directly hurt the outsourcing companies, it's to help talented engineers find work they enjoy and not be held back by visa fears. Even doing that for a few people would be worthwhile.
Fallout 4 launch caused a dip in Pornhub traffic among gamers
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Thank you, I'll be releasing a WodPress plugin really soon based on this.

The GPL license is due to the license of GPG itself.
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It's not what they're doing (they don't have SSH at all), but is there anything wrong in using OAuth2 tokens to authenticate with SSH server? Conceptually, they're just another form of password (pre-shared secret).
Replying to my own comment because I can no longer edit:

Looks like KeePass guys are going to add Argon2 and have already added authenticated encryption.

Keep an eye on it. Might be worth moving to.

http://ehc.ac/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/a48066c0/?l...
What evidence do you have for ONT having better fidelity than Illumina in any application? Illumina's error rates are typically <= 1% while on "good" reads ONT has error rates cited at 15% and overall is even worse[1]. I agree that PacBio is better for genome assembly, but for many cases we do not need to do assembly. Resequencing workflows with alignment and variant calling are pretty good.

1. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214753515...
We do indeed refer lawyers to companies, in particular ones who have filed a number of these petitions for YC startups in the past so we know they're good.
The Mark Kaigwa, Thebe Ikalafeng and Rebecca Enonchong Episode
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There's also the freely-accessible book A Course in Machine Learning:

http://ciml.info/
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Making Popcorn: Adding a Disk to a Rust Rumprun Unikernel
Happy to help if I can - it's also worth a bug report as there will be an RC2.
I would hardly say that TDD removes the need for an integrated debugger. Being able to inspect the state of a system the instant a test fails sounds mighty useful to me.

Also, software builds being driven by an external tool has been common since at least make(1), so it's hardly a ruby/node/python thing.
Is this a typo, or just a misunderstanding on my part? These two quotes seem to be diametrically opposed in their explanation of Special Relativity in two parts of the article.

> When you go fast, he said, the world around you changes shape, and time outside starts moving slower.

> Since the boats are going fast, the space doctor’s special idea says that their watches will run a little slower than the ones on Earth.

Shouldn't time outside start moving faster in the first quote?
This looks neat but the loading time needs improvement.
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Office 2016. It's absolutely awesome. As native as it gets IMO. It's clear MS is treating OS X with respect.

I used to have Office 2013 installed on a Windows VM because 2011 on Mac was garbage.
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Great read, thank you.

A very lucky man, especially given that his crew mate bailed out before him, at higher altitude, going slower. The fact that between deciding to bail and pulling the handle took 4,000' is astonishing: 780mph is very, very fast.
> The Python 3 project needs to understand where it went wrong, acknowledge it...

Already happened years ago. Breaking backward-compat is the issue, and is a difficult situation for any popular platform. Guido has mention it won't happen again.
Still a happy Zune 30GB user. One nice thing about using a discontinued device is that the manufacturer doesn't keep bloating up the software. (Also you can get refurbished replacement units cheap.) I guess at some point it won't run on the latest OS, but as of Windows 10, it still works fine.
> I am not sure where I read it, but in presume the number of prevented attack is in the thousands.

Then why don't we have thousands of prosecuted and convicted terrorists in our jails?
This assumes that the H1B's filed by the outsourcing companies are engineers your startup would want to hire. Unfortunately thats not true, most good quality engineers are almost never employed by these outsourcing firms. The general nature of their work also is mostly maintenance based , and it tends to attract bottom of the barrel 'engineers' who often couldn't find any other job. I am skeptical whether any of these 'engineers' would pass the interview gauntlet at many startups.
The only thing I wish VS Code had is "Compiling" out of the box. I know you guys want to make an amazing experience for each language, but one of my favorite editors is Geany because no matter the language or platform when I hit build / compile it usually just works. Hoping now that it's gone open source we will see minor changes like compiling / building cross platform at least. Other than that it's a great editor, definitely simple enough and wonderful to work with.
Yes. And, as alluded to in the article, one of the things the body-shops do to game the system is flood as many applications as possible, knowing that they won't get all of them and not caring which ones they do or don't get.

Perhaps the petition fee should be non-refundable for H1B dependent employers.
The figures are at the end of the document (this is pretty common for journal submission). The supporting data (in addition to the simulations) is in the form of references to existing experimental literature. Again, a pretty common format.