skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, and I'm not sure why anyone would expect they would, given that the flowering of mass surveillance and crystallization of opinions around it happened in the wake of the much larger attacks of September 11, 2001.

Well, except that US global mass surveillance, presumably targeting groups including IS, has existed for many years, and is least restrained when it comes to non-US targets, and yet failed to provide information sufficient to prevent this attack (apparently, the information that an attack in the West was planned did turn up, but from Iraqi intelligence, not our mass surveillance, and not specific enough to identify even the targeted country.)
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So basically you can't use standard library memory logic for that?

Somewhat related topic I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2mthq2/how_would_a_ru...
I've been told by people in the position to know that the 2010-era streaming services (Rdio, Spotify, Mog) were all effectively the same company: owned mostly by the music studios (in exchange for licenses) with a minority stake for each's particular founders/investors. As Dalton Caldwell cautioned in 2011, licensing costs make music startups are nigh impossible [1].

For people who are willing to pay for a music service, it seems pretty hard to beat Google Music's value proposition. Because it's a Google service, it can afford to compete as much as it needs to on price, and it also includes ad-free access to all of YouTube. I certainly wouldn't want to be a startup vying for that same $10 per month against one of the most popular content plays in the history of the Internet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOlrN5-UGU
I can't claim to have jl's "x-ray vision", but I think I've gotten a lot better at this. Possibly because I'm not naturally good at this, so I have to do it consciously.

The way in for me was English literature. Since the modern novel, writing in English focuses on revealing character through what someone does or says. Why do they choose this word and not another? By their actions, what can you learn about what's going on in their head?

Turns out that works pretty well in real life too.

A trivial example: I had a supervisor who I would say had problems with role-reversing. While ostensibly the boss, this person really wanted other people to notice what a difficult time they were having. Again I figured this out just through word choice. Some people, in the boss role, express their vision as "we need to do this"; with this boss it was more like "nobody is supporting me, so you all need to step up". Instead of performing confidence, they performed their personal discomfort, which is a cry for others to show that they care.

I think most people would realize that this is annoying, but look a little deeper, to see the need that's behind that. This is someone who habitually fears abandonment. (Maybe that's even why they took the boss role.)

So, all it took was a tiny comment every now and then from me, to allay their fears, and our relationship dramatically shifted for the better.

Now, this kind of personal attention can be just kindness. You can use it to give people around you the motivation they need to succeed. But in this case, the neediness was sort of a bottomless pit, so it made me seriously question ever working with this person again.

Most people are broadcasting all kinds of things about themselves, almost painfully strongly. It's just that for the most part, nobody is picking up on it. Developers in particular usually don't want to pick up on it.
The author is a director at Palantir Technologies, which is a company that skews heavily towards new college grads in its recruiting process.
> Complaining about this is essentially the same as complaining about soup-kitchen volunteers. Surely there are plenty of people that would love to be paid for that job, but we have all these smug elitist volunteers doing the jobs for free.

This comparison is inaccurate – soup kitchen volunteers are not performing a complete job which is being bid for. This underbid is more analogous to if a local government center asking for bids to serve a meeting of 500 people, and a local soup kitchen bidding $1 for the contract because they are essentially giving away free food. They then end up supplying the meeting with 500 bowls of great chili, and everyone is happy.

If the soup kitchen started doing this every time the government center issued a bid, the local restaurants would never make any money from the government center. This is not to say that they would never make money. But it is legitimate for an average restaurant in the area to be worried by the soup kitchen's actions, and view it as a potential devaluer of their product.
I've seen tons of this. People forking popular projects and making minor pull requests to correct spelling or change formatting, probably so they can pad their github profile (which we're told is the new resume) and make it appear as though they're highly-active and are contributors to major projects.
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Description follows:

Most CPUs today come in multicore configurations, and applications uses software multi-threading to take advantage of this capability.

This presentation will explain some of the ways Vulkan enables software multi-threaded scaling, and how this might be used.

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that is really unfortunate, I much prefer Rdio's web interface to Spotify's and for all the years I've been a subscriber it's been rock solid, on the other hand I do think I am likely not the typical user (100% on desktop, mostly listens to full albums rather than random songs, a lot of classical music, etc.)

When Rdio shuts down I am really not sure where I will be able to go for a comparable experience, Spotify for some reason appears to have random holes in their classical catalog compared to Rdio, I am also not sure if Apple music is useable without an iDevice.

what other alternatives can others suggest for users in Canada?
I know this is now "industry standard" but I hate the practice of quoting a yearly price as if it were a monthly price. There is a meaningful difference between $120/year (where you pay once, upfront, for the full year) and $10/month (where you pay each month).

Note here that they quote $4/month/employee in the "Pro" plan, but the prices are actually $48/year/employee or $6/month/employee. There is no $4/month plan.
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"There's not enough listeners for the number of music services. If your service stumbles, it's easy to move onto something else, so you really only get one or no chances to convince your potential customers."

I agree, and even feel more strongly about it. Even if you don't stumble, it's hard to compete with Google and Apple at this point, because they have their services tightly tied in with their other products. Buy an iPhone (hell, or even a laptop or tablet), and Apple Music is integrated out of the box. Same with Google Music.

Personally I think Spotify is doomed to fail (for various definitions of "fail") for the same reason. There are some people who want their music decoupled from their OS/hardware, but I think there are so many more than want it to "just work", and I think that Apple & Google have a better shot at that than anyone else, at this point.
Yes, FP is uncommon, though it's gradually becoming less so.

However, I'm puzzled about your remark about industry-oriented programs. I'm not sure what "industry-oriented programs" even means, but assuming you actually meant "FP doesn't have widespread use in the industry", I'd say that while this is true, a- it's becoming less true every day, through the use of mixed-paradigm languages, and b- even the purer FP languages see industry use.

"Right or wrong" this current reality you mentioned is shifting. Hybrid languages are becoming more common. Traditional languages are adopting functional idioms (and idioms from other paradigms as well!). It's not true that there is a clear-cut "natural" kind of programs for which to use FP; the area for which FP is good is pretty much good old "let's write software that works and has few bugs". If you have this goal, you can use FP to your advantage.

Any success story of someone using OCaml for this is welcome.
You could apply that to so many things. It's just an appeal to emotion. People also needlessly lack education because they can't pay, but we'd be fucked if the government jumped to guarantee more loans and grants.
Another Janus Friis company to add to the list.
Rdio shutdown announcement
...They're too busy - stuck trying to name the hockey team still...
So, you're suggesting that if surveillance works, then they can't act. But also if it doesn't work, they can't act. It sounds like the American people would be better served spending that money elsewhere if it can't actually buy us anything.
The claim of losing money is almost certainly a lie. The marginal cost of a drug like this is usually almost nothing. The manufacturing costs tend to be small, and something like this doesn't need a sales force.

Meanwhile, Questcor and Mallinkodt were/are the poster children for abrupt and unwarranted drug price hikes by orders of magnitude. They are bad actors in an industry where scheming - both legal and otherwise - is so common that no one thinks twice.
Keep these conference abstracts away from the media. Just because some grad student says something on a poster does not make it even close to probably correct.
Here is Rdio's announcement of the shutdown:

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2015/11/important-news-from-rdio.htm...
The second picture, probably one of the earliest interfaces of GitHub (??) reminds me of Sourceforge, in fact, the horizontal navigation exists in Sourceforge.

I guess keeping things more center benefits interaction.
Character is indeed very important, and in my view (given all the ^%&*$ I've been through with the one -and probably never again- startup I was involved with) the most important factor in any business. I wish I knew Jessica and that she'd could have warned me... She sounds like an "essential" person to know.

You are a lucky man, PG
No idea what motivated the authors, but from my perspective, basically: yes.

I've been working with ES for years now. the query language changes about twice per year, things which used to be the only way to do things become deprecated. (see: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... )

Even if you do understand 100% of the idiosyncrasies of elasticsearch, you still need to construct horrifically nested JSON to do meaningful queries... making it annoying to do in code, but mind wrenching to debug with curl.
Unless the French intelligent services were picking on people at random they already had information on the people they should be watching as evidenced by the immediate sweeps in the aftermath.

In many of these attacks the individuals are well known to the police and security services as they often have criminal backgrounds and have been in prison or custody of some kind. So either they are some sort of criminal masterminds, which I doubt, or the security services are completely inept even when they have a wealth of information or something more sinister.

So in my mind more intrusive intelligence is not really the answer.
Just as a contrary (edit: or perhaps corroborative, depending on what we are attempting to show) data point, I was put in at 4 and was just fine, even in honors/advanced classes (not boasting, as if I could, just adding that circumstance).

Worth noting that my family, despite my parents breaking up around that time, was very supportive and, if not well off, at least not struggling financially. I went to public school K-12.

Seems things work both ways, but possibly the risks are greater in going in early than late — but, as usual, the outcome depends far more on other circumstances.
Why would it be too late for something SPIR-based? Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1 will be compiling to SPIR-V.
Don't forget inflation risk.

Tomorrow a buck is worth about a buck. Given some nice 70s era stagflation, in a decade a buck might only be worth fifty cents. Loaning one dude a buck and getting fifty cents back isn't all that different than loaning out ten dimes and getting only five paid back.

There is also downside risk. Your financial life will be about the same tomorrow as it is today, so I can reasonably estimate the odds of getting a buck back if you need change for the vending machine or whatever. Ten years from now, well, hard to say how many bad things can happen to someone in ten years.
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I don't get the impression there's much magic. She's highly socially skilled around people who are less so.

Imagine if Jessica ran a VC firm with two other people like her, plus Paul, and they were trying to fund companies that required immense social skills. The founders would all be excellent conversationalists and promoters, and could probably fake the tech talk enough that Jessica couldn't tell. PG would be able to spot the buzzwords and call them on it, and it would seem magical to the rest because they don't know SQL from C++.
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Updated to the latest commit, works for me! :)
Not in English, other languages, for the English translation I've used the online sites, there are more translations available at once, I've linked that already, Pickthall is included in the results, maybe he uses the "doom" word more than others? Anyway, thanks to the online sources, the Arabic words seem to be "عذاب" and "الْحَرِيق" Yay, Unicode! For more statistics (e.g. how often exactly the "fire" is used, how often "hell") I suggest using the local copies of the texts.
It could certainly lower the barrier of entry into ES. I was almost scared off by the bafflingly huge query object I had to build for my first few (seemingly simple) queries.
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First off, let me state my belief. The unrest in the middle east is not a direct reaction to the invasion if Iraq. It is but the final end product of European colonialism coming to a rock end. You cannot setup dictatorships then later decide they are bad and end them leaving a void. Even the current President is contributing to this power void by his actions in Libya and now Syria. Yeah invading Iraq had many bad results but we also do not fix things but turning tail and ignoring it.

ISIS and many in that area of world do not like Western nations because they see as us both immoral and a threat to their beliefs. We then feel guilt and don't take action because of "fears" it will further the problem while totally ignoring the fact that sitting back and watching is merely allowing them to establish their foothold and carry out wholesale slaughter which in turn makes the victims of ISIS hate us for not helping.

As per a government official being cynical, look at it from the stand point of his job. He thinks he knows what he needs to do but finds most avenues blocked because the government tends to take an authority given to it and abuse it to no end.

As an American I know there is a price to freedom and I want my encryption and such because I don't trust all elements of my government. I want that illusion of freedom preserved. When terror once again comes to our shores how many won't?
Hash, not encrypt. And "Should", yes. "Did" maybe not so much. Or to weak password/hashing algorithm combination, so it could be brute-forced. But if I remember the 000webhost dump was cleartext.
maybe that'll be the next in the "twitch plays" series!
Definitely. The notion that gender roles are an immutable part of the universe is basically a religious statement, not a factual one.

For those interested in how much this varies across species, I heartily recommend Dr Taiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00846X144

It's a great and funny book on the biology of gender and reproduction, written as an advice column.

Growing up in the midwest, I mistook a lot of what people got up to as essential facts of human biology. But after 15 years living in San Francisco, I've come to realize how much of that is purely socially constructed.
the common theme for half of the top 10 seems to be physical proximity to the pentagon, fort meade, or both. UMD, GW, George Mason, Georgetown and Hopkins are all in driving distance.
The problem with SQL is not awl per se, but glue between awl and regular programming languages.

Mapping awl collections to c types is difficult due to difference of semantics. That is the problem.
> Yes, the government granting monopoly rights in 2015 to a naturally occurring chemical discovered in 1933 is "capitalism".

Nobody has been granted monopoly rights on anything. The GP's article (from 2012) is referring to a situation where there is only one FDA-approved supplier of a product (naturally-derived ACTH). Nothing except lack of motivation is stopping someone else from entering the market. The OP is discussing a particular brand of synthetic ACTH, which may or may not be in the same situation in Canada (sole approved drug).
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I won't switch from Spotify though because it meets my needs and furthermore they keep innovating. One thing I can look forward to in getting back to the office on Monday is my new week's playlist that Spotify creates for me. I listen to a wide variety of music and they have helped me discover a lot o f artists and songs I'm really into.
To be fair, there are people out there who are pushing for surveillance and war because it is financially beneficial (see: the major rise in weapons company's stock prices since the attack). You have examples of intelligence higher-ups who leave govt work and go on to open private security consultancies where they are paid enormous sums; they reap quite a windfall for their roll in pushing surveillance. They may not be cartoon villains but its hard to argue they are trying to do whats right for the country, and coincidentally it also will make them fabulously wealthy.
Some states have public preschools.
> High fat diets are not proven to be detrimental to your health,

Do you believe this yourself?

Also, not to nitpick, but science does not "prove", it establishes plausible models for observed facts. There is no end to studies linking poor diet to poor health.
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I would guess even less than 24. Today you can write your structural Verilog implementation, run an automatic mapping to a PDK standard cell library, and simulate to verify. The hardest part might be floor planning for something like that today. The placement and routing can all be automagical, and you won't have any timing closure issues at these speeds. I'd guess a single student could do it if sufficiently motivated. And, with CMP or MOSIS you could have it manufactured on a 350nm CMOS process by AMS for $2200 (20-25 pcs).
Bummer. I really like(liked?) Rdio. I've been a subscriber for several years -- the UI I find to be pretty good, but their mobile apps are garbage.

So, who wants to write up an Rdio -> Spotify migration tool?
> I am also not sure if Apple music is useable without an iDevice.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/16/apple-music-review-i...
I'm just curious why you think these are "odd" parts of her personality, particularly when you've said elsewhere in this comment and elsewhere that this role and these skills are very necessary for a business and she's made a huge impact on the company?

She is a founder of YC, BTW - that's what it means to be a co-founder. You could just as easily say that PG was dating the founder of YC, and she made use of his technical expertise and that of his friends in judging startups.
Exactly. Everything is just syntax sugar over 0s and 1s :)
fwiw, we've had less than a great time with Zenefits, whereas with Zenpayroll, we've been amazed at how good they were. They helped get through some tricky payroll business, and were always quick to make sure everything was in order.

I'm happy to pay the money and get the faster response times, better website, and stronger relationship with ZP (errr Gusto).

We'll probably move off of Zenefits entirely soon.
If this is true I can also compile scientific software with emscripten to Javascript, which is then able to compile the Fortran libraries BLAS and LAPACK.
I like to have one click live demos of such software. Speed and memory doesn't matter for demos.
Humanity also has a pretty extensive history of conflict, even in more mono-cultural societies. Hell, you could take any mass of people, all from the same background, race, ethnicity, religion, etc (take your pick), put them on an island for a hundred years or two, and you'll get factions.

You'll get people fighting over how they think the place ought to be run. You'll get people fighting over who gets what and why these guys have all this stuff and we have less stuff. If nothing else, it comes down to availability of resources and numbers of people (along the lines of Dunbar's number and all that).

Sure, ethnicity, race, and religion are convenient signifiers of groups of people and usually when you have two or more groups with significantly different cultures, you've probably got two or more groups with some level of inequality and power imbalance so you're already halfway there. But even if you don't start out with cultural differences, they'll pop up eventually. Groups of people over a certain size will always have a harder time avoiding conflict when things get tough. It's almost in our nature to split into "us" and "them" just to manage it all.
Interesting way to exit. Is that common?
I'm 110% sure subscriber accounts are part of the 'Key Assets' Pandora bought from Rdio.
I thought this article was interesting because the author talked about how encryption can be used to "delete" data from distributed systems instantly, by just removing the key.

Not really a new idea, I don't think, but not one that gets surfaced much when people talk about client-side crypto.
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I just submitted a link to an article about this, but since it didn't get any traction I'll place it here. I think it best represents the opposing side's argument (against surveillance):
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-abou...

Here's an excerpt,

> One key premise here seems to be that prior to the Snowden reporting, The Terrorists helpfully and stupidly used telephones and unencrypted emails to plot, so Western governments were able to track their plotting and disrupt at least large-scale attacks. That would come as a massive surprise to the victims of the attacks of 2002 in Bali, 2004 in Madrid, 2005 in London, 2008 in Mumbai, and April 2013 at the Boston Marathon. How did the multiple perpetrators of those well-coordinated attacks — all of which were carried out prior to Snowden’s June 2013 revelations — hide their communications from detection?
This is very timely for me. Just this morning I was on the phone talking to the school district about how strict the cutoff date is. Most of US is set to Sep. 1 (9 months after the new year). My kids were born in mid-Sep. I read two lengthy papers on late start-age and better school/social performance. The article was discussing parents wanting their children to start early in order to enter the job market early by a year. This is nuts! It's such a trivial issue. I'm conflicted; I really don't want to pay $20k for another year of daycare but I also don't want my twins to be have issues in school. Speaking of, instead of diagnosing kids with ADHD, why not hold them back by a year. There could be additional benefits of holding kids back based on their development. I was always the youngest kid in class and I struggled through school and I always knew that I should be with the class behind me.