skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't worry too much about this. The Baltic Dry Index hasn't really been a usable indicator for many years now.

Originally it was a brilliant insight. Most numbers can be fudged, but it was super expensive to have ships sitting around empty so the index was hard to game.

What made it even more useful was that it is one of the very few leading indicators of the global macro economy. Most indicators that work are lagging, which means they tell you that something has already happened.

Since hte index measures both demand for shipping and supply it can be pushed down by either. The general consensus is that the current lows is actually due to over supply by the shipping giants like maersk.

More reading:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/03/ec...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/02/05/why-you-s...
The President of the United States chooses to use Reddit for their IAMA post. This guy wants us to use his Wordpress website? No thanks. Seems like a scam to collect data on us and that's No Bueno.
Or Java or go or ruby or Scala or php or....
Using C++ AMP to Perform Millions of Experiments in Hours Instead of Weeks
In all fairness, that wasn't a completely inaccurate generalization in the 1970s or so. That's changed a lot for the most part, but a number of effects linger such as the quality of most urban public schools. Therefore, for a variety of reasons--including having more space--many (though of course not all) middle class+ families still are inclined to move to the suburbs when they have children.

With respect to exercise, you'd have to convince me that kids living in a city condo/apartment routinely get more exercise than ones in the suburbs.
"Trusting good people" is fine for children, but anyone who has observed the system for a few years knows better. The system has been exposed to "good people" before; it knows what to do with them.
For me, it still doesn't get any better than http://robozzle.com/, but I have yet to try out Empire of Code.
If you want to make Ruby better, change the IO subsystem. Look towards Go and fork the language. It's the only path I see. Btw, I spent 8 years writing Ruby and would love to see that happen.
Bug report: URLs are broken in the articles - they append to the article's address. See e.g. [0].

EDIT: I've been seeing a steady increase of this particular bug on the Internet, usually in blog and news articles. I wonder if this isn't a direct consequence of browser vendors removing protocol from the address bar? I.e. people just copy-paste a part of an address and don't notice that the browser didn't append the protocol part.

[0] - http://macro.ycombinator.com/articles/2015/11/science-startu...
Thanks for the shout-out. Thankfully, the FreeBSD Foundation itself doesn't seem particularly receptive to the NextBSD effort (judging from their most recent quarterly status), so there's no danger of it being merged soon.
They Are Us
I second Hatcher. His AT book is a goto for me. He also has introduction to point set topology notes on his site which are appropriate for someone without a math background.
Wouldn't this new boundary system have the same or similar kind of benefit as using those bird countermeasures, though?
No, LTSpice simulations are not real-time. However, there have been attempts to make that happen[1]!

[1] http://www.livespice.org/
Thats why you should go to a VC, raise money and try to get explosive growth around it.
Did not know this was a thing... Is that a common ability in a router?
Netflix uses FreeBSD as a major component of its CDN (IIRC, it's the OS on all their CDN nodes).
Yahoo Mail begins blocking users with ad block enabled
Barebands – Hyper-Customizable Digital Watches
Yes, probably related to money transmission licensing (and various other state finance laws). See https://www.coinbase.com/legal/licenses. There may also be some restrictions at the Shift end.
The Impact of a Startup's Location on Its Ability to Raise Capital (2014)
Back in the 60s, there was a study done with pigeons being able to inspect pills on an assembly line[1]. Didn't end up being implemented in a real world scenario, but pigeons are extremely good at recognizing patterns without losing attentiveness over time. There's a pretty good book[2] on pigeon intelligence for anyone wanting to know more about their abilities.

I've an amateur ornithologist (it's a hobby), but never been a huge rock pigeon fan. However, I respect their abilities and how much we underestimate them.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=HxU-9UeDCI0C&pg=PA497&lpg=...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Pigeons-Fascinating-Worlds-Revered-Rev...
This is not idiomatic Java code and in my experience not many competent people will do this. New Java programmers who ask for help with a piece of code that ignores the error are told immediately to check the error. And experienced Java programmers simply do not ignore the error.

Also, you don't need the semicolon.
Check us out on Product Hunt!
https://www.producthunt.com/tech/barebands
> the sheer volume of content means I'm probably missing
> out on most of it.

I guess I'm one of those old-timers who misses the days when the submissions were more focused on startups and less about government policy, macro economics, and whatever else. (I'm quite biased toward consuming information that is useful and actionable rather than merely interesting, so I realize that puts me at odds with the site's stated policy.)

(edit: phrasing)
That's lovely. The Hacker News highlights is really nice. I was a bit confused at first because I have images turned off.

But mostly I really love this. Thank you.
I can understand where Yahoo is coming from, but doing this will divert even more users away from its already struggling mail application.
What's the point of "login with github" if you still ask for my email? Not interested...
You do know that function stack frames are dynamically allocated (just not from the heap in most C and C++ implementations).
Where is ZoL not up to speed compared to FreeBSD / ZFS?
That's the end game. I think this can be seen as the bitcoin industry following "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".
Usually the linking scheme is more creative then what this article shows though. More tiers and not just linking to every site from every other site. For super competitive terms this still seems like a short term strategy but for less competitive it may still be viable.

I think google has taken steps to stop this from an algorithm stand point but really I think most of there attempts are more marketing based. IE trying to scare people into not doing it anymore.

It also doesn't take exploiting sites to do it. You can just buy some aged domains and throw up wordpress.
While Kurds fight against ISIS, Turkey shells and attacks them
The Pentaphone
"I can't understand how people can still give governments the benefit of the doubt when they've been exposed as liars repeatedly for years."

Because reasoning doesn't work that way, and many people don't grow up in nice conditions. AKA the vast majority of people are poor and have hard lives, aka no time for research. You're on the internet, you are in the top percentage of wealthy people on the planet.

See the science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Of course.

Though I'm sure you are not the only Microsoft employee who has used OpenBSD.

At one point, after the Danger acquisition, Microsoft HR was advertising a position for a NetBSD developer.

Are there any rules about using a non-Windows OS in the office? Even if it increases your capabilities and productivity?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
~ Ben Franklin
Measuring how much something did not happen looks pretty tough. I have a lucky rabbit's foot, and I have not been attacked by a bear. How many bear attacks has my lucky rabbit's foot prevented? Seven? A million?

Either an informed electorate runs the country or the security services do. That sounds like a false dichotomy, but if all of the important information is classified, and voters are prevented from becoming informed (which is what the security services want)? I don't see how the system can continue to operate.

And that doesn't begin to address the catastrophic civil liberties problems the surveillance state brings. I'm just wondering who is in charge.
EU ministers agree to 'considerably strengthen' border controls
The idea is to use it like a charge card and not like a depository for your bitcoins (since any bitcoins you put towards the system isn't yours anymore).
Sidecar closes an $8M series B round
Current position:

"No, sorry, those freedoms were not enough."
"Login to play"

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

If you want people to play your game, forcing them to sign up first isn't the best way to do it. Let me try it out, then maybe say that you need to sign up to go past the first level or save your progress.
Bah. first off you write it as 6'2" 6 ft, 2 inches. when you're doing practical applications of this, running around with your tape measure and cutting wood to fit, you dont' want to start mixing in percentages. It gets more comfortable the more you use a tape measure because you're not using tenths. You're using quarters, eighths and 16ths. Need more precise? Haha, I don't want to say because it's vulgar but fits well on a job site.

It may seem like an extra pain in the neck but I think it just has to do with a personal aesthetic scale, one that can grow on you quickly.

I like to divide and multiply by 2 and 3 and 4, it keeps the numbers around me simple and. And doing that with inches, you have 12, 24, 48. Other things scale-wise to people ends up being kind of nice.

Door widths at 30" Sheets of plywood and drywall at 4'x 8'. Heavy to handle but cover a lot of area. These template defaults just kind of become aesthetically pleasing to work with after I'd say a short time, one can appreciate the units of measurements and how we manufacture to suit them and ourselves best.
"Myxozoans still have a complex structure that looks like the stinging cells of jellyfish, called a nematocyst, that Cartwright calls 'little firing weapons.'"

So, what do they use the nematocysts for?
I know this is overly idealistic, but it seems to me that paying for "credit" (especially in terms of research) seems "wrong". I understand paying for ownership of the results of someone's work, or paying to state that the broader organization takes credit for the body of work produced by the employees. But for one individual to pay to personally receive credit for the output of another seems blatantly dishonest.
It's not idiomatic, or good, but neither is ignoring the return value from a go function call. Both languages fail to provide better affordances for error checking.
Perceived performance (showing something) is more important to users than the ultimate load time. So prioritizing your assets so the critical stuff loads first is a good strategy. Keep in mind that JavaScript blocks rendering, so you want to make sure that you're still delivering the CSS and primary HTML content first. I don't want to wait for your massive JavaScript library to load and execute before I can read the text on the page.
Fantastic job by Kevin. His talks are fantastic and you can clearly see his work here. He should take a stab at updating the frontpage!
Newer versions of Perl actually support a pluggable regex engine system, so you can use specific regex engines for specific tasks.
Google analyzes pages for malware in some cases. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/45449?hl=en

They even warn you, I've seen an interstitial popup (from google) before for one of my sites that was compromised.
"There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks"

Did you compare performance on your own workloads?

We test ZoL with each major release, and while stability has improved significantly, it becomes apparent that ZFS can have wide performance differences depending on configuration and use case.

This is true with all ZFS implementations, but with ZFS on Linux not being native there are even more variables.
Love the idea. I'm glad to hear they are using Middleman for the site, it has been a joy to develop with. I highly recommend checking it out if you're looking to build a static site [0].

[0] https://middlemanapp.com/basics/install/
I think that's the point of it.

It still doesn't solve the problem of cheap drones (i.e. those without GPS), though I'm not sure if they are an issue near airports.
Assad gov. secretly sentenced free software developer Bassel Khartabil to death
His experience, that DJI drones are allowed to fly near airports, is the exact opposite of my experience.

I was in the San Juan islands doing some aerial photography with a DJI Phantom III. On Orcas island I unknowingly setup next to an airport. It was a very small airport behind a treed hill, so I didn't realize where it was. The drone considered it a no-fly zone and refused to take off.

So I consider it unlikely that gigantic Logan airport isn't in the system, while tiny Orcas Island airport is in the system.
Docker Supercomputing? That's Cray
Very cool!

Quick note on Kevin's article, I'm getting a 404 on the link titled "bottom of the slide." w/link to:

http://macro.ycombinator.com/images/ddaytips/ddaytips.034.jp...
This is a misreading of imposter syndrome, at least how I understand it to work and how it has been used in common parlance around me. Granted that has included a lot of academic circles and math/physics types, not only programmers.

Imposter syndrome refers to beliefs about your own lack of competence, skill, experience or whatever - in contradiction to good evidence to the contrary. And the uneasy feeling that you're going to be "found out" at any moment. As such I think it is a useful characterization, and understanding it will help you mentor some people more effectively.
Oops. Fixing now. thanks for letting us know!
How many use their web interface instead of an external client?
He goes on ad nauseum about how fitting the language is. He's right.

Back in university I'd frequently help seniors out with projects. The one project involved battleship AI in mathlab. In maybe 3 hours I got it as good as it was probably going to get pitted against a truly random opponent. However, PNRGs aren't truly random. It was so quick and so effortless to grab stats on the biases the PNRG had (in order to optimize the guess selection process). It was the first time I ever used the language and I can honestly admit it had very little to do with my capability and so much more to do with how damn fluent and intuitive that language is.

It's inconsistent, messy and evolutionary but, wow, what an absolute masterpiece.
In comparison to military's commitment and the overall population of US, US army size is very small.
I have to disagree. Sure women do more cardio, but the cardio increasing thigh musculature? Not a chance. Squatting increases thigh musculature. Doing the elliptical for an hour a day does not. Running slowly or at a medium speed does not. Nor do either lead to any gain in strength anywhere.
Just tried this on Mac and Linux. Looks very useful, but in both cases, the display is washed out (like Mac does when the terminal is not the focus). Makes it very hard on the eyes. Any idea why this might be happening? (running in iTerm2, BTW)
Hacker Newsletter and HN Daily have filled this role for a while now for me. I read the highlights over lunch or on the train, and otherwise try to avoid HN during the day (heh, mostly).

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
It was difficult to decide how to handle comments and whether to have them at all, so we opted to just leave them out for now. I like both of those ideas -- adding in a link to an article's analogous HN thread, and the official submit bot.
Tesla is recalling the entire Model S fleet because a seat belt could fail
I've taken money out using Shift in China, South Korea, and Japan before they introduced exchange rate fees. It works anywhere VISA is accepted.
I am actually a startup and time is very precious for me.
Within a day I managed to set 4 server infrastructure on Vultr - I have database server, 2 workers and 1 web facing server. While this is nothing compared to what companies use AWS for, I will be scaling very quickly. And best thing? I wont be scaling to AWS.

Lets look at Vultr, that is more complete option compared to DO in my opinion. You get click away following:

-backups

-ddos protection

-internal IP

-storage servers

-dedicated resources servers

With this I can scale up to rather large size. While this is not enough for some startups, for MVP and Bootstraping startups that's more than enough. And frankly once I will grow big enough to hire tech guys, I will just move everything either to dedicated servers or simply to Rackspace or Softlayer for premium cloud solution.

The whole point of my comment was - AWS, Google and Azure - all are loosing to the ones like DO and Vultr in smb market. And while it looks irrelevant now, what stops DO etc. to scale up and offer more services? I bet if not due to their enormous growth rate, they would be already doing this but for a year or two they must focus more on scaling rather than increasing number of products. Once they are ready AWS/Google will be forced to either buy DO for crazy money or rethink their documentation, offering, approach, business model etc.
I agree. Which is why I do not understand how anyone can claim Windows is not "closed source" in the sense of the opposite of "open source", as that term is commonly understood in this forum. Maybe they were being sarcastic?
Depends. I buy groceries every two weeks and get two bags of fresh spinach. I freeze one and leave the other in the vegetable crisper. So the first week it's all fresh, the second week it's frozen.
That's really cool! Here's a similar study that showed pigeons could "learn" the solution to the Monty Hall problem
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/com/124/1/1
The whole point of this problem is that it is counter-intuitive for humans -- but I don't think birds naturally have intuition for this kind of problem, so they solve it without bias, purely from observed probabilities.

I wonder if it's useful to think of pigeon learning like a machine learning algorithm -- after being shown examples of images that are classified according to some relatively simple but unknown boolean function, the pigeons can predict the value of that function on new examples.
Still very much relevant in Java if you don't want your GC to churn like mad.

Heck even some of the cache aware algorithms can be taken advantage of with some smart use of ByteBuffers to get a 10-50x improvement in performance.
I think its a little premature to worry about NextBSD in the context of PC-BSD. PC-BSD has brought some stuff from OpenBSD over, but I it doesn't sound like they do stuff without proof of working.

I guess Linux has SystemD and the BSDs have NextBSD to be fearful of.
You're welcome :). The site is beautiful.

I also want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing an Atom feed and a visible link to it!
Survey says: Who owns DevOps strategy?
I've been using the unofficial fork[0] that uses Websockets instead of google stuff. Been working awesome for me.

There's even an fdroid repository[1] you can add to track libreSignal apks.

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[0] https://github.com/JavaJens/TextSecure
[1] https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/
Don't be afraid to run -CURRENT on a laptop!
Or even the graphics team's testing branch, which already has Haswell accelerated graphics support: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-base-graphics/tree/drm-i9...

About 3rd party packages: FreeBSD ports are always current, binary packages are available as quarterly and current. With OpenBSD, it's all frozen on release, and you basically have to run -CURRENT to get recent packages.

The OpenBSD team is working on a hypervisor too: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20151101223132

ZFS + jails + DTrace though… :-)
You can do that with HTTP too, check out the cache manifest.
I get that this is an interesting datapoint in the global economy, but how is this at all related to Hackernews?
Since the doctor's recommendation. Kale seems to have slightly more nutrients, but, IMO, at to great a cost too taste.
Fantastic trip down memory lane!

A few years ago I set up an emulated bbc econet network using images of my old server disks we hacked in school.

My friend and I got suspended for hacking the network, giving ourselves extra storage (a massive 200k) and remotely changing our computer ID to make it appear that it had been done from the teachers own machine.

It drove him crazy. Sorry Mr Pollard.

We only got caught 'cos one of our friends told a guy who blabbed.

great days.
No, these kinds of tools are not designed for real-time signal processing. It is possible to build real-time signal processing software that accurately models physical circuit behaviors, you just need to optimize for computational throughput and latency to make it practical.

For audio processing in particular, accurately simulating physical circuit designs is resurrecting a lot of classic hardware in virtual form. CPUs have enough computational power now to implement very convincing circuit emulations in real-time.
Good comment from the site:

We need to look past the religious overtones of these attacks, and address the underlying attraction these groups have toward the poor and disaffected youth who find these homicidal groups so irresistible. The message of violence toward Westerners is easy to understand when you're looking at people whose culture is defined by the kind of wealth you'll never achieve. The fabric of these groups is poverty and hopelessness; Islam is the barest thread that holds them together.
Empower, don’t disrupt
The state of telepresence: Healthcare and telemedicine
Sure, but it's a tradeoff between authentication and speed, in which many people may want to choose speed.
I'm not a mental health professional but I suffer from depression. It's not an extreme case but it's still quite painful. I urge you to continue striving to throw off that grey veil that shrouds life. I can assure you that the first glimpse of brightness and clear vision will come, even after weeks of crushing hopelessness.

Even when my brain's biochemical state is fucked and broken and makes me want to hide and disappear, I can remember that it will change and I will feel better and that I do have some degree of control over it. You seem very self-aware, which is an enormous challenge when one is depressed. That means that you have one of the tools to escape depression. Remember that.

It may sound trite, but fuck it. Just keep on going. You will feel better.

Edit: If you can, try to find a professional counselor or psychiatrist. If nothing else, they're exceptionally good listeners.
That one is quite the evergreen (and probably needs a '2007'):

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=what%20every%20programmer%20sh...
Very interesting post, thank you!
DV SSL certificates are not effective counter-measures for phishing or scammers. That's one of major advantages of EV certificates.

EV SSL (instead of the green lock) appear as the company name in a green bar (see GitHub, Stripe etc). Almost all financial institutions use EV for any account handling (in fact I think it's technically against regulation for a CA to offer DV to those).

The downside to EV is that it isn't free - the validation is much stronger and actually requires (human) resources and time to validate that the domain (and buyer of the cert) represents a government-recognized company/organization.
You have to sign up so you can pay real money for virtual goods!
Thanks - I'll check this out.
Reporting Diversity for Devpost Teams
Ah! You're right - I forgot to do that (although it looks like a Mod did it for me after the fact).

I've been a 64'er for decades but only just recently have dipped my toes into Amiga waters. I picked up a N.O.S. (never sold or used) A1200 - NTSC version - and am preparing to give it a couple of upgrades. Looking forward to playing around with it.

I found the Racketboy article immensely interesting (even though I didn't agree with all of it).