skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are various means airports employ to get rid of stray birds. Unfortunately, most won't be effective against stray drones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike#Countermeasures
It would be pretty impressive if an algo existed which found most of the terrorists with relatively few false positives.

If you look at a population in the hundreds of millions and the set of terrorists planning an attack, maybe in the dozens (?), you need a pretty powerful test if you're to inconvenience fewer terrorists than ordinary people.

And that doesn't even touch on the issue of whether it's right to do so if it works.

Has anyone here worked on similar identification algorithms? The closest I can think of is a friend of mine who markets drugs for extremely rare conditions. But then those people tend not to be hiding and can be approached via search keywords.
Elon Musk wants to personally interview software engineers for Autopilot
That's one advantage that urban planners have. These people don't need to be upper-middle class by income. They just need to be trendy culture-wise and support the development of safe, fun neighborhoods. I have a friend in Brooklyn who pays $500/month to share a large 1 bedroom apartment with 2 other guys (all in the same room). He works at a bicycle repair shop and participates in a ton of neighborhood activities. He isn't upper middle class, but he is promoting gentrification of the neighborhood. (Unfortunately for him, that gentrification will eventually force him out unless he improves his income or purchases property.)
Especially stop Web/JS stuff from chewing through battery and shoving everything else on the device out of RAM. If you expect users to be in your "app" more than a couple minutes a day (and it is in fact an app, and not just information presentation), please use native.
> Anybody who has ever had the grace of managing IPTables on Linux

Nowadays few people manage IPTables directly. Long ago I used to maintain my own convoluted scripts (ipfwadm, ipchains, iptables...) but once I discovered Shorewall I never looked back - multi-interface multi-VLAN rounting setups can now be sanely managed from the comfort of very readable configuration files.
No questions. Although as UI Designer/Developer with 10 years experience under my belt, I have to say I'm in love with site's design. If the content matches in caliber, we're in for a treat.

Best of luck!
On that note, I'm currently on Debian Stretch which has a Linux 4.2 kernel and consequently great support for nftables (iptables replacement).

I never truly grokked iptables but configuring nftables reminded me of putting up a pf firewall on OSX. In fact, I'd say it was even easier. The docs could be a tad bit better, but the actual format itself is intuitive and easy to understand.

I'd highly recommend it over iptables if one has the chance.
That's a good idea, though I think I'll probably get a lot of grumbling. I know one person who has both an iphone and a samsung (and previously a crackberry) that has had the same issues with both tmo and att. His experience is slightly better in that he gets some reception but suffers a good amount of drops.

Prior to using the Samsung Focus my father had a moto feature phone and generally was able to make calls over tmo.
This might be a silly question, but did you use your Coinbase account to conduct any illegal transactions? The team there really cares about customer experience, so generally if they are ignoring you it's because your account has some connection to illegal/banned activity, which they can't disclose due to ridiculous financial laws.
Are there significant differences in usability between BSD jails and LXC?
Yahoo used to run largely on FreeBSD, at least up to the mid 2000s. Wonder whether they still use it.
Great name! I'm wondering if this will be like Reddit's Upvoted trying to surface interesting content from Hacker News, or if this will be focused on allowing submissions and collecting ideas to distribute as a publication? Looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.
>We're overvaluing SQFT, and way undervaluing land

This is exactly it!

We are seeing a ton of individuals who are not wealthy, even if they have a strong income. They are buying into the idea of paying these crazy rent prices to stay "connected" or in the "heart" of the urban areas. Access to these things is not granted by housing, you can attend every fancy nightclub, restaurant and bar while living 15min away in a drastically larger/cheaper living arrangement.
Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code?
It's not a substantial worry that would distract from building a successful product ...

However, after thinking about it some more and realizing the tax benefits are murky at best, I agree it's probably not worth doing.
That's pretty hand-wavey. All databases can be made to lose all guarantees under failure conditions.
N+1. An image sharing serivce that is to HN what imgur is to Reddit. For posting screenshots of your startup's growth metrics.
You Don't Have to Do Anything
Looking forward to read great stories/articles from all partners.

That's something I wished I had the time for when I was in YC.. i.e. individually talking to each partners and learning about the previous startups and great stories they'd be willing to share. Hopefully we could read some of them on the Macro : )
How Scientists Can Thrive in the Startup World
I've been watching the spread between exchanges for a long time at https://cointhink.com/arbitrage/btc:usd and BTC-E is nearly always 'away' from the rest of the markets by 5% or more, and always less than the others. I assume there are significant hurdles to getting USD in or out of this Bulgarian exchange.
France is not totalitarian, at least for now, but their political system is statist with a tendency for enacting authoritarian policies without regard for individual liberties.

I have been following a lot of French people on Twitter following the terrorist attacks and I didn't sense from them any caution or worries of giving the govt and security forces a carte blanche with the state of emergency and even for the upcoming constitutional referendum.

They seemed very naive and trust their government blindly to the point of trading their freedom for the illusion of safety and not learning the hard lesson endured by their American peers with the Patriot Act and the ensuing mass surveillance following the 9/11 attacks.
What you said can be applied to anything:
"most people don't use programming languages, they use programming languages to GET STUFF DONE".

If everyone strictly followed this we wouldn't be using any programming languages other than Java or Python.

Using FreeBSD does not preclude you from getting stuff done, but you do need to have an inclination to try out new (for you) things in your machines right now. It takes some critical mass of enthusiastic adopters (not sure what this number is, but it's there) for your statement to start applying to a wider audience. And from this articles perspective, this critical mass needs to know servers well enough.
There has always been deviants, and there have always been two kind of deviants: the ones that figure out how to blend with the masses while retaining their identity, and the ones that meet sad ends at the wrong side of a pitchfork.
Why “being inspired” SUCKS
If someone stole 5% of all the world's fiat currency from an unregulated, uninsured financial institution (Which in that sense was no different from any other BTC exchange... So it's not like anyone had better options.) with customers not getting any recourse, that would be a disaster for fiat currencies.

At least, it would be an unmitigated disaster for the Wild West style of regulating fiat currencies.

People hold BTC businesses to a higher standard because after your BTC is stolen by 'hackers' in an ex-Soviet republic, you have absolutely zero recourse. They hold BTC to a higher standard because no individual in the fiat world siphoned off a trillion dollars into his accounts last year. They hold BTC to a higher standard because the companies operating in the space absolutely refuse to properly protect their customers.
Baltic Dry Index Falls Below 500 for First Time
Excellent aesthetic.

HN looks charmingly terrible. TM pays homage to it, but is significantly better looking.

Well done, designer.
Shame they removed 80% of the functionality.
Here's why Telegram is important: it is the only communication service with mass worldwide adoption that isn’t backed by a corporation, venture capitalists, or a government.

Everything else—including the company's cocky and downright insulting attitude—doesn't matter nearly as much. I actually think a lot of what they say gets lost in translation.

We recently integrated with Telegram (without their knowledge, support, or blessing, of course—because Telegram), which sent me on a little research journey. Results are here: https://sameroom.io/blog/announcing-support-for-telegram/
I would like to open source it, but I wouldnt be able to support the project if there is no revenu flow for me or the team I build.
What problems did you have with Java on FreeBSD?

I've done Java, Scala, and Clojure development on FreeBSD and had no problems whatsoever.
Thank you! Kevin Hale (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevin) is the designer/developer. I love it too.
DBMonster benchmarks of recent React, Ember 1 and 2 and Incremental DOM libraries
You cannot represent file paths as inode numbers if you support hardlinks.
My general way of balancing this is not the allowed/forbidden model, but more the public health model, including things like licensing and insurance.

For example, I think people should be free to play all they want with explosives. But given that explosives are subtle and dangerous, I think it's reasonable to require that people using them be licensed, including extensive practical exams, and that they be properly insured, which may include insurance company inspections and the like. They're welcome to make the choice to light any given fuse, but given the potential consequences it should be an informed, responsible choice that has fully accounted for the consequences.
Haven't had a chance to read the articles yet, but I'm a fan of how well designed the site feels while still feeling like I'm on hacker news. That slight motion on the tab hover states feels very nice and the large orange block of text is great. I can't help but read the headline.
Y Combinator looking for a Hacker
Which you won't get a discount on if you buy with BTC.

Meanwhile, I get 1-3% cashback...
Well, they did enable government to implement those surveillance programs. It was already in the works, but terrorism is a wonderful pretext (along with paedophilia, Nazism, and starving authors).
ClojureScript and SQL to build apps
Are you saying you are unaware of any program that can post text to a web server that is "small"?

If all you are aware of is large software, then your statement that "All software is large" makes more sense.

"All software is not as large as Microsoft's software."

Would you agree with that?
This is indeed true, systemd was the one thing triggered me to check with BSD again after quite a few years.

Netbsd used to be the embedded BSD flavor, but comparing to linux it's nearly nothing these days. linux thrived in the embedded OS space and pushed aside QNX, OS9, Vxworks, WinCE and NetBSD.
Just a word of warning, Jordan Hubbard and Kip Macy work for iXsystems and are pushing for both PC-BSD and FreeNAS to move to NextBSD, which is basically bringing half of OS X into FreeBSD. (Probably inspired by Jordan's days of working at Apple.)

Which many people, including myself, feel is a disastrously bad idea (ex http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/26/0/). It has a lot of similarities to Linux and systemd.

As such, I've switched to recommending people just go with FreeBSD lately. It's a bit of work, but with some helpful guides, you can help people avoid most of the pitfalls (ex http://files.byuu.org/temp/os/freebsd-10.html). And once you learn the basics, you'll be in a great position to administer your system going forward.
Criminals do much more actual harm to society, and yet no is calling for local police to have access to everyone's email and phone records.

Imagine how many crimes local police could prevent if they did have access? Unlike finding small terrorist cells among tens of millions of people, busting local criminals is very easy if you can spy on their communication.

They could probably save thousands of children from serious abuse. They could definitely save some people from being murdered.

And yet, it's still not worth it because we would be living in a police state, not a free society.
> Can only host one site per IP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

The rest of the excuses are basically 'it's not 100% perfect some of the time so why bother any of the time.'
Why isn't there a comments section in the articles? :P

I'm surprised here isn't a link to the analogous HN thread, at the least. (Akin to the implementation in Reddit's Upvoted)

Relatedly, there should be an official bot (like whoishiring) to auto-submit themacro.com links to HN anyways to avoid race conditions for Karma.
Historically, the term colophon was also used to indicate the brief statement at the end of a book with details about how it was printed.
Interesting that the Wolfram Language is very much a LISP dialect, with the syntax swizzled a bit here and there to be a bit more human readable.

Also his Riffle example is thinking about the problem the wrong way round. It looks like he tried to turn code into english, when it should be the other way around. Here is an actual english version:

1. Start with a purple square
2. Clone the square, rotate it by 0.1 radians and scale it to fit the previous square
3. Also alternate the colour between purple and yellow.
4. repeat clone process until square is just a dot in the middle of the screen

Note how easy it was to understand what I meant, and yet a computer would fail at so many of the instructions: scale how? how to test if it fits? alternate whose colour? repeat what steps? 'clone process'? clone same square or newest created square? what defines a dot? screen? middle?

All these ambiguities we can solve, but a computer cannot hence why our programming languages are so specific to the point of cognitive overload. Also none of his later examples show to me that Wolfram is better than English, unless of course you use wolfram daily (as he 'the creator' likely does/did), in which case you're brain is already optimized to read it...

This isn't even mentioning that language is only part of how we communicate. We can often leave so much out because our visual system, body movements, previous experiences, memory and other senses fill in the rest.
Soo... which were prevented? These must somehow end up as court cases eventually, right?

Didn't think so.
Here's PF from a VPS running FreeBSD (slightly changed): https://gist.github.com/atmosx/1d4bf8ad42d0447cb415
Z is not what the employer and I can produce together. Z is what I and other employees produce when working together. The employer itself is just a thin layer of leadership that gets way more compensation then it deserves.

The reason why employers get an unfair share is due to strategic and organized negotiation. They utilize the might of the entire organization itself to negotiate salaries with each individual employee. Unions are designed to counteract this unfairness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Y6CIyyBcI

That's what the money is for
Completely with you on the general gist, but a few points:

1. It's not just LLs who have an incentive to keep supply down; it's homeowners too. And banks, and estate agents (realtors), and builders, and media that relies on property advertising, and policians wanting votes and/or donations from any of the above. Anyone with a vested interest in higher prices has an incentive to constrain supply.

2. I don't think reduced buying decreases new build directly; a lot (most) of new-build here in London is being bought to rent (or even bought to leave empty while waiting for capital gains). Supply constraints are coming from all the people in point 1.

3. Various countries have failed in various specifics, but I think the overall driver for this worldwide is pretty clear: the Great Recession and resulting drive to "zero interest rates forever". The ultimate encouragement to take on ballooning mortgage debt, sending prices into the stratosphere and drawing in speculators, while at the same time punishing most non-parasitic forms of saving via financial repression.
SSX, the original and "Tricky" titles! I'm off to find old PS2 disks now.
Why can I still not flag a video that is obviously copyright theft?
Neither. I'm not trying to import drama off-forum, so I'm not going to specify.
Reading that article reminds me of the Montessori system, which did get developed using scientific methodology.

They seem to differ in a few aspects: Montessori is an early education system, and it does aim to develop specific skills (fine/motor and sensorial skills, and eventually reading and writing). But the two seem similar in that they empower the children to choose their own activities.

Rather than dictating specific activities following a schedule, Montessori structures learning by providing a large variety of "materials" (basically mini-puzzles that challenge a specific sensorial/motor skill with increasing levels of difficulty), and letting children choose their own activities. The teacher takes a passive observer role, merely demonstrating how activities are done (e.g. sorting sticks in order of length)

The rationale is that children are naturally curious and can frequently get into the "flow" with a puzzle.

Wikipedia has this to say about studies:

"A 2005 study and associated review concluded that Montessori education results in comparable (but not higher) academic achievement to traditional approaches. The review also concluded that studies have found no detectable differences in personality as a result of attending Montessori schools.[25] The study of the public high school in the Milwaukee Public Schools found that Montessori students, aged 3–11, outperformed control groups on maths and science,[26] and that Montessori had some of the largest positive effects on achievement of all programs evaluated.[27] Another study that compared the academic achievement of 543 urban 4th- (n=291) and 8th- (n=252) grade students who attended Montessori or traditional education programs failed to support the hypothesis that enrollment in a Montessori school was associated with higher academic achievement.[28]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education#Studies

I'd be curious to see more studies w/ montessori+sudbury education compared to traditional (especially considering many "montessori" schools nowadays have mixed methodologies that differ from the original methodology developed by Maria Montessori)
HN is the comments section, I guess.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127001/linux-lxc-vs-...
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about this stuff.

Would they be able to run these MCMC chains in a way that perhaps progressively renders results at greater and greater accuracy? Then they could get some initial "low resolution" results and they wouldn't necessarily have to wait for weeks, but the full data will eventually be available.
Proteus IV always hated this idea and I have to agree. Man can do too much damage under the sea. Imagine the open pit mines and their pollution able to directly contaminate the water.
Strategy, not technology, drives digital transformation
Same here, although the description of chimps hunting was a bit disturbing.
Ugh. Google's idea of "normal performance management" is what the civilized world calls "fascistic". It's pretty disgusting that, in the 21st century, execs are OK with a performance review system in which rape slang (threats like "take you into the Perf room" and people with sub 3.0 scores being called "pillow biters") is the norm.
Wonderfully vague on details. Two of the harder issues to emulate are the weird floating point and the gpu. Floating point on the PS2 is slightly different from ieee754 (no infinite, different rounding), and emulating it using a standard Intel/AMD cpu is extremely slow. (I have an idea to speed it up using doubles, and I'm curious how Sony has solved this). The SPU's on the PS3 have the same weird floating point, so this made emulation easier.

One other problem is the slightly unique gpu in the PS2, called the Graphic Synthesizer (GS). The gpu in the PS3 was not able to emulate it, just because it is so different. (More specifically, the GS has 32 bit z index, and scissoring is different.) Sony had to include an actual GS in the PS3 for PS2 emulation. They took this out to make it cheaper, and this is when they lost PS2 emulation. I believe modern GPU's are flexible enough to emulate the GS, especially since Sony has access to the complete GPU.
This is useful when the file name gives the shell coniptions, such as when you are trying to remove a file named * or \ or $ or - . Anytime I see a file like that, I don't even try and figure out how to convince the shell/rm to properly escape the characters, I just switch back to the inode approach.

But yes, doesn't help for filenames that are too long.
I liked the article. Slowly more and more reach that point on the on-line adoption curve to start realizing some sort of shark jump point exists. In my older age, I've learned its called "boredom", and it's a way of your conscience telling you there is more to life.

Also, gray text on white background promotes illiteracy. Just learn to say no. It's very paux west coast.
As someone who used to work at Coinbase, hopefully I can shed some light on this.

First of all, Bitcoin should not be seen primarily as a currency, but as a protocol. Therefore, bitcoin does not need to increase in value for it to be successful, and in the long term the price is irrelevant. Bitcoin can be used as a medium of exchange without regard to the price, and many people at Coinbase believe in this future (rather than bitcoin becoming a widely used currency held directly by end users, at least in the near future).

Secondly, many people at Coinbase believe deeply in the decentralized (and potentially anonymous/privacy-focused) aspects of using bitcoin as a currency (myself included). However, bitcoin cannot be successful as a currency unless it is easy to exchange between bitcoin and your local currency, and bitcoin won't gain worldwide acceptance until it is easy to (a) exchange bitcoin and (b) spend bitcoin. Therefore, Coinbase's primary goal is to make buying and selling bitcoin as easy as possible, so that we can enable a future where financial privacy is optional (versus today, where it is basically inescapable).
- Bitcoin<->Dogecoin<->CAD
- Bitcoin<->Dogecoin<->EUR
- Bitcoin<->Dogecoin<->BHT
- Bitcoin<->Dogecoin<->HKD
- Bitcoin<->Dogecoin<->AUD
That will basically prohibit using most of C++ STL, for example. Premature optimization is the root of...
They do output an early tax document.
BaDumChh and the Beloved Retro ‘Apps’
> I feel like it is a fair/valid argument to support expanded/enhanced wiretapping of those with warrants ("known perps").

If the police have a warrant then they can tap your phone, bug your house, install a hardware keylogger on all your devices, etc. etc. That has been the case forever and nobody is objecting to it.

The objection is to warrantless surveillance and mandatory backdoors.
Ah, I see. Ok, normally the 'colofon' pages I'm familiar with - especially with publications like periodicals - will include that info but only as an afterthought or a footnote, the 'meat' is the details behind the publisher, addresses, people involved (editor) and so on.
Historically, you're right, but it strikes me that I haven't read a book in the last ten years whose labeled colophon didn't focus on typesetting. Of course, all the publication information is in the front matter, just not labeled in the same way.
They have mostly moved away from it.