skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author's remark on Twitter reads to me as if she has been waiting for an opportunity to criticize pg's recent essay.[0]

There doesn't really seem to be a fair basis for the author's criticisms of The Macro, seeing as The Macro has just launched. Edit: article's flagged so whatever, but to complete my own thoughts… It strikes me as uncharitable to attack this new project based on one essay, and unfair to demand an organization change for the better but attack it before it can attempt change.

[0] "Finally got to talk about that ridiculous Paul Graham essay." (https://twitter.com/lhockenson/status/667786124165705728)
She runs through a Swedish hotel – made of ice
Both have an easy CLI setup:

http://wp-cli.org/

There are solutions catering to SAAS/application-specific hosting for both. Wordpress.com / Drupal Gardens as well as containers and configurations scripts you can use to get a jump start.

Both have similar philosophies in the sense you can login and immediately start switching on modules/extensions you want to use. Both are CMS.
Got it ... sorry ...
Your last statement is not necessarily true.

That's the funny thing about startup valuations; they are not an apples-to-apples comparison to a public market. In fact, a savvy investor may be willing to invest $100M at a $25B valuation knowing full well there will never be a liquidation event worth $25B. It all depends on the deal terms (preferences, ratchets, etc.).

It's entirely rational to invest $XM at $YB valuation when your deal terms stipulate a minimum return of ($XM * 1.25), regardless of valuation.
> Iran is way more whiter than US, EU and KSA

What is your reasoning behind this claim?
> I think the US/Iran resentment goes back a bit further, roughly to the time that Iran took a whole pile of US hostages that were held for more than a year.

But that didn't happen in a vacuum either. The U.S. engineered or facilitated the overthrow of a mostly democratic Iranian leader in 1953, and put in his place a mini-dynasty of dictators who brutally oppresssed Iranians, with U.S. support, until that day in 1979. I'm not saying the Iranians should have taken those innocent Americans hostage but they didn't pick the American embassy and take hostages in a random act of violence.

... and I'm sure the 1953 coup didn't happen in a vacuum either.
I used Drupal (6 and 7) in a small bank (80/100 internal users, 500+ financial advisors), building the external public site and also a an internal site used mainly to share documents, modules, faq etc.. with the network of advisors.

It replaced a commercial solution bringing more clarity (but that was also thanks to stricter rules in place defining types of docs, fields etc..), better graphic appeal (but just because the previous one was really crap) and also great search experience thanks to Apache Solr.

As I am a sysadmin, not a developer, I used all built-in modules except one that I modified in order to integrate the authentication with another business system via webservices (only code I developed). As I am also not a graphic, I worked with an external one (that prepared design in PSP so it was a bit a pain to convert it to template)

At that time (2009 I think) I reviewed few other options (WP, ezPublish, plone) but I chose Drupal because the authorisation system with roles etc.. was much more powerful than WP one.
> A huge portion of the GHC compiler is written in C.

Is it? I thought it was written in Haskell. Or are you referring to the GHC runtime?
The US only imports about 15% of crud oil and related products (such as gas) from Saudi Arabia. 70% is non-OPEC, and 40% is from Canada [1]. At the same time, the US produces roughly the same amount that it imports [2]. So at this point in time, the US no longer needs the Middle East for oil.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_...

[2] http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MC...
I think most westerners think of freedom as the ability to do what you want when you want. This means freedom of speech, freedom to travel, freedom of censorship, freedom of dress codes.

I'm not claiming other nations are completely free, they're not. But Iran is free? Not even close.
thenextweb.com keeps auto scrolling up, and served me fullscreen javascript popup, quality place.
It's closed source.
Hotpoint Indesit are set to Recall some Aquarius tumble dryers due to Fire risk
Hey this is Matt from the Convox team. I'm happy to answer any questions about Grid (what it is, why we built it), Convox, or AWS/Docker in general.
That's an incredibly biased source; I wouldn't quote it in a reasonable discussion.
The new design, as far as I can tell, is per-user and not per-repo. So this link does not effectively exhibit the new design.

I could see the new design as my current logged-in user but I saw the old design when I used incognito mode.
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
> The fact that Iran's society is relatively advanced does little to console the families of the 1100 American soldiers

US killed a lot more of the American soldiers since. You make it seems like 1000 US soldiers' concerns somehow makes huge difference in the overall geopolitics. That is just propaganda.

Many of those solders were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan invasion. Others were sent home traumatized mentally and physically.

> soldiers killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq

In general mentioning "killing by proxy" and US in the same comment is not a good idea if it is supposed to support the US position. US has killed by proxy a lot more and supported brutal regimes and dictators for many decades on almost all continents.
> As for the Shah, he was very much there with the support of the oil industry, but that doesn't make him all bad. He wanted to make Persia a modern state and in doing so upset the Mullahs

IIRC, he oppressed, imprisoned, tortured and killed people in large numbers, for decades.
At some point, we're going to need to decide what's more important: tech startup revenue/profits or quality of life.
OK, as you're an Android developer, I understand where you're coming from. However, Android users in 2015 pay hundreds of dollars for phones that can barely manage 4-5 hours of on-screen time. That is due to many factors, but users have a right to question if background app activity is to blame. Usually there isn't much quantitative information to work with, but in this case, we do have some. And it's sparked an informative discussion on HN, so I think people have benefited overall.

As for their opinion of the Priv, it's an opinion, and there have been varying opinions about it in the tech press. The way your comment was phrased, it sounded like your disagreement with their Priv review was a factor in your evaluation of their Whatsapp article.
For a moment I thought you were suggesting they produce something like N+1 Magazine (https://nplusonemag.com/), which is a pretty awesome publication.
Great comapanies can cover running costs. These are just placeholder companies on life support systems.
Most likely this site: http://portableapps.com/ which is running D7 <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)" />, mentioned on his HN handle.

His blog also running D7 with 2 posts on Drupal, nothing on scale that I noticed quickly.
http://johnhaller.com/development
This is my impression too. Half the people at npm seem more focused on social justice than making npm a better package manager.
Our mall is cockroach ridden and dying. If I had my way, I'd close all the existing stores in it (JC Penny's and a shoe store). They would relocate to downtown Palatka. The mall itself would be full handed over to Government offices.

Presently there are a few government or government related presences in the mall.
50 Watts, the phone is in same room.
More VW Vehicles Have Emissions-Software Issues
This Is How We Know a Supernova Is Coming in 2016
> similar to how people often communicate only in Emoji.

When you have examples of emoji being used to communicate on anything resembling the level of a real language, I'll buy that argument. But currently even synthetic languages like Toki Pona or Esperanto are capable of far more communication than Emoji.
A bit difficult to say about minimum costs as I moved with my wife, and we both work on senior engineering positions. I agree with atroyn - 1.5k would be enough. Remove about 40 percent from your brutto salary, and this is more or less what you ll have after the taxes.
Would be great for someone to connect a browser plugin that somehow highlights exceptional comments that might be hidden. Maybe people > X,000 karma get to highlight one a day.

Ideally it would also highlight ones that were featured on The Macro
> > I don't hate Emoji or anything

> Yes, yes you do.

Was this necessary?
The Internet of Things is broken. How to fix it and why we should
Sweden is constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy - more like the UK than Singapore.
We're in violent agreement!
Because afterward you only need to send about 4 bytes, instead of multiple KB, because the other end already has the image and just needs the serial?
Cache manifest has been deprecated in favor of app cache
It's still light years ahead of what you get with any defaults on CMS system.

I always found Gawker's site and comment system to be quite nice. Though I miss the "old days" back in say 2011.

Who is the competition?

Does anyone know what platform runs sites like Breitbart.com and US Today? I see similar layouts on other websitse.
part of that could be risk aversion but a lot of it is just the fact that screenwriting is a skill. Everyone wants to be a screenwriter so we are used to (believe it or not) only seeing the top tiniest fraction of a percent of material ever make it to development. Basically almost everyone who can write a great screenplay is already trying to sell it through traditional means.
Let 'em. With something like Let's Encrypt that uses an API to sign domains on the fly, I'm having a hard time thinking of a use case that would be appropriate for wildcards but not appropriate for this.

WC certs are already a ripoff anyways.
> If you don't think that emoji is an expressive language then you may have missed a few years of internet history. ;)

If you think emoji is an expressive language, then I'd like you to make an argument toward that point in emoji.
If only there were a YC startup for that :) http://genius.it/themacro.com
But what do you do in a typed language? For example, suppose you have modules A and B, which depend on module C. Let's also say that module A has a function foo that return a value of type C.t, and module B has a function bar that accepts a value of type C.t.

Now let's say that module A is depending on version 1.0.0 of module C, and module B is depending on version 1.5.2 of module C.

Does B.bar(A.foo()) still work? Is type t the same in C version 1.0.0 and 1.5.2?
I've been juicing Spinach daily to great effect.
10 years at INLD / PEER1. The shopping mall was the final nail in the coffin of the idea that I might ever move to SAT and jump ship to Rackspace.
http://ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html

has just enough fields, features, and customization to be useful but not overwhelming.
I'm of the view that property rights are an important component of civil rights. I think the constitution is on my side given the fourth amendment.

It's interesting that on HN I see near universal support for the freedom to smoke pot in one's home, or to live with a same-sex partner, or replace a lawn with a rock garden, or to have our communications remain private.

But when it comes to letting someone crash on your couch in exchange for a few bucks, suddenly there are calls for a full-scale invasion of privacy and limitation of what one can do in their own home, in order to protect one's neighbors from... what exactly?

Obviously property rights have reasonable limitations, but is Airbnb really such a case? If you have a neighbor that is hosting a bad guest, then surely the bad behavior is the problem (and probably already illegal).
The US was also big time friend of the previous guy...
It catches the error, but doesn't solve the problem, because now you can't write the program you intended to write.
> And what are dingbat typefaces if not emoji under an other name? Nobody cared when unicode added U+2701 UPPER BLADE SCISSORS and U+273B TEARDROP SPOKED ASTERISK.

Just because nobody complained doesn't mean that it wasn't a problem.
A better example is the timeless:

err := f1()
if err != nil {..} // have to do this or compiler error

err = f2()
// oops, forgot to actually do anything about it!

Now, granted, `go vet` helps with this, but.. these kinds of things can be solved by the language proper in much better ways, and they should be type errors. Like rust's `Result` or Haskell's `Either`.

Edit: rust's result is especially nice with #[must_use]. This has saved my team from mistakes relatively frequently.
Maybe you don't know Islam as much as I do , but at the very end , it is only about sex . When you look at it in that perspective you can understand ruining their culture to show them their whole religion was a lie is the best approach.

about bad foreign policy I completely agree.And that was my whole point . stop killing people and overthrowing regime in Islamic areas and change your policy to show them new way of life. better way and more pleasant way.
Yup, and now he has internalized racism toward Muslims. Psychology 101.
Which leads to the conclusion that without knowledge of the terms of the deal it is a bit of a weird thing to value the entire company based on that deal. Because such a deal should be discounted based on the terms not applying equally to the rest of the shares already created.
Yeah you're right, I had a poor definition of immaterial in my head.
FanDuel Told Employees Not to Win Too Much on DraftKings to Avoid Suspicion
I and many other fellow countrymen have had that experience with Itaú (largest bank in the southern hemisphere). Paypal seems to be a popular source of complaints regarding frozen accounts too.
What’s on the minds of computer programmers today? Security, security, security
Tehran is quite busy dealing with threats on all sides, whilst still trying to pursue its support of Hezbollah in Lebannon.

I think lessons learned in Iraq changed the calculus for Tehran and Washington. Keeping in mind there are at least 18m Sunni muslims in Iran vulnerable to ISIS message and good number of disaffected Shia, the focus may be on stability now.
I must be one of the minority that finds it offensive when people talk about limiting speech...
More like the Godfather, definitely not a dumb participant.
I'm wondering to which extent the uneven distribution of Tesla cars around the world lowers the cost of recalling them (i.e. I suspect 50% of them live in a 10-mile radius of Palo Alto :) )
I'm doing Caffe setups for learning on XRays...and I also feel like a pigeon going thru all the scripts. Now that's meta!
>Perhaps we'll be stuck with ZIRP for a bit longer :/

Given Japan's experience we'll probably have it for at least another decade possibly more.
How much experience do you have using wp-cli? Drupal/drush are a long long way off perfect but comparing drush to wp-cli is apples and oranges.

wp-cli is extremely brittle even for very simple download+install, produces very poor defaults in terms of file/directory permissions and general on-filesystem stuff, and this is before you get into things like drush's many other functions for general admin or its extensibility.

That is not a criticism of wp-cli's developers though, as about 99.9% of its limitations are down to the Wordpress core team's complete disinterest in accommodating its functionality well or in providing a codebase that fits into a modern deployment setup in any reliable, well-considered way.

The work done on wp-cli is really commendable: it seems to be battling against quite a tide.
That sounds like a classic engineers message - almost like its straight out of Musk's mouth. I dread to think how this is interpreted by someone with a less engineer-y mindset.

I doubt the average banker can do much with the phrase of "with a force of at least 80 pounds".

Sometimes I think companies should do dual PR releases. One that is mostly dataset/tech details and one that is fluffy PR.
Unfortunately there are two different concepts of "we" at play. The "we" who get pushed out of our neighborhoods by tourism-driven rent increases will most certainly not be the "we" who decide what's more important.
Patching Trump’s Disastrous Database Implementation
> freedom to smoke pot in one's home, or to live with a same-sex partner, or replace a lawn with a rock garden, or to have our communications remain private.

Those affect you.

> when it comes to letting someone crash on your couch in exchange for a few bucks

That scenario also only affects you, when you add the term 'occasionally'.

But if you live in a residential area and suddenly on four sides you find yourself with low-budget hotels with people coming and going at all hours and partying until 3 am because the owner of the apartment is absent when the guests are there then that is not a nice thing per-se and this is where your 'couch' starts to leak in to the lives of others around you.

So yes, AirBNB really can be such a case.
Your issuer could talk directly to your private wallet (e.g. on your phone or on server). You could preapprove requests coming from your issuer to be automatically executed so that there is no payment delay. This scenario would be somewhat similar to Direct Debit transaction and would require wallet software supporting automated requests.

Implementing interactive approval would be more difficult to integrate. Authorization systems typically respond pretty fast, so there might be automatic timeout in the payment chain (terminal, acquirer, schema network, issuer) if the transaction was waiting for your interactive confirmation.
Maybe some magic with initial pre-auth and subsequent post-auth attempts at regular intervals could work but would be no fun to implement either.
in order to protect one's neighbors from... what exactly?

Their lives being disrupted. There are enough horror stories out there that you'd have to try very hard to ignore them - short term renters simply do not care about community and shared spaces in the same way that long term residents do.

You living with a same-sex partner has absolutely no effect on my life. You renting out your apartment to tourists who are loud, disruptive and trash common property does. And yes, that behaviour is already illegal but it's incredibly difficult to secure any kind of prosecution for it.

I'm not suggesting that we should ban AirBnb here, but I think "it's all just property rights" is also a dramatic oversimplification in the opposite direction.
Time Series Analysis using iPython
It sounds to me like this would be applicable to something like an encrypted storage service where every object has a different key.
Albert Einstein’s Sci-Fi Stories
The "we" who votes is most important.
> 2^40 users encrypting the same message?

How about probably the single-most-encrypted block in history: 'GET http://www.g'?
FWIW, I created this site 7 or 8 years ago during my PhD, just as a way to keep track of and organize all the papers coming out in my research field. Happy to answer questions or comments if you have any.
Generic Programming in PureScript
Microsoft Research: The Calorie Myth and 6 Reasons Calorie Counting Is Crazy
The cache manifest is part of app cache.
Somebody from the oil industry complex just down voted me.
> But when it comes to letting someone crash on your couch in exchange for a few bucks, suddenly there are calls for a full-scale invasion of privacy and limitation of what one can do in their own home, in order to protect one's neighbors from... what exactly?

Are we talking about someone crashing on your couch? Or we talking about someone who converts their property into a perpetual short-term rental?
it was definitely fun after you got used to it. when I first checked out the stream and it was constant spam I felt really frustrated, until I could tell what was going on and my mind joined the hive ;)

but if you had a valid question, or wanted to try out a real conversation... nope
> Coinbase is insured against employee theft and hacking in an amount that exceeds the average value of online bitcoin it holds at any given time.

Key word there is "online", but it's better than nothing (see: Mt. Gox).

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/166237...
They constantly mention the safety of their cars as a selling point. It's not surprising that they want to take care of this as quickly as possible, before it damages the brand.
I think a more reasonable explanation is that the author of the article uses WhatsApp more than he realizes. It's possible that WhatsApp is maliciously polling your contact list all the time, but it's more probable that some views access your contact list and the article's author ended up on that screen very often.
Nice aggregation of papers. It would be extra nice to have embedded youtube videos for each of the papers. Half the fun of these graphics papers is the crazy videos they make.
I am absolutely fine in allowing foreign competition. But that is a decision the American people need to make, weighing the pros and cons. That cant happen when the primary banner is "Shortage." The conversation cannot be shortage, shortage, shortage. It should be honest: "we want to import more workers to reduce domestic salaries"

Of course foreign workers dont feel exploited -- if they did, they would not come here!
False: the card is inactive until someone activates it.
I didn't think there was any problem. Little did I realize my OS was running with U+2701 UPPER BLADE SCISSORS.
Mala tempora.
"Since the act of accepting a gift can create a sense of unfulfilled obligation on the part of the receiver, gifts are sometimes refused, depending on the situation."

This notion from an etiquette guide to foreign culture I think is relevant.
Nvidia TK1 Linux dev board now only $99
Don't be motivated by horror stories.

Airbnb has hosted over 40 million people. More people than the population of California.

I'm sure there are some bad experiences on Airbnb (and in California, where there are multiple murders every day) but are they statistically significant?
Software versions are broken
Yay, passed phase 1 readiness review. I am a bit surprised they could pass before they have the inflight abort test but hey this is a huge step forward.

I keep wondering if there will be a program where a group of 5 can hire a pilot/co-pilot and ride in a Dragon Crew into orbit. Spend the day there, and then fly home. If you are re-using the first stage at that point I can't imagine the cost is going to be more than a few million $ for each "astronaut".
Evolutionary perspective on raising intelligence (2013) [pdf]
I'm thinking of civil asset forfeiture.
I think that scientists in industry are usually desirable for their skill set rather than knowledge in their specific field of study. I bet that you would be able to find industry work in your general field, but, as you say, probably not in the specific subfield that you've studied so far (this is obviously somewhat unsatisfying for people who have dedicated years of their lives to studying something). Out of curiosity, what are you working on?
I wish this study would have first asked the question "Should the government be allowed to limit free speech?", record that answer, and then ask "Should the government be allowed to limit free speech if it is offensive?", record that answer, and then ask "Should the government be allowed to limit free speech if it is offensive to the majority or those that are "privileged" in some way?", record that answer, and then lastly ask "Should the government be allowed to limit free speech if it is offensive to minorities?"
Does the logo have anything to do with Lisp macros? : )
Yes, he did that too. (Especially to his opponents.) The keyword is 'SAVAK'. (See comment elsewhere in this thread). The Shah was a dictator in every sense of the word, but surprisingly, he had some good sides too.