skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the poor and remote province of Maramureş in the northern Carpathians, cut off by bad mountain roads from the rest of Romania to the south...

Sadly, even from the first sentence, this article is full of sensationalist, incorrect and exaggerated information.

I lived 20 years of my life in Maramureș - albeit in the city - and it is neither a poor region, nor remote, nor cut off by mountain roads from anything [1]. It's very hard to take anything in this article seriously.

It was a very sad and disappointing thing to read this morning about a beautiful region with friendly people and old traditions...

[1] http://tinyurl.com/q98g9g5 (google maps)
I seem to recall reading somewhere (I can't recall where unfortunately) that Ken Olsen was averse to letting people go, and when DEC was forced to downsize in the 90s, the redundancy packages were so generous that it cost the company more to lay people off than to retain them.
Url changed from https://gitlab.com/stepan-a-dynare/dynare, which points to this, which gives more background.
What is Peer-to-Peer Lending?
I'm using mutt and wish them all good luck.
Just started to read the book "Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School".

It basically starts with this "For starters, we are not used to sitting at a desk for eight hours a day. From an evolutionary perspective, our brains developed while working out, walking as many as 12 miles a day. The brain still craves that experience, especially in sedentary populations like our own. That’s why exercise boosts brain power (Brain Rule #1) in such populations. Exercisers outperform couch potatoes in long-term memory, reasoning, attention, and problem-solving tasks. I am convinced that integrating exercise into our eight hours at work or school would only be normal."
Sweet, thanks man!
> none of the zillion submitters had a chance of their script getting picked up.

Kinda sad given the redundant scripts that actually get produced. How many Batman remakes can it take to get really bored? How many Star Trek reboots? Hangover 15? Buddy cop movie? Zzzzzzz....
RoR just kind of works these days, what more is there to really say?. There is nothing more 'boring' than solid well tested technology that simply lets lots of people do their jobs in a predictable and well understood manner.
Gunmen take hostages at Radisson Blu hotel in Mali
I'd be interested to know more precisely whether the subjects were doing more aerobic or anaerobic exercises.

My hunch, given my distant past life as an athlete, is that the correlation is with aerobic exercise and not anaerobic.
I'm not sure you understand - I mean they won't actually provide an OpenCL runtime/compiler. It's not that the code won't be slower/less performant, it's that it won't actually be possible to run it at all.
inversely correlated I hope?
1.87m is around 6ft2, actually :)
I see that imperial units are still used because for many people it is too late to change (or they are just too stubborn). Teaching imperial units to kids, though, should be considered a crime.
mikekchar's rule of strategic incompetence: Never be really, really good at something that your don't want to do. Otherwise people will keep asking you to do it.

Corollary (and the useful bit): If you show yourself to be really, really good at something people will keep asking you to do it. If it's something you like, then you will be happy in your job.

In any job there are 1000's of things that need to get done that nobody is doing right now. It is a good investment to do some of the things that you enjoy and get really, really good at it. Over time you will find that it will become your job.
probably not if the headline is "Telegram probably isn't as secure as ISIS thinks"
Not for this kind of work. A self-flying drone isn't that much of a problem. They largely fly themselves already. The human operators are needed to evaluate the images coming from the drones, identify and prioritize targets and take the decision exactly where and when to attack. No AI in existence can automate those tasks.
Ask HN: What is the product of the year 2015?
As the year closes what does HN think ?
They did, which ended in February (https://telegram.org/blog/cryptocontest-ends) - I've also seen mention of a round 3 with even more relaxed rules due for around now, but I can't find it anywhere now.
It is for sure one way, but you have no idea how long it will take till somebody "picks you up". It might take few months or 5 years (or more), draining you of a lot of energy and time that you could spent actually having a life. Plus some people see good performers around as competition, depends how company is structured (ie if your manager is on same position/level you will be once promoted).

My example - I have colleague like that didn't do proper research before interview and agreed on ridiculously low salary for job&area. I started 1 year after him, negotiated properly (when you don't care that much if you get it or not, it's amazing position for negotiation). He works hard and is clever, right now he is my line manager and guess what - gradually he reached same salary as me. Since nowadays any of us could be fired anytime (or not, big multinational corp, you never know, people are fired frequently). So result - he puts 50% more effort, does endless meetings/documents and presentations that nobody enjoys doing, looks completely drained from energy. I do the same +-fun dev work that I enjoy with gradually more responsibilities, and am earning the same.

this all depends a lot on specific company, hierarchy, promotion processes, your specific boss etc. in good company for example, you discuss with your manager your desire for promotion, set objectives/expectations you should fulfill in incoming months, and unless there is promotional freeze (or you screw up), you'll get there.
There will be wars. Not just over what West has done to ME. It will be over money, water, power, etc etc.

And without those high tech weapons, a lot of warm bodies would be required to pick up a gun and shoot to kill. Close enough to see without the aid of zoomed image on a screen.

I'm talking beyond just what West has done or not. Or what ME has done.

It's terrible. But again, that's life.
> English excels at being precise and scientific.

That's false. Today English is the biggest language in terms of dictionary weight. English is the universal language, borrows terminology from other languages and modern sciences, which grow exponentially, use primarily English. Especially computer science.

That said, English tends to be less precise and hence less complex compared to other languages. For example 'love' vs 'in love' are used interchangeably and their meaning is not as precise as in other languages. Greek has totally different words to convey the meaning 'ΑΓΑΠΗ' (love) vs 'ΕΡΩΤΑΣ' (in love). Italian like English uses 'innamorato' vs 'amore', which again blurs the difference between the two.

Greek and Russian I believe are way more precise as languages than English will ever be. That's not to that a language is superior or inferior than the other. It's a matter of language design, I guess. I don't know about Japanese, Chinese, African and Arabic languages/dialects.

Bulgarian for example is a rather modern language, derives from Cyrillic and is grammatically very simple. Much simpler than Russian. But it's a complete language by all means.
I agree with what you’ve said. The solution structure, msbuild and the general tooling all seems a bit confused.

It doesn’t help that sometimes dubious tooling was pushed as the correct way to do things, for example runtime JavaScript minification (a.k.a. bundles).

I think generally they are trying phase out some existing tooling while trying to adapt Visual Studio to new tooling.

TLDR; Right tool for the job.
This is what Crossrail's trains will look like in 2017
Aaaand we're Godwined.

Soldiers follow orders. The Nazis followed orders. Therefore all soldiers are Nazis. Well done. Congratulations.

These people are not following orders 'whatever they are'. They're not attacking schools because the Taliban's leaders children go there, unlike oh, I don't know, say the Taliban who massacred 150 children at a school in Pakistan because soldier's children go there. They have rules of engagement defining how to determine if an order is legitimate and acceptable, which they are following, but of course the article never mentions that. Now fair enough, there are troubling incidents described in the article, but we're only get individual perspectives, nothing is really corroborated. I'd like to see more independent oversight of the drone programs. But flinging about Nuremberg analogies is hardly justified.
The real question is why are people glaciering small files?

Tar everything and send it up. And then do an incremental backup

Amazon charges per operation, reduce the number of operations
It would be extremely naive to think that wars will stop once the conflict with or in ME goes away. Once that ME problem goes away (however unlikely), something ELSE will come up to cause wars to start.

It could be water, economy, power.
Mali hotel attack: '170 hostages seized' in Bamako
Is it even possible to get more ridiculous?
Phuc Dat Bich posted his passport on Facebook to prove it was his real name
Well it kind of dismiss the idea that all infinities are not equal.
Russia?
This was Wednesday; on Thursday Dave says[1]:

> [A] noble death still requires people to manage a funeral. We're realistic — moving to npm is right thing to do. I want to get to a state where that's an easy transition.

[1]: https://twitter.com/desandro/status/667417324123774976 Mirror: http://cl.ly/image/1a3K3N2u2Z3g
Global Terrorism vs. The Western View
Cars are for humans, too.
The README sounds like it's describing Python's venerable iterator protocol. The example code looks like higher order functions and iterator composers from the standard functools and itertools modules. It should probably explain how this is different from those if the audience is Python programmers.
I totally agree on the 2020 goal: it seems totally really un-reasonnable to me too. You simply don't change a car-centric population in 5 years!

I commute by bike everyday, 10 km, in a medium city in the french alps. Every single day I encounter a situation where I am concretely in danger. French drivers suck and simply don't care about bike riders.

When you ride a bicycle in Berlin or Tokyo you truly sense what it's like to be actually considered, and it changes all your interface with the city!
PubNub Releases BLOCKS, Program Business Logic in Data Streams
Maybe I've had more than my share of bad bosses, but I don't really agree with you here. I must say, also, that in my experience, it does depend on the company size, culture and abilities of said managers more often than not (big, hierarchical companies tend to be worse at this kind of thing, also, banking and financial, not sure why).

- A good manager will notice, and appreciate, your effort. But promote you? You are one of his best tools, why should he? Usually he'll try everything he can to keep you where you are. If it's a bad manager, he won't even recognize your effort.

- Yes, unless you work with mixed teams or on different projects. In that case, two managers might end up fighting to get you on their teams and it might be a good thing for you.

- Nothing to say here, you are totally right, but depending on how you play your cards, the reward can come earlier. Only thing I'll point is that I've seen departments go to hell because managers failed to recognize this.

My tip would be to communicate. If you have free time, don't wait for your boss to assign you work and ask. If you see something else that you can be doing (sometimes there are features or bugs that could be worked together), say so, but always comunicate first and wait for your managers decision.

Of course, all this is IMHO and your results may vary.
I wish the article would list the domains that they found the extensions communicate with. The only example in the article is *.searchelper.com - I wonder if they all were sending traffic there, or if there were other collectors?

Knowing the domains would make it easier for users to discover if any systems on their network have been infected.
Texas Rejects Letting Academics Vet Public School Textbooks
Imperial units should be continued to be taught in English class as an interesting and archaic linguistic quirk that you need to be aware of as it will show up in a lot of older writings.
Wonder if there are any plans to make it asynchronous?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fac...

Certain types of physical exercise have been shown to markedly (threefold) increase BDNF synthesis in the human brain, a phenomenon which is partly responsible for exercise-induced neurogenesis and improvements in cognitive function

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

People who regularly participate in aerobic exercise have greater scores on neuropsychological function and performance tests. Examples of aerobic exercise that produce these changes are running, jogging, brisk walking, swimming, and cycling. Exercise intensity and duration are positively correlated with the release of neurotrophic factors and the magnitude of nearly all forms of exercise-induced behavioral and neural plasticity; consequently, more pronounced improvements in measures of neuropsychological performance are observed in endurance athletes as compared with recreational athletes or sedentary individuals. Aerobic exercise is also a potent long-term antidepressant and a short-term euphoriant; consequently, consistent exercise has also been shown to produce general improvements in mood and self-esteem in all individuals.
Cars need much more space and emit much more…stuff (noise, particles, you-name-it) than any other form of transport.
Already implemented and being tested.
Now, guns are not made for kittens too, no?
This is brilliantly cool, and utterly hypnotic. I still always wonder about implementations of genetic algorithms, though. In real life, from which inspiration has been taken, the phenotype is often radically affected by small changes in the genotype. In computer implementation of the concept this is rarely the case. The computer versions are small, clean, spare, and nowhere near as messy as the real life version.

I wonder if the messiness actually matters. I wonder if "optimization by genetic algorithm" would be significantly improved by using a more faithful algorithm.

========

Anyway, here's a previous discussion of this particular toy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5942757 (169 comments)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10596079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10134390

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5952145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226137

Also, genetic development of walkers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8911719 (74 comments)
Completely out of topic but: "...in a medium city in the french alps" When I read this I thought about Grenoble
The dumb-trick way to solve this is to use Robocopy with /PURGE to merge an empty directory with a parent of your non-deletable files. Somehow it manages to helpfully delete all the "extra" files.
Takes a somewhat different approach but if this appeals to you, you might like this too: http://muki.io/ (I think I saw it on HN a few weeks ago?)
Maybe it doesn't need to be fully automated? An 80% solution based upon ranking news outlets in terms of type (e.g. peer review journal, newspaper, blog, clickbait site etc) and 'reliability'/'reputability' could possibly be made. This could present you with a yes/no/find out more option.
You Never Know the Hipster Are into These Earphones
Successful demonstration of prototype universal robotic surgical system
Infographic: Internet Penetration in Iran
Teacher starts each day complimenting students one by one
Parasitic worm 'increases women's fertility'
As a cyclist (not an idealist though), I consider the major problem in France to be the infrastructure. A lot of people do not use their bike because it is dangerous in the cities and because there are almost no place to park your bike. I suppose it is because of the car culture as you said. It was not considered worth it to invest in it until recently.
That's kind of a managerial antipattern. True, if someone goes an extra mile and does something outside her direct responsibilities, it is tempting to reward that person with more of the similar tasks in the future. But in the long run this only leads to resentment and curbing of initiative. More experienced managers will find ways to reward this kind of contributions.

Also true that employees need to be smart about it. No need to volunteer for unglamorous drudge work, better do something that is perceived to be valuable.
The study controls for genetics and upbringing. So somewhere among food, fitness, and the entire rest of the world is a contributor to brain health. How helpful is that?
JetBrains Toolbox, all I can I can eat for £119 / year.
Not if electrical (and also air transportation is the pollution champion – not that we should stop flying). As for space — space is a market product. If space is at premium, people should pay more, e.g., by paid car entrance into downtown.
A number of intelligence services with growing budgets would be happy to invest in such an app.
Watercress is about $2.49 to $2.99 for a bag with four servings in it. That's not prohibitive. A real problem is it's hard to find watercress, and anecdotally I see it more in upscale stores than in regular supermarkets in poor areas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10593500
Asynchronous Everything
All this just to say "requests are made one after the other now, and that's slow".. seems pretty useless
This is an interesting post, but I'd like to add that modern RDBMS like PostgreSQL 9.5 or MySQL 5.7 are perfectly able to store, index and query JSON documents (for example using the jsonb data type in PostgreSQL combined with GIN/GIST indices). This means they can handle quite well a scenario involving heterogeneous data. The scenario where they remain weak is dealing with a large volume and/or velocity of data, beyond the limits of vertical scaling, and I agree with the author on this.
The gluteus are the largest muscles.

I imagine this is a factor, even if the development of all the muscles have proportionally the same effect.
> And btw, we French don't have a bicycle culture.

Yet!
Guns are good. I live in the most gun-happy country in Europe (Switzerland); no problems here.
Oh? I have found the GCN to be quite impressive. Their prices are very cheap and i've found their international offerings to be next to none. What issues have you had?
In dense urban area, such as Paris, car takes a lot of very precious space.

They also significantly reduce the life expectancy of the other humans in the city, directly (via accidents) or indirectly (via pollution)

It seems to be a good idea to try and limit car usage as much as possible, and doing that implies making other alternatives, such as bike, more practical and pleasant.

Again, this is speaking for dense urban area like Paris. Maybe things are different were you live.
Here are 60 humans and the space required to transport them by car, bus and bicycle:

http://imgur.com/mxGXuuR
What HIPAA Requirements Apply to Medical App Development
> Teaching imperial units to kids, though, should be considered a crime.

THIS. as for curiosity, why not, but we can say something similar about nordic runes or egyptian writings. But this is more of an ego challenge, when one should accept that what they grown up with is inferior (sorry to our english-native friends, but imperial system is really, really archaic & inferior).

And yes, we in europe regularly measure in metres+centimetres, we use decimetres quite regularly, and it feels natural having bigger part divided into 10 or 100, or 1000 subparts. On the other hand, feets are nightmare (30,5cm), and 6"2 - what the heck is that 2? is it 2/10 of the foot? or 2 inches which are TOTALLY different measure compared to feet without any easy translation? mess...
That'd be easy to check, since plenty school have a daily morning routine

now, school scores aren't comparable, but I guess researchers can figure out a metric for brain fitness.
From the replies:

> What type of cat did you use? This may require a certain

> weight distribution and pawing behaviour to avoid keyboard

> buffer overflow.
FWIW, when you are a Parisian and you know what "copenhagenize" means, someone claiming to "copenhagenize Paris" is not welcomed these days, considering the attacks we just suffered.
How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: SilverPush code reverse-engineered
Aside from Windows Phone does CryptoCat cover it?
This. And the fact that Paris has a good metro network coverage.
How  Big Data Is Changing Retail and How We Shop and Sell
Hum, until today I didn't realize how dificult is to maintain the focus reading a text with only words of four letters or less. No much visual clues about where you are in the paragraph.

In the other hand, for some reason I always thought that this twisted comic was created for the "evil mind" of a woman. One with a ponytail probably and specially clever :-). No pun intended. Is a small surprise to me to know that the author is a guy.
Big advances kill houses. That's the way it's been, and that's the way it's going to be. But in an increasing winner take-all, buyers won't care. They need the win and they'll lose their shirts trying to get it.

The success of The Windup Girl killed Night Shade Books, because it upped their advances in an attempt to replicate its success.

You can see the same thing happening with the studio summer blockbusters. Everyone appears to be voting to bet-it-all, with losses almost crushing the studios.

I'm not sure what the moral here is except, don't do it. Don't buy into it. Big bets don't make big wins. Wins make wins. And fate is fickle as to where they come from.
What do you mean "at least"? You're better off with Hangouts or Facebook chat - Telegram flags you up as someone trying to hide, while not offering any actual security.
>> On the other hand, while the U.S. government might not be favorably disposed to it, I think it is unlikely that any prosecutor would actually indict an American for harassing ISIS in this way.

Whether Anonymous has a point or not, I wouldn't want to face prosecution in a system this biased.

Isn't Lady Justice is wearing a blindfold representing objectivity? Justice should be meted out objectively, without fear or favour, regardless of money, wealth, power, or identity; blind justice and impartiality ...
> Exercisers outperform couch potatoes in long-term memory, reasoning, attention, and problem-solving tasks

I'm pretty sure the cause/effect is reversed here. It's more likely that people who are smart and have better focus/are less impulsive are more likely to take care of their health and exercise.
How much automated testing is enough automated testing?
Cool Cat Learns Fair Use
Would you mind elaborating a little?
On this subject, should you dress to look like a manager?

While at my company the same dress code applies to all, the managers certainly dress more business-like than the programmers.
Watched on YouTube, since I didn't have a FastTracker player handy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syc2NnPNnZs

Listening to that put me in a good mood :)
People in prisons take even less space. Freedom is also is in the equation. A car gives me more choices than a bicycle. If there are too much cars (can happen), perhaps this city is becoming too big. Why live in crowded spaces, if there are many alternatives available?
you're nitpicking at the silly language used by the post. carry on.

also for humans: nitpicking at silly language, humour, reclaimed wood tables, mime, tax loss harvesting, cluster bombs, mirin, brown-coal-fueled power stations, group theory, punctuation, losing the main thread of conversation.
Never seen that - thanks. Fyodor is a pretty funny guy as well as knowing his shit!