skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a sorta different reaction. I thought, it'd be amazing if everyone at Facebook had the option to take two months off for paternity leave and prioritize family over business without worrying about losing their job or good favor with their supervisor.
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Out of curiosity, would this apply if you were say a lead actor in a movie? 6 week multi-million dollar production stall would in my mind be fair ground for not hiring an actor, but I take it that's illegal.
Can you point me to any historical titans of industry who regret their life's work?
>Never occurs to them that maybe the failing retailers aren't delivering the value that their customers expect.

Could they not be expecting more value because their wages have stagnated? Wouldn't income inequality be the reason that the customers require the "value" to start with? Seeing as the affluent are willing to pay shopping mall mark-up and the middle class isn't, doesn't that point to income inequality?

I'm just not sure why you view these explanations as mutually exclusive. The middle class brands are dying because the middle class can't afford them anymore. The wealthy would never have set foot in there to start.
I was actually in the Austin office most of the time but spent a lot of time at "The Castle" (as they call the SA headquarters).

Texas is a bit different and SA is that plus more. It's hot. ;)

Austin is great, though, and I still live here (albeit about 30 miles NW out in the country).
Thise of us paying attention have known this since the late 90's, but were mostly called conspiracy theorists when we tried to talk about it in public.
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That's 1.2^3, or 70% more... not even close. Also remember that making the rocket bigger also increases the dry mass, which further increases the fuel requirements.

The difference in ISP between a liquid-fueled rocket (say 450s for LH2/LO2, 350s for RP1/LO2) and solid propellant (250s) makes a huge difference to your prop fraction. To get, say 8km/s delta-v, just plug it into the rocket equation:

LH2/LO2: 6.1 initial/final mass.
RP1/LO2: 10.3
solids: 26

Staging can help this a bit, but the basic fact remains. It's very difficult to get useful payload to orbit with solids.
> the strategy Western countries should take towards addressing violent Islamic sects depends upon what the correct interpretation of their religious texts is

A "correct interpretation" of a book written by a dead author is, in essence, an oxymoron. I would argue that this point is not debatable.

All modern Christian bibles are many generations of interpretation from the original text. I would presume the same to be true of the Quran (though it's a bit younger, so perhaps it's had slightly fewer generations of interpretation than the christian bible).

There is no "correct interpretation" of Shakespeare's works (which are arguably true to their original writing in our current records of them), and they're only 400 years old. How can we possibly presume there is a "correct interpretation" of a text that's ostensibly 1400 years old?

I know I'm late to the party in this thread, but still - "correct interpretation" is just not a thing with literary works, regardless of whom you attribute them to.
I don't know. I hope they do since they're always trying to improve the noise situation.
This is awesome.

# Above and beyond all else...

...this needs a publicly accessible sandbox connected to a database that gets flushed daily. I want to play with this, but at the same time, I don't want to add noise to the actual posts, and there's currently no way for me to squirrel my formatting experiments out of sight.

On that note, categories/sections/tags are definitely probably a good idea to add to the roadmap for down the track a bit, along with infinite easily-accessible database storage.

# UI/UX:

I had no idea the textarea was "functionally multiline" (where pressing enter adds a new line). The submit section feels like something's missing; I'm floundering, I don't know what I can and can't do. A help section might, er, help, but my initial reaction was "that's only one line. Is that for the title? Can I only fit a one-line message? ......???!?" - granted I'm tired today :P maybe you could see this as a baseline worst-case-scenario interpretation.

While I'm on the subject of UX, one thing that's bothered me about input UI for ages is the differentiation between "edit" and "presentation". It would be truly awesome if you could somehow get something where the only difference between "view" and "edit" is maybe a faintly-visible border - everything else stays the same. This would also imply a hybrid Markdown/WYSIWYG editor setup; for the WYSIWYG editor I'd recommend... where is it... THIS: http://trix-editor.org/

(My case in point about view/edit differentiation is the fact that I've edited this post about 5 times as I've remembered stuff)

# Extraction:

A final suggestion: here is the final version of Readability's Javascript extraction engine: https://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/source/brows...

After this ^ point, Readability switched to extraction-as-a-service with API calls and a key and limits and plans and the like.

The heuristics in this code likely don't take the latest design edge cases, and the full gamut of how HTML5 has been interpreted over the past few months, into account. A reasonable amount of work may well be required to get it up to speed. I'm not aware of any such maintenance projects, though.

But this project is Node.js... and that code is JavaScript... and I have to say, maintaining an open variant of Readability (under a different name) would definitely make this project a bit different.

It'd make keeping your current UI really simple: throw the service a URL, it suggests the best paragraph (or maybe a list of paragraphs?) and you pick the best >=1 and hit Publish. I'll admit, that'd be cool.
I've been happy using it in the beta program since I have been working with some old MS SQL Server databases at work on my linux laptop. I do wish their trigger support would show up, but it's much better than SQL management studio.
Yes, a single block encrypted under 2^40 distinct keys (you can generalize this to a few popular blocks, instead of just the same block encrypted over and over). Each key you guess during bruteforce has a 2^40/2^128 chance of being correct. After 2^88 AES operations you're likely to recover at least one key. After 2^100 you've recovered, on average, 4096 out of the 2^40 keys.
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...But how long will it take for paternal leave to trickle down to the largest employers in America who pay near or at minimum wage?

1) Wal-Mart Stores 2,200,000
2) Yum! Brands 523,000
3) McDonald's 440,000

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

IMHO a billionaire taking a two-month leave will not inspire a majority of the top 50 employers to allow their male workforce to take 2-months off. YMMV
Yes, you can buy the washlet separately from Toto or a competitor ($300-$1000). There are also very simple ones that can be bought for under $100.
>Move to a state with family leave laws.

Just move! Great and completely realistic solution to the problem of what to do about paternity leave within my company when a kid is on the way. Brilliant! I wish I'd thought of that.
Everyone enjoys seeing someone else get their comeuppance (which may or may not be the word you were looking for). Is that something to be proud of? Certainly not, but neither should it be particularly shocking.

If you wanna wage a campaign against this, then you might as well start with the term "unicorn", which is itself subtly mocking; after all, unicorns aren't rare: they are non-existent. The root term implies the same thing that bothers you about the derived -corpse: these valuations are irrational, and a reckoning will be had.
I think he was referring to the small businesses that actually used services like Groupon and LivingSocial to sell their products.
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> however the software in the capsule did not include any provisions for parachute deployment in this situation.

That seems like a pretty significant oversight?
> About 80 percent of the country’s 1,200 malls are considered healthy, reporting vacancy rates of 10 percent or less. But that compares with 94 percent in 2006, according to CoStar Group, a leading provider of data for the real estate industry.

And how many of the malls that were open in 2006 are still open? Seems like percentages are the completely wrong number to use. Also I found that graph made very little sense.
Yeah. The speech recognition is really dependent on the placement of your mic, background noise, etc. We're using wit.ai's recognition engine for this, but we could also base it on other libraries or APIs. Perhaps we can figure out a way to optimise the detection in the future.
I've played with Dynatable and Defiant.js (which has the advantage of using Web Workers for large datasets), but this seems quite fast. Good stuff.
> It smacks of 'schadenfreude' (for which there is an English term but I can't remember it).

"Comeuppance," maybe? I don't take pleasure in the misery of others in general, but when smarmy hucksters are brought low, I can't help but feel a little twinge of satisfaction. It feels a bit like justice...
>1100 American soldiers killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq

And how 'bout all the Iranian soldiers killed by our friend and alley, Saddam Hussein, during the Iran-Iraq war? We didn't even get upset at Saddam for the USS Stark incident!
From what I can see, very little UI differences between D7 and D8, most D7 and D6 developers should be right at home with D8.
The washlet seats can be purchased to fit on any standard or elongated seat toilet. Some of them look more like they belong in a convalescence home, but that's another matter.
Comparing an "ad man" to a "historical titan of industry" sounds a bit fishy to me. Now, if we were talking about Elon Musk, I'd agree!
What if you have four children, spaced out evenly over twelve years in Germany? Do you just not need to work for twelve years?
This is in such stark contrast to the way automakers have been behaving lately. I never thought i'd buy a new car, but if I get the chance it'll be a Tesla.
It must be tough being the CEO of facebook. This is his own company which I'm sure he loves running and wants to continue to do so. But he's in a situation where the social and political climate basically dictates that he take paternity leave. The same climate also dictates that if he takes any less than the full amount, he's sending a message that the whole four months is a gesture of goodwill and you should only take half of that. If he takes an entire four months, he probably gets criticized for being lazy and for not making the board their money. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
Yes, I am aware of this. I made sure to educate myself on FMLA during my wife's first pregnancy.

I will use some banked compensatory time to make my leave last about six weeks.
Death threats aren't the only kind of harassment. Check out the comments on any popular Youtube video, or most news sites that have comment sections. There aren't many of those left actually, because they tend to fill up with ridiculously high levels of harassing and even threatening remarks. Twitter users had to roll their own group-blocking solution (and Twitter has built-in some of these features recently) so communities can collectively compile ban lists. There's just too much shit out there for any one person to deal with.
That's something else entirely, it does not point at all start-ups. Anyway, I disagree with the 'unicorn' bullshit as much as anybody else, the whole idea that some start-ups are 'special' before they've actually reached the cashflow positive state is a troublesome development. The cycle of hype definitely could use some pushback but to label failed start-ups with a thinly veiled form of name-calling is imho not fair.

We'll make an exception for those start-ups that call themselves unicorns.
Exactly why I am not taking any unpaid leave.
It's a very personal choice for everyone, as Mark points out. That said, I believe the first 2 months are not always the most interesting for a father, nor when the most helpful. First 2 weeks sure!

After that, if you stay home doing emails, maybe you should go back to work for real, and keep some time for later in the year...

Not a universal truth, but I liked the love curve over time here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/rufus_griscom_alisa_volkman_let_s_...
Proud member of the cult of toto. Joined in Taiwan in 1998.
I remember seeing the initial demo of this back when it was debuted. Glad to see it worked on!
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Acute or slimy. Hard to tell the difference anymore, eh?
The malls were never a solution for city downtowns. They were a solution for suburbia, where you could zone a commercial area outside a residential area. On the sell side, they were a solution to brands with low urgency (greeting cards, pretzels) to benefit from foot traffic to headliner stores.
I was experiencing severe battery drainage also with Cyanogenmod on my old Google Nexus 3. Turns out the culprit was Google services keeping the location service going to sleep.

Turned out a newer update of Google Services just does something wrong on unofficial builds. You can see from the preferences which application is keepign the phone awake, but I think you might have to enable the developer options.

Solution was hacky, had to install a runtime script which was called on each boot, so that the particular service was blocked. Or maybe it was just looking at the battery stats, not sure anymore.
debanding filter is required by h264. probably the same for h265.
This is probably going to get me voted down, but maybe...just maybe...you shouldn't be having kids if the only job you can get is McDonalds or Yum! Brands (i.e., Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, etc.).

If you choose to have a child when your resources are that limited, your non-paternity leave is going to be among the least of the child's problems.
My first Github repo was/is an asymptote program for generating Go kifu:

https://github.com/mnemnion/gasym
Partially true.

Yes, there's definitely very few UI changes between D7 and D8 ... so sitebuilders should feel right at home.

However, everything has changed in the codebase, so developers have a lot of learning to do.
"Why can't we just trust the NSA?"

In that case, why not just trust Daesh ?
canada

35 weeks

http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/types/maternity_parent...

PS this is the minimum (through the government) many companies provide more (e.g. 1 year)
Privacy wise it makes no difference if they read your contacts once a day or once a minute. If the want, they have your contacts either way.

Actually this is a hint that they actually might not store your contacts names, pictures, addresses etc in their own app, but only retrieve that information to display it.

The way their web client works (it communicates with the smartphone app, not with the whatsapp servers) is another hint that they might not even store your full contacts on their own servers.
I think working sets a good example for your child. When you have a newborn, your partner is recovering, etc. all of the extra help is really important -- add on top of that the countless studies that show how important bonding is for fathers in the first few months. It's not really quite a fair comparison.
Too late to edit, but, looking through the archives, it looks as if I might be incorrect about VS2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10278704

Nevertheless, I stand by my comments re VS2013+. If you're accustomed to working on projects that support varied platform/compiler/libc combinations, but you've still specifically found VS2010 (and earlier) particularly difficult to work with due to the insistence on C89, you'll probably find VS2013 (and later) substantially more to your taste, and by quite some margin.

(That's certainly been my experience anyway. After some initial effort to work around library differences, my C99 code builds with gcc/clang/VS2013 - and does so, ongoing, with very little effort.)
That "New Kind of Science" review was a curious read. Surprising how the absurdity of software patents is mirrored in physics:
"Wolfram has since retreated from normal scientific life, in to, on the one hand, tending the Mathematica empire, and, on the other, his peculiar scientific vision and method. The vision is of the universe as, if not exactly a CA, then a simple discrete program of some sort. The method has involved an enormous number of man-hours on the part of subordinates who are, as it were, enserfed to him, scanning the behavior of likely-looking CAs and signing over the rights to their discoveries to Wolfram; their efforts are supplemented by frequent lawsuits and threats of lawsuits against those whom Wolfram feels have infringed on his turf"
You need ceiling tiles and/or carpets that absorb sound instead of reflecting it. I was involved in a couple of office moves with Meraki when they still hadn't found an office large enough for more than a year of growth. The moves were so rushed that the noise-dampening add-ons hadn't been installed, and the noise was horrendous; and then when they finally were installed, you could notice the difference very well.
Three years is all? It takes at least eighteen to raise a child. Shame on you for being proud of your country that doesn't care about children enough to see them raised properly. I have to laugh at you and your country for not valuing your kids. I'm ashamed for you.

This entire (arrogant) line of reasoning is ridiculous because it's completely based on an arbitrary cutoff point that you decide is good. What a crazy coincidence that the cutoff point happens to be the same amount of time the geographic region you happen to live in sets as their paternity leave.
This is only insurance for their hot wallet (Quite literally, the cash that a bank would keep in their teller registers.) The overwhelming majority of their deposits are not insured.
Probabilistic Number Theory
I doubt that either of these outcomes are likely
nytimes website is so annoying to use on an iPad. Zoom is disabled and double tap changes font size, WTF?
This looks more like a blog feed than a social news site.
Good point, that nonlinear processes generate frequencies not present in the input. One of the biggest challenges in making analog circuits with good-sounding clipping distortion is designing proper lowpass and bandpass characteristics into the coupling between stages to roll off undesired artifacts.

The advantage in being able to actually listen to a real-time simulation modeled at the level of resistors, capacitors, inductors, and tubes or transistors is that one would be able to immediately hear the effect of component value changes, rather than just see them on the transient or frequency response plots.

Modeling the system at the level of DSP blocks would be more computationally efficient, but then one is left to derive the equivalent analog circuit. It's not rocket science, but it does add a level of indirection.

In any case, being able to simulate 5 triode sections and the linear filters between them in real time at a 48 kHz sampling on a modern CPU very well might be good enough for rock and roll. My use case is a design tool, not to obtain a substitute for a physical device.
Does anyone know how big a deal this really is?

So a handful of developers (and their employers) have my full browser history. What could possibly go wrong?
Firefox vs. Chrome SDKs
As someone who lives in an actual 1900s tenement that costs twice what these do without any of the amenities, I'd be happy to live in one of those for $1000/month if they were in Lower Manhattan or West Brooklyn.

For those who value location and low cost, these would be amazing. For reference, the micro-apartment experiment we have here:

"Enter My Micro NY, the city's first micro-apartment complex, at 335 East 27th Street, with 55 units ranging from 260 to 360 square feet. The building will begin leasing studios this summer for around $2,000 to $3,000 a month"

The same price as non-microapartments in the studio-1BR range.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/realestate/micro-apartment...
You've got a valid point that available resources should factor into the decision making process for having a child.

That said, if that's the only measure then only the rich can afford to have children so clearly there has to be more to this.

What if instead, a CEO is only allowed to take time off equal to or less than the average of every other employee.
Fabrice is a wizard no doubt!
You should be able to hit that without warnings now :)
It's called savings. Instead of asking for paid leave, you can ask for a higher salary, and then save that extra money, which pays for your leave.
$5000 seems substantial enough to involve law enforcement. Presumably Coinbase performed a transaction involving them receiving BTC, and then instructing you to deliver your product. Why would they not pay you as soon as you deliver, unless they are making a fraud claim on behalf of their customer?
They wouldn't even need that. They'd roll tanks down to Google/Facebook HQ and have recreated it within 30 minutes. That's the absurdity of the commercial/government dichotomy approach to privacy: any government that would routinely use surveillance information against ordinary people would have no problem raiding the offices of internet/telecom companies who have all that data anyway.
It works excellent with readers view, at least.
This and moralizing about the smoking and drinking of the lower classes sound reasonable, but they're basically non-starters. You don't stop having basic human desires when you're poor. And as long as people are having sex, some of them are going to have kids.
I find the situation a bit similar to neural networks. It's a bio-inspired model, and we know from nature that it can work spectacularly well. The actual algorithms that became popular (both in neural networks and evolutionary computation) are extreme simplifications of the biological reality.

So a lot of the research goes in the direction of finding the "missing ingredients". On the evolutionary computation front, one of the topics I find the most interesting is the genotype-phenotype mapping. Naive genetic algorithms have genotypes that map directly to phenotypes (e.g you are evolving some vector which is a direct solution to a problem). More complex mapping (like what we see in nature) encode a generator for a solution.

On this note, exciting stuff happens on the genetic programming front (where you are evolving computer programs, commonly Lisp-like trees).

It really is a vast field, ranging from direct engineering applications to artificial life simulations aimed at theoretical biology. Like everything else, you have to be familiar with the literature.
Much more significant than nationalism is the fact that SpaceX is a private enterprise. Private space ventures are our only hope for purposeful success, sustained expansion, and the conquest of space.
That's Coinbase's insurance. That's not coinbase customers' indurance. FDIC is _my_ insurance coverage.

> 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.

If someone steals 90% of Coinbase's transiently held coins, no insurance coverage.
Stop arming groups and practice diplomacy.
No, I don't. I think they do quite a better job terrorizing themselves than they do us or we do them. In any case it's all out war at this point. Against exactly who or where will be interesting to find out.

You look for a second at the people who actually carried out recent attacks, you will see what I mean. Who said anything about police state?

The thing which has impressed me is apparently this guy was a prolific attack planner. Known and poorly tracked. I'd say a major intelligence failure.