skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they may. The proceeds of that company would be paid to the foundation.
note: It's called "A bad citizen...".
Let me add some color to the speculation here, I worked under Ballmer for sometime leading a product.

Ballmer was a math genius, he was also a spreadsheet whiz and knew as much as a CFO did at anytime. His memory was that of a thousand elephants, and could recite forecasts, actuals and numbers for multiple years in one go.

Microsoft played in the enterprise space, and Ballmer was a marketing genius when it came to enterprise positioning. I credit him with driving the attach revenue concept within the enterprise. Companies that bought Windows, bought office, bought Exchange server, bough maintenance and more.

Even more, he was a relationship marketing genius. He had a photographic memory and remembered names of people he would meet once and recall entire conversations after months/years. And this was globally, he took the company global in a very aggressive way.

He rewarded people, both Bill and Steve weren't stingy about doling out stock - unlike Jobs. This kept a strong talent pool of A players at Microsoft.

He had a strong penchant for the enterprise and where he started faltering was when the Internet started maturing and consumer experiences started converging with the enterprise.

Nevertheless, this man took Microsoft from $15B to $70B in revenue and you can't belittle that.
A little bit later, there's this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World
How to Create an Innovative Culture: The Extraordinary Case of SRI
I assume this is why Facebook decided to buy Oculus.
Guess I am lucky the neighborhood I grew up in Detroit hasn't changed much, couple of houses burned and weren't replaced. The elementary school that I attended is still functioning and I am told it is one of the best in the city.

It is still pretty much functioning though I am still amazed everytime I return at how narrow the streets, built for the Model T, happen to be.

However further downtown the neighborhood where my dad, grandfather and great grandfather lived is pretty much gone - just vaporized and it's all happened in the last 10-15 years. Almost a third of the city is either vacant lots or will soon be.
Hitchens talks in "Letters to a Young Contrarian" about being a young communist, and actually working with some of those forming the government in Cuba.

They said, "our revolution will be different, our people will be free. We will even allow satire, on all but one topic."

Hitchens: "Oh? What topic is that?"

Communists: "Why, the government, of course!"

Thus began his disillusionment...
Don't be a master of one. Post on why devs should avoid frameworks like Angular
++ and -- (both versions of each) would end up being method calls as well in Ruby or Python. They're even overridable in C++.
More and more it seems that pharmaceuticals are a poor fit for free market capitalism. The basic research is already mostly government funded, they should fund all of it. From trials to sales. Maybe they could use private actors for manufacturing.
PHP 7 is a pretty big deal for our users, though not particularly to me (though our websites run on Drupal, WordPress, and Mediawiki so we will get some performance benefit from the change).

It does seem ridiculous that something like Let's Encrypt didn't happen sooner. But, now that it's finally here, I'm excited about it. I like that we can also expect mail to get more widespread encryption because of this, as well.
Here's my attempt at a summary.
Wolfram speculates that the universe is a network of nodes and connections. This network changes over time by simple substitution rules. Specific patterns in the network give rise to effects that on the larger scale that we experience as the physical world. He has shown that if you model the universe this way, you can neatly derive special relativity and general relativity. He is also doing a brute-force search through networks to look for one that exhibits properties like our universe.

I'm curious if I got it wrong.
A better alternative to your simple a/b test would be the multi-armed bandit algorithm. This will give you your answer the fastest, though it's slightly harder to wrap your head around check it out here: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132
Yup.

It may be on any given day you can do your work locally on your laptop, but if you work remotely and never or rarely sign into the vpn, a manager should be empowered to ask why not. And if no reasonable answer is forthcoming, terminate you for cause.

Instead, she punished lots of people because some of them were bad employees; I think she got the rep she deserves.
Npm: Careful with the (-)g switch?
Week in Review 4 December 2015 – MailShark
Preact: Fast 3kb Component-Based VDOM Framework
Physics perspective on combatting cancer metastasis
I suppose it depends on whether you think it's important for the popularity of Julia (something I don't care much about, since it's just a programming language) or because you think open science and policymaking is important (which I do).

[I see you're from Iowa State. I'm posting this from the house I bought from John Crespi a few months ago.]
Some smart people carry the scars of having accidentally hurt someone's feelings in conversation by inadvertently making them feel dumb.

Consequently, some smart people choose to play down their intelligence during conversation because it's disarming to do so, and they want to help people feel at ease.
sometimes executing well is enough. Yahoo should be able to leverage their homepage to jumpstart other businesses.
> If you have an antibiotic that cures a highly resistant infection that happens maybe a few hundred times in the US, why not charge something similar?

Because a few hundred times 80k is still not much. And even so, many people still can't afford it.
How fast people are discovering new antibiotics is the important thing, I would think. Assuming resistance is going to happen no matter what, we need to keep discovering new antibiotics at a steady pace to keep up.

Here's one timeline I found in a paper:
http://cmr.asm.org/content/24/1/71/F1.expansion.html
Peter Sinks, Utah's bone-chilling sinkhole
How do you plan to force them to do that clean up work? In particular, Iraqi Insurgents were planting roadside bombs and land-mines throughout the totality of the 2000 through 2010 decade.

We can't even get them to surrender properly (they just transformed into ISIS). How do you expect us to "force" them to stop planting IEDs?
> It's one of the most heavily audited codebases on the planet.

This is misleading. OpenSSL is probably one of the most heavily audited in terms of number of auditors currently working on it, but this only started with Heartbleed and there appears to be a large, unfinished backlog of things to get through.

Looking at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#y2015 , since Heartbleed 20 months have passed, and new security vulnerabilities have been announced on 14 separate dates (and most of those dates are multiple vulnerabilities being announced at the same time). This announcement breaks the streak of most consecutive months without a new vulnerability, of which there were almost five.
Yeah, I think the core difference between i++ and i+=1 (expression vs statemrnt) is mainly useful in situations where higher level structures are available in languages that aren't C
World GDP per capita (PPP) is about $13,100 a year. The median is probably lower than that. I doubt "regular people" buy $1-2K outfits, considering they might still need to pay for food and living space. Perhaps it is you who have not met "a regular person".

Some people, living on uncommonly-high tech salaries in the bay area and similar locations, might indeed spend $1K on a change of clothes. I imagine some other highly-educated professionals in expensive cities might do as well. There is nothing wrong or unreasonable with that, per se. But "$1000 outfit is standard" is a statement that applies to very few people, and implying that it should be the norm is absurd under present world economics.

For the record, in my experience, most people I meet in tech and in the bay area, still won't often get close to wearing $1k. Those who do is often only when you include things like prescription glasses, leather jackets and wearable gadgets ;)
Installing and Using V6 Research Unix in PDP-11/40 Emulator
This also provides a lot of justification/support for those of us who'd much rather teach (say) macroeconometrics in julia instead of matlab.
I was one of those clueless engineering undergrads back in ancient times...I know the mentality of thinking since you know BASIC and can code up a brutally ugly solution in MATLAB that you know programming, as long as the right number is spit out on the command line. I also know, in my old age, that if the purpose of an engineering education is is about building higher order structures that can communicate intent and be extensible artifacts, that this is not acceptable. We need to put in place tools and methodologies that enforce good practice with code in the same way that we enforce good spelling, grammar, sentence, and paragraph structure in language, from the beginning.
Michael Moritz Amends Remarks About Lack of Female Investors at Sequoia
How to Split Equity Among Co-Founders
Playing 8-bit Nintendo games with 8 projectors and 8 players
That was the advice I got from my advisor as a grad student. 15 years later, I disagree strongly. I wasted a lot of time writing code that I couldn't read later, that took forever to get right, and that couldn't be reused. I've made a significant investment in programming tools and it has been worth it. Git alone has probably made me twice as productive.

The logic you state (which is dominant) is wrong. Optimizing the speed of writing the first version of a particular piece of code is a bad idea.
From my limited understanding, I believe Groupon tried something similar and was shut down by the SEC during IPO.
You don't need an ecosystem? Swift does not have this, not for Linux at least.
The richest twenty Americans own more than the bottom half combined
I would implement that like:

zip(names, 1...names.count).forEach { name, index in
print("Person \(index) is called \(name)")
}

Or, in an ideal world:

zip(names, 1...names.count)
.map({ name, index in "Person \(index) is called \(name)" })
.forEach(print)

Currently, that isn't valid Swift, "print" can't be used like that, though if you define a closure it works:

let printIt = { x in print(x) }

zip(names, 1...names.count)
.map({ name, index in "Person \(index) is called \(name)" })
.forEach(printIt)

I think that Swift could use = for equality, since assignments return Void and comparison returns Bool. Maybe it should.

But your argument boils down to "if you can't be clear everywhere, don't be clear anywhere". That's not a good goal.
A Run in with Islamic Hackers
> The cost of cleanup typically falls upon the person who builds there next.

Yes and that cause issue of abandoned sites, if the desirability of the site is lower than the price of cleaning up. Worse, there is not necessarily negative consequences that would push the market to avoid such situation. For heavily polluted sites like gas station, chemical plant, ... the owner of the land has generally made a profit, so disposable land is a viable business model. Not even counting that after enough years, the site could look clean enough to be resold.

At some point, it was discussed in Europe to impose a viable (i.e. funded upfront) reconversion plan for land used for stuff like gas station or landfill. The trigger in this case was some incident about some block of flat built on some forgotten nastiness by an unscrupulous builder. Not quite sure if anything actually happened.
Pardon my language, but FUCK. Seeing Dr. Knuth lecture in person has been one of my things-to-do since arriving on campus last year. This lecture is happening 5 minutes away from me but I didn't know about it until now. Until next Christmas I guess.

edit: in the meantime, speaking of his past lectures on YouTube -- a few years ago someone asked Dr. Knuth if he reads HackerNews (or Reddit)...he didn't actually answer the question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDokMxVtB3k&t=18m39s
"It's not like they offered up the naming rights to an auditorium for corporate bidding."

Isn't that exactly what they did? "Give us $30M and we'll name a building after you". The only difference is that when you donate enough to build a building, you get your name on it in perpetuity, not just a fixed term. Oracle reportedly paid $20M - $30M over 10 years for naming rights to the Oakland Coliseum.

Not that there's anything wrong with it as naming academic buildings after donors has a long history.
"...very simple database systems such as MUMPS".
I'm not sure MUMPS is a good example of a simple system.
> Morality is, unfortunately, subjective.

Genuine question: What do people who believe this use as their reason for refraining from harming others for personal gain? I understand that simple intuitive preferences against seeing others suffer will often work, but what do you do about instances where either the rewards of screwing someone over are very great or where your intuition tells you that you would get a lot of pleasure from seeing someone in pain?

I know that I don't really have anything to support my belief that there exists an objective morality which is hard-to-determine.
Unicorns, Donkeys, and Late Stage Valuations
Furthermore, the company made a quarter of a trillion dollars in profit during his tenure as a CEO. Early in his career, he was also the first manager of the Windows team, which went on to become one of the most profitable software franchises in history. I should hope to be such a failure.
Challenges of a bootstrapped startup
Yeah, it's about 45 minutes from me (plus however long the walk is from the train station), wish I'd known about it sooner too.
This is far off topic now, but...

My only context with Nelson Mandela would be his autobiography, but founding the militant wing of the ANC seemed fairly reasonable from that perspective. Just about all forms of peaceful protest were cut off from the ANC and the ANC it's self was criminalized and attacked.

Few people criticize the deceleration of independence and the subsequent revolutionary war, but unfortunately sometimes in history violence was the only reasonable option.
I don't understand how anyone would ever pick MySQL over PostgresSQL. They are not even playing the same sport
Beauty is subjective, but that doesn't stop people in society from coalescing around norms.
That's quite a claim. I agree that most uses of these operators as an expression are not wise. Some are though. As a counter-claim, I offer:

array[i++] = this;
array[i++] = that;
array[i++] = the_other;

which also extends nicely when some of those elements are optional.
The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2015
Is the CRC32 instruction much faster than an optimized implementation using PCLMULQDQ? It's available on a wider range of CPUs, but I thought I remembered that PCLMULQDQ worked very quickly.
Without .NET, Java would've been the undisputed champ of enterprise programming, meaning Sun would've had a lot more clout than they did, and the need for metal that "runs Java better" (as SPARC/Solaris would've been sold) might've been much more influential.

Once .NET came out, a lot of companies used that instead of Java since they were already familiar with Windows and the x86 hardware that ran Windows was much cheaper than SPARC hardware that ran Solaris. All this massively diminished Sun and Java's influence in enterprise systems, and caused the sales of expensive specialized hardware like SPARC to plunge.
The one thing that confuses me is that he plans to "give up 99% of his personal Facebook Shares"--but the assumption is that the money would go to "NON PROFITS." But they are going to an investment vehicle, where he can invest in profit-based businesses.

So what does it matter, if this investment vehicle never funnels the money back to Zuck. I.e. it just takes any profits it generates and re-invests in whatever it wants. That's all you wanna do anyway when you have that much money--make things happen, create things, be a mover and shaker.

I'm not saying I would do any different myself--I'm just saying the whole PR angle here is retarded, even more so with Zuck's clarification. It's framed as if the money is ALL going to non-profits, but in reality it's going to whatever Zuck wants it to go to. Which is likely the same place any extremely wealthy person would put it to: progress. With the only difference being that it won't be used for him to live lavishly. Though the LLC could just fund another business idea of his that he is allowed to funnel profits from.

In short, his 1% of all that money is basically a billion dollars, right. or $450,000 million at his current valuation. But lets just call it a billion cuz presumably it will be that one day in the not too distant future. CONCLUSION: he has designated $1 Billion to lavish living and $99 Billion to progress--and in doing so hoodwinked us all into thinking in some way it won't be used for his grand vision of progress, but rather the non-profit world's vision for it.

I personally think Zuck's a sharp guy (when it comes to executing various mechanics)--I much rather know the money will be put towards executing his vision. I don't know why he felt the need to manipulate us all (he's clearly not so smart in social/emotional things).
This is something that ought to realised more. I'd go further in fact, at least working in McDonalds you are providing people with real tangible food, compared to the legions of bullshit jobs; corporate lawyers, middle managers hr people and so on who essentially do nothing, only pointless busy work.
Show HN: Don't Name the Shooter
I agree with you, but that's not a decision that can be made unilaterally by professors at the course level without sacrificing _a lot_ of the other content.

You're going to cry if you see the current standards of undergraduate spelling, grammar, and sentence structure, btw. :)
Replaces known mass shooting gunmen names with '[Name Redacted]'.

EDIT: Updating to replace gunmen names with something more neutral / accessible. Japhyr and others make great points on the issue.

EDIT 2: Updated.
Live broadcast is now on youtube. Forget waiting for Stanford to email you a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGDG4Ge_xU
Great - some of the world's most important art is to be housed on an island built by slaves of a nation desperate for global recognition of its superiority.

I'm still dismayed that the Louvre and Guggenheim continue to be a part of an unholy rise to a first world nation on the backs of imported slave labor. It's just shameful.

http://www.vice.com/read/slaves-of-happiness-island-0000412-...

Edit: and most likely only catering to and accessible by the insanely rich.

Edit 2: I'll stop now, but can I say how exciting it is to have some of the most culturally important art displayed in a nation famous for its ultra-conservatism, deeply entrenched sexism and homophobia, and lack of any tolerance? I'm sure that's what Picasso, Magrite, and every other artist represented there stood for - stamping out progressivism in the name of patriarchy on the backs of indentured servants.

I remain salty.
Show HN: Talk Radio – minimal dark styling using LESS
Blue Bottle and Tartine Bakery call off merger
Is the ability to get any number of subdomain certs at no charge an adequate substitute for wildcard certs?
I was gonna say "Autism" lol. I thought's what the title was at first. But more importantly, did you see that video with his Wife--dude this guy is practically on the spectrum. Listen to the last words that come out of his mouth and how awkward it was.

"She [his daughter] and everyone in her generation really should be able to live much better lives than we can in all these ways. And I hope that--not just our child--everyone in our community has an opportunity to go on and have an even bigger impact in the world...[pause, awkward learned grin, as if he just said something witty and profound] I think she'll get there."

Where "there" is unbeknownst to me, but Zuck sure seems to be proud of his witticism. For me though, i see right through the campiness for what it truly is: Zuck trying so hard to be appealing as a person (socially) while also being a thought-leader of sorts, but just missing the mark, and as a result making him look like a phony. Acting things out is fine, but if it can't be easily believed, it usually means the actor doesn't believe it, which usually means their heart isn't in it. I don't buy that Zuck's heart is really in it, in short.
I just started a small site and chose django route over rails because I knew python and not ruby. This will be one of your biggest driving forces
There is a tendency among a lot of people to make a post-hoc rationalization that--because certain, historical, geniuses were eccentric--being eccentric makes you a genius. There are other, similar, false rationalizations around being "complex" vs just being difficult, being "brave" vs just being reckless, etc.
I read the domain as: DoN't HaTe
The most popular way to get that is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-p...

I personally no longer use it because of all the noise, even before lets encrypt.
The multenancy challenge comes from the lack of isolation in container. Therefore, people nest containers in VM and put a scheduler atop.

But if there is secured, isolated container, we won't need the VM nor the scheduler, the container becomes the hosting platform, aka EC2, DO.
You don't understand why a dead person's privacy is less important than a live one's? Is that really the problem you're having right here?
HanziJS – Chinese NLP
Our Extensible 100% GitHub Workflow (0% Jira)
The attackers may have had “mixed motives”
http://theiowarepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/head...

grow up.
Small world, his office is the floor below mine :)

I think we probably agree then --- but this announcement isn't exactly a sea change in open science and policymaking. This model (or one very close to it) has been available on various people's webpages for a while [1], the research on estimating and using DGSE models for forecasting and policy-making has been well documented and openly discussed, etc. And the NY Fed has put out a lot of "accessible" information about features of the model and interpretations of its results.

[1]: http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/schorf/pages/working-papers
Can We Trust the Hacker Philanthropists?
To be honest, I haven't used it seriously enough to give you the good answer this deserves.

A friend of mine evaluated it for his own need and went with Meteor citing that reason (plus ease of hiring for js). I've gotten a similar feel looking at the code samples.

Take for example this basic example:

{server{

let get_data_forum forumid =
lwt messages = Db.get_messages forumid in
let default = {'a option{
try Some (Eliom_cscache.find_if_ready %forumcache %forumid)
with _ -> None
}}
in
Lwt.return (SharedReactiveData.RList.make ~default messages)

let get_data_forum_rpc =
server_function Json.t<int>
(Eba_session.Opt.connected_rpc
(fun userid_o forumid -> get_data_forum forumid))

}}
{client{

let get_data_forum forumid = %get_data_forum_rpc forumid

}}

This feels awfully verbose for what it does...
Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries
Andy: Introduction to High Output Management
I don't really agree with the value gained from not naming alleged criminals, it seems like a trivialization of a complex issue.