skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remove N2 without replacing it with something else and the earth would have a much lower average temperature.

You clearly don't believe me, and are unwilling to do the research. But, think for a second, 78% of the atmosphere, zero net effect on temperature, or you’re using an overly simplified model.

PS: I like most people did not build a weather model by myself. I did dig into one fairly deeply when looking into building a turn based civilization game, and I must say they get vastly more complex than you might think.
Notty – A new kind of terminal
Highly qualified people get rejected by google's interview process all the time, so people shouldn't take it personally if they get rejected. google is willing to miss out on good people occasionally because they believe they can't fix the problem w/o mistakenly hiring more mediocre/bad people.
They didn't rewrite most of Foundation in Swift, at least not yet. If you look in the files, they are full of calls to NSUnimplemented().
Whew!

I get worried when more than 60 days goes by without them announcing a MegaRound(tm) at an InsaneValuation(R).
I love how the gears in the video don't actually interlock... seems appropriate.
Apple open sources its Swift programming language
This raises some interesting legal questions. If I start a git repo and only add a license in the Nth commit, does that license apply retroactively to a checkout of the first N-1 commits? What if I start out with one license but I change it in the Nth commit? If someone clones the git repo with the Nth commit in it and then checks out an earlier commit, which license applies?

(For simplicity, assume I am the only author of the repo, so I can always change the license arbitrarily whenever I want to.)
Here's hoping it's compatible with older versions of iOS as well
One way to add more text is to use the labels as buttons/links. Have a text box adjacent (above, below, to the side). Have the text in the text box change based on which label you click.
You can install Firefox on Android, and it has proper integration. But the rest of Google Play Services, yeah I see your point.
top of frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669891
I've read blog post on qualified developers being rejected by Apple as well. Last was one was by Furrow.
ListAndHash
You don't need to modify the compiler to do that. You could just write that in Swift.
Flawed how? Who was shorted? Everyone involved in the system worked and earned the agreed upon amount.

>disproportionately rewards "you" over the network that actually did much of the heavy lifting

You seem to advocate the labor theory of value which is a demonstrably false theory.
In NginX you would need the following location (with different contents):

location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
alias /var/www/challenges/;
try_files $uri =404;
}

Snippet from https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny documentation.
That just sounds very naive. In theory you're right, but in theory Karl Marx's communism sounds pretty good as well.

They way you describe it is not how it works in the real world, unfortunately.
More like it allows you to accelerate with a pedal on the floor rather than by pulling a string attached directly to the throttle. No loss of flexibility, but you put some trust in the vehicle that you would otherwise have to manage yourself.
It depends heavily on what you are doing.
Most CPU intensive Tasks are fast on everything. However on Memory intensive Applications Ruby and Python are really really aweful slow.
Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (1978) [pdf]
Chain Discontinuing Free API Service with Transition to Blockchain Tech
That's close to Basecamps valutation :)
https://medium.com/@jasonfried/press-release-basecamp-valuat...
Of course not. If I see a defamatory article on the front page of a newspaper and I call over a bunch of friends standing nearby and say "Hey guys, check out this article!", or even "...check out this great article!" (to account for the self-like), would that be republication or defamation? If all the defendant did was post a link, there's no difference as far as I can see.
The whole history of Tibet and the Sino-Tibetan war is quite interesting. Of course, its not in the interest of the 'free Tibet' crowd to actually learn that Tibet was a feudal kingdom with a history of warfare (more Dalai Lamas were murdered than died from natural causes), and that the Lamas were highly oppressive of the serfs...
No, this just puts your body into starvation mode.

You should eat proteins, vegetables (especially leafy green ones) and a moderate amount of fruit. Natural fats like animal fats are ok too, depending on other health factors.

I am not a doctor but a ketogenic diet helped me lose weight and feel great. 230lb back down to 165lbs, but I am healthiest it seems around 183lbs.
Mind linking the podcast? Generally curious.
I just used it, and it works beautifully. Much easier and less impact than the official client.

Thanks,
Yay! I've had the sliding deadline in my calendar for months! :)
Am I the only one who thinks Yahoo is never going to get anywhere until they change the goddam stupid name?
> Now, "simplicity" is a mental construct, a language UX construct.

My take on “simplicity” is very computational. To me, a programming language is a system of rules of inference, whose judgments are of the form “program is well-formed” (which covers syntax and type checking) and “program does this at runtime” (a reduction relation, a predicate transformer semantics, or whatever fits your language's dynamics best). Then, simplicity is just some measure of the language's size as a collection of rules of inference. Also:

0. Undecidable rules of inference (e.g., type reconstruction for a Curry-style System F-omega) are considered cheating. Undefined behavior (e.g., C and C++) is also considered cheating. Cheating is penalized by considering the entire language infinitely complex.

1. Languages (e.g., ML's module system) are allowed to be defined by elaboration into other languages (e.g., System F-omega). Elaboration into a language that cheats is considered cheating, though.

> To handle this, I think of "unwieldy" as a bit of a technical term. What does it mean to be unwieldy? It means that there is significant non-ignorable complexity.

I don't see any complexity as ignorable at all. I just see some complexity as worth the price - but you, the programmer, need to be aware that you're paying a price. For instance, the ease with which one can reason about Haskell programs (without the totally crazy GHC extensions) justifies the increased complexity w.r.t., say, Scheme.

> Significant here must be defined almost probabilistically, too. If there is significant complexity which is ignorable across 99/100 real-world uses of a language then it really should win some significant points.

This is ease of use, which is subject to statistical analysis; not simplicity, which is not.
So by now Uber has raised capital and debt from:

- some pretty famous angle investors

- some pretty famous venture capital funds

- some pretty famous investment banks

- some pretty famous private equity firms

- some pretty famous hedge funds

- some pretty famous mutual funds

It's worth asking, if they have reached the point where their success becomes less about their execution, though that's still important, and more of a self fulfilling prophecy.

I mean you now have some very influential people to call on if you need help on navigating the IPO process, or government lobbying for rules changes, etc.

I've completely changed my mind on Uber, 18 months ago I would have felt nervous as employee joining them when determining if my options would be worth much. Now, I'd be asking if i could put 50% of my paycheck towards buying more options.

Steve Balmer was famous for acquiring as much Microsoft stock as he could, even after he became the CEO. I'd be mimicking Steve Balmer here and acquiring as much Uber as I could right now.
I think Uber used their last round of funding to poach the entire Carnegie Melon robotics department for their self-driving cars, so it will be interesting to see they do with this $2.1 billion dollars.
organizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves
made under the institutional brand

I believe heavy handed central planning at a large scale is destined to be inefficient. Sure there would be fragmentation but the system would be fluid. The chances of bad decisions taking the ship down will be reduced.
Evan beat me to it :)

Evan is our Lead Engineer,
and I'm the CEO.

We believe vertical integrated SaaS focused on prediction will reshape a lot of industries.
I had meant to say "I don't know how anyone can argue that women DON'T have less testosterone naturally than men, on average."

Since some few women do have higher testosterone levels than some few men.

Which I assume is why I am being voted down.
This method achieves a new state of the art performance on ILSVRC2012 top-5 with 3.46%.
'Star Wars' Strikes Back: Inside the Biggest Movie of the Year
Thanks. Actually, first page is 822 for me [0]

[0] https://github.com/apple/swift/commits/master?page=822
I wish I knew the answer.

But a change coming through the electorate process should have a more lasting effect as simply boycotting Facebook would merely shift the wealth and influence to another person instead of Zuckerberg.
I find his speaking style extremely irritating. I can't take more than a few minutes of this. I'm sure it's full of substance, though. Perhaps there's a transcript somewhere?
US and China are unlikely to go with it or they will end up playing the rules. The same as it is now.

Also - you are right, taxing will work. Its not like corporations and huge manufacturers will play the system and avoid paying taxes or getting them back through loopholes.

Only ones affected will be mostly SMBs and regular folks - as always.
> Sony [...] as they were developing the toolchain for the PS4 [...] couldn't add their contributions into the LLVM toolchain

Why is that? Do you have something I can read about this?

This is the only thing I can find on the topic, and it mentions upstreaming by default after some time ("living on trunk"): http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain....
I will always downvote complaints about downvotes.

I do this because

* I don't want to see complaints about downvotes
* I believe that they are unconstructive 99% of the time
* I don't think anyone else wants to see them
Removing fat and alcohol would do you much more good, if calories are your primary concern -

Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories
Alcohol: 1 gram = 7 calories
Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 calories
Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories
Bay Area Bike Share Trips Visualization
Is there any known pratically relevant programming problem that cannot be solved without a GC, other than running code that assumes that one is available?
BMI is far from useless. Unless you're sporting a six-pack, over 6'4 or under 5'1; BMI will fairly accurately gauge your overall fitness level. The range for a normal adult is absolutely huge. Small-fat and body-builders are the only people who have any reason to be skeptical of their own BMI.
Think about the reverse though - the days where one could be branded as unpatriotic communist for reading Marx in the US are not a long time ago!
Yup, came here to say that!

The

"If you don't like JavaScript, just use CoffeeScript like everyone else! What's wrong with you?"

reaction made me laugh.
Lyft "lost $127 million in the first half of 2015 on $46.7 million in revenue, according to the documents. Lyft said last month that it has gained market share in key markets, such as San Francisco, and has a gross revenue “run rate” of $1 billion."

I had no idea lyft was losing 3x the their revenue. That is crazy.
They keep trying to push the idea that letsencrypt should be ran as root. If you disagree with that, I ran it as a normal user using:

letsencrypt -t --work-dir /tmp --logs-dir /tmp \
certonly --webroot /www/public -d example.com

Except on my system the letsencrypt command did not work. It failed with an "Operation not permitted". So I edited the webroot.py file, and commented out line 108 that said:

# Remove execution bit (not needed for this file)
os.chmod(path, filemode & ~stat.S_IEXEC)

It ran fine without root, sudo, or su.

Then I added this to nginx.conf:

listen 443 ssl http2;
ssl_certificate /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem

It gets an A+ on ssllabs.com, and it works fine in the browser. When I click the lock it says "Let's Encrypt".
This is common. Journals will even refuse to publish things for being "too negative":

“In October 2006, Potti and Nevins described in Nature Medicine how examining the sensitivity of cell lines to particular drugs could predict patients’ responses to cancer therapies for a range of cancers.
[...]
We had difficulties pretty early on,” Baggerly says. He and Coombes say they found errors in the 2006 paper, including genes that didn’t seem to belong on the list and tumor samples that were incorrectly labeled.
[...]
But Potti and Nevins continued to publish papers using the same method. This troubled Baggerly. He became obsessed with determining why the Duke team could make their prediction models work when he and Coombes could not.In subsequent papers by the Duke group, Baggerly says he found new errors and contacted both Lancet Oncology and the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), where they had appeared. Both declined to publish Baggerly’s letters
[...]
Baggerly then learned that Duke was running three clinical trials using the Potti- Nevins approach to assign patients to treatment. He took a new tack: publishing a paper of his own. He and Coombes shared their critique of several papers published by Potti and Nevins with a “prominent” biological journal, he says, whose editors suggested that the paper was too negative. "
http://www.sciencemag.org.edu/content/329/5992/614
I'm replying in the only place the reply button shows up in the legacy browser where I am. You finally tried to make a point with hardly any "look up X, Y or Z that I know cuz I'm so smart" stuff, so I'll quote it here:

"Remove N2 without replacing it with something else and the earth would have a much lower average temperature."

That's why N2 is not considered a greenhouse gas, because anything else replacing it would do as well or better (from the greenhouse gas POV).

Now, instead of making stupid comments like: "you are clueless about this and other topics. I would suggest a lot more research using textbooks to get a basic understanding going of chemistry, english, physics, and geology", you should try reading a commenst and replying directly to the point at hand. After a while, you might learn something.
Weather for the blind
Base64 provides no protection from malware that infects your machine and actively looks for this kind of stuff. Stored passwords from websites, ftp programs, key safes, etc.
Loading-screen boredom may be behind us thanks to expiring patent
Close to 1/10th of Apple's market cap, still a huge huge number. Nearly $2bn in revenue when reported by recode on August 2015. Facebook market cap was approx $81bn when launched. Probably once it will get closer to $100bn and then we will see an IPO.
I think smart watches will take off when they get good enough to be a second phone (LG almost launched this a couple weeks ago). It makes sense to get the platform out before that happens so that users and 3rd party developers can help improve it.
> You can install Firefox on Android, and it has proper integration.

You can (and I do, because it's the only way to block ads without root on Android).

But that was literally the same claim that was made against Microsoft - while you could install alternative browsers, you couldn't really uninstall IE. And as parts of IE were factored into separate components for reuse by other applications, the concern was that IE was being turned into part of the operating system.

(The difference is that Android's market share, while still dominant, is still not as high as Windows's was back in the 90s[0]. Ditto for iOS, which has a minority market share. But in terms of the software vs. OS components, it's almost exactly the same.)

[0] or even as high as the Windows marketshare is today, for that matter.
Interview with a programmer/CTO who became a cookbook author
In what way? I've recently started writing in Swift and I find it to be less powerful than Kotlin. One such feature that's missing: extension expressions. Allows things like `let` and `with` from the kotlin stdlib
Well the use of digital certificats for timestamping is explicitely covered in Directive 1999/93/EC [1]. I'll freely admit not being up to date on the situation on the other side of the Atlantic. While Bitcoins may start to get some recognition as an asset, I'd wage real money that no law anywhere explicitely recognize the blockchain as a legaly opposable timestamping authority.

And your stated used case "Local archives are useful for personal purposes, but sometimes, in investigations that may be controversial, you want to be able to prove that the copy you downloaded was not modified and you need to timestamp it" looks like planning to defend yourself in court to me...

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:319... also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Signatures_Directiv...
so actually I'm running into the following error anytime I try to compile something using swiftc with clang-3.6 installed:

<unknown>:0: error: opening import file for module 'SwiftShims': No such file or directory
From a Yahoo shareholder perspective, there's no point to having Yahoo buy Netflix in 2012 unless there is 1) some synergy to have been gained, or 2) Yahoo is acting as a portfolio manager for its shareholders.

If Yahoo shareholders wanted to own Netflix in 2012, they should have sold Yahoo shares, bought Netflix shares, and experienced those gains. If they wanted active portfolio management, they should have sold Yahoo shares and put their money with a portfolio manager.
The photo of Gates and Ballmer is from this article, online here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/09/30/long-ago...
Well, to some extent I agree. But, the coarseness of the control of the citizens over the government in a representative democracy is part what causes government inefficiency. Unfortunately, extreme granularity in democracy has its own problems, so that's not easily solved.
It's a watch first, computer second, not the other way around. And that's the right way to do it, IMO. FWIW, I'm enjoying mine. Its heart rate monitor is about as accurate as a chest strap. Its timekeeping is accurate (unlike with Android Wear which sometimes struggles with this basic task). It shows me which meeting I have next (if any). It tells me to stand up and shows text messages. It lets me set the timer while I cook without touching anything. Battery lasts a day and a half. And it'll only get better over time. That said I don't use any apps aside from built in ones.
What Holds Me Back from ClojureScript
That is probably the answer. But to be fair there is no one that knows Swift better than Chris Lattner.
Yet mostly still unregulated. I cant get over all the bad stuff they did to get where they are now. I am not defending taxi drivers (it seems that ANYONE against Uber business model = taxi supporter - at least according to majority of A/B society) but Uber is what corporations shouldn't be - breaking laws, throwing money to shut people and lobbying every politician they can. While I understand love by people that use it to make money or communicate, their whole model is just wrong and example of how corporation shouldn't be imo.
Apple Just Patented a Full Color 3D Printer Concept
There is limited upside at 60+billion.
Personal telepresence relatively affordable- but expect to pay $ for the tablet
Definitely. It's one of the best reasons to pursue the famous venture capital firms. John Doerr has a lot of important people's phone numbers, and they will take his call (with the same obviously being true about maybe two dozen other famous investors). It's why Dropbox put Condoleezza Rice on its board. It's why Gilead had Donald Rumsfeld as its Chairman. It's why Theranos has an all-star line-up on its board.

Business is, always has been, and always will be, heavily about networks. You can do it without them, it's just drastically harder.
The short answer is: _you don't_. That's not how machine learning works at scale.

To quote from a great recent article: (I can't find the link, sorry)

It's one thing to create an excellent fraud detection model in R, and quite another to build:

- Fault-tolerant ingest of live data at scale that could represent fraudulent actions
- Real-time computation of features based on the data stream
- Serialization, versioning and management of a fraud detection model
- Real-time prediction of fraud based on computed features at scale
- Learning over all historical data
- Incremental update of the production model in near-real-time
- Monitoring, testing, productionization of all of the above

You don't build a data team out of a single person and tack on an easy model to build a company - it takes a team to build a real data project, and those teams are hard to find, hard to recruit, and hard to make successful.
Yes, but the point is that Tibetan Buddhism is a small subset of Buddhism. It's also the furthest from 'orthodox' Buddhism. And within that division, the Dalai Lama's specific sect is yet again another division.

The Dalai Lama is to Buddhism what, say, the Archbishop of Canterbury is (possibly of even lesser historical importance) to Christianity. His only real importance came about as a result of clever marketing of the Tibetan 'cause'.
Note that the caniuse data is slightly wrong. All browsers only support HTTP/2 over TLS.

(there's an issue to fix that on the caniuse github repo: https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/2098)
A Guide to 2016 Front End Conferences
"learning/mastering both Go and Swift is the best decision you can make" is a very bold claim.

In my area we use Go for some systems but found it scales badly from an engineering point of view to larger more complicated systems, compared to languages like Java and Scala. The JVM has much more mature tooling and libraries too.

For mobile applications it will be a while until Swift is stable on Android, so some of the cross platform languages would be a good choice. React Native, Unity, Unreal for example.
I thought "the standard LaTeX approach" is that you put all of the style information into a document class (or, if you have only minor modifications of a standard document class, into a package) and then all of the content in a separate file with extension .tex. I not only thought that was the standard LaTeX approach but also that that was the point of LaTeX: your document markup is semantic and all formatting issues are decided elsewhere so you can change them independently of the content.

(And whether or not that is the standard LaTeX approach it is certainly a possible and recommended approach in LaTeX.)

In your approach you don't just separate style from content, but additionally distinguish two types of content (the type you'd write in YAML files from the type you'd write in Markdown). That is different from LaTeX, where both the YAMLly and prose-like things are put in LaTeX source files (for the YAMLly stuff you define macros, like \author, \title, \signature, etc.).

At any rate, as I said before: preferring YAML and Markdown to LaTeX syntax seems to me a valid reason for doing things your way. I just wanted to point out that LaTeX makes it easy to separate form and content, too.
It's interesting that records, such as library books read, that were common before the modern Internet are considered private, but if the records are related to the Internet, such as web pages read (or every place I go, everyone I talk to, everything I say, etc.), many people say they don't understand why their privacy is important.