skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, then the medallions also include the value of owners being able to maintain their monopoly through lobbying efforts.

Whether or not you have any sympathy for them, striking a deal is the best solution.

(Other question: do you have any sympathy for poor people who are hurt a bit by a carbon tax? Elsewhere in this discussion people are arguing against the tax because it hurts the poor. I think it would be a bit weird to be sympathetic to poor people who are hurt a little by a policy decision, but unsympathetic to slightly less poor people who are hurt a lot by a policy decision.)
I didn't downvote, but isn't this comment just rearranged copy/paste from your previous comments?
Run Systrace on it and you'll see what it is looking for.
Cool, despite Julia replacing matlab here, it looks like the biggest loser to Julia's rise might be Octave.

Matlab will always have its proponents, that will use it no matter what, but if Julia keeps encroaching on this territory, I'm not sure where that leaves Ocatve.

To the model discussed in this paper, check out this series of blog posts for more information:

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/09/forecas...

Essentially the model is a work in progress that is continually updated each quarter. It attempts to model at a macro economic level, the interactions between Banks, consumers, Companies, Governments and households.

Once the model has solved for the general equilibrium of how those 5 agencies interact the model can then be used to "shock" a particular factor, such as interest rates, to determine how this might affect the interaction between these agents.

Its a fairly well respected model, and the fact that the US is one of the few countries to release such a large amount of financial data is one reason why the US is still a leader in economic theory.
So why was step 1 canceling the policy and not eliminating the dead weight? I stand by my earlier statement: the WFH policy should never have been cut and it sent a horrible signal to potential employees. Why didn't she hold accountable both the shirking employees and their managers who let them get to that point?

She made a knee-jerk reaction and it was a bad call. I think all she had to do was take the actions you describe as her 'next step.' She may be better than those before her but that didn't allow her to succeed.
A Golang killer?
People are way too negative. This guy is trying something and showing what he did. Not every discover came from proper scientific laboratory or with a standard procedure. Instead of hating what he is doing, I would encourage him to go further. In my opinion, I prefer those kind of research than nothing at all and found interesting his conclusion. Keep trying and improve and some day it will be probably something.
> many people suggested Apple to ditch the hardware business and focus on software, like Microsoft did.

Xbox and Surface says hi.
Somebody compare and contrast swift for backend development with golang, node, etc. Google is giving me nothing useful.
The portal design seems to solve a problem the web had in it's infancy: "How do I do X?"

It seems like the problems then were more geared towards finding anything that accomplished the given goal. Whereas modern web users are spoiled for choice and can afford to pick best in breed.

I think no one would use Google search if it were bundled with G+. No offense to G+, but it's an inferior network/product compared to the alternatives. Users do use Google search, or Youtube, or whatever because they are severable from their companies' ecosystems.

There's probably also a huge ancillary benefit to corporate structure and development flexibility when your authority/responibility is silo'd by end user functionality.

(Counterpoint: Bill Gate's infamous flame on the Windows Media Player update experience, whereas it was revealed that the user experience for updating a piece of software cut across three or four different departments)
> "terribly shallow understanding of FP to say that"

That was very condescending and I am sure don't know who Hadley Wickham is? I wouldn't call his understanding "Shallow."
This is a news release. Here are some technical details:
https://tectonic.com/blog/announcing-distributed-trusted-com...
https://tectonic.com/assets/pdf/TectonicTrustedComputing.pdf
I understand that list comprehensions are only for simple list construction. So you don't print or branch. Comment is pretty simple though.

My perspective is that in large codebases I have far more trouble remembering function names and what they do than I ever have trouble decoding statements. So the increased code size, long functions and ... that comes from those long list construction statements and loops always seems to take more out of me than difficult list or dictionary comprehensions. Also there are very much fewer places for bugs to hide.

There's also the additional argument that list comprehensions are more efficient because they don't actually construct the list. They generate iterators. It is not a huge difference like in Haskell but it definitely helps.

And there are special cases where you have to use list comprehensions : infinite lists can work as a comprehension, yet the equivalent code to generate them is pages long.
I'm wondering if investing in for-profit companies is a major influence of this decision. With this, the LLC can invest in solar startups, or obscure medical companies. As a philanthropic enterprise, no one expects it gain profits from its investments. As a LLC, it isn't limited in where the money can go.
By the same token, I think the superior tooling is part of the reason people who aren't primarily Java users find it incredibly painful. I've seen Eclipse experts in action -- most of the work seems to be picking the right thing from a drop-down. All kinds of things just appear where they're needed. Accustomed as I am to typing source code, I can't quite get my head around it.
> "2.2 stone" is 13.97 Kg. I really dislike how the UK uses half metric system and half imperial. Such a mess.

Do all stones in the UK weigh 6.35kg?
Make Nix friendlier for Beginners
If it's during pregnancy, isn't it gestational diabetes, which apparently is not quite type 2 diabetis? (I just recently learned this is a thing, which is scary.)

EDIT: Oh, wait, you're not the pregnant one. Then I'm wrong, sorry.
HOLIDAY SPENDING VIDEO: 5 TOOLS EVERYONE WHO IS HOLIDAY SPENDING SHOULD BE USING
The Politics of Math Education
I did. If he's retaining control over how it's going to be given away then that makes it clear that he hasn't given it away yet.

Giving a thing away means you no longer have control of the thing. That's not a side effect, it's the literal plain meaning of the concept.

Him saying he is going to give it away $44 billion in the future should be evaluated in much the same way as my claim that I will receive $44 billion in the future, with healthy skepticism.
I think Swift is a viable competitor for C++ and Nim.

D won't be fully a player in that space until the GC is fully optional - meaning no library code causes the GC to run unexpectedly.

I'm excited about Swift for desktop/simulation/gaming/embedded development. I'm sure there'll be a Windows port in the near term as well.
self hosted webapp
https://www.invoiceninja.com/
Well, 50%? 25%? 5%?
These lessons teach Python version 3. While our lessons
aim to be self-contained, if you decide to search online
for other information about Python, be aware that Python
version 2 is also commonly used and is incompatible in
some ways.

:( This is super confusing information for a new programmer.
I am constantly fascinated by the hyper-polarized views of this CEO placed at the helm of a drowning company. Either she's at fault for not risking it all taking out yahoo in a blaze of glory, or fault for risking large sums of money with tumblr, or she's literally Jesus Christ. I think its wise of them to take the middle road, and grow but not "risk the farm". Though, what do I know I'm not in the future looking back.
That does not justify overthrowing another country's government. Most countries, including the United States, recognize the state's eminent domain over its land and its natural resources. Besides which, the Iranians tried to negotiate, the British refused, so the Iranians nationalized in response.
You have a point. I guess I'll allow them to keep more than 1% of their money.

Wait, you mean I don't get to decide what other people do with their money? Exactly.
BSides Vienna 2015 – Talks
Do volunteer firefighters provide their own equipment as well? I could believe that most firefighters are volunteer. I would be surprised to hear that most firefighting was volunteer.
TripMode for Windows
In which case it is even more arrogant.
Instant SSL Demo
No worries! Every time I see a Let's Encrypt thread on HN, there's always complaining about having to trust the official client with root access, webserver configs, dependencies, or whatever. So I made my clients (letsencrypt-nosudo, gethttpsforfree.com, acme-tiny) to shut those people up. My clients are not intended to serve the wider Let's Encrypt target audience, who probably don't know what a CSR is. But for those who do, I made clients that don't ask for the access/trust that the official client needs to serve its target audience.

Thanks for making Let's Encrypt and ACME!
wait until one of those dev containers tries to create a symlink in the folder docker-machine shares with your host. (hint: it fails, hard, in an unfixable way)
This is interesting only because Mark didn't address it head on from the start, but honestly it's not all that surprising.

Private foundations have something called "expenditure responsibility" which makes giving funds to a taxable entity (a grant) tremendously annoying. Any misstep makes you liable to some massive surcharges, public scrutiny, and potentially major headaches. It's the antithesis to Mark's "move fast and break things"

There's some argument he should push for a public charity instead. There, expenditure responsibility isn't expressly required, but you're still expected to see that the money you grant is used for our charitable purpose, and still subject to audit.

I'm expecting them to write quite the essay in response. On it's face, I don't think people should fault this decision. I'm fully expecting a strong effort to use this money efficiently, which is no easy task with such a massive sum. Check out GiveWells recent post about trying to "give away" Dustin Moskiwitz and Cari Tuna's money - which I believe is an order of magnitude less in volume, but still very challenging.
OK, let's say he's completely full of it and he's not giving anything away.

So what? That's fully within his rights.

A rich dude might by lying? That's not headline news.
Even more interesting is the document on Github with technical details about the port:

https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/doc/Matlab...
Re FaceTime, I recently read an unsubstantiated but plausible comment that they'd run into patent issues that caused a redesign that caused issues open sourcing it.
Speaking out of absolutely zero personal experience with diabetes, I have always been under the impression that Type 2 was basically solvable through weight loss and changes in diet. Is this study telling us anything new?
I think what he is doing writ large is great.

My quibble is that his "birth announcement" makes this sound "all charity" when clearly putting it in an LLC makes it a "all power play" move.
Mother Blames Daughter's Suicide on WiFi Allergy
It's not ready for production in this release according to the site but libdispatch and Foundation are both being ported which should speed up server side development on Linux.
No, you're wrong. If you've run malware on your machine then it's not your machine anymore.

This is exactly the thing that Google spent months trying to tell people when it was refusing to include password access to the password list. That extra password does nothing to increase security, and may be counter productive.
Probably worth merging into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669891.
Let's Encrypt's closed beta is no longer accepting new applicants [0], but they are launching the public beta in just under 2 hours (6PM GMT/10AM PST)[1] at the time of this writing.

[0]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/beta-program-announcemen...

[1]: https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/maintenance/55957a99e800...
The Swift compiler uses the CommonMark Markdown flavor
How to optimize images for faster load times
If I recall correctly this is a problem with virtualbox and not docker and it's only if the symlink is made in a specific way, like how npm makes symlinks.
Honestly, this is often true of anything that isn't purely academic or so new that no previous version exists(its not always mentioned, but its generally true.) One way or another, you are going to get bit by it, and Python is nothing special.
Such good news. I've bet my career on Scala, but Swift is sufficiently similar in style that it will be an easy transition.

A language to write native (not VM-based) apps for the desktop, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, CarPlay and Apple TV is becoming very compelling indeed.
This is a side project of mine inspired by Soulver: http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/

It's pretty basic at the moment but is useful as an alternative to a calculator app, and as a way to share calculations online, e.g. here's a little SaaS monthly revenue calculator: http://notepadcalculator.com/s/ba8c945e65a6816f63b253272b7c9...

Interested to see if others find this useful. Criticism welcome!
Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool
According to this reddit thread[1] they were sued for patent infringement[2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1xuzif/what_ever_hap...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114
This Gadget Can Tell What’s Wrong with Your Air Conditioner by Listening to It
> I remember when Steve Jobs went on stage and said that FaceTime would be an open standard. Haven't seen that happen yet.

FaceTime has been the subject of multiple patent lawsuits, which is what has prevented it from being opened.

See: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114 and http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/09/...
Perhaps I should have said it's easier to write tooling. C++ has arguably very good tooling but creating it was difficult.

For Rust and Go the example I'm thinking of is
rustfmt and gofmt.
> The most robust way of timestamping is cryptographic timestamping, where the downloaded file is hashed using a cryptographic hash function like SHA-256, and then the hash is published.

How is this a time stamp? The hash doesn't change if you touch the file's modification time.
> minimise paying tax in numerous countries (which can have substantial benefits for the populace of said countries)

I'm not sure there's a less efficient way of helping people than giving money to the government.
Interesting, i'll have to give it a shot to see how it works. Any plans to provide integrations for something like alamofire? If I could abstract all of the work to a special response handler i'd definitely switch over
Engadget 5.0
They were definitely sued very heavily over face times architecture.
Link goes nowhere.
Is it possible to use HTTP/2 without SSL yet? I tried it a few weeks ago and my browser was just downloading a 4KB file with some random bytes in it, I assume this was the server response but it wasn't clear.
Inside the Hack Rod, the World's First AI-Designed Car
Right, guess what I'm proposing is more of VPS and Iaas, not containers nested in VM.
>Those "millions" of programmers had work in their own countries I presume. Long before a small fraction of these "millions" get around to leaving and moving to the west, the market would have stabilized a bit.

There was a poll recently that estimated about 30 million people from India and China alone want to move to the US permanently (the number of people willing to relocate temporarily is much higher).

Even with depressed wages, developed countries have many quality of life benefits that will immediately attract many more people than you seem to think. Yes millions may be a bit hyperbolic for your own country, but for US that's likely accurate.

>Wages would raise there as the supply drops below demand.

Wages would likely not rise there because a huge fraction of software created in developing countries is done as outsourced work from developed countries. The demand for offshore work will dry up as wages drop in developed countries. That will encourage even more workers to immigrate to developed countries.

>Long before a small fraction of these "millions" get around to leaving and moving to the west, the market would have stabilized a bit.

You have no evidence for this. It's just wishful thinking.

>Eventually we will see "millions" of western developers taking a small paycut to move to Romania or Maruitius or wherever for lifestyle reasons.

How long is eventually? There's no way to know, it could be decades before labor markets stabilize.

>I hope someone will come here to replace my job for much cheaper, I am sick of it.

That makes no sense. Why don't you just quit?
Ssh-uncopy-id: A script to remove a ssh pub key from a remote host
I think the gradient descent / machine learning metaphor is a good one, because it illustrate blind local optimization given a set of value functions. In other words: exactly the behavior that organizations over a certain size tend to exhibit (or put another way, the middle-managers-revert-to-the-consensus-value-approximation decision metric).

As you note, the problem with tech is that for truly profitable endeavors, there is always a technical barrier that first much be overcome. And from first-glance, that seems like an impossible / overly-expensive burden (especially given the unknown reward behind it).
"Specifically, the term command is used in imperative computer languages. These languages are called this, because statements in these languages are usually written in a manner similar to the imperative mood used in many natural languages. If one views a statement in an imperative language as being like a sentence in a natural language, then a command is generally like a verb in such a language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_(computing)
Zoltan Istvan is a character, and an outspoken transhumanist in a time when it is becoming perhaps a trifle unfashionable to refer to oneself as a transhumanist. Of course we are all transhumanists together here, reading this post while hoping and planning for a future in which fundamental limits of the human condition will be overcome through technological progress. Istvan has been publishing and speaking relentlessly on the topic of transhumanism for years now, and of late has settled upon the forthcoming presidential race as one of the few opportunities for an activist to make use of the US political system to promote a cause. In Europe starting single issue parties is a viable approach, but not in the US. So Istvan is touring, attracting attention, and giving interviews.

Here is something to consider: in the matter of changing the world, is it better to fund research into the technological progress you desire or is it better to fund publicity efforts for that same technological progress? I suspect that both are needed, striking some sort of balance between (a) science that is within striking distance but effectively invisible to the world and large funding sources, which has been the state for SENS rejuvenation research for quite some time, and (b) advocacy that is so far ahead of technological plausibility that the snake-oil salesmen sneak in and corrupt an entire generation with their nonsense, which is the story of the last quarter of the last century with respect to progress towards the treatment of aging. An argument for the "fund research" side is that meaningful progress in science tends to generate its own news. An argument for the "more publicity efforts" side is that there are plenty of historical examples of important scientific progress languishing at the verge of completion for a lifetime or longer. Personally, I'm in favor of funding the research at this time, and one of my main reasons for that is that early stage research has become very cheap over the course of the modern biotechnology revolution, while publicity remains stubbornly expensive. Yes, it is far easier to send your message out into the world, but there is now such a sea of content that making yourself heard is harder than ever.
The act of giving money (or shares) to the LLC won't be tax deductible.

If/when the LLC gives money (or shares) to a charity that will be tax deductible.

If/when the LLC spends money (or shares) on something not classified as a charity that will not be tax deductible.

If/when Zuck & his wife die and there is still money (or shares) in the LLC those assets will be subject to the estate tax.
Explorer allows write access though (uploading, &c).
It wouldn't be the first nor will it be the last time that somebody's Facebook post was self-aggrandizing.
The flood in Chennai is man-made.

http://www.ndtv.com/chennai-news/chennai-floods-a-man-made-d...
I'm always found Julia performance claims [1] to be misleading in comparison to LuaJit [2].

Because Julia claims to be much faster than LuaJIT, yet continually - people find that LuaJIT (not Julia) is much faster in real world test [3].

Does anyone else have experience in Julia vs LuaJIT?

[1] http://julialang.org/#high-performance-jit-compiler

[2] http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html

[3] http://bayesanalytic.com/lua_jit_faster_than_julia_stock_pre...
I uploaded it as soon as I finished and tested it, there's still a lot to do, but I'm surprised nothing like this already exists?!
There are lots of companies doing a lot more with containers than just using them in a pipeline. Google, for instance, runs all of its apps (including search) in containers (using Google's own container framework, LMCTFY), managed by Kubernetes.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Competitive programming [pdf]
Despite the name, I didn't see the article as taking a pop specifically at Java. It seemed more about bad OOP in general. As you say, you'll see the same patterns in every OO language.
I tried this few months ago and the tutorials & challenges are somewhat difficult for beginners. This tutorial is challenging as you go through it and shouldn't be followed without proper guidance or research. The terms used in it is not so suitable for newbies as other tutorials available on-line. Though, the tutorial as a whole is a reliable source for learning python 3 and it's core concepts with some enticing problems.
Definitely worth a look.
Once the book is returned isn't it enough to record it in aggregate and remove the record from the personal file? Maybe they should change the way they keep records. Or is that a police thing from way back that requires them to keep a record of all the books you have borrowed. In which case I'm one step ahead as I spent my highschool in the library and almost never checked anything out. They will never find out all the terrible fantasy and sci-fi novels I read.
So the Kobe daily dismisses the criticism by essentially claiming he's a public figure and thus fair game but also admit to not obtaining consent from the other book borrowers.

On the other hand, the information was obtained and "leaked" by someone who stumbled upon the library cards while disposing old books and ancillary things from an old library....
It reminds me of the cardfile case in New York[1] somewhere that brought insight into the lives of adolescents/young adults who attended some special preparatory kind of institution for kids but whose history had almost completely been lost...

[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/life/permanent_record/features...
What is a quantum permutation?
Great news! Coding in Swift is fantastic and I would love to see it coming to more platforms, maybe even on servers. It could become a serious Javascript competitor due to its elegant syntax, the type safety and speed.
Convincing employer to hire additional developer without selling yourself short?