skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'd like to know why you think that. When the job application says you must have a bachelor's degree to be considered, gumption doesn't enter into it.

Yeah it does. Many of the jobs I've gotten have had various requirements I didn't meet, including that particular one. Pretty much the only truly inflexible sector I've encountered is government. Even there, it's amazing what can be done if the right people want it done.

I think getting a degree was one of the poorer financial decisions of my life and not that great in terms of educational outcomes either. Degrees rarely imply the kind of "intangible value" you're talking of.

TLDR; education > schooling
I will live stream some Emacs and Elixir coding in the near future :D
The problem is that Google still rank SourceForge highly.

If Google ranked them down, then they harm would be limited.
Passive Deanonymization of Tor Hidden Services [pdf]
The Pi does have an eMMC interface, as evidenced by the Compute Module. Wonder why there's no, let's say, $45 option with eMMC available...
When it comes to carbon reduction using tax, tradable, caps or any other instrument that tries to use the price system to alter consumption levels… I think you need a very sober economic estimate of efficiency and cost. A tax is not very different economically from other price increases in carbon fuels. These prices vary a lot over time. We also already have fairly variable taxes between countries on the use of carbon fuels for (eg) cars.

Here's oil: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/crude-oil-brent.aspx?timeframe...

The price varies a lot. Consumption does not vary that much or that fast. This is called price inelasticity of demand. Demand does not drop much for incremental increases in price. This means that to decrease consumption we'd need a very high carbon tax. In Europe, petrol has been taxed heavily for a long time and prices are higher than in the US. The long term effect has been somewhat smaller cars, not a completely different transportation market.

There are also the realpolitik problems. When the public is concerned about something (say water), it's not impossible to convince the public (consumers) to bear a burden. But, entrenched economic interest are harder to sway or wrangle. This leads to weird regulation. An area where water use is distributed 15/35/50 between households/industry/agriculture will successfully enact water restrictions of some sort on households, the minor participant. There are equivalents in energy.

I'm not saying do nothing, but I am saying be smart. Some plans are winers from a public debate perspective but do not solve the problem. I am against a plan that acts a a regressive tax affecting the middle and lower classes harshly unless it is going to have a big impact.

If a household with $4,000 annual fuel costs (heating and transport) is to pay $7,000, the overall expected result better be big steps towards carbon goals. I have a hard time seeing this happen.

Lets do a back of the envelope: take that $5.3 trillion externality at face value. Lets assume the world's 2 billion top consumers pay the majority of it. Call it 4 trillion, $2k each, $8k for a family of 4. How much of a reduction will we see? 10%? 25%?

I'm not completely down on the idea. Elon Musk suggests lowering taxes elsewhere, being revenue neutral. This is a realistic politics problem again. Lets say we can do that though, globally. Reduce bottom level income tax and value added taxes by this much, people would be less harmed. Still, transport & heating make up a large part of poorer people's income so it's hard to think of a way this would not be regressive. I'm sure it is theoretically possible, but very hard.

At the end of this ramble, I'm not sure where I am. I'd like to see a realistic estimate of actual reductions in emissions. This is too big a deal not to fix the problem.
I don't disagree with your overall sentiment here; this is disappointing. But if all this is true, then there's been real failures of risk analysis and over-specialization to a particular site. They should have a backup plan, considering how contentious this issue has been all the while. In particular there should be some adaptations that can be made to the main designs that, though not optimal, could make it feasible to relocate, or to replace one of the (many!) existing telescopes on the mountain.
Wait, isn't reddit already used for this extensively? With each subreddit being a separate comms channel.
Or is there another reason why very little reddit content makes sense?
The point is to avoid the problem, rather than to stumble into a state from which it is difficult to restore the status quo ante.

Please do not mistake "anticipating risks" for "fear of uncertainty and the unknown." This a risk for which the likelihood currently appears low, but the consequences could be grave and hard to reverse. At least to my mind, that warrants a bit of attention.
Calling facebook part of the deep web - interesting proposition!
Firstly, thank you for your thoughtful comment. I'll take up your invitation to explain myself.

The brevity of my comment, which I regret, was a symptom of lack of time. I have lots to do at the moment, and yesterday was particularly busy. This same lack of time caused me to abandon the article.

The author's statement that Maxwell's equations connect the subjective label "blue" to a physical EM frequency range is wrong. Its not so much an error of fact as of conception. And in an article that is specifically examining the relationship between subjective concious experience and the physical world, that conceptual error is significant.

But it doesn't really invalidate the author's arguments. And contrary to what I wrote, I did actually continue reading some way past the passage that I quoted. There were some interesting facts and analysis, but ultimately the structure and framing was similar to many other popular science articles I've read, and I felt it was just ground I'd already covered. That, and the above error, lead me to stop. In different circumstances I'd have continued to the end.

So my reason for bailing on the article had little to do with any deficiencies it might have, but I justified my decision using what seems to me to be a glaring error. I don't think that was wrong: it is important to be selective. Wwhat I've learned is that reading long form articles when you are busy is counter-productive, and posting context-less comments is basically noise.
An interesting related read is "On leaving Academia.edu" published by a professor who is going to leave the social networking site: https://imgur.com/NUBD8nn

Edit: the original at https://www.academia.edu/s/f0001df3b6 was taken down.
I thought the example conversation was quite cute also :p
I have the years now to recognize that a fair bit of the chances you run into this are simply statistical odds.

But if I had more time I would share a bit of my stories. Trust though that these types of personalities are unfortunately very real.

I try to remember that for every bit of effort and skill I put into my job doing technical tasks, someone else is probably putting just as much into using their personality to get what they want. It's just inevitable...
> In practice, the message latency would be around 20s to 40s, depending on security parameters and the number of users connected to the system.

Haven't had time to read the paper yet - is this an inherent property of the system, or a number that could be reduced by future work?
Anyone who thinks they can renege on KS commitments needs to take care though. The FTC has pretty clear ideas about people's responsibility to meet their KS commitments.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/11/413676042/...
you can install Filezilla from Ninite. https://ninite.com/

Well - you are trusting that Ninite doesn't include any crapware / malware, but until now I didn't had any problems with it. Makes updating Java Runtime much nicer too.
FlashFXP - been using it since 1999, still love it
I honestly think that this sort of "location+tag" functionality should just be built into the operating system, such that there isn't any 'infrastructure' required but rather the devices themselves have all they need to find each other.

I hope it happens one of these days - but things seem to be hung-up on an 'always online' kind of basis. Why can I not just type in the words I'm interested in and find everything within walking distance associated with those words, somehow? Some third-party always has to be involved: but this is not because of technological reasons.

The cyclic nature of these app re-issues is another interesting thing. The fact that these things keep coming up in the startup-sphere represents more of a "operating system vendors are retards" posture. Where the startups keep churning, you will find an OS decision that hasn't been properly made ..
From my personal experience, L-Theanine, coupled with caffeine, produces very serious results in terms of negating bad coffee effects, increased focus and productivity, and better sleep
Isn't this what Google Groups is used for? (what's different / lacking there? I'm of the age where I remember SourceForge as somewhere I would sometimes download things from as a young teenager but nothing more than that)
> I'm interested in “low cognitive load without sacrificing technical precision.”

You don't seem to be interested in low cognitive load at all, otherwise:

> No disagreement here. I even stated my personal choice of C.

you would have attempted to motivated your choice of reference point in terms of cognitive load. Even if induction mathematics was the way the human mind worked (which it isn't) it's very different from CPUs and there is a cognitive load (and semantical distance) in going from mathematics to CPUs.
Why mailing lists are still quite massively popular in 2015?..
What about taxes?
Reflection, downcasts and assigning `null` to pointers are completely opt-in in Java too.

With respect to type families, I'm probably being a little bit unfair. Personally, I don't have much against associated type families. (Although I think Rust handles them much more gracefully than GHC.) But very important libraries in the GHC ecosystem like vector and lens make extensive use of free-floating type families, which I find... ugh... I don't want to get angry.
Try ConTeXt. The float placement is much more flexible than in LaTeX. Being built on top of TeX, it supports all the math
Following that logic we'd all be running around illiterate if we had to wait for Northern Europeans to invent writing. Something tells me you are not going to embrace the idea that your ancestors are just free riding off the great accomplishments of the Iraqis and Egyptians.
Absolute money quote: "As far as the password storage goes, you are not up-to-date. They are stored base64-encoded now."
I've been looking into the same problem for a while, and came to exact same solution a few weeks ago, coincidently.
I haven't actually got round to completing all the code for it, but have tested each section. I was delighted when I spotted your article this morning, but was hoping you would have also shared your code... No git repository?
I'm sure I can make the whole system myself, but I'm always happy to use others work if it exists.
If you do have a working version of this process, please do share it!
"Hi, I'd like to step on the base for a bit to have a look at your radio transmitter." ;)
seems inherent - servers operate in rounds and each round carries legit traffic plus enough noise to allow traffic metadata to drown in nothingness and forward it to a whole server chain to avoid an adversary to control all the servers, so as you scale servers need more time to forward and mixin traffic
It's an actual conversation from Citizenfour.
These aren't specifically about Qt or GTK applications (except maybe the Ubuntu phone app), but here are some other projects that are shooting for compatibility:

https://github.com/f41c0r/textsecure-client

https://github.com/AsamK/textsecure-cli

https://github.com/TerrorM/pytextsecure

https://github.com/janimo/textsecure.git

https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-qml

https://github.com/StarfishInteractive/Norvos
> Unless you cash out your shares in the secondary market (if it's still a private company), you are not going to see those future revenues directly.

Dividends.
> 2015-04-20
SourceForge and Filezilla are both on their way out, hence their owners desire to monetize their remaining users while they still can.

WinSCP is a decent alternative. As is Swish:

http://www.swish-sftp.org/
https://github.com/alamaison/swish
Failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on Earth
If intellectual dishonesty appeals to you ... well, you went for it.
Then why hasn't Coca Cola been sucked dry?

That does not describe Berkshire Hathaway at all.
Questions for YC (I think):

(1) Is this a good thing? IE should founders, employees, VCs or other shareholders be able to cash in shares? (2) Is this fixable in some way?
Cities of Tomorrow: Refugee Camps Require Longer-Term Thinking
I disagree, but let's say you are right. Then that model does outperform the market, no?
> Well, for people upholding certain cultural values like me, which are not exactly too far-fetched, it's pretty obvious why an era where people watch live gaming in droves is depressing when contrasted with the decline of journalism

I think you're just getting old - and I don't mean it in an insulting way. You can be certain that the Greatest Generation weren't pleased with how the baby boomers were not "upholding certain cultural values" when they were listening to Rock n' Roll instead of "real music"[1]: and yet now Rock n' Roll has it's own cultural cachet. Culture is dynamic. I do empathize with you, but complaining that the younger generation is losing values is an old, old phenomenon.

1. http://rock103.iheart.com/pages/twisted/banned/
How does "Chrome does not perform pin validation" translate to "This is not what pinning defends against"?

The fact that Chrome ships with a broken implementation does not imply the concept is broken.
For comparison, the random 4K write IO rate for a rotating hard disk is ~ 0.4 MB/s given a 10ms seek time. In this benchmark only the bottom 2 cards are slower than spinning rust.
Someone asked for a hypothetical way Google could, in the future, get the data.

As you are doing automated updates, Google can just add Analytics to the browser, and even publish it as something "good".
If they're paying a fair amount for electricity, it's not a subsidy. And it's probably not a minute-timescale change like batteries. Energy storage and batteries are quite different things.
The point is that there's a relatively large number of VCs, a relatively wide distribution of returns and the pool of established VCs is skewed by those that don't enjoy early successes tending to be replaced with new VCs, irrespective of whether that was down to them being unluckier or less skilled than those which remain.

If you have enough people flipping coins you're bound to end up with some people who appear to have significant skill in consistently flipping heads in your pool of coin flippers. (Especially if the pool tends to replace people who don't flip heads in their first couple of tries with new entrants)

It's arguably the Texas sharpshooter fallacy because we define "top VCs" after the fact by looking at their past returns, rather than identifying the "most talented VCs" from a very early stage. Perhaps identifying the "crack shot" from a blindfolded firing squad would be a better analogy.
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Starting point for international relations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
I'm not going to repeat the other good points made here but point out this one:

"There was also the issue of Pranab’s excessive hours spent playing video games. I complained of this to Hinton, but Hinton hated any form of confrontation, so he excused Pranab’s behavior by saying that everyone occasionally goofs off at work."

This is my major takeaway from this story. Any executive, especially a CEO, must be comfortable with confrontation. You should not be a Milburn but you should still be able to tell people whether their behavior or performance is unacceptable.
Not even close. Librelist's UX does not at all match what I describe.
Same here. A couple of pots of strong sencha (Japanese green tea) give me a huge boost in energy and mood, without the negative effects of derealization, tunnel vision and restlessness I get from too much coffee.
On Windows, you don't always need a 3rd party FTP program. Windows Explorer (not IE) already does FTP. Just open any folder and type ftp://example.com into the path bar.
One of the fun things about this "debate" is that people complain about exactly the things in the proposal that are designed to benefit the poor, as affected by this tax. It's almost as if everyone assumes the worst possible implementation, instead of looking at the actual proposal.
Yes, Google Groups is very close to what's needed - unfortunately, it's proprietary and Google doesn't really maintain it, it's only a matter of time it goes the way of Reader.
Sure enough the official download goes straight to SourceForge ...
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I love Signal and advocate it wherever possible. After following along on the GitHub tickets for this project, I'm happy to say thank you and congratulations on the beta release folks!

I'm probably about to ask this on the mailing list soon anyway, but in case there is any hidden knowledge here:

1. There was talk of server federation long ago. Is this still part of the long term plan?

2. There was talk of not using a phone number as a required identifier. Is this still part of the long term plan?
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The added noise reminds me of WASTE, which was infamously created by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft to protest the post-acquisition atmosphere at AOL...

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20100317095429/http://www.rollin...
"intuitions" have nothing to do with it ... you simply aren't knowledgeable about programming languages and their history. Perl 6 looks more like Perl 5 than Perl 5 looked like Perl 4, and the same goes for the earlier versions of Perl, as well as FORTRAN, Modula, Simula, Algol, and other languages with numbers in their names. These numbers are not simply release or version numbers.
Show HN when the idea was presented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10401698
Labella.js – placing labels on a timeline without overlap
Perhaps it was an acknowledgement that their own product portfolio required a shakedown?
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Can't we get rid of the chewing bit, it's such an inconvenience.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664998 (47 points, 15 hours ago, 6 comments)
Facebook perfectly fits the original definition of the term [1], but unfortunately media confusion has turned it into a synonym for Tor and hidden services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web_%28search%29
You have a problem with hyphenation (for instance in the privacy page). :)
> To date the only examples of this done with a measure of effectiveness are actually entire operating system distributions backed by software like apt, yum, pkg-src, etc.

Rust achieves it. Cargo will download dependencies built for the client's desired platform.

I may be wrong but I think D does it as well.

You are right that C/C++ has a wider range of options available to it, but that is for historical reasons.

The principal benefit of a package manager like this is that it forces the packages contained therein to follow a uniform convention of platforms, build types, and options. C/C++ has been missing this for decades.
FWIW, Google Groups powers email distribution lists for Gmail for Work. Or at least, the two are strongly linked.

At this point, unlike Reader, there's real cash behind the functionality. It's possible they could just fold it into Gmail, I guess, but with other mail interfaces like Inbox popping up in the Google ecosystem it seems if anything they're trying not to shoehorn too much more into a flagship product.

My guess is Groups will stick around for a while yet.
How would you replace them? ( Please don't say Slack. That is just _not_ a good replacement, especially for projects that needs publicly searchable archives. )

IMHO a publicly/semi-publicly logged irc channel would do just as well, but that's even more oldschool.
Shouldn't this be a criminal offense?
Are you being intentionally ironic by bringing up Mount Rushmore?

http://www.economist.com/node/11848993
Or you type 'ftp' in the command line.
> Even if induction mathematics was the way the human mind worked (which it isn't)

Even if it isn't how the human mind works, it's how computing itself works. Would you take seriously a physicist who denies gravity? I wouldn't take seriously a computer scientist who denies structural induction.
If Gradle's so great, then why does it use a JVM language that wasn't considered by Metabase.

> The shortlist really came down to “something on the JVM” [...] However, we had a strong aversion to using Java itself, so the real short list was Scala or Clojure

Gradle requires the configuration files to be written in Groovy, and is itself written in Java and lots of Groovy.
I absolutely agree with all Rob Pike says. But in practice the problem is still the trade off. How limited a language should be ? what are the features a language should absolutely have to make the life of the developer easy yet still give him some room to express himself the way he wants? I think that Go failed if one considers that trade off. Often with Go, a developer ends up doing the job of the compiler, because its flat type system doesn't allow a certain degree of expressiveness ( or worse, forces the developer to use reflection , i.e. putting aside the type system all together and using a "generic" 'interface {}' type).

While C++ is something extreme in term of complexity , the other extreme, Go, is problematic as well. I've yet to find a language that has a good balance between the 2. But Go certainly showed that the tooling is as important as the language itself, and it's a great part of its success.

"Philosophically" , no question, I agree with Rob Pike. On practice, things are a bit more nuanced.
You can look at it this way: They're doing something that people want and which cannot be achieved through other means. What alternatives do you suggest?

(Personally, I use GMANE+NNTP for mailing lists, and NNTP is probably better than plain (public!) mailing lists for most purposes, but unfortunately that ship has sailed.)
No ! just say no ! Don't do it ! This repo is created by an emacs lovers who pretends to use vim and then creates subversive plugins just so that they can spread confusion, fear and chaos among vim users !!

:-)

Ah, well, whatever peels your banana...
Where's the data on the student's major and whether the university was accredited or a hoax university?
I love the idea, but the execution seems less than ideal. Besides the research ethics question posed in another comment, what is the dosage of L-Theanine in the capsules? What kind of responsibility does the company take for possible side effects? I understand the side effects should be mild or non-existant in the experiment for L-Theanine, but just a discussion around that issue would be nice.

Again, I want to stress that I love the idea, but the web site just feels incomplete.
> The authority of the free market

That only works in some areas of the world, where a, there is a somewhat free market; b, the free market idea exists in the first place.

As always, like in Perl, there are other ways of doing things; free market is not a universal law.
Bullshit article.
That's interesting, but it doesn't reassure me much. The infrastructure behind Groups may be in use, it doesn't stop Google from shutting the UI down.