skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/903/

Ah, but unlike any other obligatory XKCD you tend to see on HN, the relevance here isn't in the comic but in the alt-text you get when you hover over the image.
You should try looking at the code before declaring that. The C used a pool allocator, had some high level structures (vectors and hash tables, basically the same as Perl), loads of safe string functions, try/catch, coroutines, cooperative threads, and other stuff I've forgotten[1].

It was possible to write safe code in that framework, and in fact we did write a lot of code used daily by tens of thousands of UK schoolchildren until quite recently.

[1] Invoking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule although I like to think our code was very minimal, elegant and not too buggy.
Does anyone else know who rotates their session ticket keys? I'm aware of Twitter (jsha's post here: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/forward-secrecy-at-twitter-0), but not really any others..
Yes -- It's Fred Brooks' own "The Design of Design:" http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-Essays-Computer-Scientist/d...
>It's an exciting time, and it looks more and more like we're close to the very bottom, since we have to look so far now to find anything outside our models.

For what it's worth we thought the same thing a little over 100 years ago. We just had to figure out a few pesky things like blackbody radiation and physics would be all wrapped up.
"Do you think that Britain managed to dominate india in the 18th century despite having - supposedly - no advantages whatsoever? In fact the very reason Britain was able to do this was because it had already leapt ahead."

British's advantages were politics, crony capitalism and superiority complex.
Interesting, what version of Firefox is this? You can see in the CSP that 'self' is a defined keyword for both the script-src and style-src directives: https://report-uri.io/home/analyse/https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityhea...
The predictions for the LIGO detection rate are very poor. They're based on a sample of just a handful of binary pulsars observed in our Galaxy, which would produce NS-NS mergers. The BH-BH merger rate is almost totally unconstrained, although it is generally thought to be less than the NS-NS merger rate. So the fact that a BH-BH merger was the first detection, and the fact that it was detected so soon after the sensitivity increases is evidence that the BH-BH merger rate is probably somewhat higher than expected. But we won't know for sure until LIGO detects more events and the rate can be better constrained. Sometimes you do just get lucky.

I should add that there are lots of selection biases and educated guesses in all of this, too. The signal from BH-BH mergers is louder and easier to detect from larger distances. At the same time, NSs are probably more common than BHs, but it's not really clear whether there are more NS-NS binaries than BH-BH binaries because NSs receive kicks from the supernova when they are born but BHs (probably) do not. This may have the effect of blowing apart many nascent NS-NS binaries but leaving the BH-BH binaries intact.
That's not what "fork" means.
Of course it's very important to have a beautiful Z System mainframes. I like the effort they are putting into it, but do they customers care (even for the software)?
This is a ground-up web server rewrite, so it didn't use Apache, although we did (sometimes) front it with an Apache-based proxy.
Please, How much do you charge (hour based)?
NetHack is now on GitHub
Live stream from the NSF: https://www.youtube.com/user/VideosatNSF/live
oops

Edit: Downvote all you want! Relying on a ubiqutous but unsustainable platform qualifies as oops.
http://docdro.id/w5fMxjO
All OVH links work for me, thanks to Ipv6 I suppose
"fundamentally computational form of the universe", you must be a seth lloyd guy :)

But yes, it's the fringes that we'll find new physics. It's not unlike the late 19th century when newtonian + E&M seemed to account for all there was to know.

There hardest thing in fundamental physics right now is to know what questions to ask. We've got answers that work for a lot of the biggest ones that the last 100 years have been spent developing and exploring.
Spoken
OMR is really cool, I spun up the docker image and my project ran on it out of the box. That said, JRuby has been great for us, and we're really excited about Truffle+Graal (which won't run Rails yet but seems close). Chris Seaton is super smart and a really nice guy. Apparently Truffle+Graal should be able to run R soon https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/697515513858158592
> LIGO take all of the credit for this discovery.

This was one of the purposes of LIGO. To prove what what previously conjecture. So yeah, goLigo.
The actual EPA documentation[1] about this site shows that the comparative exposure is not nearly as significant as the article indicates. A handy comparative radiation dose table that they provide shows that you'd receive an additional 240 mR/year simply by moving from NYC to Denver, Colorado.[2] By comparison, the estimated annual dose received by a worker at the former Wolff-Alport site is 120 mR/year.

[1] http://www3.epa.gov/region02/waste/wolff/docs.html#Docs
[2]
http://www3.epa.gov/region02/waste/wolff/pdf/NYC_DOH_May_200...
1,000 people with bad taste do not make a Sir Jonathan Ive.

I get the feeling adding designers to a project has the same startup costs as hiring new programs with the results of crappy sorta conforming to the theme design being just as noticeable.
Q&A with Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on the Sonos/Apple Music Study
Remember kids, have DC failover to a second provider.
Well, it might. The FAQ only says this:

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/support/faqs.html#who-will-b...

By using the AMP format, content producers are making the content in AMP files
available to be crawled, indexed & displayed (subject to the robots exclusion
protocol) and cached by third parties.

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/support/faqs.html#how-do-acc...

In addition, AMP files can be cached in the cloud in order to reduce the time
content takes to get a user’s mobile device. By using the AMP format, content
producers are making the content in AMP files available to be cached by third
parties. Under this type of framework, publishers continue to control their content,
but platforms can easily cache or mirror the content for optimal delivery speed to
users. Google has stated that it will provide a cache that can be used by anyone at
no cost, and all AMPs will be cached by Google’s cache. Other companies may build
their own cache as well.

I imagine that means Google will be caching AMP pages in full, so if your search turns up an AMP page, it will be served from Google's CDN. Presumably, it will be more difficult to determine what is an ad if it's all cached, but maybe ads are an exception to cache -- you can't target a static ad very well.
Agreed. This was 15 years ago (although it was in service until quite recently). We used to front the thing with an Apache proxy, so that could deal with more modern web standards.
Algorithms to Replace Marketeers. Here's How? Paddy Cosgrove, Websummit's CEO
ahh nice. thanks for this. it looks like it's maybe broad keywords, rather than company specific?
s/hipster/autist/
As everything, I think a bit of balance is needed.

You're doing a quick MVP to demonstrate that your idea is working? Fuck it, just throw in dependencies for everything, just care about solving the problem you're trying to solve and proving/disproving your point.

Once you verified it, then go and kill your dependencies. But don't do it just because you want to do it. If in the end the users doesn't benefit from you optimizing your dependencies, why do it? (Speaking from a product side rather than a OSS project used by other projects)

Not sure KILL ALL DEPENDENCIES is helpful, but I'm not sure that MAKE EVERYTHING A DEPENDENCY is helpful either so...
Imagine K12 and YC have always used nearly identical criteria for whether we would fund companies. In this case, the rules have not changed, the outcomes have. They will be better, we think. We want the edtech companies we fund to have the greatest chance of success and that's why we've teamed up with YC.
I don't see an option to remove the notifications if it gets too spammy.
There's an unsubscribe link in each mail.
Prototype of Linux-powered microwave oven
Design is more than how something looks. To reframe your question, you might say "but do their customers care if the stuff they buy works?" To which I hope they do care.
Spreading the word (and data) on country names
You can use Docady's scanner that also does OCR and recognizes its content. It then stores your documents and encrypts them. At the moment it's available on iOS, but should be available soon in Android too.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_Zw6xoUaw

App: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id921250909?mt=8

(Full Disclosure: I work at Docady and part of its team)
Really, is that what I said? You are committing a logical fallacy concluding that "this article doesn't prove SC is in trouble" implies "SC is not in trouble". Also you are making a big assumption that I approve of the venture funding model as applied here.
I didn't notice the navbar until you pointed it out, it does look oddly out of place.
Symantics of clone and fork dealing with a closed program that was sold for billions seems kind of pointless.
The terms right-wing and left-wing are as meaningless as the term fascism.
You're way too optimist.

You forgot about dark matter.

And the devices required to probe Plank length/mass/energy are way beyond even our imagination.
I believe this is the source: https://github.com/raspofabs/dodbook

So you can browse the Markdown or potentially run it through some of the "markdown to webbook" services that exist.
Skeuomorphism v.s. Flat Design
like the idea, wonder where it goes?
Are gravitational waves supposed to be that weak or is it because of the distance between us and those black holes? Do they lose power as they travel through space?
Paddy explained how it is likely that future agencies would be run by mathematicians & statisticians. And how "for example, the next time you see an ad for Web Summit on Facebook, realise that that ad might only be shown to another 15-150 people out of Facebook's 1.5 billion users. And furthermore in some instances that ad might only be shown to you for a short period of time before that ad self-pollinates with something probabilistically even more creative or compelling, or is simply stopped. That's personalising not for the 1% but for the .000001% of users, without almost human intervention whatsoever."
Electronic Arts Standard Template Library
U.S. can't ban encryption because it's a global phenomenon, Harvard study finds
I think everyone got most of my reasons covered below, but here they are: no need to manage updates, smaller security surface, battery life, fan noise. I typically browse with Firefox Nightly, and without flash installed globally I get HTML5 or whatever a site wants to offer me if I don't advertise flash compatibility. If I hit some must-have flash I have a key combo that opens the current tab in Chrome.
Parse on ContainerShip
My two servers in Roubaix are still down.
Great feedback! We will have Ruby in a few weeks (code is sitting on a GitHub branch), and we have Node already. Go is on the roadmap, but we also have a proxy that lets you interface with languages we don't support natively.

I'd be super interested in what tech you find that works well with your language set of Go, Ruby, and NodeJS. GRPC won't. Thrift might (don't know offhand). NATS might, but there's lots of coding there you need as you mention and it's a SPOF.
This is all good and well if you're tolerant of occasional random errors coming out of the OCR process
Woohoo, thank you!
Don't think FACT interpret the funcials of this Startup very well. A FT article responinding to the same release seems more to the point: https://next.ft.com/content/fcb06850-c66e-11e5-808f-8231cd71...
Very nice. I do hope you'll put some wording about not selling out our addresses to everyone :)

On that note, it would actually be rather interesting to see if you could actually sell classified text ads (no tracking images) to send with the e-mails. It might be a nice little way to pay for the service in a pretty basic manner.
I also have indeed alerts set up, and you can receive alerts when a company you like posts a new job.
I definitely agree with your point, so I apologize for nit picking.

IMO, "does it work?" is a QA question. The design question would be "does it do anything useful?"
Were you paid more than the other developers?

When a previous company had a major layoff because of our only client tightening his belt, who got let go? Primarily the people who were paid more than the others, including veteran developers who were simultaneously developing and acting as project managers leading the teams. Only a handful of developers remained.
This place looks interesting! Are you running a business from there / living there full time?

Also, you bought a house, outright, for under $10k? I know Spanish property values have taken a hit but that sounds insane!
Generating CSS (that makes sense) from designs
Does anybody remember the name of the indie music website that was very popular around 2000 or so? For the life of me I can't remember it.
Really quite a fascinating read and discussion of human interaction with music. About half-way through, the educator part of me woke up almost startled: Why isn't there a tidal-wave movement to putting music back in the core of US primary and secondary education? Argh, the science is clear how helpful it is! I'm optimistic though, it seems like a very open and diverse channel for future societal growth.
Really? Because I'd just think they're brown-nosing me in order to get something they want.
There are populated places on earth with high, naturally occurring background radiation, one such place is in Iran, what have been the long term health effects on people in places like that? I imagine studies have been done.
Thanks, very interesting. I didn't know about this being able to run R inside JVM. What will happen with all existing packages that have C or C++ dependencies? Perhaps it would be doable with a bridge? Having R tightly embedded in the JVM would be amazing.
20 Questions a New Scrum Master Should Ask Her Team to Get Up to Speed
Probably not. Well-off people can better afford study-abroad programs and other such things which could potentially take you from a foundation learned in school to fluency, so that would still be a potential link. Still, the number of people who pull that off has to be small compared to those who just grow up in a bilingual (or just non-English-speaking) household.
There's what "should" be, and then there's what is.

The simple truth of reality is that a lot of music is only available through soundcloud.

Smart? No. But it's how things really are.
ESR toxifies any community of which he is a part.
Auto-Generate API Docs from Your RSpec Tests
I'm not going to do anything with the e-mails except send reply notifications. I don't need to make any money from this, it doesn't cost anything to run.
Oh, thanks! I didn't even notice that there was a second 'sister'.
How to create a Minimum Viable Product (for non-developers)
Shouldn't we have multiple detectors, to determine which direction the waves are coming from? (Like an antenna array can also be direction-specific using computational techniques).

Or are these detectors already directionally sensitive?
Don't mind me I'm just checking the functionality. Give us a reply as well so I can see too!
Worm App – Shoot, share and discover incredible slow motion clips
Thanks for creating this!

I, too, was using HN Notify until it suddenly just stopped working. It came back briefly before it disappeared again.

I wish this functionality ought to be built into HN, though. A lot of discussions seem to be die off very quickly, and my hypothesis is that many commenters just don't bother/remember to check back for replies.
> I guess we're finally seeing that with immense human ingenuity and the most careful of engineering, the universe will offer its secrets up to us.

That's been going on for a few hundred years now.
Just stop.
this service sounds like it's biggest use is brigading.

(unless you're looking for someone mentioning your product.)
ok, so some of the best minds on Earth can build a machine to detect gravitational waves from an event 1.3B light years away. This is an incredible motivation for those of us on what is possible with technology in simple terrestrial projects.
Would it be possible to listen for information transmitted via gravitational waves? Would there be any benefit over radio?
In some cases they could perhaps do the same thing that's done with Ruby: interpret the C-extensions.

It's not as crazy as it may seem and JRuby benefits hugely from it: http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext/
Morgan Stanley to Pay $3.2B to End Government Mortgage Probes
Self Adjusting DOM and Diffable Data
Yup, nothing like a good old fashion Spreadsheet. I've had one going since I was 17 (almost a decade!) and it's helped me pay for university.
How Does Zero-Rating Affect Mobile Data Usage?
Yes, like all waves they fade over distance. But an event that happened a billion years ago moving stuff around on Earth is still pretty impressive!
But aren't you still using the certificate to validate the receipt to find out which in-app purchases have been made?

If so, wouldn't you have to validate receipts against a new certificate once the old one expires?
Need to Know – The Mass Surveillance Thriller Game
Amazon Echo & Alexa - Cambridge, MA-Seattle, WA-Sunnyvale, CA

The Amazon Speech team is a group of scientists, inventors and developers working on audio, machine learning, speech and natural language solutions that revolutionize how customers interact with Amazon’s products and services. The team’s mission is to push the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) in order to provide the best possible experience for our customers. Products such as Amazon Echo, Amazon Dash, and Fire TV are illustrative of the user-delighting spoken language solutions Amazon is building.

In addition to engineers interested in ML and speech we are also building a brand new team in Kendall Square, Cambridge and looking for our first dev hires. The
Information Retrieval team will work to develop the Alexa understanding of the kinds of questions users will ask such as ‘What are the movie times in Kendall Theater tonight?’ ‘How tall is Barack Obama?’ ‘Can you tell me joke?’
-Have you worked with a variety of programming languages Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Objective C, Python, Ruby, C#? --Do you have experience working with REST based interfaces?

Send me a note- ebbounty@amazon.com

Best, Emma
I use the Gmail app on my phone, but it's blocked from notifying me. I open it up when I want to see my emails. Which I check often enough each day anyway, but I get to do it without interruption and no downtime.

The OPs screenshot[0] wasn't clear to me if that was a native browser notification or email popup. I check for new responses whenever I click on a new interesting HN post in my Firefox bookmarks toolbar RSS feed. While another email sitting there waiting defeats the purpose for me. In general my philosophy is lazy eval over eager eval, so to speak.

[0]http://i.imgur.com/f8jaAm8.png
Hey,

Just out of curiosity do you have any provider recommendations?

I have my servers on OVH but have been looking for a second provider/backup but cant seem to find any with affordable bandwidth (My services experience heavy traffic)

Thanks!
While funny, I think that's not the same spirit. In some sense, the XKCD one is observing "if you ask 'why' enough times, then the answer is eventually 'philosophy'"; the fact that these links all lead to 'philosophy' is, in some sense, a (jointly if not singly) intentional human creation, and it has semantic meaning.

The Kruskal count is observing, on the other hand, that 'large' collections of data (even for values of 'large' that are quite small, by statistical measures) inevitably include apparently designed, but actually semantically meaningless, coincidences.

Hmm, let me try again. The fact that all Wikipedia articles eventually lead, by transitive linking, to 'philosophy' means something about philosophy; the fact that all trails from the first 12 words of Alice in Wonderland eventually lead, by letter-counting, to 'sister' means nothing about sisters.
Well, it does take your time and that's valuable. Very nice and thanks for using that time to make a useful site.
Netflix finishes its massive migration to the Amazon cloud
Chrome, Safari, Edge (IE), Opera (Which this thread is about) = Laughable?

If this was a thread about replacement for Firefox sure, but not here.
AFAIK that doesn't seem at all feasible yet. Currently you need an enormous facility, which struggles to detect anything but the most powerful gravitational waves.
Think of waves in a pond when you drop a rock in. The energy spreads out as it travels into the farthest reaches of the pond.
GitLab 8.4.4 Released
It's back up for us :)
Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves Proving Einstein Right:The New York Times
The author could have do a bit better research, "research schools & universities" do not use H1B's they use J-1's for PhD's & Postdocs. Also a "rockstar visa" would be an O-1 visa.
Intel’s phenomenal effort to end its use of conflict minerals
> Perhaps a better alternative would be a general credit line available to all Americans managed by the CFPB. The credit limit would be rather small, in the low hundreds, but would be higher for citizens with better credit scores.

I don't think that helps much; if payday loans are really low-margin, CFPB won't be able to offer better effective rates -- unless you are proposing that this is positive-cost taxpayer subsidized line of credit.
The focus here seems to be on proof of concept, not what I've thought of as an MVP. I thought an MVP was the thing people can use, but in it's most bare form.
Paper here: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P150914/public
If this events are so rare (that we don't even know how rare they are), how is it possible that they achieved the required certainty (5 sigma)?

I guess you could count one looong wave as a series of one-time events/measurements, but it could as well be a loooong interference.
err, yes they do.
The amount of energy needed to transmit via a gravitational wave is INSANE. It would involve very rapidly accelerating and decelerating a black hole / neutron star. While it might be possible to do this, it's not within the realm of something we could accomplish without several orders of magnitude technology improvements, and possibly may not be physically possible at all (moving object that heavy that quickly might require creating a black hole)--though I don't have the skill to prove or disprove that.
1000 monkeys throwing feces at the wall...
44.0, but as it turns out, an update is available.
Heroku Pipelines Emerges from Beta
I can’t buy from amazon, but I don’t want to anymore
96 HTTP requests, totaling 5406.72 KB, in 12.87 seconds. Maybe good design for print, but certainly not for web.
I didn't know about HN Notify, but I welocme this. I missed so many comment replies because I simply didn't bother to check. Now I'll sit by the email machine like a teenager and wait for a reply to test this thing out :)
If you assign 1,000 designers to 1,000 different products then it avoids scaling problems.
By tidying some licensing loose ends with that Big Label agreement they signed a couple of weeks ago it seems to me they're readying themselves to be acquired pretty soon.
Microservices in Practice: From Architecture to Deployment
Tea time with Golden Krishna: The best interface is no interface – Part 1