skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a bit strange to me that they would take the directed acyclical graph interface of a compositing program (like Nuke as one example) and call it a general purpose language, then show it off by doing compositing image operations. If you want to work with images like this, download Nuke, if you want to work with images, geometry and more like this, download Houdini.

There is a lot to be gained from structures like this in general programming, but what they are showing has already been done for 20 years. The real test is when you get in to branching, loops, and all sorts of things that aren't straight data flow. Whether people realize it or not, pure data flow is basically a solved problem, even from an interface view, it just isn't evenly distributed.
You can build a mobile app in Go, for both Android and iOS.

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile
Throwaway just to say that father was an exec at Koch working directly with Charles Koch. They genuinely see it as a free market thing, and that if people think it's so bad they'll use their money to fix the problem, and if they're right, the market dictates they'll win. They also see their lunchtime as a free market problem. They see departments interacting with other departments as a free market problem, where one department has to pay the other for its time. They think the historically largest government programs should have been private market funded... "if they were that important to society people would fund it."
I think a twitter-decentralized-blockchain could solve this?
I think you mean libel, not slander. And the injunction is for "tortious interference", not libel.
He did though.
In usa everything that is copyrightable, becomes copyrighted at moment it is created. For instance that sentence, and this on, are protected works owned by me. The only reAson HN can legally use then is cause I gave them license, buried somewhere in Eula/site terms of use.

Also, an architecture is not copyrightable. Maybe patentable. Copyrights protect specific expressions, not a general idea, plan, or architecture. At least not yet thankfully I haven't seen anyone try to argue an unrelated software doing same thing is a derivative work.
Which would also provide a signing key for messages as well.
Thanks I will update the readme soon, hope you like it
Oh yeah, there are not many options nowadays. I know this one which is offered by Coursera: "Functional Programming Principles in Scala". I didn't take it, but it should be helpful if one want to explore that "weird wizardry functional stuff" -and discover that there is not much wizardry at all. Oh and as others stated above, it is not that difficult once you really dive in :)

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
I had difficulty finding his birthday. He was honored with the page, ... Responded jokingly about bday as it wasnt important until he would die.
Thanks, changed from http://www.r-bloggers.com/working-with-the-clinton-state-dep....

It's better to send issues like this to hn@ycombinator.com, since that guarantees we'll see them and it's haphazard otherwise.
DHT - Distributed Hash Table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
The last point sounds interesting. Gonna try that next time I do home office (which I only do when really necessary, e.g. because of craftsmen appointments at my home).
There's a good reason for lack of sharing as both Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Hanssen (FBI) ended up providing much more sensitive information to the adversary than their rank qualified them for.

The agencies seem to be on the cycle of high compartmentalization -> criticism for lack of sharing -> low compartmentalization -> major spy scandal -> high compartmentalization.
That's assuming that average hackers don't use script browser exploits...

And the FUD about there the government being so competent that it's impossible to hide from them has to stop. It's just so entirely useless and devoid of reality. If you were going down, for example Snowden would be an unknown name to us.
Many big companies will patent their internal architectures. I've been involved in the creation of quite a few patent applications of exactly that. My name is even on one of them.

It's silly and ridiculous but necessary because of the way patents are enforced.

I can promise you that the existence of the patent system did not motivate us to build any of that software, but it certainly motivated us to patent it after the fact, so that someone else couldn't patent it and then sue us for having independently built the same thing.
Why isn't it transparent? Isn't the code open source?
The Australian government 'no jab, no pay' law has sparked a rush on vaccines
He's pretty prolific on twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Ah I see. I guess there's no support for HTML5 DRM yet.
I have no problem being on my feet all day, but I do have a problem when having to stand in the same spot, which is usually the case when working on a computer. It causes my arches and back to give me problems after about 45 min and it gets difficult to concentrate. One alternative is to use a treadmill add akulbe suggests, but as he also suggests it can be hard to concentrate on that as well. The other option is to get a high workstation that you can stand at and also get a stool so you can switch back and forth as you please. One downside of this is the lack of lumbar support so you have something to rest on as your posture lets up instead of starting to round your back and hunch forward.

Something else to consider if you're looking into this for health reasons is that standing isn't necessarily any better. Studies have shown that it doesn't matter if you're sitting or standing because in both cases you're not moving. However, I believe standing, at least part time is still better because in reality you're not standing still, but rather moving around a bit, doing small side steps and stuff. When standing you're using more of your core and lower muscles too. Standing up also allows you to walk away and come back easier so you're more likely to not stay there for long periods without taking breaks as you would in a chair. Not that it's not easy to get up from a chair or anything, but it's probably more of a mental thing. Idk,that's what I've heard from several people and have experienced myself anyways.
Researchers demonstrate 'quantum surrealism'
Yup. "Jack of all trades, master of none" comes to mind.
Posted (again) on RTC.news:
http://www.rtc.news/posts/os4JyZWT6iLR2jMua/job-apple-is-sti...
Yeah it's just a matter of saving space. Here's the actual code: https://github.com/lmatteis/peer-tweet/blob/master/app/compo...

I'm really bad at binary arithmetic so I might have done something wrong, but essentially I calculate how many bytes I need to use for the integer, and I store it in a buffer.

I might change this if the space required is the same for seconds. I just figured I'd save some space, and I only need minute precision really.
Or authentication tokens. How many ssh keys or database passwords have been lost like this?
Looks like the support protocols right now are HTTP, Thrift (framed transport) and something called Mux. Is this intended to be pluggable?
White Collar World: What the Office Has Done to American Life
That's a really good idea. It would test how much semantic information the word vector actually contains about the word.

Another idea is to generate word vectors from a dictionary. Instead of trying to infer it's meaning from context, a dictionary gives you it's meaning directly. And even alternate meanings. Or a hybrid approach might be best. I recently read a paper where they used wordnet relationships to improve regular word2vec vectors a lot.
Meet the HP Elite x3, a smartphone HP thinks can kill off smartphones
Context for people not following VR religiously: the Vive is $200 more than the Oculus Rift however it includes hand controllers and an extra tracking device. Both come bundled with 2 games if you pre-order. The Rift also has integrated headphones that are attached to the strap whereas Vive has a headphone jack on the headset. They both have integrated microphones.

Edit: Rift also includes an Xbox controller in the $599 bundle and Oculus will be selling their own hand controllers (called Touch) in H2 2016.
You can tell that "_.author" is a parameterless lambda?
Yelp CEO responded in his 5 most recent tweets: https://twitter.com/jeremys
Great insight.
Still it can work well for early stage startups and provided that they won't hire those who have children. They don't anyway (it's a discrimination, a big topic, but a different story here).

Quit your job? Move on to the next one, you will have some buffer time.
How about a parser that creates a high level flow chart out of normal code?
This might give people a taste for what really modular devices like Ara can offer, but the fact that it doesn't do battery swaps without powering down is going to make it far less interesting to people. An internal battery to give you 30-60s in an emergency hibernate mode would have been game-changing.

Kudos to LG for actually taking this step though. With luck this will whet the appetite for phones that are truly modular (and show manufacturers that there is a market for swappable parts).
Oh dear
The Taxacom experts are less than enthusiastic ...

« Hi all, I can't say that I would recommend this so-called
"tree". It is not only incomplete, but it is not really a tree (just a series
of interconnected bushes). The most noticeable is the omission of a lot of photosynthetic phyla,
such as Chlorophyta and Rhodophyta, and especially most taxa in Kingdom
Chromista (where are the diatoms, phaeophytes, xanthophytes, chrysophytes,
etc.). This "tree" needs a lot of work.

http://markmail.org/message/h32kgtoum6zri3ev?q=thread:3mg7wc...
A girl – whose name is not being used by the Free Press -- on Saturday posted on Facebook at 5:33 p.m. that her boyfriend was picked up by an Uber driver named Jason who was driving erratically, blowing through a stop sigh and sideswiping another car. That post came up just about a half hour before the killing spree started.

She posted a photo of the man, who matches the police mug shot of Dalton, and said he was driving a Chevrolet Equinox SUV. Kalamazoo Gazette photos later show police searching an Equinox.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/02/21/ka...
When I first read the headlines about this story, I was sympathetic. I lost nearly all sympathy for her after reading the actual letter and other details.
This is awesome! Can I get one that goes the other way? I give you a definition and you give me a plausible but invalid word...
Uber’s Achilles’ Heel: Uber Must Become GM Before GM Becomes Uber
Per the article, other companies have entirely switched to producing antibodies using cultured cells created using recombinant DNA technology. Observers suspect the company in question destroyed these animals in part because they are moving to similar processes. It sounds like the disruption has already occurred, as a result of decades of steady, methodical research.
I know someone where people in their department come into the office 3 days a week and they work from home 2 days a week. That seemed like a good balance.
Honest question: what's the appeal of Swift outside of iOS/OSX development? I can understand the need for an Objective-C replacement, but after more than two decades of evolution, web dev doesn't lack of good and modern languages running on top of very performant and mature platforms, with rich ecosystems. Swift brings absolutely nothing to the table.
One thing I appreciated about Clojure's Garden library is you build your CSS in Clojure itself. A Clojure dev can learn Garden in about 5 minutes, then apply the entire power of Clojure as they see fit. I wouldn't mind an equivalent to that in JavaScript. Server side though, so not Descartes.
I find the people who care the most provide the least value beyond showing up themselves.
It's a solvable problem with a very subjective solution.

For me. After working at stock exchanges and whatnot; I decided that every day I'd walk through that door at 9am with three fucks in my register and walk out at 5 with three of them still there.

Burnouts aren't worth it. Salary difference of x% is dealth by switching jobs if needed.

We are in demand. Get at least normal rest every day out of it.
Or you'll hate what you love and live to do.
Let's take an edge case: you are a slave in America, 18th century. Here, some antidepressants and some free psychotherapy time for you. Happier now?
One important thing is not everyone has an extreme personality to get this extreme success.

There is nothing wrong in NOT having extreme success.
The suit seems to be over the use of the "Archery Tag" trademark in advertising? That seems perfectly legal (article states it as well). Typical "we'll suebully you" case imo.

So how do you get these patents voided if there's clear evidence another company (the arrows he sells from Germany) produced something similar before? Pretty clear case of priors at least according to European patent law which is the only one I'm vaguely familiar with.
I think that would be awesome. You bully you pay a hefty price.
I was just looking for how to get sound from the headset, thanks!
Is it not ironic that Yelp, which relies on public reviews businesses largely cannot contest has a vastly different attitude when it comes under scrutiny?

I suspect that firing someone can exacerbate a Streisand-like effect.
Indeed. My friend phoned me once "how did you stop going crazy working from home" (I did it for 5 years) and all I could reply was "I'm not sure I did".

I went for days when the only speaking I did was "just these please ... thank you" at the store.

I had to get out in the end. Quit my job (the office 150 miles away and they wouldn't be able to pay for me to move to & live in London).

Saved my life I think.
Orange glasses may be the solution for bipolar – NRK
This was not intentional. Thanks for pointing this out.
16 programming languages you need to know in 2016
Meet HP's Elite X3, a Windows Phone with a Wireless Lapdock
Here in Brazil at least, Uber requires drivers to pay insurance for both them and the passengers for any potential accidents.
Swifton: Ruby on Rails-inspired web framework for Swift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

Do you also find "comfort" in only using Apple products?
Relevant research by the scientist in the article (Tone Elise Gjøtterud Henriksen): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25264124
The uber smear campaign is relentless... Driving a car doesn't cause you to sexually assault people and go on murder sprees. Enough with this childish drivel
The Ad Blocking Wars
Yes, but working remote does not mean having no social life.

While it's convenient due to the time spent together, I think enmeshing your personal and work life until they are inseperable is not healthy. Especially since companies fold, etc. It can be very traumatic, and have been through that during dot-com years. I greatly prefer working outside the office now.
If you include propaganda and persuasion alongside armies then that is exactly my point.
Is GSLB different from Google Seesaw, the load balancer that was open-sourced recently?
A big part of Uber's brand / marketing is "safety" - as in, we know who is driving you, we did a background check, we track the exact route taken, etc. So this would seem to undermine that messaging.
We can definitely improve the docs a bit on this point.

But FWIW we totally agree with you. Finagle itself is a JVM library, and that worked well enough at Twitter [insert caveats here], but a big part of the reason we built linkerd is extending that model to non-JVM / polyglot services. There's SO much good stuff in Finagle... it would be a pity to confine it just to the JVM.
In before someone blocks comments here
Yup, absolutely. Any requests? :)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11144665.
Is there something intrinsic to EMV that makes it slow? Or just bad implementations of the readers?
I emphatize with depression on a deep level. The population of software developers is so large that just picking a few known cases of depression makes for an argument of unknown statistical strength.

One thing is known - software development is hard, potentially stressfull with recurring pathologies that really don't have any known remedies except 'dedicated craftmanship'.

On the other hand, a few of the examples pinpointed to a cruel and unkind society as the root cause of depressive issues - system issued chemical horrors in the case of Alan Turing and zealous politically ambitious ptosecutor in the case of Schwartz.

The issue is then not that the software shop cannot function always as the surrogate family but that systems should not treat individuals cruelly.

Which is an admirable dream - but goes really weirdly with antagonizing with liberal politics. Anarchism would not lead to a kinder society with the human species as it is.
this is why the language we use to describe the phenomena is so important: "remote work" is the correct way to describe it in my opinion because the phrase does not exclude the possability of working in a co-working office space.

With remote work it's entirely possible to work from a social business environment or "hacker space". The difference in this situation is that the individuals who you socialize with at work, aren't always working on the same project as you, or employed by the same company.

In other words remote work need not imply a life-style change or a work-style change, so to speak, but the people who blog about this stuff often ignore this and get it wrong. As an aside, in Manhattan there are nice co-working spaces which are not cheap and increasingly what you'll find there are individuals who are working remotely, but who prefer to do so while hanging out around other startup developers. I think this is the kind of thing we're going to see a lot more of rather than the idea of working in pajamas
The HTC Vive Costs $799/£560, Shipping Starts April
We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11144751, which announces his death, into this one, which has a nice interview (and also was posted earlier).
Growing up, I had these jobs with these wages, in this chronological order:

Landscaper: $6/hr (ages 12-16, living at home)

Target Employee: $7/hr (age 17, living at home)

Video game store clerk: $7/hr (age 18-20, living at home)

Spa/Jacuzzi repair/transport: $7/hr (age 20, college)

Sunglass Hut sales person: $9/hr (age 20, college)

HP Printer salesman: $10/hr (age 20-22, college)

Copy Editor at a population 30,000 town newspaper (age 22-23, living with roommates): $32k/yr or approx $15/hr

...and so on for about 3 more years (living with at least one other person) before I transitioned to software development and things took off for me.

You'll notice points where my age is the same. It's because I had those jobs at the same time.

None of those jobs, not one, had free health insurance (most had no health insurance, period), and none had 401k matching. None had free snacks, outside of a coffee machine. None had a fun, vibrant work culture. And
with each one, I was working with the understanding that it was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life because it sucked and I hated being poor and I was determined to do whatever it took to not be.

I don't really know if there's anything to garner from all of that. It's just my experience, and it makes it difficult for me to understand why people feel like they should have a job they love that pays well first thing in life. According to most people I've talked to, that's not the norm.
> You are a classic case of the denial that is overreaching our culture.

Denial? All life is sacred. I just don't put one life form above or under another. In order for me to eat, others have to die. That's true if it's lettuce or chickens or fish or yeast.

Instead, I ask why you value mammals so much more than plant life? They doth deserve to live, right?
Is happening entirely through Gear VR headsets
Very relevant. You use the service that you trust and are in the unusual position to be putting your life in their hands without anyone observing what happens.

This gets to the heart of Uber's business model and how much collective trust there is in drivers with whom the company has essentially zero relationship with and yet is supposed to keep you safe in the most dangerous activity that humans engage in.
I hope this isn't the VirtualBoy all over again. I really love the idea of VR gaming but I'm not yet convinced that these platforms will succeed. I'm certainly not willing to shell out $800 on it knowing what I know now.
Quite an edge case to be both a slave in 18th century America and in the software development industry, which is what we're talking about here.
- "And this guy Paul was about to steal Eric, brainwash him into thinking he was doing something else, and pay him next to nothing."

What the f* is this author talking about? He did absolutely no real research about Y-combinator, just spewing his ideology without facts.

Y-combinator certainly isn't for everybody, but this guy is doing a disservice to his cousin.
Security requires freedom, and cannot be achieved without it. If you don't have the freedom to determine the behavior of your personal computing device, select the ways it is and isn't locked down, control updates to it, and inspect encrypted communications to/from it, that device and your usage of it are insecure.

We should not reinforce the idea that one must sacrifice freedom for security, sacrifice privacy for security, etc. Those are false choices based on fundamentally flawed definitions of "secure" and "security".
No they can't. In Germany Taxus have a lot of regulation. Among other things: Fixed prices approved by city councils (I.e. no extra charges in times of high demand), "Beförderungspflicht" (the driver can't easily deny a trip, even when goinh just round the corner), taxi operators have to ensure providing "enough" round the clock service and a few such more things Reason is to ensure taxis are a reliable part of pulic transit systems.

You can make the "Personenbeförderugsschein" which allows to do "shuttle services" but compared to taxis they can't randomly pick up passengers but I.e. have to return to their base before picking up the next passenger, no waiting at a "strategically" good position etc.
"It can be done, but it takes years of thought and work to make everything work well in practice."

Really wish they expressed the cost in man-years. It's a few calendar years, and thousands of man-years.
Are there any precedents where the UK has placed a gag order on a foreign company, and successfully extradited and imprisoned a CEO for violating said gag order?
That's possible. It's using Andrej Karpathy's char-rnn. Presumably it's doing something like running the trained model with 'th sample.lua -model something.t7 -primetext '$WORD, ' and taking everything after the comma as the definition. So to reverse this, you would take the dictionary corpus, remove '^$WORD, ', and suffix ', $WORD$'. Then it will be training to predict a final word conditional on the definitions, and you can do the same thing with the new model, feed in '-primetext '$DEFINITION, ' to get out a word.
‘You Could Look It Up’: The World Before and Since Wikipedia
The Django community knows full well that this is a missing feature in modern web development. There was a talk featuring this topic at DUTH this fall. https://opbeat.com/events/duth/#twisted-and-django
To me it sounds clear that uber has benefits there in that case, unlike the grandparent is claiming. Most consumers favour constant prices without surprises, and dislike negotiation processes.
AND your data...
Does anyone have information about compatibility? Do all these VR things use the same API or must a game support each product seperately?
The Legend of Verdun
Apparently he drove Uber fares in between random drive-by murders. We can all have our own opinions about what people should care about in terms of exciting and lurid news but let's face it that's a seriously catchy headline.