skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read enough Usenet for enough years to suspect that STEM may well be a liability when it comes to "soft" subjects, the sort that politics operates on. Just the realities of government finance and government debt seem to be beyond many in our field(s), because it's a bizarro subject.

That China is run by nominally "engineers" could well be a significant problem for them.
The Second Tech Bubble Has Burst: Here Come the Mass Layoffs
I think what he is saying is... a lot of companies let you pay for the ticket yourself and expense (ask for reimbursement) the cost of the ticket. Most companies will pay the price of the cheapest ticket but won't care if you pay more than that. They just limit how much they pay you back.

So if the cheapest ticket is X dollars and the ticket you buy is Y. The employer will reimburse you for X and you pay the Y-X yourself.

Nothing illegal about that, it's the same as if a company says they will reimburse you for half your gym membership. You pay half the company pays half.
The City of the Eternal Boom
I'd like more details. How does it work?
Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code
Yes, it is. I sent it out too late last night and thought more people might want to see this in the morning.
This breaks frequently, and provides no error handling.

Example: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/02/dave-dombrowski-five-y... returns nothing.
I tried it and it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=This+is+...
Addendum: I checked out tachyons now, which solves my abstraction-problems: http://tachyons.io/
> And, do remember, the people who made all the money in the gold rush weren't the miners, it was the people who sold shovels and alcohol.

Ssssh, don't give away the secret. ;)

Actually, startups designed to sell to other startups will fail too when the whole thing collapses like a stack of cards...

Enter Mandrill, which recently found its conversion funnel so ineffective that they suddenly shut the entire system down.
do these actually exist?
Then[1] and Now[2]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/09silicon.html

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/technology/caution-rebuffe...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/technology/apple-iphone-fbi-...
> Let the sham that is the social contract collapse and reveal the exploitative nature of capitalism for what it is.

So basically you just want to watch the world burn?

Peculiar to hear this moral stance from a position of high self regard.
Nerd stampede!
Typically cities levy taxes to pay for infrastructure. If a lot of rich people live somewhere, that should be a windfall.

Why are tech companies supposed to donate more than their share to "develop infrastructure"? No one has ever been expected to do something like this in the past, AFAIK. Just raise taxes in SV and publicly fund more of what you want.
> But, at some point there must be trust.

We may want to reach a point where we trust things we use, but if we're using a security-grade definition of trust and we're honest with ourselves, I think every one of us would admit that we're using something(s) that we do not trust. There just isn't enough time to properly review, test, and verifying things.
The author does not articulate his critique very well beyond claiming that the VC get disproportionate return compared to land and labor. A much better critique is Jaron Lanier's Who Owns the Future. There he argues that the problem is when companies create monopolies that shrink the overall economy (Instagram vs Kodak, Facebook vs publishing in general). The startup then provides the public with free services but at the same time it decreases employment opportunity. The whole machinery works as long as some other sector of the economy grows, but that is unlikely to be the case forever. Somehow there would need to be economic growth, not just lowered cost.
I didn't say the others didn't have usable tools. But the investment in Windows's is significant and it shows.
My takeaways from the Productive Habits email course
The two biggest issues that San Francisco faces are housing and transportation. You say that they would be accused of influencing local politics, but I am reasonably sure that busting the building height cap and using money to get better mass transit options would be viewed very favorably by all but a few of the NIMBYest citizens.

In any case, the fundamental underlying problem is that tech has created a monotonous economy in the Bay. No locality that has one has good economics for citizens.
You have shifted the burden by giving up on a resource that is valuable to society around you. That may well be an equitable trade. The point is you won't get rid of the tax without giving something back to society in return.

Now, I don't believe that this is sufficient as an alternative to all other taxes, but it does have many desirable properties, and your suggested behavioural changes are amongst them: Optimizing usage of land.
I would risk to say it works based on assigning information weight to words, number of non repeating and the way they are related and then filter top down.

I did try it with a link I particularly like

http://multivax.com/last_question.html

with the following response.

{"1":"nor could anyone for the day had long since passed zee prime knew when any man had any part of the making of a universal ac","2":"zee prime's mentality was guided into the dim sea of galaxies and one in particular enlarged into stars","3":"he gave no further thought to dee sub wun whose body might be waiting on a galaxy a trillion light-years away or on the star next to zee prime's own","4":"the universal ac said man's original star has gone nova","5":"the universal ac interrupted zee prime's wandering thoughts not with words but with guidance"}}
> Alright, but now you trust that person.

In a word: no. With open source code, you could use software authored by the NSA, like SELinux, or you could even hire a manifestly untrustworthy party like Hacking Team to author some code and still be able to trust the code.

In Apple's case, there is a fairly good reason to trust Apple because it would be a hell of a kabuki theatre production to have the FBI and Apple battle in a Supreme Court case while colluding in secret. But would you trust a defense contractor? A telco? Limit or ideally eliminate the need for trust. Fortunately it is possible to reduce the need for trust below having to trust groups or individuals.
Very cool and promising!

It reminds the Moxie processor:

http://moxielogic.org/blog/

https://github.com/atgreen/moxiedev

The author even wrote a backend for GCC.

Your demo from Twitter should compile to JS with emscripten.
Ever again? Why is this?
>Angela Merkel with a physics PhD.

Little correction: she holds a PhD in physical chemistry, not in physics.
Nice. Some of the folks from my previous company were involved in a project to find and catalogue all the servers in a certain private institution. I've also been involved in something of a similar nature in my current company, a project to visualise the connections between disparate systems in an organisation.

It's funny how little aware of their infrastructure large organisations can be. I believe what the responses by NASA and the FAA in the article primarily mean is that these orgs just have no idea exactly what hardware they have lying around, and they are unwilling to make this public knowledge. In both cases, not just the FAA, it's true that this knowledge could well lead to security issues.

Say, if someone outside FAA found out about an old, vulnerable gateway into the company's network that the FAA staff didn't even know existed, that could be really, really bad.

And btw- I've found similar situations in smaller companies, of ~50 ish people. And all those machines are on the internet. It's a bit of a mess- or a fun old playground, depending on how you see it :)
What are some alternatives to this?
Puffin – webapp catalog based on Docker, with UI à la mobile app store
But this exists, today. You pay property taxes, everybody knows how it works and it does work.

The net effect on land use would be to sort land use into ... appropriately priced bands of use. People would, IMO, be less likely to spend as much time and energy in tax avoidance.

The initial concept of the income tax was very loosely based on Georgist taxation - if someone has a high income, chances are it's based on rents. It's a noisy, distorted measurement and asking people their income, is, frankly, rude.

If a Georgist tax replaced an income tax, then those who produce without charging rents would have an advantage. The theory goes than income that is not rents is consumer surplus. And you stop taxing labor.
That's a pretty broad category.

Last I checked, there were a lot of Java libraries.
Not summary, just sentence ranking and extraction. Still cool but not anything new. Sweet side project though! For anyone wondering how this was done, I have a similar project up at http://bookshrink.com (source code at https://github.com/peterldowns/bookshrink), although I don't fetch article text.
The entire "job" concept was born with the industrial revolution, relatively recently. Miraculously it survived through post-industrial age, mostly through paper-shuffling clerical jobs (nobody could have predicted it a century ago). Now, either the notion of a job will be gone altogether (see pre-industrial history on how it will look like), or some other activity will take the role of paper shuffling as the archetypal job (instructors? servants? We can only guess now).
Hi (not one of the authors on this, but one of the Zerocash/ZCash authors and a co-worker of Sean's)

This isn't the case with SNARKs, they are zero-knowledge no matter what. For a generic zero-knowledge proof, what you point out is completely true. You are not guaranteed zero-knowledge if the CRS is maliciously generated.

For SNARKS, the proofs become zero-knowledge simply by the prover adding in randomness to his proof. This holds even if the verifier generates the CRS maliciously. Indeed, the original use of SNARKS was for verifiable computation where this was exactly what was done. See section 1.2,3.2, and 4.4 of [0]. In particular, note the last paragraph of 4.4 where the verifier is generating the CRS.

(The point you raise about the simulator is a complex one. Zero-knowledge is an existential statement that there can exist such a simulator, therefor all proofs even when there clearly isn't one are zero-knowledge. The verifier can create a CRS and not tell anyone the information needed to simulate, but that information still exists and we could still, in theory, construct a simulator using it. Therefor the thing is zero-knowledge in both theory and practice. This is not always the case with all proof systems.)

[0]https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/215.pdf
Anecdotal data point: I work at one. We've capped both the number of clients and the number of employees at around 12. I work 18 hours a week, so does the founder. The most anyone works is 35, but they're the exception, and the next "raise" they get will be the same amount of money but less hours.

We've been a going concern for 4 years now, so there's still time for things to go off the rails; but for the moment we're killing our competition and there's essentially zero internal strife.

To keep the caps we're starting to divide like a bacterium - fostering other companies around our model instead of growing ourselves. We'll see how that goes. It's a little alarming to realize that we're creating our own competition, but there's precedent for it going well (e.g. Anchor Brewing in San Francisco).

It's a great way to make money, and I spend all the other productive hours of my week on my efforts to change the world. There's lots of blue-ocean ways to do that when the need to monetize takes a back seat.
Hi @jkot. I am a fan of MapDB. Thank you. I know this is off topic but I'm putting it in here anyway.
There's maybe one small number observation, I m not sure if it's correct as there maybe high growth YC companies which will soon pass those 3/4.

"In 2011, Y Combinator’s poster-child alumni were — already — AirBNB, Dropbox, and Stripe. Can you think of any Y Combinator companies from the last five years as well-positioned today as those Big Three were then? Maybe Instacart, if their unit economics work. That’s it."
> However, how does sorting, say, the physical length of sticks come into this? If you stand them all in a bundle you can easily select out the tallest, and then the next tallest, etc, by e.g., lowering a sticky horizontal plate.

But here you are only linear in the number of plate-lowering- and longest-stick-removal-operations. The actual number of comparisons you do in this example is still very much quadratic, as, in every step, you have to check every stick on whether or not it touches the plate; you just found a very fast way to check this (but still linear in the number of sticks remaining).
An array would be a better choice of structure for the sentences instead of hard coding the indexes.."1"...
That logic can't be right. Because if it were, almost nobody would have the right to criticise google.
It will go into the giants, for whom the zero interest rate regime provided exactly the right conditions to monopolize by buying up their competitors. Things will only get more extreme in this regard until we accept that change is beneficial and let the giants.

The article provides no clear metric for success, just impressions based on brand success. Things are not so rosy for its darlings as it implies. A price to earnings ratio of 70+ is quite a risk, no matter how sure it seems that such a company becomes a permanent monopoly. I feel that the low (now negative!) interest rates offered by central banks are fueling a huge bubble in the valuation of these companies.
Kim Jong Il's bodyguard: 11 years serving North Korea
They don't, at least in the USA. My Ph.d. is from Texas at Austin, which is a public institution. During my time as a grad student I had numerous opportunities to 'see how the sausage is made'. Even as a public institution the vast majority of funding (over 80% in the sciences) came from outside grants, such as federal agencies. A professors appointment is also only for 8 months of the year, and they must find outside funding sources to cover the other time.

This is the business model in each department, and it is why promotion to tenure is so focused on publications and grants.
What is it built with? (Stack, Foss etc)
Please alert me anytime, anything is persistently installed
an answer is yes, we should - the primary function of government is to defend claims on the use of land, and having the "land" pay directly for this is at least of a nice sounding symmetry. And theoretically, people would then be forced to productive investment rather than land speculation.
Moral imperative? I can imagine that in such society, people lacking a moral imperative to create will degenerate in all sorts of ways. Interesting conflict there too.
http://www.getpostman.com/ along with newman with jenkins integration
Haven't they ever seen Robot Wars? Everyone knows you need a flipper to get yourself upright again.
Evolution of JavaScript at Bluestem
Mobile app stores are owned by two tech giants. Expect more and more stories like https://medium.com/@joshliptzin/this-is-how-google-kills-you...
>Everybody who wishes to get online is online already with something and you have displace that.

I don't think that is true. Less than 50% of humans have regular access to the Internet. Do you really think that more than half the people on the planet do not want to get online?
> We’d think we finally overcame the attack, to then only be hit again.

Here's an interesting difference with digital versus fiat currency. In one you find counterfeiters (if you can) and generally put them in prison, which raises the cost of that business. Is it even illegal to hack Bitcoin?
Seems like a fine day to watch “Ambition” once again — a short film created in collaboration with ESA to celebrate the Rosetta mission.

https://vimeo.com/109903713
How to load debug symbols in Visual Studio during debugging
iOS jailbreak – cydia download iOS 9
> The completely static nature of a makefile also means it is ill-suited to rapidly evolving codebases where new files come and go almost by the minute as we refactor.

Make is so static that there was a Lisp interpreter written in make. Oh
wait...

There are several mechanisms in make to have your rules dynamically adapt to
your codebase, e.g. $(shell ...), $(wildcard ...), and pattern rules (and that's
not all of them).

You just need to put a little effort to actually read the documentation, not
just stop at finishing one of the plethora tutorials that stop after showing
variables usage.

> We can do much better than Make.

You mean, "we can do much better than my `make' knowledge". Of course we can.
Private sector preventing crimes
> To me the litmus test is now this: do you need a particle accelerator (or equivalents) to conduct research in your field? If not, don't do a PhD.

This advice would apply to all mathematics research.
No, this article is about near cashless society that are not in Europe but in Africa.

I think you lack an understanding how cashless transactions work in Somalia. First off, no one is using a credit card in Somalia. They don't work, no one has them. Two, the article made it very clear, carrying cash is a big problem in Somalia due to crime. How contactless payments work on phones in Somalia and M-Pesa is that you have to have a code to access the funds on the phone. If someone robbed you and they get your phone, they still don't have access to your funds. You can simply go to the phone store (Or whatever they have in Somalia) and get a new SIM for your account and then have access to your funds.

I imagine that carrying cash in Somalia is extremely dangerous and well worth the "Big Brother" factor.
http://52.90.112.133/recommend/app/getSummary?query=http%3A%...
I'm unclear on how it's difficult to pass on. The land value is higher because tenants are willing to pay more to use it.
adding possible combinations of characters, ngrams, from the 'organisms' file and checking them against a leaked password list, apparently tested on the 'rock_you' list of leaked myspace passwords, which is ommitted from the repo but the repo has a standin empty file where you put your own list of leaked passwords

it will genetically run through all ngrams and check if it is in the pass list to determine how to advance the evolution of the algorithm

does this crack passwords genetically? well, yes and sorta

it's a proof of concept against an existing list of real leaked passwords, proving that it could efficiently crack a number of these real passwords real people were using to protect real personal data

but from there you have to extrapolate the effectiveness on all possible passwords..

if you train against the myspace list then the passwords would have to resemble myspace passwords

can you train the algo on the myspace list then try to crack nuclear codes? very unlikely, unless government officials are protecting their access with passes like 'WARMACHINEROX'
My experience of "agile" was that every hack-and-fix shop in the universe heard a telephone-game version of "stop doing boring stuff you never liked anyway" and stapled a carboard sign saying "WE ARE AGILE!" above the doorway.

Meanwhile, nothing changes.

The only successful agile method I've personally seen work is XP, and it requires enormous and near-universal discipline. In that respect it is no different from pre-Agile methods that worked.

Agile isn't about jettisoning good software practices. It's about making them smaller. And the signers of the Agile Manifesto weren't the first to think of it. All the ideas were in the literature, in the open, for decades before they coalesced. Even the concept of taking necessary activities and shrinking them is old -- Watts Humphreys beat everyone to it with the Personal Software Process, which is the CMMI shrunk down to the scale of a single engineer.

Disclaimer: I work for one of the most notoriously pro-agile shops of all -- Pivotal Labs. Before I came here I was skeptical. Now I'm notoriously pro-agile, with a generous dash of No True Agile Methodology.
I've played with a bunch of Python web frameworks and amongst the micro-frameworks, Flask is the one I've settled on. Larger community, more integration with other packages.

I've also recently been using Django, and I'd say the biggest advantage of Flask is simplicity.

When you get to something the scale of Django, there's a whole load of decisions and culture baked into the approach, and you have to learn that in order to use it.

For small projects, I'd recommend Flask.
The gold rush is over because everyone who wants a PC has a PC. -2005ish
Careful, there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded nerd...
> Remember when software didn't need updates almost every day?

I'm old enough that I actually do remember those days. Back then we had "works best with Internet Explorer" and MS Office viruses. I don't want to go back to that world, rolling updates make the world better for everyone.
Naw, criticize away. But if you put forth no solutions and aren't doing anything more to solve the issue, it sounds more like whining. Not all criticism is created equal, and criticism without a better idea is mostly just noise.
Show HN: Wring – CLI web scraping with CSS Sel, JS, XPath, written in PureScript
Many tech markets are ruthlessly competitive and will be swallowed by the companies that are designed for growth. Code's biggest advantage is that it scales so well. Lifestyle businesses exist but still take hard work to pull off.
Yeah, you could do it in C. I just didn't want to. The other part was that I wanted to make a language. I didn't want to piggyback off of something else.
I mean interlinked is that your memory that you have to use for your application is also the memory that gets treated as a pixel buffer. So when you want to draw, you write directly to your pixel buffer. When I mean balancing memory usage and graphics usage I mean if you use too much memory, too much screens real-estate would be used.
One easy way to boost your productivity
"Savage War"?

Oh dear. Have many people been killed?
Morgan Stanley marks down shares in Flipkart, Twitter, Yelp by over 25%
Update for those who dreamed about empty inbox.
As someone who has been closely following the Bitcoin community since 2011, I am baffled by the toxicity of the blocksize debate and the resistance even against a moderate blocksize increase.
My guess is implacable anti-nuclear public opinion.
What really gets me are the people who complain about being able to fly across an entire continent within five hours in near perfect safety for a few hundred dollars.

I remember being trapped next to a loud woman on one flight where she proceeded to complain about every minor insult (slow drink service, so so food, etc). When we got to the Sierra Nevada, I pointed out the Donner Pass to her, and suggested she look it up. "It'll give you some perspective on your trip".
No, i don't believe the world would burn if the social contract were to break down. It would signal the failure of the current system, which i believe is fundamentally unstable, and would force people to reexamine the question of how to build a society.

the social contract is a foundational concept of Liberalism. without it, the current relations of property, state, government, and people are unintelligible. a breakdown of the system is a breakdown means a breakdown of its premises.
Good article with good insight! I don't expect every story here to be biased, and while this one isn't perfect, it's very informative!
"- regressively tax ultra high incomes."

More tax for incomes just above a threshold and less for higher?