skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no you have to do something new to get rich.

There's still plenty of money, talent, and success out there for new, good ideas. It being hard to fund the same old thing again and again is more of a feature than a bug.

And the argument about the last few YC classes - it takes years to see who the stars are. I remember seeing one of the founders of Stripe speak when they were in YC. It wasn't clear they were going anywhere. What they were doing was cool, but there wasn't exactly lots of hype about it. Their success only looks obvious in hindsight.
The value increases. It's just gathered as taxes. Since what is to be done with the rents value is taken care of, you no longer have to concern yourself with it.

The improvements - buildings, the like - are still yours. The only thing that is taxed is the increase in value due to position of the land, due to proximity to other such improvements.
The context for this post is the Indian market. Might be true. Don't know.
Sure I'll run some tests for you.

I ran 2 experiments each lasting 120 seconds.

For the diceware list as a seed population it finds 4570 passwords. The 6 longest ones are:

11 michelle420

11 karen123456

11 iloveyouu16

11 iloveyou789

11 iloveyou234

11 iloveyou191

For the top 2000 ngrams from the rock_you list(which is the current list used) it finds 5317 passwords. The top 6 longest passwords are:

14 fuckyouhackers

13 fuckyouhahaha

11 sexylove889

11 scooter1234

11 princess123

11 iloveyouu16
You might be interested in this recent episode of the Hanselminutes podcast:
http://hanselminutes.com/514/the-open-artificial-pancreas-sy...
Most talked about city in the world? What?
The title reveals it, I guess: "PHP is a worst career choice, atleast in India ?"
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Palantir is an entire company, not a mapping tool. Stopped reading at that point, this person is out of their element.
I was hoping for an intelligible article about how despite PHP being a nice language these days, most of the work regarding it is old code from before best practices were applied, or cleaning up after cheap, awful programmers... Alas, that was not the case.
i don't like evil government. do you?

"China 'covertly providing oil to North Korea'
Seoul claims Beijing falsifying its export statistics to keep Pyongyang's industry, military operational"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11...

Missiles Deployed on Disputed South China Sea Artificial Island, Officials Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/world/asia/china-missiles-...
Should be McCluskey in the title. He's one half of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm, an efficient algorithm that basically does what a Karnaugh map can do (minimization of boolean functions).
Yes. each problem will have a different manner in which you might approach it in differing languages. Making it either easier or harder and more or less productive.

For example writing a website in C is possible but would be insanely unproductive and you'd be solving issues that other languages and frameworks already solved.

Yet writing an image processing library that has critical performance requirements would likely be best in C/C++.
That is the exact idea. People would occupy the cheapest land that can get away with. But for a given plot, there's no way to avoid those taxes.

If you think of people who work as service personnel as subsidizing those who own land in SanFran or NYC with their labor, then I think this gets clearer. If the landowners rather than the laborers paid the taxes, it seems much more equitable.
also Zoroastrian burial towers
I don't think they are protesting the tech industry per se, but they unfairness when rich and speculative companies push unsustainable conditions (high cost of living) on society.

For example- Highly paid engineers from a large Tech Unicorn company that moved to an East Bay city- drive up prices there displacing half the current residents. The city's economy improves- other tech startups follow suit, people buy houses, real estate value go up, people invest in remodeling homes, setting up shops and services.

1 year later Unicorn dies or moves to another city for lower costs. Engineers with high salaries leave, other startups start to fold, city return to pre-Unicorn condition. People left holding the bag are the ones that felt this was long term sustainable or couldn't move because they were tied down.

It's not the entire tech industry's fault, but if you were a resident of that city, who are you going to blame? Probably the company who started it all, although some may argue they also brought prosperity in the first place. Depends on how you were impacted. If you flipped a house profitably, you are happy. If you bought a condo to live in - not so much.
Are you talking about Chinese parents inside or outside China?I guess most parents want their kids to be whatever is the most prestigious. In China the means (or at least meant) engineering, outside china that means doctor or lawyer.
Charlotte, NC has seen a similar growth over a similar time period, with the area population quadrupling over the last twenty five years. Unlike Austin, it seems like the majority of people who move to the Charlotte area are families.

It's not a "cool" city like Austin or Boulder, but it's seams to have no end of jobs, or comparatively inexpensive housing.

Does anyone have a graph of US cities growth rates over the last 25 years? Maybe these aren't outliers?
If it can get the job done. It ain't bad.
Or you can shout at end user: "hey look! Wikipedia, Yelp, Facebook uses PHP to build their company!"
See, nobody cares. Well, maybe some developers do care.
The merits of merge commits have already been proven

That is an opinion, many people clearly disagree with it.

Using rebases is basically rewriting history

Yes. Why is that a bad thing?

If you want all work done precisely as happened in real life you should always use merge commits

Why is that important at all?

Saved my ass a bunch of times.

So has reflog.

I personally don't find any compelling rationale for why I need the git history to reflect what actually happened in time. That seems entirely incidental. Who cares if you made 10 commits on your branch or 2 or 1? Who cares if you actually wrote one part of a feature before another?

The purpose of having history is another way of communicating design intent to other people that look at the history, no more, no less. Therefore why shouldn't it be editable? It's like arguing that a typewriter and whiteout produced better books than a word processor.

I also use rebase to extract portions of the feature that are merge able before the rest. Or you can pull out sections of a branch when you are happy with them and branch off a few experiments on top of that solid base, finally merging in the one that works out best. Not employing those techniques is akin to not knowing how to refactor code.
This article sure smells like it may be calling the "top" in the current Austin "unstoppable" growth phase.
Ask HN: What would happen if Apple removed Uber from its App Store?
There is always a risk (no matter how small) of any app being deemed inappropriate by Apple and, hence removed from the App Store. I'm not particularly interested in why Apple would do that. If that were to happen, hypothetically, what would Uber, a $63 billion company, do without its primary way to generate revenue?
This post is the stupid thing. There's plenty of other reasons people fork repos, such as being able to have a safe copy of the code in case the original is removed (happens all the time). Extrapolating errors from behaviour is stupid.
also the more non-religious Chinese culture would typically lean towards other personal qualities for selecting positions of power. Scientific prowness would naturally be one of the criteria. So none of that "That man is great Christian!" as some sort of qualifier.
I disagree.

There's a million of folks having a nice career writing commercial plugins or creating custom sites with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, OpenCart to name a few.

Haven't seen any large publishing platform in Go but I might be wrong of course.
If I wasn't clear: http://hackademix.net/2010/03/24/why-noscript-blocks-web-fon...
Another good question is why is almost every American politician (and all of the democrats) a lawyer?

Your primary job as a politician is to make and revise laws. Lawyer strikes me as a pretty good background for doing that.
The Three-Prong Backdoor Test
PHP's performance isn't bad. It's the frameworks written by people with Java enterprise envy.
OpenSSL CVE-2016-0799: heap corruption via BIO_printf
To be fair, sharedtea bashes Russia too. He has been warned by dang before. Guess that didn't change much.
Wow, you have a twisted view of the world. I never said people who fly coach or who are crammed into a bus or train in the developing world lack dignity. I am saying the people who run the transportation companies don't treat their customers with dignity. Big difference.

Besides that there is nothing wrong with aspiring for better travel. Why accept that we have to be crammed onto airplanes, busses, and trains. We should be looking for ways to improve quality of life for everyone.
I see what you are saying. To some extent this is already true ,since high frequency ngrams(substrings) already dominate the gene-pool if they happen to facilitate the production of a large amount viable offspring. That is why you would see swearwords with high frequency since that is what many people use for passwords(in the case of the myspace list).
>> These are all quad-core CPUs ...

>I'm not sure if the article is wrong, I'm "misremembering" or what, but ISTR seeing plenty of i5 CPUs that are only dual core.

It gets messy in the Laptop space (your quote was about Desktop processors). Most current laptop i5's are dual core with hyperthreading.
There's probably plenty of human risk transporting it to the launcher, as well, such as a road accident or having it be stolen.
> "The big companies may be innovating on the edges, but their established products are all ripe for disruption."

It looks like a cycle. Come up with new product with a small team, add more employees, add more managers, add more cruft, slow down.

Then a startup comes along, moving faster, innovating faster, disrupting until it grows and starts to add more employees, add more managers, add more cruft, slow down.

And Then a startup comes along ......
Ctrl-f, thiel, not found. Why the slug?
That observation has a huge amount of hindsight bias. AirBnB was founded in 2006, DropBox was founded in 2007, and Stripe was founded in 2010. What did the ideal startup look like in 2007? It was one of:

"A social network for X, like Facebook"

"A social news site for X, like Digg"

"A way to massively improve your e-mail experience, like GMail"

In other words, people always chase the massive startup that got popular about 3 years previously. This article is pretty much on-time if it's holding up AirBNB, DropBox, and Stripe - those are the massive startups that got popular about 3-4 years ago.

But in 2007, these were most decidedly not the hot industries to go into. Hotels were a done deal: Hilton, Marriott, Holiday Inn, and others chains owned it, and who would think a tiny team could take them on? Filesharing was an incredibly crowded market with 20-30 players, and in any case, if it got popular Google was going to crush them with Google Drive. PayPal owned payments; everybody knew it was a regulated industry with strong network effects, so why bother to compete?
Maybe, but no growth towns like Austin was in the late 80s/early 90s are pretty great for younger people who aren't all that concerned about making "a go at life."
Reproducible builds do not cut it. If you have a known good binary signature, you'd also have a known good source signature and wouldn't have the problem.

Or, to put it in better words, where do you get the certificate to check your build from? At extreme paranoia levels, you simply can never be sure you have the same software as everybody else, thus the only safe alternative is reviewing your copy yourself.

(How do you know the computer is showing you the correct contents of your files? Didn't think that well enough yet.)
über for planes? /s
You should try providing this service to the new York times or something like that to do sentiment analysis on their articles. Something very ambitious you could do is to do sentiment analysis on say the 100 most read news sites in the country, to see how the general American population feels about various subjects. Could help out politicians, think tanks.
AFAIK, On the contrary. They officially support only linux. But community provides Windows support. I do not know Mac support. AFAIK again, Kaldi is mainly targeted server and desktop applications
Audrey Choi: How to make a profit while making a difference
It's not reasonable at all. But the only correct answer is reviewing the code yourself.
The US National Science Foundation includes social sciences (anthropology, economics, psychology and sociology) in the list of STEM disciplines.
> "Performance"

HHVM, HippyVM, PHP 7 if you're starting a new project; opcode caching
There's probably a word that the parent was looking for; it wasn't quite aesthetics, at least as you've defined it.

Sometimes you can write code that looks "prettier", at the expensive of the ability to read and reason about it. Optional braces are frequently used for this effect. Yes, optional braces allow you to fit more code on the screen with less noise—and therefore could be thought to enhance some kind of readability. But at the same time, they require you to think harder about the grouping of the code around them. Unless you've got a reformatting linter, you could have code like this:

if(foo)
bar; baz;
quux;

and optional braces require an extra subroutine to be constantly running in your head, looking for those mis-arranged `baz`es that will get executed anyway. That cognitive load detracts from your ability to read and reason about the code.

(What'd be really interesting, in my opinion, would be to make C's braceless blocks, and only braceless blocks, have semantic-whitespace. Then the above would be able to be easily reasoned through: `baz` is part of the conditional, because it's on the same line. But this breaks a lot of rather old and inflexible assumptions about how C is parsed, that macro-writers et al depend on.)
How to find a great mentor
Code from the paper: https://github.com/axel22/Ctries
They use Github now.
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And if companies only offered what the market asked for there would never have been personal computers or smartphones. It takes someone who has vision for what could be to change the world through innovation. Not a bunch of marketing monkeys surveying customers to death.
The difference between government issued currencies (what you call fiat) and Bitcoin is that. Policies controlling Government currencies are decided by a small group of people generally well connected to banks and other wealthy interests (ie: a central bank with an appointed board of governors)

Bitcoin's governing rules on the other hand are enshrined in software and can only be changed through a democratic consensus process. It's a big step forward over fat cats deciding monetary policy in smoke filled back rooms.
And a substantial gravity well. Don't forget that. It's quite important.
The first thing we need to do is reject the myth of the free market. There is no free market. It's never worked. There is no existing free market in the world and no one appreciates the consequences of it.

A free market would equate to anarchy and very few want that even its proponents.
I recently sense a certain desperation from the large big money funded start-ups. In the last two weeks, I have received $150 in free rides from Lyft and $50 in free food from Sprig. I have been a Lyft user since 2013, and a Sprig user since 2014, using them less and less, but I have never received such a generous credit before.
PHP in terms of the language syntax and at least a broad familiarity with the most used libs etc?

That's not a career choice, that's just something you can do as a web developer, like HTML and basic CSS.

Question is where you go from there. Another language/stack? Domain knowledge? Projects guy? etc etc
TechCrunch, the over confident tabloid reporters of hype who only a few weeks ago were all breathless about 'unicorns', are now swinging the pendulum to the other extreme. I'm in the bay area and there is a new realism for sure, but the idea that low buck entrepreneurialism is 'over' is absurd.

Most of the current wave of tech's origins are in the Web 2.0 'read/write' web that came after the dot com pump and dump funding fiasco...twitter et al grew out of the ashes of the last vc and wall street debacle. we are a similar inflection point IMO, where honest innovation will be more important than megabuck funding fests...
A lot of (manual) work went into making this simple demo happen.

These are some interesting reflections on the present state of the tech by Gregory Maxwell:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/47rk85/first_succe...

I suspect there's a great opportunity here for startups. The theory is sound, and tooling (UX) needs to be built around it.
I'm effectively using SVN as a CMS in this case - its just an easy way to sync files between workstations.
Letting devs continuously push their shitty commits to master without passing any sort of CI suite is a recipe for constant broken builds and blocking the deployability from master from it being constantly broken. Master should be always deployable, or better yet, auto-deploy when anything is merged in. That way your devs are forced to write good, CI-passing code in their branches before they're merged into master.
Everything I know of System Z I've read online - it was designed more or less for backwards compatibility from the start.
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> Any Chinese citizen or anyone who is not an Indian

Do you have data to suggest there are better career opportunities for PHP devs in China, and much bleaker prospects for devs in India? Or is this based solely on ethnicity without regard for location? Such a statment without data to support your view comes across as biased, potentially even elitist.
If Apple loses, your home could be the next thing that's unlocked
If you really believe that then put money into it.
If I read that correctly that there's a one-in-a-million chance of killing 5k people, the expected number of deaths over all alternative universes is 1/200.

Additionally, one has to consider the non-plutonic fallout and its consequences of NASA as an agency and space exploration in general.
There were lots of warning signs he suppressed so well that he wouldn't even tell me about them until years later. She would verbally abuse him, wheedle money out of him with sob stories, demand to be written into his fiction, constantly demand his time and attention and threaten to leave him if he didn't comply, etc.

The first hint to me that something was off was the fact that she, and all of the options, typed exactly alike in a sort of moronic mix of Spanglish, weeaboo, and lolcat speak. The particular phrases, abbreviations, emoticons, and choice of word misspellings were very easy to pick out with enough careful observation. She didn't even attempt to disguise her style. By the time I caught on, my friend was already run roughshod by the abuse, and only stayed with her because he was in deep denial, lacked the courage to leave, or both. Thankfully he did leave before actually meeting her in person, which experience would have been absolutely harrowing.
They will remove ANY non-negative post dealing with non-Blockstream (Core) Bitcoin or any other internet currency. This group is despicable that they are trying to take over like this.
How have you received these promos? I'd like to use them too :)
Well, I live in an European country with plenty of lawyers and other law-related professionals as members of parliament, yet the religiousness of the candidates hasn't been a topic for decades, at least.
>So you have somebody who is going to build a factory and they pick a nice piece of low value rural land. But once there is a factory, people build housing for the workers and stores and so on, and now you have a whole town centered on the factory and the value of the land goes up. But the reason the value of the land goes up is because of the factory.

Factories usually push down the value of land. Who wants to be next to a smokestack?

>Anything that doesn't actually care about its location but attracts other investment would keep getting moved

Which is all very well, except there basically isn't anybody who doesn't care about location and attracts investment. Location is important for everybody.
>The U.S. resolves through lawsuits disputes in areas such as labor, environment, civil rights, product safety, land use rights, social justice, and employment rights, which are handled through the political process in other countries.

I found this line rather insightful.
Awesome read. Austin has been such a large part of my life I really enjoy hearing opinions about the city's changes over the years.

"The only way to stop people from coming to Austin is to make this an unattractive place to live."

I thought this really resonated. Austin, if changed for the worse, really is a victim of how cool it is. Since Austin I've lived in Lubbock and now Dallas. There really aren't people who move to these two cities for things other than work or school. On the other hand I have countless friends who move to Austin just to be a part of the city and experience all it has to offer.
Austin is an interesting town as an example of the flaws of law enforcement. It widely considered this liberal paradise, as noted by the article, but the abuses by the police and city government are like anywhere else. Power corrupts and the system is flawed-

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

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/29/is_filming_a_police_o...
The 2013 hard fork had a couple of advantages over anything proposed since. Firstly, the only change it made was to modify the block acceptance rules to be what everyone had thought they were all along, so it was completely uncontentious. Secondly, the unintended block size limit it removed was an artifact of the DB library that Bitcoin used and could not be guaranteed to be the same on all clients - the choice was to hard fork in a controlled manner now, or risk a spontaneous and unplanned hard fork later. Even though technically speaking it would've been easy to bump the 1MB block limit at the same time, no-one considered it because it would've been a recipe for chaos.
There's more than one way to do it and what works well in one project may not be suitable in another, depending upon things like team size, development velocity, code base size, external dependencies, etc.

The model described by this article is very close to how Chromium development works. Meanwhile, git itself uses a model much closer to the one this article dislikes. But git is a smaller code base, with many fewer commits per day, and has a single person responsible for integrating all the changes which come in over the mailing list.

Generally, I'd say that a smaller team that produces relatively fewer commits per day can use a more complex branching model, while a larger team that produces much more code churn requires a simpler model.
Not enough big to fail...
How one scientist is growing miniature brains in her lab
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