skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never got an invite to this. I started working in the city two weeks before the shut down, so perhaps this is for the best.

But I have gone to:

A game of space ships on the frontier and brown coats, using Nerf Guns, run in a Dungeon.

A game of cosmopolitan monsters with a 20+ year history of play in countries around the world.

A private performance space, where I've met amazing friends: amazing people, magicians, performers, stars of world renowned shows, artists, gamers, cyber security wizards, and more.

Community organized get togethers for Metafilter users.

Secret Meetups for Ingress Users.

I'm sure there are more things that nobody has invited me to, I mean there is underground, and there is the center of the earth, but I would imagine that Latitude is only the tip of the iceberg, a single cavern in a vast but hidden space.
What criminal trial? The criminals are dead. Yeah, I know, James Comey said that maybe there's another criminal; spare me, I ain't buying it.

Also, you hire an expert to testify as to the technical details. It isn't perfect, but it is what it is; and anyway, the first thing a defense attorney will say/do in the case that the FBI prefers is to cast doubt upon the integrity of anything the FBI finds after all of the screwing around with it that's been done.
The not 49 and 91 rule combined with the rule that "a prime above 3 is always exactly 1 off being a multiple of 6" will get you flying through this test.
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(disclaimer: I wrote the program).

No, it is strictly a tree, it derives its compact representation, automatic layout and quick manipulation from that limitation. There's a few ways around that, by tagging cells you can easily hop around cross-links.
Alfie Kohn said this ten years ago and he's way more prominent, so I wouldn't be overly optimistic.
I think you are vastly underestimating the power of social engineering.
> Have always hated the half-ass integration Windows has. Half the stuff does not work as it should or is broken, no one tests on Windows and I doubt they will start now.

What? Python has been one of the significant exceptions on this front because Enthought actually shipped a product which was expected to work on Windows. Python also goes out of its way to make sure that things work in sane ways even when Windows has no real equivalent.

I also suspect this is one of the reasons for Python's ascendancy over other scripting languages. By being one of the few scripting languages that runs decently on Windows, you gain an automatic user population advantage.
Ok, we changed the title to say "any" rather than "all".
Here's a nice resource that explains 16/8 IF pretty good : http://antranik.org/intermittent-fasting/
How about this article re-titles itself 'the politics of innovation in the United States'

The article first sets out to tell you that out of the entire population the innovators are those that they have chosen, which amounts to 3%, of 1% of 1% of the total. 900 Innovators in the entire US. If they changed that number to say 1 in 100 people were innovators (probably closer to the actual), then cut out children you end up with about 1 or 2 million innovators and the demographics of that set begin to look a lot different.

// most ppl believe anything that comes from a 'study'...
I was speaking rhetorically.

In the case of men, sperm quality declines with age, so a man is more or less fertile his entire life, but that may not hold true in the case of extreme longevity. If this decline in sperm-quality is due to age damage, then an age treatment may also improve sperm quality. But this is not guaranteed and may require its own specific treatment.

Women produce all the eggs they will ever produce before they are born. Menopause occurs when a woman runs out of eggs. So in the case of females, an anti-aging treatment is unlikely to extend her reproductive years beyond the current age of menopause (although it may make pregnancy safer and more viable during the latter half of her reproductive years). Like sperm, a woman's egg quality also declines with age, creating further difficulty.

So the idea that women will put off having children for a couple centuries seems to be a nonstarter lacking other advances as well, but it may be a possibility for men.
Kind of wish that some of this was done with crossfilter.
I strongly agree here. I wouldn't want someone to implement the "get it done version" of a request, where I am expecting a rushed implementation to be O(n^2), then somehow this dev produces an unmaintainable mess that performs in O(n^2n+api.Google.com*n).
"The FBI can simply remove this chip from the circuit board (“desolder” it), connect it to a device capable of reading and writing NAND flash, and copy all of its data. It can then replace the chip, and start testing passcodes. If it turns out that the auto-erase feature is on, and the Effaceable Storage gets erased, they can remove the chip, copy the original information back in, and replace it. If they plan to do this many times, they can attach a “test socket” to the circuit board that makes it easy and fast to do this kind of chip swapping."

Right. They could do this, and risk destroying the device, or they could ask Apple to do the easy, reliable thing, and just install a build on this phone that allows brute-force attacks.

Given that Apple has a long history of complying with these kinds of requests for valid search warrants, and that this situation is about as clear as it gets when it comes to justifiable uses of government investigatory powers, it's obvious why they're taking the latter approach, and not the former.

There's a legitimate privacy debate in this case, but this isn't it.

Edit: I'm just stating facts here, folks. Downvoting me won't change those facts, or make the government change its tactic.
Sure but we're also adapted to a parasite load, sleeping with the sun and dying young. We want to do better than that. Better, faster, stronger.
I don't live there right now, but Minneapolis-St. Paul is IMO the most underrated city in the country. It has all the things people love about Denver, Portland, Seattle, etc aside from mountains, but it's cold in the winter so people don't even consider it.
Will it include programming structures (loops, conditionals, etc) and documentation (i.e. @prompt help @prompt)?

Would then also need to handle 'weird' cases that can dos a service, such as the silly:
@uber While True { from x to y; cancel;}

Could services be compounded? What if I want my domino's pizza delivered to a location, picked up by an uber and delivered to my work address? (maybe dominos doesn't service my area but I have a vitamin p deficiency)
PHX traffic is way better than LA and SF in my experience. And I much prefer PHX because it is so much more car-friendly than LA and SF. But yeah, if you don't like driving, avoid PHX and SLC.
(disclaimer: I wrote the program).

The binary format is open source and documented, that doesn't fit the term "proprietary" to me.

It exports to text, html, xml, csv and more.

The reason it doesn't use any of that as its main storage format is that it tracks a lot of attributes that do not fit those formats naturally (I suppose you can store it all in xml, but I went for speed of loading/saving and smaller storage sizes).
Yup, only matched by 'Great article! We also use Javascript at <randomStartupNameNobodyEverHeard>.
https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/issues/395
I enjoy having conversations with Siri in the loneliness of the tundra
I've been doing 16/8 IF for most of my life and didn't realize it had a name or was something that people talked about...
Yes! The Ctrl+Shift+u hint is nice. I can't believe I only just learnt it. How many _years_ have I been Googling unicode characters for? I am ashamed to think.

I am glad PILE OF POO does not work for you.

does (U+2603) snowman work?

edit: noooo, no snowman
Thanks for bringing it up. Last week I read your article and I found it very interesting.

You did receive harsh RTFM comments (stark contrast with the tone of the comments on this thread).

Glad that you can see your work corroborated.
I use the google version when driving to attempt to send SMS, make calls, set reminders and update driving directions. It's hit and miss. Google has some serious pain points like locking the screen and functionality right after a last command while driving meanig you need to unlock to do a next item. And most annoyingly you can set directions but I cant get the thing to actually start navigating.

I bought a windows phone that was on special recently to test and found Cortanta surprisingly better to use than the OK Google version. If someone nails voice it will be a significant decision making variable in my OS choice. It feel like both MS and Google are close but they need a new 'Steve Jobs' than has that last level of attention to detail and making it work in a practical environment. It feels to me it's more this lack of thinking through the UX is the bigger issue than the technology capability right now. I envy anyone working on this as it will be super interesting getting this right over coming years.
The article states:

"Before going further, let’s dispel the myth that these research results are due to a handful of poorly constructed studies. In fact, it’s the opposite. Cooper compiled 120 studies in 1989 and another 60 studies in 2006."

However, the 2006 meta-analysis explicitly says that all 60 studies had design flaws. To quote the conclusion:

"We hope that this report has demonstrated the value of research synthesis for testing the plausibility of causal relationships even when less-than-optimal research designs and analyses are available in the literature."
This feels very much like the kind of thing that could have benefitted from an endowment, rather than a monetization strategy.
The Self Winding Smartphone
Move to Cleveland Ohio. Rent might as well be free.

Not a lot of good work or recreation, but you could buy a house for the same cost as a year's rent in SF.
AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol begins at 4 am UTC (11 pm EST, 8 pm PST)
I'm not a lawyer either. And being responsible for your actions certainly seems reasonable to me. But I cannot see how you could have acted in good faith if you were aware of quality and other issues regarding your result. That would be acting in bad faith.
It's not the developers causing the issue, it's the end users.
Poland is UE&VAT.
Fetch closed last summer after raising $3.05 million. According to Hadfield, the service grew quickly with very high retention and engagement, but the team couldn’t find a scalable business model.

Hmmm. Perhaps this is a line of questioning that could have been pursued with respect to the current venture?
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Code should be written in the easiest to understand form that both works and provides the necessary performance characteristics. Often that is the form that "newbies" also find easy to understand, for obvious reasons.

I've used Ruby somewhat actively for almost 10 years now and I still hate it when people barf out a bunch of Ruby-specific shorthand and think they're clever for doing so. Write it in the simplest form that works. I don't care if it takes 10 more keystrokes.

I've seen people write fizzbuzz with lambdas and such thinking that it would signal they're super-serious Ruby all-stars, but all it really does is let me know I should keep my distance, because they're going to be writing needlessly convoluted code.
Over/Under 1 orgy while in Latitude?
That's pseudoscience. Irregular eating is normal for hunter/gatherer societies, and most animals like our ancestors that sit in a scavenger niche. We know (or have good evidence that; I followed a link once and am too lazy to look up the research) our gut has adapted just in the 10k year period after the advent of agriculture. Agrarian societies are built around grain storage and rationing. They absolutely have regular access to calories.

That doesn't prove anything, of course. But it does argue that you should be careful with that kind of "it's the way our bodies are intended to work" logic. To a large extent, we're already adapted to "modern" eating styles.
I don't see a support feature on the site, but since this is a YC company, I figure I can list an issue here:

@whois google.com is not working. It just replies: "@whois: Please enter a valid domain name. Example: @whois google.com" Same for other domains.

Edit: This only occurs over SMS, not through the site. My guess is that my carrier (Fi) is doing something to munge the domain name that Prompt needs to parse correctly.
> If Austin stumbles and our market isn't based on Oil/Banking like Houston/Dallas then I'm not sure that bodes very well for either of those cities, unfortunately.

Dallas is not based on Oil/Banking. Tech is leading (depending on where you look) [0].

Then there are the lists of companies with headquarters in Dallas [1]. And the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex [2].

Those lists also don't include State Farm (8,000 employees) [3] or Toyota [4].

I don't see much of the same very-large "diversification" happening in the Austin area. But, again, that's just based on what I read. I don't actually "see" anything in Austin, as I don't live there. I have watched the new State Farm towers in Dallas (Richardson) being built from my house 3 miles away.

[0] http://www.city-data.com/us-cities/The-South/Dallas-Economy....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/List_of_companies_in_Dallas

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_in_Dallas/Ft...

[3] http://www.telecomcorridor.com/latest-news/state-farm-coo-ne...

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/28/autos/toyota-moves-headquart...

Edit: formatting
> education as an area is incredibly cargo cult-filled

The terrifying thing is that nearly every field (including, eg, medicine) is like this. Once there's a system in place that mostly kinda works, people are extremely reluctant to make any serious changes.
He was resourceful enough to find a security flaw of the highest severity in the only product of a $300 billion dollar company. A hole that was somehow missed by said company's own security auditors, who collectively are probably paid many millions of dollars per year entirely to look for such holes. So that's something.

But you're right, he might have just got lucky. The one fish in a school of 100,000 who finds the hole in the net probably isn't smarter than all the other fish. But that just strengthens the argument that companies should reward very generously for these exploits, because increasing the number of white-hats looking for them is a good way to ensure that they get found by one.
They say Seattle is like a beautiful women (or man) who is sick 9 months of the year.
You can always be the (secret) society you want to see.
Chatanooga is very nice, and the tech scene healthy. Plan to visit soon!
No, all iOS devices have hardware keys. Newer devices have the Secure Enclave which is a separate chip that stores hardware ID and does the actual encrypting/decrypting.
There's very little overlap between the two products, and for that overlap, "prompt" is a generic term.

ISTM "Panic Sync", the first listed feature at your link, by which private keys are transferred all over, is actually a mis-feature, a bad idea that shouldn't be made easier for the user.
Ok, On Linux I have found ‡ and †

† is AltGr-Shift-%, and ‡ AltGr-Shift-:

I'll never remember them :(
I was thinking about Nintendo and Sony...
I was saying to someone the other day that timed programming tests (codility seems popular) are really just youth tests.

They are meant to weed out older programmers, in favour of younger cannon fodder...I mean candidates.
> Why the FBI can easily work around “auto-erase”

If it's so easy, then the ACLU should have no problem demonstrating it with an actual iPhone 5c.
I'm not sure I buy the idea that there's a market for this.

The main argument for CLIs over GUIs is that they're faster to use (assuming you know what you're doing). I don't imagine typing out commands on a smartphone touchscreen is faster than using that same touchscreen to navigate an app.

I only see this appealing to the kind of people that read Hacker News, and even then only those who use CLIs because they find them more fun/interesting than GUIs, rather than for utilitarian reasons.
I don't have sources handy, but one of my friends doesn't eat pork because he believes (based on some source or another) that it is worse for his health than other meats (including beef).

I never asked him for his sources because it doesn't really affect me. The only reason it came up is because he was eating dinner at our house one day.
Maybe everyone leaving should just agree to locate somewhere that isn't some major city.

We can all go there & start a new tech scene. How about Wyoming? Or Montana? Utah?

What I mean is we should go somewhere beautiful. Somewhere we can take walks outdoors in between coding sprints.

Why walks? It's been scientifically shown that walking helps you remember things better. Also sitting too long shortens your lifespan.

Just some thoughts.
Does this seem... incredibly lame?
What I've Learned About Smart People
There are three key arguments in the article: homework saps intrinsic motivation to learn, harms relationships at home, and has an opportunity cost in sleep, rest and play.

It all makes a lot of sense to me, but I have one thought. In many activities I find I need an initial period of tedious repetition before the fun part kicks in. Things like playing an instrument, learning a language, and some parts of mathematics. And nothing saps motivation at school more than being behind the class from the start and completely lost.

So is there a role to play for homework in pushing through the hard part at the beginning?
Us Denverites seem to be the only ones in this thread to have figured this out. Lived here for 5 years and I tow the party line, please don't move here.
> What if your cronjob doesn't fire? What if LEs script has a bug and you're not up to date? What if one of the (Python?) dependencies has a bug or breaks? What if LEs servers are being DDoS'd? Can you enumerate and account for all the failure scenarios?

I run my cron job[1] every hour. It checks for the expiry of my existing set of certificates and has a configurable parameter as to how soon before expiry to renew them.

[1] https://github.com/frutiger/concorde
It has been painful to see Erowid go downhill.

Back when I was young you would read articles like "I smoked pot. I had fun."

Now you get articles that somebody mixed 5 different things they got from china and then took a fistfull of downers and had a beer and then they are laying on the ground incapacitated, roll slightly and the baggie of pills falls out, and the EMS people go from concerned and friendly to mean and vindictive and the cop gives them a little kick and then at the hospital they get a talking out.

Nancy Reagan couldn't make a better site to make people "just say no"

Then there was the guy who took datura and thought people were stealing his car and he went in to get his dad and when his dad was out there he saw the car with all the doors open and lights on and engine running and he's like WTF.
I took it to be more defensive than passive-aggressive.

I took that emojis to be the exact opposite of the almost sarcastic tone I think you're interpreting it to have.

I guess even with emojis, it's hard not to make tone ambiguous.
When has Apple complied with a warrant that sought to compel a digital signature?
Well, the public part of TLS spanned two Burning Men, and is in the Bay Area. It's not my scene, but I'm sure it happened.

---

Alt note: I spent two years at that gig, and much of it was "public" facing, i.e. to participants. Talking about it now it's very difficult not to default into the cloak and dagger mode. It's now shockingly easy for me to write coyly.
If it's any consolation, you're faster at describing this than the ACLU.

Hasn't it always been known, since the beginning of this issue, that this was a penetrable 5c phone and thus a red herring for the FBI's request?
I think this makes the FBI look dumb, but I don't think this really helps them either.

If the NSA did this for espionage it's one thing, but I'm curious as to whether substantially modifying the iPhone in this way would stand up in court.... How would the police assert that they preserved evidence after doing this?

I was involved in a drawn out case challenged the validity of data recovered from backup at great. That was easy to assert with normal IT people, and yet it took weeks to litigate. Couldn't imagine how this would go.
"and have a much better quality of life"

If you like snow.
Yet end users are able to build fairly complex data structures and conditional processing using spreadsheets, so we know for sure that it can be done.

Of course experimental tools will be severely limited compared with industrial IDE systems that have been polished literally for decades; it will take years before we get these new tools into shape and learn what their best use cases are. But I'm not skeptical, because I've seen it happen before, and the conditions for it are now better than ever.
so john mcaffee was right?
Yes. I refused to do an exercise because it was quite obviously from someone's todo list, was a rather large endeavor, and didn't demand any particular skill aside from trying to find a sensible way to handle the many special cases (think parsing linux network configuration files and a pile of environment-specific behaviors).

I read it and told them (a) I had no interest in a firm that behaved that way, and (b) I had no interest in a firm that didn't understand what configuration management tools were for.
Where are you going for Indian and Chinese food? There's Din Tai Fung / Facing East in Bellevue and some of my old haunts in the International District are passable. Not as familiar with the Indian food scene outside of some places in East Bellevue/Redmond but you should also try Edmonds/Lynwood for Korean food.
Anecdotally, I had a really positive experience writing the HTTP server with TripleByte. I use interview projects to learn new skills and domains, doing so aligns my interest such that even if it doesn't go well I'm better for trying. My project review went reasonably well- we caught a bug, fixed it and tested. I turned down round two due to taking another offer, but genuinely felt like these guys cared about my progress and experience.

I'm now in a position where I'm interviewing and helping shape my organization's hiring practices. We've debated all the different approaches, some people like projects, some like algorithms, and some don't want to do either to get the job. At the end of the day, I really just want data on a candidate's ability so that I can say Yes.
IMHO, this is incorrect.

Python's back-porting of 3.x features caused Python 3 adoption to take even longer (no pain, no gain). But, I think this was a necessary evil, because if PSF had forced everyone with a "upgrade or perish" attitude, I think many would have abandoned Python.
My children play with it.
Too late to edit, but I'm definitely only speaking for my personal experience. You're absolutely right.