skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But are homicides down overall? What's the purpose of banning firearms if they don't prevent murders? Because if we compared home invasion rates (and perhaps some other categories), I'm guessing they'd look drastically lopsided. In the US state where I live 80% of those convicted of home invasion said they carefully picked a house where they believed the owner was not armed. And the news often carries stories of people stopping assaults, rapes, and home invasions with their personal firearm, nearly always with no one being harmed. These stats are of course not recorded.
A different kind of tutorial, but does the idea work?
Another to add to the list, this one for my run tracking website. http://smashrun.com/chris.lukic
I had a moment of panic where I had interpreted this as a security vulnerability in Leapfrog computer toys.
I've been looking into changing jobs and yes: it is a huge time sink. Traveling to interviews, being available for phone calls, preparing and researching... Especially the smaller companies are struggling to set up a good hiring process. I tried to discuss salary ranges before going into interviews to filter out some companies, but it didn't help. One recruiter put me on a one hour train ride, turns out there was some miscommunication about the job description..

However I really liked the Thoughtworks challenges and couldn't resist coding for eight hours. It's better than spending one hour on-site for a badly designed 'challenge'.
I am quite pro-gun, and terrorism doesn't even register on the reasons why. I believe the same could be said of most everyone I know in that community.

It's not about fear; it's primarily about a worldview that centers on individuality and distrust of government.
How to calculate what your app should really cost to build
Norway wealth fund's ethics watchdog warns firms not to make killer robots
Any plans to make the browser cache aware of cross domain resources? Basically a hash based cache, where as long as the hash is valid it can be used from a hash based caching pool. This could be integrated with SRI to reduce unnecessary network load without compromising user privacy.
Will not provide complete privacy, but might reduce exposure to 3rd party CDNs.

If something like this is implemented, providing frequently used resources via a plugin, privacy aware CDN or even a custom CDN similar to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... would be possible.
It is a wonderful news. Firefox version is ready too.
It is a criminal offense to shoot people.
One thing which I've wanted to see a company try is to give someone code to read and asking them to walk through how they would go about understanding it. I've done this once when I worked at MassChallenge and was trying to hire a more senior engineer to work above me and I felt like it gave me a good idea of his ability to talk through problems and work with others, but that was only one interview and I'd like to see a larger sample size.
> AlphaGo was well below Sedol's level when it played the European champion in October.

How clear is this? If this just comes from professional humans saying "I would have played differently, and I could have beaten Fan Hui by more points" - well, we've seen that humans aren't necessarily very good at judging AG's moves, and we know AG doesn't care how much it wins by.
What to Email a New User After They Sign Up
This is pretty standard in the UK. Your new full-time job is commonly effectively at-will for the first 3 months, and possibly more.

See, e.g., http://www.jobsite.co.uk/worklife/probation-periods-19677/
Attackers packing malware into PowerShell
Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
The big news here is coordinated announcements from multiple browsers:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/03/15/previewing-we...
https://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/03/experimental-support-...
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/03/a-webassembly-milestone/

introducing support for the live demo:

https://webassembly.github.io/demo/
RestartGTD – Get (back) on the GTD band wagon
Pretty sure it's safe! Take this program:

typedef struct {
int x;
} Base;

typedef struct {
Base base;
int y;
} Derived;

int f(Base* b, Derived* d) {
b->x = 0;
d->base.x = 1;
return b->x;
}

Notice that if we are accessing the base members of "d", we are still accessing them through a struct of type "Base" (d->base.x). If we compile this with strict aliasing, you can see the output is allowing that the two might alias (while this isn't a proof, it's a strong indication that this is aliasing-correct).

0000000000000000 <f>:
0: c7 07 00 00 00 00 mov DWORD PTR [rdi],0x0
6: c7 06 01 00 00 00 mov DWORD PTR [rsi],0x1
c: 8b 07 mov eax,DWORD PTR [rdi]
e: c3 ret
Could this be related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law ?
Is There Any DSLR Camera Who Automatically Detect What Type of Picture
If DSLR Camera know what the result and mood we want to take photo then please suggest me this type of camera.
Organiser of World Chess Candidates 2016 claimed exclusive rights to the moves
Lightning Kills More People in the USA Than Terrorists Do
The FBI's purpose isn't to unlock this phone. They already know it has nothing of value on it. What they want is the precedence to use the court to go against the will of congress. This has already been brought up and the people and their representatives shot it down.
> Why on Earth would anyone vote for someone who wants to take away freedoms enshrined in the Constitution?

Because it is adjusted as we develop and learn more about the world we live in, it has happened in the past, and I sincerely hope it continues to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution#Rat...
That is actually an extremely weak argument. Iraq had higher gun ownership than the US, and yet they were all under an oppressive dictator. There are actually several oppressive countries with high gun ownership.

A bunch of armed citizens does not make an effective army. Untrained and uncoordinated citizens are no match against well trained soldiers.

Very few armed resistance fights have succeeded in bringing democracy or freedom anywhere. More often than not it has been non-violent resistance which has succeeded.

In most cases when violence gets involved it is the wrong kind of people who end up on the top of the pecking order and you end up with an equally bad or worse regime in the end. We've seen this in the french revolutions, south american revolutions, various revolutions and independent fights across Asia and Africa, and more lately the Arab spring.

Freedom of speech, privacy etc is more important for keeping a country free than gun laws. If you have no free press, society will have advanced too far in the wrong direction before you can make a difference with your gun.

Ironically the same right wing people supporting gun rights, seem to not care a lick about privacy, surveillance, excessive police mandates or draconian laws.
OWC Introduces SSD Upgrade for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air PCIe SSDs
Western Digital spins up a USB disk just for the Raspberry Pi
21747XX Still remember mine from the late 90's despite not having used ICQ in 12-ish years. Somehow it just stuck in your head.
You could already make video codecs in JS, or in C using asm.js. It is absolutely realistic; see for instance the jsmpeg project: https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg.

It is unlikely to ever compete battery-wise with hardware support for a codec, however.
I, for one, am tired of processes that don't respect my time.
>> police are not routinely armed

I'm a gun owner and this is the key point for me. No politician is in a position to tell me I don't need my semi-automatic pistol if every day I see a patrol car go by my house with 2 fully automatic AR-15s locked between the front seats and my local police department owns an armoured vehicle. If you really think you have a plan for getting rid of guns for bad guys as well as me, prove it. Demilitarize the police at the same time.

edit: To be fair, I think such a plan is possible, but it requires fixing other problems that too many politicians are afraid to touch. It's obviously been done successfully elsewhere, but only when cultures and geographies were more ready for it. I enjoy shooting and prefer to own a gun, but I'd give them up for a plan I thought would work. I just haven't seen one proposed in the US yet.
And many of them are subtle but gigantic subsidies, like allowing them and their customers to poison the population without consequence, not even paying for the damages.
What advantages would a hard drive have over flash memory at that point other than being slightly cheaper?
what I meant that we can achieve amazing stuff as mankind (especially with 60's tech), but still be completely irrational redneck-style when emotions kick in
I was mostly struck by a "civilized" backdrop (used loosely) with nary a billboard or piece of litter in view. If I didn't know better, I'd say it looked quiet nice there. But I know better.
Babies know when they don’t know something
Is this a leak or a release?

Anyway, it seems like 5-10 years too late. I remember when I was in school (till 2003) that ICQ was huge. People knew their ICQ numbers by heart, and it was as important as e.g. WhatsApp or Facebook is today. It even anticipated microblogging - you could set a custom "status message", and people would check each others messages to see what others were doing. They had a lot of features that were not to different from what Facebook has today - you had Flash based minigames, a personal homepage-like area etc.. And of course they had a huge network advantage. I really wonder how they dropped the ball...
Yeah, I didn't mean anything specific (plan figuring that out myself). But I see iPad Air as a good enough $400 solution comparing to shitty-screen laptops. Just need to find decent keyboard for <$100.
It's interesting you think you own something that is going to stop a SWAT team from entering your home and executing you because they determined you have a gun and might be a threat while serving a completely legal search warrant.

If they didn't see you with a gun they might not have acted with a dozen cops rushing the door but now you've escalated yourself into a threat in their eye, legit or not.

You are already being oppressed by the NSA sharing domestic data with the FBI, your gun will do zero to stop that.
Often these things are scored and ranked separately. Your phone interviewer will likely have scored you on various things, the score from your coding challenge will be taken as well, then everyone will sit down and discuss how people did and rule people in/out.
I would think so. My understanding of the Lavabit case was that it was upheld on procedural grounds and thus not precedent-setting. Apple has the money and the will to fight this so that it is precedent-setting* and thus usable by the not-as-expensive lawyer protecting the next Lavabit.

* By which I mean I could see Apple purposefully fighting this to the Supreme Court, even if it means "appealing" a case they've already won so that it goes to a higher court.
(Speaking in personal capacity here.)

There exists a continuum of hiring practices which place more or less burden upon candidates. I would encourage HNers with input into their company hiring practices to choose less burdensome approaches over more burdensome approaches, particularly when less burdensome approaches also yield additional signal about ability.

A thing you can expect to be asked in 2016: you can expect to be asked to have an on-site interview in a city you do not live in. (How many people will be asked to do this for the SFBA or NYC? Literally jumbo jets full, this week.) For some candidates, this will involve more than 16 hours on planes, a (minimally) overnight stay in a business hotel, and six solid hours of interviews in the course of an 8~10 hour day. This requires minimally 2~3 days of these candidates' lives.

Most companies keep "conversion rate between onsites and job offers" very close to their vest. To put it mildly: it is not guaranteed that if you're flown out you will get an offer.

If you are hypothetically designing your interview process, and you replace the onsite with even an excessively long project, that's a win. The project can be written at the candidate's own pace and schedules conveniently around their other obligations. They do not have to arrange child care, take off time from work, or make tradeoffs like "Do I do the project or do I attend a friend's wedding?"

If you fly across an ocean and start bombing an interview, that's a terrible result for everyone. If you happen to be doing a project and discover "Oh, wait a minute, I've really miscalibrated here: this is far above my level of expertise with $FOO and honestly if this is the character of the work then I'm not sure I want to do it", then you have an easy option: simply close the window and, maybe, send a two-sentence email to the person who you were talking to.

Smart use of projects as a filtering mechanism can minimize costs to candidates and the company of administering high-cost testing (e.g. onsites, long projects, etc) to candidates who will ultimately not be successful at receiving offers and/or defer the high-cost assessments until the anticipated chance of receiving an offer is "very high."
It was really meant more tongue in cheek than it came across.
Politicians just need to stop with the terrorism war chanting, period.
I understand the appeal of having candidates write code as part of the application process, but in my view it's useless and worse, it will drive off some of the best potential candidates you could get.

First, why is it useless? Because it is an artificial and contrived exercise and not real work. Even if you design your requirements to mimic your real work environment, there's something key missing; the candidate has no knowledge of your team and your environment. How I would write code for my current team vs. how I would write code at any other job I've been at is different. You're basically asking the candidate to take a guess at what kind of paradigms your code reviewers like and what they don't like and hope it works out. One team might find use of closures smart and great, and another might find it unintuitive and adding unnecessary complexity. Your applicants have no way of knowing and just have to hope they write code your team likes.

On top of that, one contrived exercise is not a good way to get an idea of a persons' actual skill and knowledge. I'd much rather have a 30-90 minute conversation with someone where nobody writes any code than to review a contrived example. I get the appeal of the programming task, it can be done asynchronously and thus doesn't require any developer time until you go to do the review. But is it really saving you much time? Anyone who's code doesn't pass unit tests or any other automated level of screening wouldn't probably make it very far into a conversation either.

If I have an applicant spend 1-4 hours writing a code example I've had them use at least as much and probably more of their time for far less benefit than if I had simply called them up on Skype and talked to them about programming. The conversation will reveal not only a lot more to me about their actual skill set, but also their personality and how they might fit into my team. Now I realize teams doing exercises aren't skipping the conversation step, but I'm advocating for skipping the programming task step and going right to the conversation if someone's resume is solid and they can intelligently answer some basic questions (a handful of questions that should take no more than a couple minutes to answer, not an essay.)

Second, why would I say it drives off good candidates? Because I know a lot of really good developers (including myself) who skip any job posting that requires writing code as part of the application process. Why do I do that? Because it tells me the team behind this application is immature. They haven't yet gotten to the point in their careers where they realize these exercises are a waste of everyone's time. That means there's probably going to be a lot of other young dude bullshit in the team that I'm not interested in dealing with.
Shootings are not rare here, but fatal shootings are rare.
Here's a link from the same source [0] to a non fatal shooting last night in London.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/15/brixton-shoot...
That's a political question, not a technical one. Things get added to Pwn2Own when its sponsors (including, e.g. Google and Microsoft) push for them to be added, as far as I can tell.
>I would expect from all-knowing God to pass any fact that wasn't commonly known at that time as a proof of his all-knowledge //

Not wanting to extend this beyond the bounds of what is appropriate on HN but a simple (and simplistic) counter-argument is that this is exactly what God does - he reveals through inspiration of various people ideas that lead to revelation. So for example giving Newton the idea that white light was composite. We by our limitations seem necessarily to be unable to cope with a conception of the entire truth of the nature of the universe and so all our understanding is always going to be shadows on the cave wall. Revelation of the full truth of any one facet seems impossible? If the Bible said "there are atoms" then you might well argue, but it doesn't mention electroweak and strong forces, etc., etc. ad infinitum.

Revelations out of context, like telling a Phoenician what the permittivity of free-space is, would almost certainly be dismissed as nonsensical wittering. Indeed that's what happened to the Ancient Greek conception (wrong as it was) of atoms. Perhaps in a millennium or so man will look down on the atomic model as limited in the same way we look on the classical elements.

Re the 10th commandment, things you shouldn't wrongly desire (ie covet); given it's an short list of examples of things not to covet I can't see that there's much significance in those things being together other than that they're examples of things that people look at (even today) and think "I want that". Donkey (chamawr, https://www.blueletterbible.org/niv/exo/20/1/t_conc_70017) is as likely chosen for the alliteration with (chamad). If I say to you "don't look at your neighbours beautiful wife, his truck [ox] or flash car [donkey], his servants or friends [the word used in Exodus can mean either] and lust after them for yourself instead" will you accuse me of considering the things desired for to be equal somehow.
Right with you buddy. I no longer accept coding challenges or even interviews that go over 30 min. I tell them my services are $150/hour. If you want me to do a 4-8 hour exercise for the privilege of interviewing further then make it worth my time...just like any other consulting gig I do.
I'm actually very optimistic about the state of AI and ML lately. The difference is that I don't anthropomorphize the machines or ascribe human values to their behavior. I absolutely believe AI will drive (and save lives); I have always believed that AI will play Go; I believe that AI will grow to match and surpass humans in many things we assume that only humans can do. Humans aren't perfect, but that doesn't mean that machines who outperform us are perfect either.

AlphaGo plays Go. It probably doesn't play Go like a human (because a human probably can't do what it does), but that's OK because it also appears to be better than humans. AlphaGo is interesting not because it has done something impossible, but because it has proven possible a few novel ideas that could find other interesting applications, and adds another notch to the belt of a few other tried and tested techniques.
I personally would love this style of job screening.

I'm not at all worried about 8 "unpaid" hours.
After you get the job you should share the name of the company!
"Although this result isn’t statistically significant" - end of article, start of unbounded speculation, "therefore [see title]". Meh.
As a Canadian raising a small child in America, I echo the sentiment expressed by the author. It may be slightly irrational (e.g. statistically I should be more afraid of my kid getting hit by a car), but I don't think the author is just intentionally sensationalizing. When you don't grow up around guns, and regularly hear news stories about kids accidentally or intentionally shooting each other/family members, it is quite concerning.

EDIT
I deleted a line about poor healthcare in America being a greater risk than guns because it was not necessary to the point I was making and possibly inflammatory.
That's actually a great suggestion and I'm ashamed to admit it never occurred to me. I'll definitely share it internally. Thanks!
So sick of replying to this sort of logic. Nobody says we should GIVE UP guns. We are talking about regulating. Just like the dam car you used in your retarded analogy. WHY is the car strictly regulated in the US like anywhere else, but NOT the gun!!!???

Are guns somehow way safer than cars?

Pretty much anything which is dangerous is regulated. I mean McDonalds even has to put a sticker on your cup, stating it is hot. Somehow hot coffee gets stricter regulation in the US than guns. That is totally backwards and it just boggles the mind of the rest of us why so many Americans are so dense they can't see this.
This. I like this. Other companies wondering why they cannot find good devs need to do something like this.
Cloudsight is actually powered by humans
I'd rather spend 8 hours programming than burn a full day on 5 whiteboard interviews the way Google does.

More generally, I think the target should be to make the work sample test take a similar amount of time to the in person interview you'd have to do instead.
Audience Center sounds potentially intriguing if they open up an API to allow you to integrate your own backend data.
Maybe this is subjective, I personally do not think it will happen in the UK. I would also rather take that risk than allow everyone to own guns just for this unknown eventuality...

If it assures you in anyway, my grandfather who was in the war, handed in his 1911.
Clickable: https://gumroad.com/l/Briefbox-ebook

An interesting idea. Are sample pages available?
ICQ now probably as popular in Russia as XMPP. Most of normal users moved over to Skype, social networks and newer message apps long ago.
WebAssembly Support Begins Materializing in Multiple Browsers
Right: direct hardware support can't be beat. Once WebAssembly has solid SIMD support and memory management that allows zero-copy then it should be* as good as it gets without direct hardware support.

* Assuming we're smart about security check elimination and SIMD codegen, which are both hard to do right.
>They added new sane features..

Have you heard the expression, "A chain is only as strong as the weakest link?". So adding strong links after a weak link does not "improve" the strength of the chain.

And that is assuming that these new features added are actually sane. From what I have seen, it is not the case. see here [1]

So you cannot improve php with out making it "not php". And I don't think even if the same people started who are working in the language started from scratch, today, it will be much better than Php. Because they are simply not competent (refer [1]), because if you are competent, and has the vision to see the flaws of the language and the community, you won't go anywhere near it. So I think there is zero chance of Php becoming "sane", let alone nice...

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3j88v4/something_about_...
Wow, this led me to discover that I also still know my ID. Before Facebook's rise in Europe around '04-'05 or so ICQ was the online communication channel of choice pretty much everywhere around here, not only in the Eastern part of the continent.
So does cancer, diabetes and cows... they don't do it with firearms though. The operative word here is firearms and that's what people are trying to discuss.