skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can be a very good developer quite quickly nowadays. Free tutorial like this: http://yoember.com helps to learn from very basic concept to advance features. The most important is practicing every day, you have to spend at least 2 hours, every day with programming... Sounds crazy, but you can start applying for developer jobs on the second week and you will get great tasks and tricky questions... You probably will fail a couple of times... but those tasks and questions give you new challenges what you have to chase and learn. A month later you will have a junior job where you can learn more focused solutions. You will love this new world and you want to go to learn more things, so a few years later you can go back to university part time and learn CS there, just for fun, but you will enjoy. Good luck! You have a great journey ahead. ;)
the computers important guys use at home

Hillary's email-gate?

So, no, important guys should not be using home computers that control/decide life or death situations.
I did some tests and it seems that the AVX2 code is faster than popcnt when the input size is 512 bytes or more.
The world is going to pull their own hair out, but that is about all they can do.
There needs to be a decentralized way to tell [some of] your contacts directly that you have app X installed (or that you support messaging protocol Y).
Use case matters too. S3 is the "gateway drug" for the rest of the AWS services.

If you're not going to adopt wholesale, the outbound network costs make it very expensive.
So very glad to hear they're finally doing Windows versions! I've been quite jealous of this (and many more apps..!) available in the Mac sphere of late, but this one's particular wanted as, frankly, I'm very much fed up with Adobe.

I've been a loyal Adobe users since the mid-90s, using Photoshop and Illustrator daily.

Since the Creative Cloud 'heist' though, I've been severely put off - the CC editions are buggier than anything I've experienced before, but more fundamentally, the software hasn't significantly evolved in many years now, so I'm paying simply to keep up with client files which for my job tend to be of the simplest nature anyway.

Frankly, I do now what I could've achieved with Illustrator CS2 (released a decade ago!), the last full Adobe software I owned outright - all I pay for these days is the right to remain locked in to Adobe's ecosystem.

I've been hoping for competition against the Adobe monolith - I hope this takes them down a peg or three!
The math myth that permeates the math myth
Mutating Objects - Click an object to create a mutated version of it
Amazon files a patent for pay by selfie
The ensuing total ban on handguns ... mean firearm murders are extremely rare

Given that firearm murders rose after the ban (link from jjoonathan), please explain very clearly to me how can the low rate (it was low in the first place) be caused by the ban (you said the ban 'means' the low rate)?

I'm really looking forward to seeing how you can support your claim.
[flagged] And why is this downvoted? Do the downvoters disagree with the assertion that hellofunk hasn't seen this idiom before?

Really, dang, you can remove posts like mine but you do nothing to address the real problem here.
This could be a useful tool when learning a new language, if the output really is idiomatic pretty code. You could convert some familiar code in one language to another language you want to learn.
One can program the NIC to DMA packets directly info the address space allot for FPGA. Once setup, the FPGA should be able to get hold the packets and start processing completely without a single CPU cycle use on data plane.
Anything where the text and background colours are such that it's difficult to read, for one.
Software Engineer (Scala)
The executive branch is home to the Department of Justice. Maybe that is what you were thinking of? If it makes it easier, when you think about the judicial branch think of judges, and for the executive branch think use power.
>>> This doesn't mean toddlers are more dangerous than terrorists. It means there are more toddlers.

>> The article never made this point. All it said is that they kill more people. In which case it would seem reasonable to ask, can we save more lives, more effectively with enhanced gun control then with enhanced anti-terrorism measures..

> If that was the case they would not have mentioned terrorism.

Your first statement 'toddlers are more dangerous than terrorists' is not to be found anywhere in the article, the article mentioned terrorism in order to make the second statement which I pointed out to you. I'm not sure what you are unclear about?
Could anyone explain to me, legally, why the FBI wouldn't be allowed to compel Apple to provide this? The government was able to compel private SSL keys from Lavabit. If the only difference is "Apple has money to fight the court order," then would a court's refusal to grant the FBI access to the source code and signing keys create a precedent that could protect future Lavabits?
Like the author, having run a hiring program for several years based on coding challenges designed to mimic the work the team does (ie, work sample tests), I do not understand why any tech company does developer hiring in any other way.

I particularly like how this team iterated on their uploader problem, abstracting it out to a socket server and providing a test suite for it. Reacting to ambiguity by abstracting the problem was clever. And, of course, a great illustration of how a standardized hiring tool can, like any software project, be iterated on and improved --- unlike a free-form whiteboard interview.
With private key for Sparkle updates signing: https://github.com/mailru/icq-desktop/blob/master/mac/ICQ/ds...

Facepalm.
I do not think you are correct. For millenia, there have been excruciatingly few imbalances of power (war) between China, Japan, and Korea. Here is a great video overview [0]. If he is to believed (and external sources seem to agree), Korea and Asia has been far more stable for far longer periods of time (until ~1900) than Europe and America.

Furthermore, historically Korea (through various eras) has often (or always?) extended out of the Korean peninsula further into China than it is now. So in general they've been a lot more peaceful and unified than they are today. And yes it's an
ill comparison to Germany and Austria because Korea has been around far longer.
But they passed the 2nd QC check, so all good!
Where's the announcement on Symantec's website? This links to a marketing blog promoting a different service.

There's a PDF in the third link going to Symantec's website, is that meant to be their official announcement? There are some pretty hefty conditions on this 'offer' and I wouldn't be surprised to see many opt to integrate Let's Encrypt into their hosting platform.

Look at this garbage, it's hardly appealing:

Program requirements
To participate in the Encryption Everywhere program partners must meet the following requirements:
Be a partner in the Symantec Website Security Partner Program
Agrees to an annual sales commitment
Be a Hosting Provider or sell to a Hosting Provider who has at least 200,000 websites under management
Enable DNS authentication
Commit to execute regular campaigns to achieve agreed upon upsell targets
Participate in quarterly marketing and business planning
Bundle encryption into web hosting packages
Provide first-level support to your customers
Provide marketing and implementation support to your resellers, if any

EDIT: Here's Symantec's page offering DV certs, with prices starting at $399: https://www.symantec.com/ssl-certificates/ I don't see any free ones there, did I overlook them?
Show HN: It like Google analytics but for track spreadsheets
It would have been nice to have some context with regards to the algorithm being explored. Although some ideas seem pretty clever, I've too often seen code implementing this in a haphazard way (buggy, no comments). This leaves the next programmer scratching their head and wondering ... why?
Unless you have very specific performance and memory constraints, I do not see the need for such structures in most every programmers daily business.
Slock.it Working with Microsoft to Bring Its Dapp to the Azure Cloud
Newbie here. Could you elaborate?
Trump or Cruz or both?
Because at the end of the day coming up with work sample problems & then applying rigorous metric analysis is much harder than "grab engineer & throw him in a room with the candidate".
If Lavabit refused, some random scapegoat within Lavabit (like, say the CEO, or whoever is deemed as the scapegoat) might get arrested, Lavabit would probably be ordered to close, and our lives wouldn't be affected too much. They're a tiny startup. They can be bullied quite easily without affecting national peace.

If Apple were ordered to close in an instant, there would be mass upheaval, unrest, protests, and huge economic losses just because of the sheer number of people that depend on their products on a daily basis for mission-critical things. Violence would break out. We might even end up facing nothing short of a civil war, and the federal government probably wouldn't want to risk that.
Not yet finished reading, but I was reminded of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
The big question is whether you can run vim and emacs under this terminal. Anyone know?
You can filter the issues by E-Easy labels [1]. As far as I know, these issues are generally intended for people who haven't contributed before.

Additionally, the rust / servo community is very good, so you can usually get help pretty quickly on IRC.

[1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue...
Presumably it's seen as bikeshedding
Wow, they couldn't even wait until the San Bernandino test case was resolved. Baffling to me why the FBI wouldn't wait on this second case, it clearly undermines the legitimacy of their "it's just this one terrorist's phone we need unlocked" argument.
Former cyber czar says NSA could crack the San Bernadino shooter’s phone
Earliest genetic evidence of Neandertals
A lot less mass shootings for starters, same for Australia - in fact IIRC none, in Australia since the ban.
10 Best Apps Built with MeteorJS
I really hate having to solve these kind of programming challenges. I've already sent you my CV, with references from former/current employers and co-workers. Call them up if you are worried that I'm lying on my résumé, don't waste my time by making me work for the chance of maybe getting a job as only payment. Doing multiple interviews already takes up enough of my time, seeing as I'm the one who has to commute to your location.
“Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin's secret police
It's such a false economy. It's harder the first time. By the third or fourth time, it's free. And that's before you count the expense of making super dumb hiring decisions, which is what happens when you use virtually any other process.
Interesting. I was aware that this new API exists. I've not seen an app use it yet. I was not aware it could narrow the selection down to just a single contact property. The documentation does not make that clear.

Nevertheless, apps like Facebook aren't going to use this as they want the whole address book and not a single person.
Terribly cherry-picked charts there.

The UK had a spike in homicides in 2003, so what? The overall trend is clearly downwards. The 2009 firearm homicide rate is less than half the avg. rate for the 90's and I believe it has only gone down further since (cherry picked date ranges).

Ireland had an increase in homicides following gun bans in the 70's? And it was the gun ban that caused it, not the Troubles? Likewise Jamaica - nothing at all to do with the massive increase in drug trafficking flowing through the Carribean, following the start of drug-prohibition in the 70's?

EDIT: It turns out the data is dodgy as well. The spike is due to all 170+ of Harold Shipman's murders being recorded solely in 02/03
Ember implemented React and Redux concept a year ago, the component layer is based on Virtual DOM. You can see here all the hooks what you can find in React, maybe with a little bit different function names... a modern Ember app is full of components. ;) http://emberjs.com/api/classes/Ember.Component.html (Tick the check-boxes, Ember.js is nicely object oriented, so you can get a lot from parent classes.)
LIVE: MPs Are Debating the Investigatory Powers Bill in the House of Commons
MPs are debating the Investigatory Powers Bill in the House of Commons for the first time. The debate's expected at 12.45 (GMT).

http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/82b15581-2db8-4ecd-b1f1-c136bf3e5f2e
There is more

// TODO : change it after testing
const static std::string flurry_key = "KYVQVW38PB2SP8CRJJ9R"; // test ICQ
const static std::string flurry_url = "https://data.flurry.com/aah.do";

Source: https://github.com/mailru/icq-desktop/blob/master/core/stati...
China calls for FBI cooperation in internet security, counter-terrorism
Sparkle is an open source update framework for osx.

I guess the private key is for signing the updates, so the user knows that the update is legit.
That wasn't what was claimed by the person I replied to. He claimed at the low rate of firearms murders was a result of the ban. But firearms murders rose after the ban.
I don't know anyone who is pro-gun that is going to give up his gun as long as there is a terrorism threat to his family and country. Politicians need to squelch the terrorism war chanting if they ever want any form of gun control to pass in the U.S.
I like the 'simplified job description'. All too often a job description is simply a list of technologies the last guy claimed to be using/have used/knew something about.
How to prevent crime, and what works? There is a long history behind that question, and even longer history of attempted strategies. Studies has asked why different nations has different crime rate, why it can change from decade to decade, or between cities in the same nation.

From that, there is also meta studies/books that has asked what the studies has shown. To take an example, the book freakonomics pointed out that out of all the crime reducing strategies, abortion laws has shown to be one of the best method. Unwanted children tend to have higher risk of being born with low social and economic status, which is then a strong predictor for crime. None of the other strategies that were looked on had any major effect on crime rate.

Then we have surveillance. Government studies has shown CCTV is effective to reduce vehicle crimes, but no evidence is found that it prevent violent crime. One study concluded that better illumination could be a cheap way of cutting illegal activity to the same degree as CCTVs.

Surveillance in stores and bank has shown a very unexpected result. It has proven useless in preventing robberies, and shoplifters are generally not bothered by them. However, studies has shown that employees accounts for 43% loss of revenue from shoplifting and that is reduced by surveilling. Banks was also one of the early adapters who noticed this.

Then we have studies such as the last month from Harvard, which said that the available information that police investigators has when investigate crime is increasing at a very fast rate. "The trajectory of technological development points to a future abundant in unencrypted data," the study said. Comparing today with the days before encryption, and today is much easier time for a police investigator.
Well, that particular incident was similar to the US killing of a US national in a drone strike, and in neither case does having a firearm really help.

Having an actual discussion on armed political conflict vs. the government would involve Northern Ireland, which would take far too long for HN.
What is the technology stack you are using?
> The spy state already officially exists. [...] This is just theatrics.

Indeed. It's more than likely that the FBI could just ask the NSA to break the phone, but if they do so then they have just admitted that the NSA can already do this and will have publicly exposed that capability.

If the FBI is smart then the plan is likely to fight Apple to the end, lose, and then have terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and members of the woodwind sections of orchestras move to the iPhone because "it's so secure the FBI can't get in!" all while letting the NSA break any iPhone they need and bootstrap the found evidence through parallel construction.
How Bitrix24 Thinks About Premium (And You Should Probably Too)
Details about the bill are available here:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/investigatory-powe...
Actually this includes San Bernardino as terrorism:

http://www.snopes.com/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists/ (very bottom)

kills:
toddlers vs. terrorists,
21 to 19 (including 14 in San Bernardino)
HTTP/2 definitely makes it faster for browsers to load assets in a webpage, however, not sure how much it would speed up individual REST requests since most of the time is bound to the request/response round trip.

Just clarifying the comment about the benchmark, even though there are both Go and Node.js components the actual bit that was being benchmarked was HTTP and NATS for the inter service communication. All the code is available on github if anybody wants to rerun the benchmarks.
> [...] most developers or IT folks aren't networking experts, and LXD won't be an intuitive tool for them without a simpler mode of operation.

Really, no expertise is required. Just basic understanding how the heck the
network works. If somebody can't grasp what bridge interface is or how NAT
operates, he apparently doesn't have the qualifications for writing software.
Why not just use regular TinyCore? Or any other distribution?

LXC containers aren't app containers. It is intended to be used with regular installs, not with single applications.
Actually Redis returns the number of consumers that were subscribed during your publish and received the message, so you can detect that no service is available and return your 404 status. The real limitation for RPC over Redis pub/sub to me is that you can only broadcast your messages to all consumers, and not have them load-balanced between the subscribed applications. So you end-up following a discover/unicast call pattern where Redis doesn't bring much to the table for the actual RPC call. Maybe that's an opportunity for a cool addition to redis...
I have yet to drive a "self-driving" or even "self-monitoring" car and the thought of doing so terrifies me. I know technology is good and it can do great things, but helping me drive is something I don't enjoy the idea of. What happens if, however unlikely, someone were to hack my car? They could potentially crash my car and leave without a trace. I think we really need to take a step back and ask if the benefits outweigh the potential costs/risks.
Salon is a known rag sheet. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this.
This :-)
Sorry for being unclear.

My point is that the article and subsequent comments by you and threatofrain establish a frame in which stressors are measured solely by their impact on fatality. The extra attention given to terrorism relates more to the conservative fear of losing their 'way of life'. Attempting to measure both of these things solely in relation to their impact on fatality misunderstands the reasons for fear over terrorism and creates a communication problem between the left and right.

I did not invoke your second point as I fully agree with it.
> (about one per year in a country of 60m)

This source shows the lowest number of gun deaths a year from 1996 as 130. Actual murders will be lower than this figure, but do you have a source? http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/192/total_num...
Computers do what you say, not what you mean. If I write a function and name it quickSort, that's no guarantee that the function is a correctly implemented sorting algorithm. If I write a function called beNiceToHumans, that's no guarantee that the function is a correct implementation of being nice to humans.

It's relatively easy to formally describe what it means for a list to be sorted, and prove that a particular algorithm always sorts a list correctly. But it's next to impossible to formally describe what it means to be nice to humans, and proving the correctness of an algorithm that did this is also extremely difficult.

These considerations start to look really important if we're talking about an AI that's (a) significantly smarter than humans and (b) has some degree of autonomy (can creatively work to achieve goals, can modify its own code, has access to the Internet). And as soon as the knowledge of how to achieve (a) is widely available, some idiot will inevitably try adding (b).

Note: Elon Musk and Sam Altman apparently think spreading (a) to everyone is a good way to mitigate the problem I describe. This doesn't make sense to me. You can read my objections in detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721621 There's another critique of their approach here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/

If you're interested to learn more, here's a good essay series on the topic of AI: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
If you can't design a website that looks better than bootstrap... Then use bootstrap!
It certainly doesn't feel anything like the charts in this article.

I've heard of crimes with that damned pocket knife but never a gun.
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> So not every move has to be perfect; it's much more possible to recover from mistakes.

Not when I play its not :-P
I'm with you. Also sending this kind of projects many times requires a time that you don't have when working for another company.
Research "model view controller" and separation of concerns.

It is very hard to maintain or even reason about a file or make a change or secure exploitable edge cases when the application has html, css, javascript, php, and calls to the database in the same place.
No it's not 'just' an 'X does more Y than Z'. There's more that's implied.

i.e., there's a Z which does Y, and it's a tiny, tiny problem that nobody considers to be an actual threat. e.g., toddlers murdering people.

And then there's an X, which is even less dangerous than that, namely terrorism.

And then there's a response to this X, which has trampled on basic civil rights, privacy and the constitution in the form of mass surveillance, and shows few signs of slowing. Further, there's another response which is inciting hysteria, fear, ignorance and increasingly racism towards a minority who hate terrorism as much as anyone.

That's what this article implies, and it's completely true. It presents an absurdity of threat vs response that has lost all sensibility, an absurdity that, though has been mentioned before many times in various articles, still hasn't resonated with the general public and media.
> Data doesn't fit my pre-conceptions. Better ignore the data.
> unless we transform our democracy into a totalitarian state

The irony is that in totalitarian states terrorism increases, not decreases. Because then even more people have a reason to hate their own totalitarian leaders.
Tbh I do not care that much about the external memory bandwidth, I only need internal plus some slow swapping into external DDR (used at most 4 channels so far) - my use cases are solely streaming, therefore tranceivers are more than enough. In some cases even a lowly Spartan6 is able to beat all the shit out of Teslas. Compare hundreds of memory fetches a cycle vs. whatever the pitiful NVidia cache is capable of (and remember that if your load is trashing your cache, you're screwed, no way to fix it if there is no option to pre-scramble your data for a linear access).
You can think of it as competition. Other people can think of it as something that they can make people who are already familiar with systems that use the Linux kernel.
This says more about the minuscule threat terrorists pose than the rate of firearm accidents.