skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, I don't know. For an imagined law "government can't violate privacy" I'd feel much better with strong encryption (a technical measure) then trusting government to prosecute and jail its employees when they violate law.
It's hard to understand what it's like to live in fear of mosquitos.

Having lived in tropical areas where this is prevalent, and having suffered from dengue, this is incredible news. The people who are most affected by this are those who don't have resources to repel these tiny, common insects. They also don't have resources to properly treat this incredibly agonizing, and sometimes fatal, disease.

Lasers, sprays, genetics, and everything else under the sun has been proposed to control mosquitos. Something that controls the thing they spread, which causes so much suffering, is much more exciting.
There aren't many Billion Dollar startups out there (44 as said in the article) so the apparently precise percentage (51%) is slightly misleading (base size is small so not so representative). If they had looked at, let's say, 500M startups, the actual figure would have been more telling.
He probably meant the other cofounder Mike Krieger.
http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-cofounder-mike-krie...
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (CVPR 2016 Oral)
fuck Vinod Khosla
No Wired I'm not paying $1 to read your article.
Absolutely agree. And when you're really pushing the edges of the documentation (hard to do, but happens on occasion – like reasoning about authentication plugins, or model loading behavior) I've found the source code to be incredibly high quality. By that I mean: well commented, consistently styled, variables have descriptive names, etc. Definitely some of it can look a little crazy but if you clone the git repo and look at the revision history the intent of each commit is well documented and/or linked to a specific bug in their tracker. An absolutely incredible project.
You can make a lot more money in the U.S. From entrepreneurship, of course, but Professionals and executives get paid way more in the U.S. too.
Many adhesives are extremely ductile, the obvious example being silicones.
An interview with Gustafson: http://insidehpc.com/2015/03/slidecast-john-gustafson-explai...

His book on Unums: http://www.amazon.com/End-Error-Computing-Chapman-Computatio...

IEEE floating point is an absolute disaster, so I hope this works out.

From the reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ckk5u/unum_a_...
OPT doesn't last very long (18 months max I think). The standard path for students is F1->OPT->H1B->Green Card->Citizen.
Most CS students want to come to the U.S. from around the world because the CS Rock Stars are here! Where else are you able to go to a meet up and strike up a conversation with the person who wrote popular software you admire? How often do you get to do that in another country? The immigrants want to start companies here because there are success stories here - especially immigrant success stories. I love the CS classes here ... I love the passion that students show, I love the side projects people are willing to invest free time in ...
It's simple: the US economy is huge. It's bigger than Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, and the UK combined. It's got the same GDP as the EU and as China, but half the population (and 1/4, respectively).

No matter where you are, the US can be a step up -- as is indicated by the OP. These are exactly the immigrants you're asking about, and they came for a shot at exactly this, which they couldn't get back at home.

Incidentally, here's a cool infographic: http://graphics.wsj.com/global-growth/
It's not (exclusively) about being poor or about drawing ambition from the current population. It's about having a vastly different perspective and background and understanding of how the world works. It's about being more ambitious than the opportunities presented to them in their home country, and having the tenacity to search for better ones on the other side of the world. This by definition makes them better entrepreneurs than nearly any American. You can't draw this out of the current population unless you place them so far away from opportunity, further than Detroit and further than Alaska. Which, it turns out, would make them a non-US citizen.

America is a bubble, and most people growing in it don't understand that different places and people and cultures work differently. People from outside the bubble have a higher likelihood to think differently from the local populace to solve everyday problems, which is the kind of innovation that makes a unicorn happen.
exactly, many of them are well educated and trained indeed.
Interesting line from the article quoted above:

> One does not necessarily need to perceive latency consciously to be affected by it.
No, that's not what happened. The government initially asked LavaBit to intercept and provide data for one user only. LavaBit had done this in the past for FBI on other cases. However, the owner dragged his feet for no legally defensible reason responding to this particular request, and asked for compensation et cetera, and so the government demanded the SSL keys to do it themselves.
A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson
In fact H1B has to work for an employer and can not founder a company(at least easily or legally), you have to earn your permanent residence first, which takes quite a few years at least.
That assertion is patently absurd. There are absolutely people and organized groups who perpetrate horrible acts solely to terrorize others. They are not some 'fiction' created by a 'power tripping' government. However, the risk that these people present to the world, at this point, does not merit sacrificing economic and civil liberties in their entirety to combat them. Rather, the dilemma is in determining an acceptable amount of liberty to sacrifice for safety, and vice versa.
this is amazing! can't wait to see the paper.

how do they create a 3D model out of video.
https://github.com/ProtonMail
"The purpose of the placebo group is to account for the placebo effect, that is, effects from treatment that do not depend on the treatment itself"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo-controlled_study
I caught Dengue in Bali a couple years ago. In retrospect I wasn't as careful about mosquitos as I should have been because I hadn't really noticed any. Fortunately it was "mild" in that I "only" spiked a 104 degree or so fever and was out flat for a week. (And had my doctor send me to the ER after I got some blood work done.) I was OK after a few weeks but now I'm rather paranoid about the (increasing) number of places where the disease can happen. I do like to travel and I'd really like to be able to get a vaccine (although I expect it will be a while) given the risk of re-exposure to a different variety.
7 years is a lucky thing, I saw many 9+ years after 911, however if you have a nice PhD degree it could be much faster, the rest just have to wait and wait.
I would say all 10 are clearly capitalist. All have strong recognition of property rights including private property in the means of production.

It is unfortunate that political terminology is muddy enough to allow for this sort of confusion. If I think these 10 countries are capitalist and you think 8 of them are socialist, what is the likelihood of us having a useful conversation discussing capitalism and socialism?
You're argument is no more advanced than the one you're critiquing.
That's true; however, the stereotype is that in a lot of places that are not the US, except for China, value other "social cohesion" characteristics of their economies over "crass" pursuit of money. If that stereotype still has merit, then it implies the ones who come here are the ones who believe in US-style economics over their homelands' --which is neither here nor there, just an observation.
How far are we from actually reading and copying memory? 50? 100 years?
It is really Facebook's own fault. The way their comment system is setup is awful compared to anything else out there, even Digg's version in 2006. And searching by page or group for a topic is just useless. It is just people's profiles, and pages aren't separated into subpages like forums are. Everyone I know uses forum software like phpbb or Wordpress comments to connect. Facebook is mostly just for family photos and baby pics.
Did you mean to reply to hacker_9 ?
May be a WiFi issue, you need to make sure you have a solid WiFi network too. In a crowded neighborhood that can be hard to do.
Kickstarter Saves 'Future Fan Club' Drip on the Eve of Its Closure
SoundCloud has signed a licensing deal with Sony Music
The Romans were multi-ethnic from pretty early on - Italians, Greeks, Africans, any ethnicity surrounding the Mediterranean was represented. Their first black emperor (Caracalla) about 200 years in was a nonevent. Overall I think 500 years/1100 years (western/eastern) is a pretty good run.
If you had a publicly visible site that you wanted to be crawled, then having a real url would be pretty important.

But for something like Highrise, where it's dark to google and crawlers, your solution makes sense.
Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to “Rowhammer”
Very anecdotal but all my friends who got to the US on an H1B have moved on to green card and citizenship. I would imagine this is quite common as it is a "dual-intent" visa. I think it would be better for immigrants and Americans if workers got a permanent residency immediately status rather than a temporary work visa tied to a given company.
>However if you've ever used a mig or flood welder, it's really not very far off of from a hot glue gun or just dumping glue on the thing.

As I understand it, the defining trait of welding (as compared to soldering or brazing) is that the process fundamentally alters the structure of the materials being bonded. The bonded faces are not merely adhered together with a filler material, but become a cohesive whole on a molecular level.

The engineering problems posed by adhesive bonding arise largely because the properties of three materials must be taken into account - the two materials to be bonded and the adhesive itself. The adhesive could react chemically with one or both of the bonded materials, it may be stressed by differences in the coefficients of thermal expansion etc.
This is a common misconception. Electron is a really tiny slice of these two text editors. Atom and VS Code are text editors and they have completely different code bases for the text editing, so there isn't anything that can be moved upstream.

Monaco, the text editor at the heart of VS Code, is just a lot better (and older and more mature) than Atom's. Perhaps Atom will eventually catch up or simply switch over to Monaco.
>but what they don't realize is that it's pretty much impossible to tell in advance who's going to be a winning lottery ticket.

Agreed, it's difficult to tell in advance. One way of skewing the odds in favor of the US is to just sell visas to the highest bidder.
Ask HN: Are those “bug bounty” emails legit?
The startup I work for just officially launched a few days ago and we are already got two emails from "security researchers" telling us they found a security vulnerability in our website and asking us if we offer a bug bounty reward (we can't afford one right now).

Here's one of the emails:

Hi,

I just found a Vulnerability in Website can I report it here?
Do you have Bug bounty/reward program for reporting Bugs?

Thanks and Regards

Are those emails legit? Are those researchers just sending emails new startups to build a list of those which do offer bounties? I find it improbable that a researcher would have had time to find a serious security vulnerability in our website in such a short amount of time but I obviously can't completely exclude that possibility.

Should I reply to the email? Just ignore it?
No, because it's a publicly traded company. Apple's size, value, and market penetration are a few of the reasons why the feds didn't go the NSL route. This is one ugly fight, but if they went the NSL route Apple could finally disprove their constitutional validity; DOJ would neeeeeever want to put that on the table.
Yeah, I know the purpose, but I'm really still having a tough time seeing any actual justification when we know how bad a diseases is. I cannot think of a reason it is worth it. I worked in clinical trials briefly (9 months) and still think its a level of cruel that borders on inhuman. "I'm sorry, we know the disease / condition kills, but we gave your loved one sugar pills".
Yea, that's basically what I'm doing now. My larger files are auto-generated source code so all I want is syntax highlighting. I'd like to use Atom for everything because it's pretty slick otherwise, but it's not there yet.
So, no "real world" assortment of plugins for today's multilingual developer? Is that a valid assumption?
It's not that it's too big to govern, it's that they're too big to fail. Publicly traded, employment footprint, market penetration; too big to fail. The impact of any action that would kill Apple here would also destroy the economy. Never happen.
The largest users of H1Bs, the big outsourcing firms like Tata and Infosys, don't sponsor permanent residency. The two largest ones had something like 13,000 new H1Bs in 2013 and sponsored 7 people for permanent residency that year.
And I respect your well reasoned position, even if it does go against my own interests -- even after being called a hypocrite ;)
The funny thing is that it's always been possible to write a bit of plain javascript but you don't seem to get much respect for that compared with the buzzword stuff.
That's a valid point - I don't now enough about the dengue virus, but one possibility is that some folks are naturally immunized for the dengue fever, and if that is the case you would need to have a baseline to ensure that the vaccination works beyond that level/ratio. Just a guess.
The study that showed pretty much everyone is, at heart, a bigot? Yeah. So? Strive to do better. Knowing your natural predisposition, counteract it.

Help these Mexicans get jobs and in a while they won't be "diverse", they just won't look exactly like everyone. Even these purebred enclaves have got blondes and brunettes (right?) and society hasn't ripped itself apart. This is just another trivial difference they'll learn to ignore.
Ya, and it happens a lot, and yet it's not controversial at all. But allowing someone to move from Vancouver to Seattle is for some reason.
The Nordics create plenty of innovative companies, and that seems to be increasing. Here are some examples:

http://www.demos.org/blog/3/16/16/nordic-innovation-argument...

Just a few example companies: Skype, Spotify, Mojang

Example technologies: Bluetooth, pacemaker, AIS (like GPS), first LTE system. More, just from Sweden: http://www.swedenabroad.com/ImageVaultFiles/id_19367/cf_347/...

As far as people coming to the US, there are totally understandable reasons. We have excellent universities, more people (which matters: bigger local market, larger talent pool, more companies to work for, etc.), and we also have legacy clustering effects (NYC for finance and ads, SV for chips and startups.) These advantages are obviously very significant. There's absolutely no reason we cannot combine those advantages, our highly entrepreneurial culture, and the best the Nordics have to offer to be even better; that's part of what the "Silicon Valley Democrat" idea is about, and influential people there support it (that's where the idea comes from, obviously.) Even YC is doing research into the GBI.

This implication here wasn't about that, though; it was about what we'll be forced to do if we don't want to simply leave the masses unemployed and eventually storming the metaphorical--or literal--gates. That will require some or all of the above list.
Placebo controlled groups are not used for Cancer treatments, though. So it's not an universal rule.
> Let's say Apple is forced to bake a back door into their devices.

Why would another government allow the selling of a device with a know (not just suspected) backdoor for the US government? Sounds like a great opportunity to boost local companies.

I would expect some serious repercussions on foreign market sales.

also, we're still paying for v-chips.
io:format is a side-effecting function. It prints to the terminal. The atom ok is the return value.

If you want to create a list of strings, this works:

> (lists:map (lambda (a) (lists:flatten (io_lib:format "~B" (list a)))) (lists:seq 1 10)).
("1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10")
I believe he knows that, was acknowledging that those issues were blockers in the past, and complimented the devs for listening to requests like his.
No it takes Goldman Sachs.
A large part of this is culture. My ex-girlfriend grew up with parents who coddled her and her sister, protecting them from many things (a common behavior with female children from what I've seen). The consequence is two very fearful women (nominally) who have strong aversions to technical fields. They were told it was ok they weren't good at math because they were girls.

On the other hand, I've worked with and known many women in adult life, and either they overcame that attitude from their parents and teachers or they weren't presented with that attitude growing up. I can speak with many of them about programming topics (watered down in the same manner I'd water it down with men who don't have a programming background) and bore or interest them to the same degree.

If we, as a society, stop telling people "this is feminine" and "this is masculine" (particularly with respect to fields of study, both technical and non-technical) you'd likely see these things even out quite a bit (though the implied feminine and masculine by observing people's roles in society will still be present).
Aren't the FISA judges appointed by the Chief Justice of SCOTUS? What happens when the case gets to that "real court"? My guess is, not a whole lot.
They don't even make the ads. Their product, like Google's is eyeballs.
Ah, but once encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption. At which point anyone sending or receiving encrypted data that the feds can't decrypt is automatically guilty of a crime, and should be apprehended.

Of course, if you have nothing to hide from your friendly government agency, you have nothing to fear!
The dengue fever does not kill most of the time. It makes you paralyzed with high fever for one to two weeks, but usually it does not kill you, unless you are already old and weak. I'm pretty sure that the recruitment for the clinical trial can ensure that only healthy people with appropriate constitution would not die from dengue fever.
Re: Use of complex password would have made iPhone more secure - that's a fair point, but prior to touch ID, more than 4 digit password were pretty rare in reality (I suspect < 1% of users). Apple could have avoided this entirely through putting a delay in hardware that couldn't be changed without the passcode.

The nuance I'm trying to get to here - is that the fundamental security flaw / backdoor is already present on the iPhone5C, the FBI is just trying to utilize it. Something as simple as a mandatory hardware-enforced increasing timeout would have made brute-forcing the passcode prohibitively expensive. (50 ms, 100 ms, 250 ms, 500 ms, 1sec, 2sec, 5 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, 1min, etc...)
I think you may be talking past each other.

If 100% of integration with the system consists of sending network requests to it and receiving network responses from it, then sure, it's not going to affect you much.

But when your integration involves taking existing applications/libraries and having them share memory space and call into and be called by functions in Twisted, then you're looking at a different story. Asynchronous code is infectious -- unless everything in your codebase is written to be or play nice with async, you get no benefits from the async parts and in fact can often get a net harm as the async and non-async bits clash with each other.
> vaccine that works against dengue will probably be found within our lifetimes and prevent millions of deaths

Are you sure about "millions of deaths" ? Dengue fever fatality rate is lower than 1%. I'm not saying this is not a grave disease, but it's hardly something that kills as much as many other viruses out there.
It's now three years for stem https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/
Yes, really. What if the library you are using uses blocking IO? What if it reads a file using a plain 'with open("file") as fh:'? Now you've blocked every connection in your twisted server. No warnings or errors, just strange intermittent pauses on every connection leaving you scratching your head.

This isn't weird esoteric packages either. Ever used requests? SQLAlchemy? Django's ORM? You can't use them with twisted.

Twisted proponents don't openly say this up front as it's not a great story, and their response is usually "just" port the library.

Or maybe, put it like this. If Django and Twisted work well together, why does Hendrix exist at all? Just use Django. Or why does klein exist? Just use werkzeug. You'll see lots of this rewriting snowflakes.

Just a quick search gives me txamqp, txmongo, txmandrill, txflask, txcelery, txdocker, txldap, txgithub, txrequests, txstripe, txzookeeper and on and on and on. Have a look: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=twisted&s...

And then there's multiple ones of each to choose from. Look at amqp or reddis. There's something like four implementations of each. Even something like requests, theres treq, rxrequests, requests-twisted. Which one should I use?

And then there's Python 3. Only half of twisted works on Python 3. Which half? I guess one finds out when they give it a go.
Common Ground: A children's book about the tragedy of the commons
They can fine you to poverty.
> This is why the original article states its impact conservatively as "This model may serve as an early check for dengue vaccine candidates, limiting the risk of conducting large unsuccessful trials"

You're obviously much more familiar with this subject, but doesn't the quote from the original article refer to the testing model itself (i.e. "dengue human challenge model"), rather than the efficacy of the actual vaccine?

> this is a classic example of a downstream news report editorializing the headline and misrepresenting the implications of the original article.

To be fair, it doesn't seem like Wired has editorialized/misrepresented at least the headline much relative to the original article ("The live attenuated dengue vaccine TV003 elicits complete protection against dengue in a human challenge model" vs "Dengue fever vaccine proves 100% effective in human trials").

> I believe that a vaccine that works against dengue will probably be found within our lifetimes and prevent millions of deaths per year

I tried finding estimates of infections and deaths per year, but didn't find any that are close to millions/year. Do you have a source for that? The closest I got was from the CDC/WHO: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 50 to 100 million infections occur yearly, including 500,000 DHF cases and 22,000 deaths, mostly among children. [0]

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/dengue/epidemiology/
Right but that logic could be used to prevent mass adoption of better crypto. Brand new crypto is not in "common use". We could, for instance, see the state ban the use of quantum-resistant algorithms by private citizens if citizens are only allowed to use the crypto that is in common use.
I cam here to say exactly that. A world where I have to pay a usage fee for each and every aspect of my life sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
Yup.

It's a shitty system that locks you in to working for other places for years.
maintaining software is a real thing.

for the majority of cases i've seen, these arguments are to save developers time and the company money.

my gut & feelies tell me there is truth to "it doesn't really matter what technologies you use" but my brain and experience tell me that is objectively false.