skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's realize something here that I can attest to being 100% correct; the US government is abysmally behind the curve ball on anything and all things technology. I really even hate stating that because we are operating on a kind of inertial perception of America's cyber might that partially was conjured through movies and perception, but reality is that we are really bad off. We're not just behind the curve ball, we're on a short bus trying to figure out how to get to the damn ballpark.

The problem is a systemic one too, a lack of actual leadership, a personnel problem if you will.
I agree. I interviewed with Pivotal, and it was fairly distracting for me to be asked to work on a problem where the interviewer clearly knew the solution, and did all the typing. It wasn't fun.
> Second generation immigrants don't mean this a problem with immigration

And that they're not first generation immigrants doesn't prove it isn't a problem with immigration either. We are still left with this recurring coincidence aren't we.

I don't claim to know the absolute truth here, I'm just suggesting we honestly acknowledge reality during discussions.
It's a bit surprising that so many people just don't search when they see something they don't understand.

EDIT: just putting [black bar] into the search box tells you why the black bar is there. Sorting by date tells you who died.
Intelligent, well-educated people are capable of appalling stupidity and herd-mentality. Or as Agent K said in Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are stupid."
I looked for information about the poll but the page you linked and the linked page within the relevant section both appear to lack that information. The 20% is an approximation, apparently.

It seems the question was:

Should "the executive order that freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government" have been made, or something similar. Was that worded badly on purpose, it appears to say "is freeing people who are rebelling against the government good"?

I find the statistic hard to believe, such a claim needs careful support which is lacking. The details that are given suggest an opaque question.

Such questions need follow-up questions to gauge understanding and depth of sentiment. Anyone who asks that and doesn't then ask 'so should the slaves have been freed at all?' as a follow-up is most likely being deceptive.
This is one of those GPUs are no longer just for rendering and now are going mainstream stories.
Personally I don't care much for VR in general. It's more like the new opium for the masses once it's affordable. While VR promotes escaping in virtual realities (hence, the name), Apple is looking for ways to improve your actual world with it's products (no marketing intended). This is where AR will matter, not VR. Google kinda pioneered here with Glass, Apple gave it a shot with it's wearable devive (watch), and I'm super excited what will come next!

Alone glasses that don't suck visually (people shouldn't notice the difference from a distance) and an all-day-battery-life would be features I'd spend $1000 upwards on, just because.
The trouble is, temporary compensating controls have a history of becoming permanent once in place, so you need to be absolutely sure you want those controls forever.
If you saw a mourning family on the street wearing all black, would you suggest they hold up a sign with the name of the deceased?
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It's important to understand what your expectations from a startup founder life are. There are very few resources that explain what to expect and that it's really just hard work on problems that you care about.

The way the media glorifies the startup founder life is very misleading to budding founders.

The opening lecture in Sam's startup class was an eye opener in many ways and put into perspective what being a startup founder really means(especially the part that Dustin Moskovitz talks about).

http://startupclass.samaltman.com
I remember reading this a while ago and feeling completely duped. The author's definition of a 'fcked up life' is what I would love my life to be, assuming I would have an idea to devote myself too, and would be in an environment where that wouldn't seem strange.

What is fcked up it the situation when you're doing it backwards: instead of jumping into a business, and dealing with those problems, you start believing that the normality of your life is what's holding you down, so you artificially create those problems, without having a decent reason for doing so...
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I wasn't sure if it was for Brussels or Andy Grove.
Facebook is a communication medium for a lot of people. People are going to log into Facebook to communicate about the tragic event regardless of features like this.
I visit HN every day and I am either dumb or missed something but I had no idea why the black bar was at the top. I assumed it was an error.

Unless you know what it is, it's really not obvious at all. A flag at half-mast is a commonly known thing, someone important died. A 5 pixel black bar at the top of a site is not used anywhere but here.
Postgres has a "nosql" store, called hstore.
In the US, from 2013 data[1], I see an average of 89/day, which of course varies due to weather and 'drunken' holidays, I'm sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
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Except this is the equivalent of wearing a black hat. My father used to occasionally do it when the mood struck him and nobody bothered to think it signified anything.
Why? A widely accepted answer(many points) is most likely correct/best practice/bug-free.
I see there is a real interest in sneaking a completely unrelated subject into the conversation.
I used it during the Paris attacks in november, and it indicated to everyone I know that I was safe, without the need for everyone of them to message me. Of course, the close friends and family still called/texted, but for literally everyone else in my facebook friends, it was useful.
a) intent b) number of casualties
This blog post is based on a paper[1] that explores using "slots" to arrange traffic and move the vehicles smoothly like a system of cogs. It brings up the fact that our current transportation infrastructure needs to be updated for true autonomous driving.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Real Estate is a good investment for university endowments for a few reasons:

1 - They can hold onto it for a very long time. (Real Estate is best seen as a very long term investment)

2 - It can generate rental revenue in tough times, when their financial needs are higher.

3 - It's an asset tied to one of their future liabilities. Growing universities need to buy land, so investing in land effectively hedges some of that risk.

Now your point of their being non-profit - that's much bigger. I think most universities (and sport leagues, and many others) could be considered for-profit based on much of their behavior.
If you want to break out of the 'Expert Beginner' mindset, here are some helpful things that can challenge you to grow:

- commit one new mistake every day

- read about a theory, concept, model, or idea you didn't know before

- look up the history of one tool, language, or software package you rely on and learn a little more about it

- look up, and read at least one page in documentation for a tool you use

Making a daily habit of some or all of these tasks will force you out of your plateau. There's no telling in which direction your learning will grow - but it's hard to stay stagnant in your skills when continually exposed to new ideas. So make a habit out of exposing yourself to, and generating new ideas!
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C'mon, "no idea"? There are three mentions of Andy Grove on the front page right now, and there's been at least one the entire time that the bar's been up.
I would imagine that once you're into a certain lifestyle (i.e. not leading a student life anymore) you have very high monthly expenses and lifestyle choices that are not that easy to get rid off.
Sad that you get downvoted for telling the truth, even if it's an uncomfortable truth. Upvoted to compensate.
I think this contributes to why theoretical degrees take, on average, much less time to complete in my experience.
At the start of this Apple-FBI episode, didn't Apple initially ask the FBI to submit their request for unlocking software under seal? Doesn't that imply that Apple was willing to assist? Why else would Apple want to keep the request secret?
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/511cf974eea64581814f9777a40f0...

If you want a link without a paywall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
Plus the fact that a decent editor will handle the parentheses for you.

When programming in Lisp, I use Emacs with paredit (for inserting and manipulating parentheses, quotation marks, etc.) and have the default colour for parentheses be very similar to my background colour, so I can focus on the symbols and their indentation instead. The exception is when the cursor is next to an open/close parenthesis, in which case the matching parenthesis is highlighted.
If that analogy were apt, this post would not exist.
Hey, on datasets added from now on, this'll be an option. Check it out in action here (displayed under the image).

http://www.datasets.co/dataset/All-UFC-Fights

Was that what you were thinking?
Apple 'privacy czars' grapple with internal conflicts over user data
App for Aussie Backpackers. Thoughts?
...12 hours of involuntary surgery later:

There, now you're a facebook clone.
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Those were the Usborne books, right? They were great. I had two or three of them and spent hours reading and re-reading them. When Hyperloop was announced, I'd assumed that it was that in-vacuum maglev train you mentioned finally getting built. :-)
It's especially meaningless for those of us who use Hacker Vision.

http://i.imgur.com/c81G9a6.png
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Yes, but it would probably also cause a bunch of other problems.
The people who drop out of PhD programs usually are plenty smart enough, they just don't know how to make things happen.

Vast oversimplification. I've watched people leave Ph.D programs for a wide array of reasons. Any attempt at binary classification on this is foolhardy.
For every attack that they "didn't see coming" there are, most likely, plenty of attacks that they "did see coming" and stopped. Even more likely is that we don't hear about these stopped attacks because they aren't sexy news. Or, when attacks ARE stopped, and it's published, people question whether it's just blustering by the government to justify their jobs.

It's not like you can say "yeah, we saw that coming and let it happen." Because THAT, sure as hell, will not fly with the people. And "yeah, we saw it coming and stopped it" is questioned as just posturing. When people say "scanning individuals in airports makes us no safer," what are they comparing it to?

Is it that they doubt the effectiveness because people are still getting killed by terrorists in planes? No. It's because there are no attacks, so they have no data to say "yeah... it's been effective."
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In this case, moving party didn't drop it so much as stall for time. But, the judge also stayed the order that Apple had to help the FBI which telegraphs her intent. I think the FBI knows it lost this round and needs to find a face-saving way to get out of it.
I think most of us just assumed it was a bad design change. I don't normally search every time a website makes a bad design decision, just in case it has secret and very obscure meaning.
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Yeah but if you go the startup route and you don't take that into consideration, you are probably going to fail. You have to sacrifice.
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No, but at least I'd know they intended a public display of mourning. Whenever I've seen the black bar before this thread, it's just been a black bar. I thought something was screwy with the CSS or maybe my version of Chrome.

The black bar is not at all obvious in its intent. I don't see why it should remain that way.
I can assume lots of things raldi. I could also assume it's because of Brussels, but I would be wrong. I could assume it's because of a mudslid, still wrong.

Regardless of what you say it's not obvious... If it was there wouldn't be this thread.
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Yeah, a link would be nice, but a title tooltip was my first instinct.
Look at every mobile gaming company and you will see document stores. Dynamo, BigTable, DocumentDB. Google's very own analytics is built on BigTable. The examples are countless.
You'd think, "if your salary goes from $250k to $20k, start living like you make $20k" wouldn't really need to be communicated out like some sort of secret.
"Enterprise environments" also have to be very conservative about security issues - which often means they're forced to update to currently supported versions of software. Java 8 is the only version currently receiving security updates.

The same thing applies to many other software packages, including browsers, Linux and Spring. Sane IA folks don't like to deploy known security holes.

It sounds like you're dealing with some backwards-thinking folk. ;-)
hell pulling ground on the flash's write-block pin might even do it.
Posts like these are the new infomercial.
I've often told people that I'm just a good programmer, but a phenomenal Googler. Even in interviews.

Being able to search and separate the wheat from the chaff is most definitely a skill. Unless you always want to be reinventing wheels.
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Looks great! ..I like the fact its built on top of proven technology like ZFS and Riak core.
This is what you get:

Brussels Explosions

FACEBOOK SAFETY CHECK

Quickly find and connect with friends in the area. Mark them safe if you know that they're OK.

Are you in the affected area?

Yes, let my friends know.

----

Basically if you are in Brussels you let Facebook know you are ok. And if you have friends who knows you're in Brussels, they can check if you are ok. Rather then the poor Brussels person getting lots of messages from people asking if he is ok, they can check once.
I perhaps should have said "it surprises me when people make a post before searching".
Source? I have yet to see any proof of this statement. All of the live coverage still only points to two attacks...
> why don't they do this every day for folks on the daily commute?

That is, actually, a really good idea - how many times has a relative/friend told you to 'text me when you get there, just so we know you're safe'...
Not shocked at all. I don't think people that can't do fizzbuzz are using stack overflow at all. Part of why they can't produce anything is because they can't use reference resources effectively and thus never learn anything.
Except there are plenty of comments on this post showing that many others considered it similarly.
The http://www.thebackpackingapp.com/what-in-gods-good-name-is-t... page doesn't show any content when an adblocker is used. Those block Gravatar which then causes a javascript reference error. I'm not sure if that's even under your control. Just wanted to let you know in case others report the same.
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Alas, this wasn't an analysis. If you would give substantial arguments, as to why you think that cultural differences, incompatibility how you'd like to call it, are the main reason for terrorism, you could call it an analysis... But not like this.
Deal with individuals goading others to violence by all means!

What I think would be an awful mistake is to replicate the Roosevelt style policy with regard to Muslims.

Also, The True Believer is already on my to-read list, I'll bump it up after I get done with Piketty. Thanks for the recommendation!
Social media is the new government
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Assad's regime (and his father's) helped radicalize the population for years, prior to any sort of silly Arab Spring or anything like that. Any post war settlement will by necessity not have to include his family.
Are there any memory & CPU consumption graphs?

I also don't understand why not xz, though I know that requires significantly more resource than gzip.
Presented without comment: "This is a solid Moment to get up to speed on the Brussels situation. Click the follow button to stay in the loop." - @sacca

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/712270790037610499
They don't scan for explosives until you're going through security. If they had the security checkpoint at the entrance to the airport:

a) People would bitch more because it would take forever to get into an airport. And,

b) It isn't practical. What's next, stopping you at your car or bus before you park?

People demand security but don't want inconvenience. And if security fails, they point and say "it's ineffective." Even if it stops 80% of attacks, unless it's 100% people will bitch. AND if there aren't any attacks, can they really claim that they stopped one unless they publicly acknowledge every attempted attack?
There's an oversupply of ex-consultants and they all fancy themselves as the next Jeff Bezos (Bezos is ex-McKinsey and his company operates like it). As a current consultant who sees so many of his co-workers with this dream, I feel many of them are being unrealistic about their prospects. It's not like an ex-McKinsey consultant is really unique in VC pitches anymore.

But many end up bailing because these companies have an "up or out" culture (meaning you either get promoted or fired every 3 years -- with about 80% at each level getting the boot) that makes it very stressful. So it's pretty easy to say "Yeah, fuck this place, I'm gonna go be a startup founder!" when you're 90% sure you're getting fired next year. And being fired from McKinsey/Bain/BCG doesn't mean you're bad, it just means you're not a good fit for the role above you (i.e. if you're moving up from being an engagement manager, you're gonna get laid off if you're not a natural salesperson).

Thing is, being a startup founder is basically the same thing as working for McKinsey/Bain/BCG. It's still "up or out" with each round of funding, and the chances of success at each step are honestly smaller. You also don't have the firm's built-in network and research tools to help you be successful.

I don't even think the average payoffs are better in the startup world. I mean sure, if you can build your company into a unicorn and keep the momentum through an exit you will come out ahead. What are the chances of that, 0.0001%?

A better exit from McKinsey/Bain/BCG IMO would be to shack up with a "second-tier" consulting firm like Deloitte, PwC, Accenture, etc. Depending where you come in, you can pretty easily make partner within 4 or 5 years (anyone coming from the world of top-tier consulting is already used to the crazy workload required for this). Get to that point and you're pulling in $250k-$1M a year without much risk at all for as long as you want to keep doing it. And a generous pension (laugh if you want, but large LLPs are one of the few places where pensions make sense) to retire on whenever you decide you don't want to do it.

And then, if you still have the urge to run a startup, you're in a position where you'll have the knowledge, connections and financial security to go run a startup as the CEO who comes in and runs the show after the founders realize their limitations. IMO this is a better path because 1) any company hiring an expensive outside CEO is likely on an upward trajectory overall 2) VC funded startups are getting more risky, not less, so let the founders take that risk and 3) you can assess the cultural / product / market fit before you take the job.
Poll: How do you do your personal (US) taxes?
I saw a discussion yesterday wondering how many people here would be eligible to use the 1040EZ instead of something more complex. So I thought I'd ask!
1040EZ (one-page form), myself
1040EZ, but I have an accountant do it anyway
1040 long form, myself
1040 long form, with an accountant
Something common and not too complex, myself
Something common and not too complex, via accountant
Something complicated, myself
Something complicated, with accountant(s)
I don't pay American taxes
I don't understand how it works? It's just matching the function name?
This is partly why I just stick to the mobile version of the site. It's a slightly buggy sometimes (repetitious frontpage), but it works well enough and it isn't draining my battery in the background for no reason.
Integration is a two-way street. It's a 50/50 responsibility shared between host governments and migrants. From what I see, the Arabs/Muslims in Belgium (btw I'm from the same region so spare me your lectures about tolerance and openness for now) are not doing enough to integrate with the wider community but the Belgian authorities and political elites are not doing enough either to integrate these people and combat marginalization and discrimination that they may experience.

Also, Belgium political system is also not helping given its fractured nature thus limiting its options to effectively tackle those challenges and if we take into account the weak economic reality of Brussels add to that its ineffective fight of organized crime (Funding terrorist attacks and armaments) creating a perfect storm for this type of events to flourish whether in Belgium or spilling into other parts of Europe like what happened in Paris last November.
Not justifying it, but I guess that's what happened there.
In instances like this, there's no issue with it being ES5.

However, in the web world, ES6 modules have a huge (pardon the pun) advantage that's just being realized. Because of the static nature of ES6 imports, you can eliminate unused code when you package it all together. The newest Webpack versions and Rollup are both taking advantage of this, and it can result in huge savings in filesize.

For example, lodash is a large library with hundreds of methods, and a lot of the time people only use 3 or 4 imports from it. If you use an ES5 version, you'll get all of those functions in a compiled bundle no matter what. If you use an ES6 version with Webpack 2, all the methods you use will end up being the only ones that are actually included in the final code.
This is like the car mechanic who goes to the used-parts dealer (the junkyard) and grabs the first part with the same size screw holes as the broken part.
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The speculation that, on Sunday night, some security researcher was able to convince the FBI they had a good shot at cracking the phone defies belief.

A simpler and more likely explanation is that the FBIs lawyers, having overreached, have gone back on an earlier lie and concocted a new lie: Oh yeah, we need just a couple weeks to try this out. (And for the furore to die down.)

Don't let these little John Yoos off the hook. They are over-aggressive, unethical, and unprofessional.
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On the contrary, it just means we haven't resorted to an appropriate level of violence yet.
Sure, just let me grab a sack full of jobs off my jobs tree.
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