skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michael Burry (from the Big Short) thinks another financial crisis is looming
> No need. Plenty of 3rd party tools. Take a look at the Lazy Newbs Pack ....

A lot of trouble has been put into making tools such as Dwarf Therapist in the Lazy Newb Pack. They're basically made by snooping the memory of the DF process (unless I'm mistaken here). If DF source code was available (even if it would be immutable), a tremendous amount of effort could have been into better use than practically reverse engineering parts of the core game.

In my opinion, Dwarf Fortress could be much better if the source code was open or at least available.
This mirrors the liberation of encryption.

Classified as a munition it could not be downloaded across borders - so no ecommerce , banking or safe logins could ever be possible.

The PGP code when recited from memory became free speech, a t-shirt of the speech was printed and worn on a flight to the UK.
Coincidentally, there is a PBS program that premiers online tomorrow, April 4th, called "Vikings Unearthed" which discusses the likely discover of a new viking settlement much further inland. It will be broadcast on TV on PBS, Wednesday the 6th, at 9PM EST.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/vikings-unearthed.html
You pay for production. All of the research cost and business risk in going to market with the drug in the first place is paid by Americans. You're welcome.
So 'lesser'?
>Our farmers don’t own their patch of ocean; they own only the right to grow shellfish and seaweeds there, which means that anyone can boat, fish, or swim on their farms

Sounds the same as existing shellfish farms, as far as I know. Here's a story with a couple details on the process, from Maine -http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/lease...
And giving the people freedom to get away from bad employers destroying their life, helping society to reduce horrible employment conditions.
> No insurance is open-ended, sky-is-the-limit. In many cases (e.g. auto, home, business) the limit is capped at the value of the assets that are insured. In other cases (liability) there is a defined dollar limit.

Note that no insurance's unwillingness to pay results in the death of a person. This seems like a very US centric way to think.
Apple introduces their answer to the Raspberry Pi
This kind of farmers revolutions crop all the time in history, thanksfully! I'm a bit sceptical about the taste of seaweed having being in Japan already, but of course he is right.

Just see the land farmers revolutions, fighting industrial farming with new methods. Organic farming (the "bio" label), sellers collectives, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Previously they had to fight the big mills and banks, now the industry, the government and Monsanto just to keep the nature and ourself healthy.

There's a whole film festival for new farming
http://www.mefarms.org/community-kitchen/food-farm-film-fest... with lots of recommendations.

"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" (my favorite) http://www.angelicorganics.com/ and esp. http://learngrowconnect.org/

http://foodforthoughtfilm.com/, ...
If I understood him correctly, he seemed to indicate a lot of that was happening on other threads.
Awwww this is great stuff. I would love to hear your thoughts on how the language could be changed/improved to make puzzles and optimizing even more fun.
RealTime Data Compression: Working with Streaming
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

"If a story hasn't had significant attention in about the
last year, reposts are ok. That's been the policy for a
while..."

Also probably worth mentioning that you work for Tropo, a Twilio competitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822982
Actually fish do not produce Omega-3 at all, all of it comes from algae or phytoplankton that fish consumes.
The same things happens everywhere, but just through a different route (contempt charges, etc.) The court, and by proxy the rest of us, usually finds it interesting that for some reason you were able to remember this password on a daily basis while conducting your alleged crimes, but now you suddenly have a memory problem. We have children too, and recognize this pattern...

You can claim to not remember the password. We can choose not to believe you.
We have a legal obligation to remember many things, like what road signs mean or when to send tax form to IRS. How is requiring to remember password any different?
I asked because if there was one, it might have added to the thread.

Sometimes the administration of making a hygienic public repository isn't consistent with a project's goals and that's o.k.
I thought this was an elaborate April fools joke until halfway through the video when I realized he was serious. Everything this guy does is amazing.
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Had to stop reading at "...largely mythical war between science and religion..."

History, countries, continents were shaped by religion persecuting shit. Paganism was burned at the stake, and herbal medicine in European cultures is almost inexistent when compared to Asian and (Native) American cultures. Religion wages war on everything, which is epitomized by the crusades.

Galileo was persecuted because he voiced uncomfortable truths. Much like Einstein and many others, he wasn't the only one who knew those truths. And much like Einstein, he had the passion and the guts to pursue his path and voice his findings.

This is his merit, and calling it Hyperbolic to recognize the worth of someone risking their life for something shows at the very least a very poor understanding of history.

A good way to criticize history would be to focus on the "History is written by the winners" though.
Who cares what the original author desires?

If you fixed the bad behavior you're experiencing, and the original author's effort saved you hours or days of coding, what's the downside?

Perhaps I'm not arguing for 15 second long code changes. But other than typing a single if statement, what takes literally less than one minute to securely change in any partially-complex project?
Eh...I find git is actually really bad for this type of thing. It's too in the way. Git is great for "I'm throwing all this out, but want to remember what I did or some of the neat things in it".

But to fix an accident? That's what ~5-min ZFS snapshots are for.
These are not real valuations. The more realistic valuations are for common stock.

Most of those deals are really a debt disguised as an equity.

It just a way to give companies loans, which should be repaid via either cashflow or future IPO.

When reading news headline just replace: "Uber raised another $1B round" with "Uber took another $1B loan".

One of the unicorn CEOs said:

We need to be worth a billion dollars to be able to recruit new engineers. So we decided that was our valuation.

If you are issuing options to employees based on valuations fabricated to attract them, you are pretty clearly committing securities fraud.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/04/01/sec-chief-warns-si...
Time Spent a vanity metric
No idea. Sounds almost to good to be true. I presume it needs a continental shelf, which precludes the west coast.
Coding on tape – computer science A-level 1970s style
how does change get funded do panels of rich people decide? or do robots decide? who gets to keep the profits? what if you rent space on some ai service to come up with an idea on how to better do xyz how does it get implemented? just tell the robots go do xyz this way now? who gets to keep the profit?
> you can be forced to give up your keys.

The one 'escape' from RIPA key demands is in section 53:

unless it is shown that the key was not in his possession
after the giving of the notice and before the time by
which he was required to disclose it.

So, for example, if the keys were automatically destroyed by a dead-man's switch which the subject could not access due to being held in custody.

Usual caeavts apply: IANAL etc
I've already seen such an article, but I still can't imagine hordes of protesters fighting for the privilege to invest in unicorns, especially now that much of the bubble has popped.
Don't "beginner" and "novice" mean the same thing? I am curious how you are differentiating between the two.
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At the moment, the Racket package in the current stable release of Debian is using 6.1. That is an 8 month old package. Even unstable is only on on 6.3, which itself is almost 6 months old. The last time I used Debian was at most a year ago, and at that time the stable package for Racket was still 5.3, which came out in 2013.

And this same pattern repeated itself so often where programming tools were concerned that I eventually just gave up on using apt-get for developing and would wind up manually installing most languages, and then sometimes having to fight with conflicts because some package or other had already installed an out-of-date version, so now I either had to overwrite the package-installed version and risk breaking something, or just run it locally from some directory in /home.

Contrast to Windows or OS X, where all I have to do to run Racket is go to the website, download the latest version, and possibly run an automated installer. On OS X, I just have to drag one icon onto another icon, and if the app's been set up right this even handles my command-line paths for me.

Seriously, this is 2016. We have the internet now. We do not need to load every piece of software one would ever need onto a CD anymore like it's 1994 and the only reliable source of Linux software is Walnut Creek CD-ROMs.

It is a perfectly reasonable expected use case that someone desiring a piece of software should be able to just go and download the most recent version, install it, and should need arise, uninstall it just as cleanly.

Nowhere else is that process as broken as it is on Linux, especially under Debian's hopelessly slow update process.
They may not believe me but how can they prove it?

[edit] plus forgetting a password is the most common thing in the world. My work password changes every 3 months. When I go on holiday for 2 weeks, half of the time when I come back I forgot what the latest password is. Now imagine you have been arrested, slept in jail, had rough questioning, being under intense stress. Forgetting a password in these conditions could very well happen in good faith.

The other things is that many of my passwords are stored in my "muscle memory", if I am in front of my usual keyboard I would type them without really thinking about it. But if I am in a room with no computer, I could easily not even remember them.

In any case I don't see how there cannot be a reasonable doubt if someone claims to have forgotten a password.
Is there any chance of him going opensource?

It would be nice to be able to get a better ui which clearly he has no interest in coding himself.
He says that just after your quote: "Instead of harvesting food, these farms harvest ecosystem services."
That means they don't sell the production
The login page will redirect to the favicon if the user is already logged in, or it will serve a regular HTML page if the user is not.

So, the script creates an (invisible) <img> element for every website which points to the login page (which might redirect to the favicon). If it receives an image, the user is already logged in and the onLoad() callback will fire. Otherwise, it will get an HTML page, so the onError() callback will fire.

It could work with any image on the website, not just the favicon.
Wow I'm pretty sure I worked at the same company. Rating calibration was brutal. Does the company name rhyme with schmexplerian?
A commodore 64 emulator written in pure JavaScript
This is mentioned in the article. I think his response is totally understandable.

> People are still doing this kind of stuff with the game being close
> and making this amazing stuff. Why not put the code open source?

> It’s basically a kind of paranoia or prudence about what might happen.
> Because there’s forking that would just be way easier just to have other
> projects going out there, people selling it and stuff. And people asking
> for, say they’ve fixed some of the bugs, and they’re like, ‘Here, could
> you incorporate this patch?’ I become a project manager, and it brings
> out some of the [reasons] why I’m not in an industry job, right? I have
> no experience working with other coders.
"Fortunately, fully automating the process of driving or running a restaurant is decades away."

It's closer than you think. Dominos Australia is already trialling automated delivery (in Brisbane, I believe?) with their new DRU robots. [1][2] On the pro-human side, Dominos appear to be testing if people will pay extra for a human, under the guise of "For an extra $3, guaranteed delivery in 20 minutes." (The DRU robots have a top speed of 20km/hr currently.)

[1] https://www.dominos.com.au/inside-dominos/technology/dru

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb0nxQyv7RU

[3] https://www.dominos.com.au/inside-dominos/technology/deliver...
Why not put the code open source?

It’s basically a kind of paranoia or prudence about what might happen...
Many VR developers were alarmed by the Facebook purchase of Oculus for this very reason. Although, I can see from Facebooks perspective how tempting an always-on desktop service would be. It's just unfortunate that VR is now being tied to the privacy issues of social networking.

I wonder if the "privacy advocate" demographic is large enough to impact VR adoption in a significant way? Does a large amount of software innovation come from this demographic? Will the Facebook angle affect business adoption of VR applications?

As a side note - I'm seeing an increasingly large amount of negative news regarding the Oculus release over the last few days from Google alerts. It seems like the latest round of VR tech has been quite polarising in terms of public opinion.
Manjaro Linux 16.06 Pre 2
> our best statistical models

You can't bet the bank with a model. Eventually you'll lose. You can't fix all suffering. It's impossible.
Thanks for sharing.

I did Xenix, DG/UX, Aix, got my first Linux distribution in the form of Slackware 2.0.

Tried to get Coherent before, but could not afford it.

Afterwards Red-Hat, Mandrake and SuSE were my favourite ones until I ended up with Ubuntu.

At work I also got to use Solaris and HP-UX.

My first experience with containers was with HP-UX vaults.

However I never managed to leave the worlds of Amiga, Windows and BeOS behind. Specially in terms of Demoscene, IDEs culture, graphics and game coding.
"sceptical about the taste of seaweed having being in Japan..."

Thanks for settling that then! Nori is just the start. Kombu, a seaweed, is the basis of most soup broths in Japanese cooking, since it has a savory flavor. It would be surprising if there aren't other untapped delicious seaweeds out there for those of us who are not so set in our ways.
I am looking forward to the day that AP starts replacing the missing penultimate "e"'s in the poorly spelled names of companies that were too cheap to buy the correct domain name, like Flickr and Flattr.
New Bigger FreeNAS Mini XL DataSheet Is Leaked on IxSystems.com [pdf]
I have a chronic problem with people taking a partial description of some of my math, and then complaining about all the things that are missing. Well, those things are in the part you didn't see! Ordinary differential equations are solved with provable bounds of arbitrary accuracy in Chapters 19 and 20 of The End of Error, and this is not possible with traditional interval arithmetic.

With unums 2.0, you can specify your own lattice of preferred exact values between 1 and infinity, albeit with recommended guidelines, and then the projective real line is auto-populated with the reciprocals, the negatives, and the open intervals between exact values. There is a continuum between table lookup (low precision) and float-type calculation (high precision), and I am mainly interested in table lookup for low-precision arithmetic. It is surprising how often it is better to use a small number of bits but obtain rigorous bounds (that do not grow exponentially like they do with intervals) than it is to use double-precision or even single-precision IEEE floats and obtain 15 or 7 decimals of answer, none of which decimals are guaranteed correct.

The idea is to work toward software-defined numerical systems that can be optimized for particular applications, for the purpose of saving bits and thereby reducing energy/power requirements while simultaneously improving answer quality and possibly increasing ease-of-use.

With unums 1.0, too many people had hopes of simply replacing their floats with unums and getting an improvement. While that does happen in many cases, in the general case where there are hazards of the dependency problem or the wrapping problem, you need some knowledge of uboxes, and the Julia and C versions tend to gloss over this essential aspect of the computing environment. I think unums 2.0 solve this by making the SORN the fundamental way of representing arguments to arithmetic operators, since they have their "ubox" aspect built into them and there is no need to choose a preferred ULP size.
All codebases are horrible after some years- that is the result of "please invest not time into this done project"- hotbugfixes piling to spots where they don't belong.
The existence of this architecture corrosion is not something to be ashamed off.
And everyone who reads in, can do so while refactoring those "if (input(isExoticEdgeCase)){...}" into some Filterclass of there own.
My assumption is, that often management is in fear of being proven wrong, by some project coming alive.
"This Project is not profitable, lets open source it." is a statement that can haunt you, if that very project comes alive and walks the earth for years to come.
Coders and management united in fear of public embarrassment.
If you wish to be precise, webcomponents.js was broken out of Polymer a while back. See e.g. [1]. In practice, if you use Polymer you are still using the polyfill + the elements from the catalog, as exemplified on [2].

[1] https://github.com/Polymer/HTMLImports

[2] https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/
I made this tool based on my experience as a web developer intern.

Occasionally someone would try to explain the PR by presenting it, but it's awkward to look at television or shared screen; I'd look at my own screen when reading code. Plus files in PR are confusing because they can't be rearranged.

This is my solution: create a slide deck based on PR that you can present in real time by sharing a URL.
Not having to think about reordering it every month? In any case, subscription "stuff" seems to work, people are signing up for it!
They don't have to "prove it", the judge or the jury just has to come to the conclusion that you are not telling the truth and you go to jail.
I actually think it is meant as a joke. The paper and code he made available seems be something he actually made, and that without looking into the gory details seems to be doing what the video says it does. That said, the conference it supposedly was presented at is clearly a hoax, and did supposedly happen on April 1st.
Tbh you sound like a terrible manager. I imagine some developer rolling his eyes as he gets called into your office to hear another technique blathered at him for a defect he couldn't have possibly prevented. His coworkers took him out for beers later where they cheered him up with jokes at your expense. You weren't there of course, you're not their friends.
It wasn't a crushing backlog in the sense that the number of outstanding tickets was increasing. Rather, the backlog was at a steady 250 even when they were adding new customers every month. All it takes for a team of people to get through 250 tickets (and completely eliminate the backlog) is to care enough to put in a concerted effort and clear them out. Makes complete sense to me that such an effort can happen in a single day.
Yes this is true. One of the great things about having a lot of direct communication is management gets feedback from employees towards the right strategies.
If you skip the feminist bullshit in the middle of the article (assertions like "Female inventors still face barriers to patenting" without any arguments or data to support it), this is a really neat idea:

Collect blood from used tampons so that women can have diagnostic tests done at home. I wonder if you could use e.g. spectral analysis for this (similar to what they use to detect food fraud), and if it would work with pads as well!
Related Link about Kelp

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/a-new-leaf
Surging Seas: Rising sea level interactive
An amateur robot, maybe: http://www.universetoday.com/122277/soho-nears-3000-comet-di...
Mondragon Corporation
People cannot buy BA tickets because of jQuery not loaded
Looks like my computer monitor is about 0.8 or 0.9 radians in horizontal viewing angle (23 inches away, 21 inches wide), with 1920 pixels. 2300 pixels per radian. Similar values vertically.

I wonder how 2300 pixels per radian compares to a "“holographic density" of "2,500 light points per radian".
> "You must like dealing with people to be great at management."

This is what I always assumed, and why, as an introverted programmer, I avoided the management track until my late 30s. Turns out, I'm a pretty great manager (at least that's what other people say, fellow managers have been taking cues from me, and my teams have been loyal to the point where it still stuns me when they say it out loud), despite being definitely not a people person. Of course it helps that I'm an (ex-)engineer leading mostly engineers, which is already a great improvement compared to what many are used to.

I do like working for people, I like watching my people thrive and be happy and productive, and I like taking on the challenges involved in making that happen. Which does involve working with people, but that is just what it is to me: hard work. I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. However, because it's hard work it is all the more satisfying when it's successful. More satisfying than coding has become at some point.

My highest goal is to make sure that everyone is happy and autonomous in their work and the results just keep flowing. Because that's when all those messy and complicated people will leave me the hell alone...
Purely anecdotally.

1) In my experience, it's correlated to the Dunbar number. Seriously, once you get close to 150, it starts to break down, over that number, it's lost.
2) To my knowledge, nobody is looking them up. At least nobody I encountered is.
3) Most people seem committed to at least 4 rounds, and then once it gets to 31 minutes/round it trails off
4) A lot of people who seem really into it seem to also be really into COD or Hitler memes. No joke.
Eat the cats? I never saw a problem with catsplosions because I restrict them to pastures so they don't adopt dorfs.
It is rare and I have never personally experienced anything like this as an employee.
Not necessarily. It's not my planet, monkey boy.

Ming the Merciless sidestepped the issue by labeling his buttons in capital letters. [1]

[1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9E0myUALKw/UIRPUfNFiBI/AAAAAAAABE...
Graphing Game of Thrones to find the main character
This sounds like a great idea.

I'd also like to see sections of ocean protected like we protect our national parks. No fishing, no motorized boats. Sort of make them "reservoirs" where natural life can be undisturbed.
Use dev time to dev something that makes money ;)
The problem is:

"Public pension funds—the state-run investment pools responsible for the retirement benefits of nearly 20 million Americans—have quietly been funding the recent boom in venture capital."

Then when it eventually turns out the unicorns aren't worth all those billions it will be your pension money burnt. At least when things float you get a reasonable estimate of their actual value.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-23/are-public...