skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Endorsing a piece of legislature is very different than actually voting on it. There's a lot of political back and forth for every bill that passes and endorsement is just an early phase when the whips start gathering numbers for who supports a given bill vocally and officially. This will put pressure on the comittee to put the bill on the floor as soon as possible and with little modification.

Once it's slated for the floor vote, the whips and bill sponsors (even more involved than endorsement) will round up the rest of the votes including those who would have voted yes anyway, but couldn't endorse or sponsor for political reasons, and those who need to be convinced through favors and whatnot. Remember, senators are elected by all districts in a state so they have to be more careful politically.
Snail mail is also sent by postmen (who can open and read it, or just read it if its a postcard), and telegraphs (still a thing?) are dictated to someone. That doesn't mean people expect or would like having them read by a non-involved person, outside of those necessary reasons for their delivery.

If "expectation" is the criterion, how about actually asking people what they actually expect with a poll of sorts?

The whole "expectation of privacy" as a metric is bogus.

Then again, those are the same people who read gun laws regarding "militias" as valid for 20-21st century individuals (and I'm not saying this as someone anti-gun -- just that, if you like guns and want them, just pass a law saying that, not use some 3 century old unrelated law as an excuse with all the pomposity of the Supreme Court, as if some redneck with a liking for guns is part of a "well regulated militia").
Why I Crowdfund
It is because of critical thought like this that I read the HN comments. Kudos.
Browse their job listings and you will see this: "To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State." [1]

Some background here: https://www.quora.com/Can-a-person-of-non-U-S-citizenship-ge...

[1] http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/8316
Yea and I'll go out on a limb and say it was the correct one. The shelf life of a popular game like this is probably shorter than most people think so it makes sense to offer an amazing experience that you couldn't necessarily achieve with an authoritative server model and then by the time hackers have defeated the game players have probably moved on to the next.
ImmunizeCA Is Hiring a Full Stack JavaScript Developer (Ottawa, CA)
We are looking for a talented Javascript developer to help build the next generation of ImmunizeCA, a digital immunization record for Canadians. The ImmunizeCA app has been downloaded by over 140,000 Canadians to track their families’ immunization records. The ImmunizeCA platform we will create will allow users to sync their records between devices and family members, and will make users' records accessible on the web.
If you are incredibly hardworking, an obsessively detail-oriented programmer who ships reliable and maintainable code, you could be the perfect fit for our team.

Skills & Requirements

You have experience developing reliable and maintainable large-scale applications. Experience with version control software, preferably Git. You have a solid programming foundation and are comfortable with OOP concepts. You have a strong foundation in Javascript and experience with modern front-end frameworks. You are comfortable working with Node.js, RDBMS (Postgres), and Sass. Testing is important to you and you have experience automating the testing of your applications. You are masterful in HTML5/CSS.

Desirable

Experience setting up continuous integration environments. Experience with functional programming concepts. Experience with ReactJS and Typescript

If you think you would be a great fit for this position, we would love to hear from you. Please send a resume and cover letter to apply@ohri-mhealth.zendesk.com.

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I don't know why it took me this long to realize, but this could be a sort of new-age journal. Published research [on github], reviewed by peers, and reproduced by others.
-- gdb@ was that in your mind as you built this?

I really hope they gain traction.
Business doesn't care about privacy, until business realizes that the mechanisms used to hunt for terrorists are also used by the IRS.

It will be interesting times for "the cloud" when business realizes that investigations and subpoenas are transparently happening in the background, without the heads-up of marshalls at the doorstep.
I apologize.

> The types of candidates who spend the time necessary to memorize algorithm trivia for the sake of passing these exams are exactly like overfitted learning algorithms.

I should have asked for a source for that portion. It's the part that is ridiculous.

Again, my bad.
Soon we'll have neural networks taking care of most of the animation pipeline. Most animators work long hours for little pay, and in most western countries it's simply outsourced this the third world. There was a bit of drama late last year when the average salaries of Japanese animators were released public.

It would lead to a loss of jobs, however it would also lead to an influx of more diverse content. Flash for example was hailed as saving the western animation industry at the expense of quality.

These techniques will hopefully lead to an increase of both quality and quantity.
The Problem [I'm trying to solve]

Current research dissemination platforms repeat these problems with every publication:

The research is presented in a publication layout (ever try converting a research paper PDF into an ePub or simply linear text?)

Data are not stored in a data array (tables are static, values and functions used are not clear or represented in a searchable format)

Graphs and other aids are stored as images rather than vector functions

Functions per axis or table range are not reduced to a standardized, searchable, syntax

Linkage of ideas, categories, subjects, functions, and what-have-yous across research is cumbersome

Descriptions within the research are not clearly separated as nested descriptions. That is: the boundaries between descriptions are not clear. Or, when fuzziness is inherent in the subject, then the degree of fuzziness is unclear.

A means to coherently discuss the research

The process of peer review is nearly invisible; the discourse during the process of peer review is mostly unavailable; "reviewers" are basically anonymous and there is no simple way to reference their contributions to other peer reviews

There is no seamless way to reconcile information within research to other research: it can be needlessly difficult to conduct redundancy checks between studies. This process is a component of the present peer review process, but current research is not set up for continuous peer review. The processes is invisible and gives no room for research to just evolve and branch out on its own.

Matching data between hosts: Maybe this is silly but there is no good process to determine if my physical copy of a journal has no errors.

These issues by their necessity to the current platform create resistance to the expansion of our scientific knowledgebase. The dissemination of knowledge must be completely open and standardized. The issues here expressed inform the remedy’s structure, syntax, means of access, a means for discourse, and a means to represent people.

Starting now, it is important that this principle be upheld: An entity can never obtain more than one ID.
It was unanimous—the absolute number of R and D votes just reflects the political demographics of the House.
The Intro to a “Tiny Intro to Database Systems”
I'm guessing this is a job in Canada?
Delhi: The World’s Most Polluted City
Show HN: Swift Modules iOS – A Searchable Index of Swift Packages
I'd be interested in the amount of computing power per searchable web page. Sure, there's a huge amount of computing power behind Google's web services but I'd lay odds that it's much more efficient than it used to be. The internet is huge.
The "Textalyzer" tech is from Cellebrite, the same Israeli company that sold the FBI the 0-day for the San Beradino shooter's iPhone. Here's their product page for the device http://www.cellebrite.com/Mobile-Forensics/Solutions/ufed-fi...
I may not have been clear, but I understand and fully support their right to charge for software and services. I just haven't worked on any projects for which their prices fit in to the calculation.

As to documentation on nginx.org that doesn't apply to the open source edition, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#... -- there are quite a few more, that's just the last one I tried to use.
It also sounds like Swagger + OpenAPIs: https://openapis.org
It looks like the smallest unanimous vote in the 113/114th congresses was 353.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll631.xml

For the Senate, 83.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote11...
Intel received threats over diversity
And then hook up cryptocurrency payments so the AI can pay for upgrades.
> It's like seeing someone write their own argument-parsing code. Holy shit, what a bad idea. Never (!) do that.

So we did that. works well. I dunno, maybe this company is just full of incompetents. I mean, I doubt it, but it is possible.

I appreciate judgement without context as well. Really, it's awesome.
Thank you :) About closures it can be interesting to know that in lambdatalk lambdas don't create closures, there is not any local environment. Things work because lambdas memorize partial calls and are de facto curried and so closures are not necessary. More explanations in this page: http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=lambdatalk%20thre... .

Thanks again
I doubt the name itself matters much as long as the product/site/marketing/branding/support docs/etc. look professional enough. In fact, this name is pretty unique and would probably show up as the only result when searching from Google.
The giver is generally on the hook for gift taxes and it is calculated similarly to the estate tax.

That the giver pays is not really a super important distinction, the money is coming from the same place either way, but procedurally it's the giver that has to do the paperwork.
I agree that I wouldn't count on the exact dollar figure to stay constant. However, I believe Bill Gates is successfully divesting himself from Microsoft to fund his charity? I guess Facebook is a lot shakier and volatile than Microsoft?

Yes but I'd assume it means the child will have a trust of at least 357M which isn't bad. I don't have any problem with the 0.01% having tremendous wealth as long as 1) it is out in the open (at least clear enough that the IRS can see all its activities) and 2) distributions from the fund get taxed as income for the recipient

I am making this concession with the assumption that we will drastically increase marginal income tax on income over a certain amount (my proposal is 100 * 2000 * federal minimum wage per hour which at $15 is $3M). Marginal income under this threshold shall be no higher than say 40%? Tax on income above this amount ($3M as calculated today) shall be (just off the top of my head) 90%? I think that sounds fair.

So, in the example above, if Maxima only draws salary and benefits (cars, personal jet rides whatever) worth less than $3M per year, I don't see a reason to see that as bad for society as a whole. I think this keeps the interests of the 0.01% in touch with the minimum wage. Yes, it sounds rather naive but it is a working idea. Thoughts?
Defense contractors won't invest in training. The programmers they hired would be mostly contract workers themselves because the MIC is deathly afraid of having actual employees that could cut into profits. Hence why they've managed to step away from ADA because those skills aren't readily available in the contractor pool.
If you support the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLEDB, it's worth mentioning. That opens up a bunch of additional data sources for folks, potentially including Active Directory, and suddenly you're (maybe) getting the attention of enterprise IT folks as well as the business side.
Responding to criticism of a patch by blocking a user feels just...childish. Doubling down on that childishness by first blocking anyone on twitter who likes/faves that tweet, and then by switching your twitter account to protected feels even more childish. The Grsecurity team needs to calm down here, because they aren't giving an appearance of a professional team with exchanges like this.
Not to brag, but I have definitely failed wayyyyyy more than that.
That seems like a reasonable effort. Thanks.
Hopefully a modern JavaScript framework like Reduox, Isometa, or JSJ Query.
Why do you think SAIC has so many government contracts?

Part of it is that the government can have SAIC or their subcontractors do the shady things that the government might actually get taken to task for.
I guess I'm not much of a connoisseur of Greek yogurt. Admittedly I eat yogurt now and then, and even make it at home sometimes, but I'm not a huge consumer. But I don't find huge differences which maybe just means I don't actually have much of a taste for authentic versions. When Fage was about the only thing available, I bought it at Trader Joe's. Now I mostly buy Chobani but buy store brands as well.
This is a bit off topic, but would you mind sharing what resources you used to learn forth? I'm interested in the language myself, but I don't really get how to use it. I've learned the basics about defining words and manipulating the stack, but whenever I try to apply it to an actual problem, I have a very hard time even understanding how to approach, wheras if I were using a procedural or OO language, I would know where to start.

Any advice on getting over this hump?
More instant RAM - http://downloadmoreram.com/
Except if you dare to use encryption. Then it becomes "foreign" even if the endpoints are domestic.
Microsoft? (But I have no clue.)
> Both known-to-me implementations of CurveCP (NaCl and libchlorium) seem to be pretty much abandoned as of beginning of 2016,

libsodium (the continuation of NaCl) is actively maintained.
Dangerous New Uses for Government Eavesdropping
Yes sorry, the location is Ottawa Ontario. I'll update the title with the location.
Yes, this was a petty pissing match. However, responding to criticism by IP blocking him, and then blocking anyone on twitter who faves/retweets it is just ridiculous.
Is this actually a problem?

Why should I care if someone else inherited family money and doesn't have to work?

Inherited wealth must be invested continually to defend against inflation. That investment will continue to power the market economy, even if the holders of the wealth are not entrepreneurs.
Yeah, and British intelligence should have just called up the Germans to tell them that their Enigma machines weren't configured correctly.
A quote from BUILDING:
"Building Chez Scheme under Windows is currently more complicated than it should be. It requires the configure script (and through it, the workarea
script) to be run on a host system that supports a compatible shell, e.g., bash, and the various command-line tools employed by configure and workarea, e.g., sed and ln. For example, the host system could be a
Linux or MacOS X machine. The release directory must be made available on a shared filesystem, e.g., samba, to a build machine running Windows. It is not presently possible to copy the release directory to a Windows
filesystem due to the use of symbolic links."

Maybe someone have managed to build the Windows version?
I like yours better, especially wrt reqs and the reason for the software to even exist, as it's not just in service of itself. To simplify even more, the pyramid goes What -> How -> Why
Great work! Thanks for all of your work!
Most illuminating is how this documented chilling effect can be used,

"Penney’s work may provide fodder for technology companies and others arguing for greater restraint and disclosure about intelligence-gathering. Chilling effects are notoriously difficult to document and so have limited impact on laws and court rulings.

More immediately, the research could aid a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Wikipedia’s nonprofit parent organization and other groups against the NSA and the Justice Department."

A study over a long period of time on many articles helps avoid the noise of news.
Unlike a breathalyzer, I don't think anyone has (yet) argued that a driving license implies consent to phone searches.
While I understand where you are coming from, I don't see how your comment adds anything to the conversation.

If you don't have senior staff then you are going to have a host of other problems as well.
I've been looking at companies in Minneapolis over the last few months, but I've been having a hard time finding open positions to apply to. My usual methods (online job boards) have gotten me precious few results. How do you find companies in Minneapolis who need your services?
I live in Argentina.
There will be a huge new 'Panama Papers' data dump on May 9th
The site is out of date. That mixfix function call notation has been removed from the language, for one thing.

And it’s a bad example anyway; I wouldn’t expect real Kitten code to use imperative style that heavily.
I read jerich's response and thought he was sarcastic in his praise.

Are you serious? This is your one interview question? Do you realize this is the kind of thing the Sahat was writing against?

Instead of actually asking them about their relevant skills, experience, and capability you think it's fit to judge a candidate on what amounts to curious information on how a computer works.

Is that what you're hiring for? Someone who's spent more time reading wikipedia articles than actually coding? We're in the business of creating things, not harvesting trivia.

Yes it doesn't matter if someone's written and maintained code, documentation, tests, and has collaborated with dozens of other individuals for a repository used by thousands. All you need is to do is ask him your pet trivia question.

It always shows how deep does one go in their computer science adventures.

Knowing about the adventure of one electric signal from keyboard to underwater fiber cable has nothing to do with computer science. By your own words, you're testing for the completely wrong thing.

I am a VP at a medium size company and I do plenty of interviews

Here's a secret then. The candidate, whoever he or she is, will always try to answer your question. In fact, they'll try to satisfy whatever problem you put them up to.

"What's your favorite method of tying shoelaces?"

"How many golf balls can you fit between the earth and the moon?"

"What do you do for fun?"

The candidate will take their time and rack their brains trying to provide an answer to please you.

Some will give a good answer and some will give a bad one, but that doesn't mean your interview question is a good one.
Doesn't support it yet, did not think to use it for directory services, that's an excellent idea! PowerQuery can query ad already though but still, it's worth investigating. Thanks for the tip.
No new news here, just an "announcement of an announcement".
Makes sense. Appreciate the tip.
>>a non-voting share that has no dividends attached
They've proposed that, but as far as I can tell it's less of a serious proposal and more an instance of an "overcoming objections" sales tactic. I don't see how a flat sales tax can achieve revenue-neutrality (itself a major selling point of FairTax) while also offering a large enough "prebate" to avoid being enormously regressive in practice. Considering the misleading nature of a bunch of other FairTax claims [1], I pretty much consider distrust to be the only tenable default position with respect to anything else they say.

[1] http://www.factcheck.org/2007/05/unspinning-the-fairtax/
I was being sarcastic, since everyone knows exactly how people would react to their emails being read by an unattended human, and exactly how much privacy the typical person expects, but Poe's Law and all...
Microsoft is buying 10M molecules of custom DNA from a San Francisco startup
Show HN: Systems visualization for SW development
couldn't this be easily fixed by putting the downvote triangle on the other side of the time?

(upvote arrow) name xxx hours ago | parent | flag | (downvote arrow)

would make it less fat finger prone and still be pretty straightfoward to use (plus having downvote close to flag IMHO makes sense as well from a context perspective)
> Gates Foundation which managed to entirely rid India of polio (!!)

Uhm, that's completely inaccurate, where are you getting such data?

The Gates foundation only got started in 2000, and it isn't clear when they started getting involved in polio vaccination programs. You may give them credit for helping towards the end of the project, but vaccination against polio was started by the Indian taxpayers (Universal Immunization Program) in 1978 and reached about 50% coverage of all infants born in India (including millions of refugees/migrants from Tibet, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) by 1984. The programs immunized hundreds of millions of children well before 2000.

[1] http://www.mohfw.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/Immunization_UIP...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_Polio

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078488/

Giving all of the credit to Bill&Melinda seems like something Hollywood would do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior_narrative_in_film
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the super rich if you think that hard currency represents any significant fraction of their assets, late in life.

It's only a concern for the middle class, and there are other rules that cover them.
Basically write in whatever is comfortable, they both run the same format binaries. Some .Net features are not available in Mono (yet). Other than that, the two seem fairly interchangeable
There is a better (and more comprehensive and accurate) API for page view data now: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-ac... , API specs at https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#/Pageviews_data
All I see are governments creating a vast global market for encryption of EVERYTHING. The more people feel threatened, and react through encryption, matters start to become really difficult if you want to spy on anyone.
I promise you that "the grsecurity team" does not care whether they have the "appearance of a professional team".
Wow. How?
802.3af/at 48VDC power over ethernet LED lighting
If you did write your own argument parsing code, then yes the choice to commit to that was incompetent, barring some extraordinary situation.

I don't think it's controversial or insulting to say so in the least. It's a solved problem in every major language and most fringe languages. Spending time re-inventing it is just obviously wrong.

It's not insulting or judgmental to say that it's wrong. It's just a fact. I do not understand being offended or angry about my statement of that fact. If we're talking about what is effective engineering and what is not, writing your own argument parsing tool for actual business usage (as opposed to doing this as a pedagogical side project or something), without evidence of some exceptional corner case, is ineffective engineering. It's practically the definition of ineffective engineering.
"randomly" generated data, to assure accuracy
First, I thought it was funny. Second, WTF? GRsecurity totally reacted the opposite
Weeding the Worst Library Books
Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments