skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a hotkey that essentially no other software uses for the same behavior

Except for Windows Explorer, but who uses that, eh?

Your level of empathy is immaterial to the conversation, but thanks for sharing.
I think you missed the point of this language. You write code in this language, and then you compile it to get Bash for Linux and Batch for Windows.
The private repository visibility is great. Not showing streak count though super sucks, I'm midway on my best personal streak I've ever had. It may not be much to some people, but to me making progress on my personal project 67 days in a row was a huge motivator. On days when things aren't going great, I still try to do some work because heck I'm not going to end a 67-day streak just because I had a bad day.
I did hear of that idea Mr Sn9 (let's bring back Dickensian mannerisms!)

Sully of Slashdot claims to have met Mr Stephenson at a book signing.

Quote forthwith:

According to Neal, Diamond Age and Snow Crash are not in the same universe at all. He stated further that any similarity is just due to the coincidence of the both novels having the same author.

Anyway. It was a good idea even if it was incorrect. Mayhap another shining hypothesis slain by ugly facts.

To clarify: I was implying to Gwern that Snow Crash would be a dismal universe to live in because the world was clearly in some kind of stagnation or slump caused by the (I don't have a good way to express this with words properly) backwash of globalization.

If the Diamond Age is an evolution from Snow Crash then it is a much better world to live in. My original impression is strongly of a more fragmented world yet also one with more stability and wealth as compared with Snow Crash, which is a slow motion train wreck.

Ironically I believe we truly do live in the world of Snow Crash. We've stagnated badly over the last few decades and we're just about waking up to the consequences of it now.

It won't surprise you to learn I'm in favour of an aristocratic approach to tackle the problem like the Vickies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724637
Why Is America Using These Antique Planes to Fight ISIS?
> But Gregg goes even further, eliding unstressed vowels and unvoiced consonants to get to the phonetic nugget of the word: “bed” is written as “b-d”; “act” as “a-k”; “done” as “d-n”.

Isn't this a source of collisions? How do you distinguish between bid/bed/bud in Gregg? Or between din/den/done? I have to imagine that context isn't always good enough to help the reader discriminate.
A file upload regression in Safari for iOS
i agree with the others: this sounds like a sand trap. stay away.

for me, the biggest red flag is that they are setting a deadline unilaterally and willing to hire someone with zero mobile experience to meet that deadline. makes no sense. they have no idea how long it will take, and neither do you. a professional, experienced engineer with a solid set of requirements in hand might be able to make an accurate estimate. but here, they're just picking a date out of thin air. honestly, what's their rush? i hardly know anything about them but they already sound like the proverbial 'bad client'.

a note about pay: if you are going to be a salaried employee, then whatever you've finished at the end of the summer is what they get. (i'm assuming you work in an at-will employment jurisdiction like much of the U.S. is.) maybe that's a complete app, maybe it's just 20% of an app. but if this is really a situation where you're signing a contract and committing to some deliverable, then ... no. stay away.

> "my employment record is filled with a few holes"

no one cares about your work experience while you're still getting your bachelor's.

do yourself a favour: you need to get on the ball and hustle and at least attempt to secure a proper (paid) internship at a software company, or a bank, etc. you need to be around people you can learn from, for one thing. and if you're not working somehwere, pick up some books on topics you're not familiar and work through them. go work in your university's library, don't just stay at home. can you implement Raft in C++? there's your first project. no fast food.
Agreed an analytics framework would be great. Though we might have to rethink analytics for a conversational bot. Maybe something like Avg. number of messages in a conversation before the task was completed
I do not claim that, please read again more carefully. If you do describe the joint system experiment+brain with quantum-theoretic formalism, the brain does get entangled.

However, my objection is to the very idea of using quantum-theoretic formalism to describe macroscopic things. Because: even if we imagine we somehow obtained a solution to Schroedinger's equation for this system, we have no need for it. The purpose of \psi function is to get probabilities of system configuration or results of measurement of some quantity. This is useful for comparing the theory of natural phenomena with the reality.

Much less so for describing the system of experiment+experimenter. Would you want to apply the quantum formalism to obtain probabilities of the end states of the joint system, when you can just ask the experimenter on what was the result of measurement and thus obtain definite answer with more value to physics?
There has been some effort to make a keyboard layout better for programming, namely Programmer Dvorak. It's certainly not amazing by any means, as the reordering of the numerical keys really stinks, which is why I stick with the traditional dvorak layout (which actually has some disadvantages in curly-brace languages since the {} keys are right next to backspace and require moving my entire right hand off the home row to reach comfortably, whereas the traditional QWERTY locations can easily be hit by my little finger).

As much as neat devices like the data hand and other input devices make waves on HN every now and then, I feel most programmers are just like the rest of the world, they just use QWERTY because that's what they learned and never saw anything wrong with it.
This is veering offtopic but laser printers don't actually use the laser for heating the toner, they use it to create charges on an image drum which picks up the toner electrostatically. The fuser assembly is a very simple resistive heater.
http://archive.is/OPCac
Article is from 2011.

I have not checked, but I bet the 2016 list would be more interesting.
I don't see how a tax resolves that situation, if the situation indeed needs resolving. The tax could just as well cause a large apartment with many renters to be unsustainable and become replaced with a smaller apartment with very high rents to cover the cost. If land can be used to build an apartment, that is one issue, but another issue is using a tax policy to try to change its ownership or purpose. I am more strongly opposed to the latter.
You're correct, and people are being ridiculous for conflating the two. They are different things. If you want to get a job as a developer, a bootcamp is clearly the way to go as far as efficiency, cost, and pragmatism. Otherwise do a CS degree.

A bootcamp is absolutely unquestionably a replacement for a CS degree in the context of getting a practical job.
> It's a reaction to the question, "can bootcamps replace a CS degree?"

If someone is posing this question, it's not one based in reality. The question is 4 years of a CS degree vs a bootcamp, not 4 years of college vs no college. As I clearly stated, only one classmate didn't have an undergraduate degree. That question is a strawman at best.
Some people work in gardens after office, Pieter do 3D...
It also doesn't come with this "batsh" language...
You just gave me a mental image of scratching a record to scroll through a stack trace, now there is absolutely no way I can end my day without a smile on my face.
I believe it's been proven impossible to write a spam filter to distinguish useful LinkedIn email from spammy LinkedIn emails, since the spam filter would then be able to solve the halting problem.
Is it not used for freight?
Clearbanc (http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/clearbanc-is-a-new-se...) confuses me: why can't Uber pay their drivers immediately directly? What's in it for Clearbanc?

If this is a regulatory runaround to effectively allow super-short pay periods for people who are on two-week pay schedules for some reason, sure. But it sounds like Lyft is doing this directly. Does Clearbanc get anything out of this, other than their $2/withdrawal cut? And what happens if a driver quits/gets dropped before their pay period actually happens?
Boosted rider with over 500 miles so far here. 0 boarding experience prior to purchasing my Boosted Board. The learning curve will be steep if you have no experience commuting on something like a bicycle.

A lot of the challenge is in learning the roads and behavior of the drivers. I biked for ~ 3 years prior to getting my boosted board which contributed a lot towards knowing some of the "safer" routes.

That being said, your legs and calves will hurt like hell until you start to adjust to riding every single day. I go the gym 5x a week and still get achy calves from riding long distances.

I've only taken a single spill thanks to losing and regaining bluetooth connectivity going full throttle through a turn (mostly my own fault).

I can't recommend Boosted Boards enough. Extremely reliable piece of tech.
Are you up to as-fast-as-Orthodox (en-Latn) for either reading or writing yet?
But it still ignores the proxy settings and will use STUN to discover your "external IP". Thus users that think they are using a proxy end up not actually doing so.
Apple might ditch iPhone 7s and jump straight to iPhone 8
What if your best developer quit tomorrow?
This isn't a product for me but its always good to see more transportation options and see folks trying to innovate, and iterate.
The white ones feel indestructible. The newer black ones just seem flimsy to me.
That definitely would have been much more interesting.

Generate a few accounts. consistently cause the algorithm to think you are Red vs Blue (via Likes, Profile tweaks, Posts from specific sources like Mother Jones vs Instapundit/Drudge) and then see how they start to diverge.

Reminds me of the Like-Everything experiment Wired tried. a while back. Much more interesting to see how it slowly moved toward what the Facebook thought was the local maxima. (http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-fac...)

Unfortunately, without knowledge of Facebook's algorithms, it might be a bit difficult. For example, I'm sure a decent chunk depends on your social network and what they are posting and that's much harder to simulate.

EDIT: I still find this illuminating. I am subscribed to two feeds, one Far Left and one Far Right, and it's always fascinating to look at them and how little they overlap. They pull from completely different sources and focus and nitpick and the craziest things about each other. Even when they cover the exact same story, they contextualize it completely differently with insinuated comments and bylines.

So, it's true it's not purely organic of real Facebook feeds. And as a result doesn't get to the heart of the criticism of Facebook generating echo chambers. However, it is a good exercise of showing how this might look and how jarring it can be to compare them.
"VPNs opened" was poor wording. Clarifications provided by the guys below seem to match what I remember from listening to talks on Tor by the project's developers.

Operational security and Tor is such an interesting and frankly, quite scary subject. I've mainly used and instructed people on Tor for read-only uses of the web.

For my own needs, masking the origin of an actively participating persona is out of scope. I generally warn people about doing anything that requires sign-on/nicknames etc without very careful research.

I recognize that my lack of a need for serious anonymity for basic political activism etc is a huge privilege. So I try to give back by running a bunch of Tor middle relay myself.

For serious anonymity, I'd really be strict about using a forensically clean Tails USB boot environment, on varying public Wi-FI hotspots with a dedicated laptop that never has touched my regular network. The laptop must not ever be powered on near my house. Lots of systems, like Cisco Meraki business Wi-Fi APs take note of all nearby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices for 'location analytics'.

Javascript and stuff must be disabled of course. Carrying any cell phone, burner or otherwise is out of the question.

The reasons are many, but for starters, you don't want to be identifiable as the only person at your location making Tor connections, if you're doing something important.

Here are some good points on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ2OZKitRwc

My approach for promoting Tor to regular people around me is through describing it as a way to do random googling on subjects people don't necessarily want linked back to them, through analytics and ad companies.

I'm personally pretty convinced that insurance companies around the globe are looking pretty seriously at how far they could push their use of intelligence from data brokers. For purposes like identifying people with potential inherited diseases, recreational drug use habits, mental health problems etc.

So, I think Tor is important for all of us.
Canvas polygon touch
> that the qualities they achieved through their program can be achieved without
> some evidence in support of this possibility
> worse at algorithms and understanding how computers work

Can an amatuer guitarist play as well as a classically-trained guitarist? Sure.

Is it the exception to the rule? Yes.

Can an amatuer guitarist learn to play a few songs really well, but have no grasp of composition? Sure.

Will the guitarist be as skilled in composition as the classical guitarist? No.

The time spent learning {x} is the great difference. A plain old guitarist can pull out some composition manuals and teach himself how to craft music better than the lazy classically-trained musician.

My 2 cents -- don't underestimate 4 years. Clean code is quickly whipped into you at your first job, but typically the CS student is thinking in their head "wow this is so easy" because they were trained in building shit like compilers for the last 4 years. The bootcamper does not have the same experience because it's not prudent to train an employment-seeking individual in the subtleties of compiler design. So, 9 times outta 10, the CS graduate is the stronger programmer at least until the bootcamper has had some years to catch up.
password managers
Star Trek Material Science Is Finally Real: Transparent Wood
The term is "hacktivist"
Your citations says:

>"Geneticist Carl Bruder of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues closely compared the genomes of 19 sets of adult identical twins. In some cases, one twin's DNA differed from the other's at various points on their genomes. At these sites of genetic divergence, one bore a different number of copies of the same gene, a genetic state called copy number variants." //

So, it's "in some cases" monozygotic twins differ by having copy number variants [TIL! thanks]. So, not all cases (according to this citation) and so the point still stands that "Comparing complete genomes would unambiguously assign identity" appears to be false (albeit at a very low false match rate).

Interestingly the article says that copy number variants appear to arise as a subject ages. Doesn't this mean that different cells in the body will have different multiples of particular genes; so a mismatch wouldn't necessarily mean that the DNA wasn't from the same twin?
As your article mentions, the problem is that the rich have a loophole because the property isn't taxed properly when transacted.

The point isn't to make "inheritance" the taxation point, it's to make "transaction" the taxation point.

In addition, I think that "inheritance tax" executes differently in the US than the UK.
>Phew, 186 thousand cancers included out of 1.4 million participants? I knew cancer was not entirely uncommon but... man. That's a lot of unhappy news. Feels bad to think about.

2 out of 5 will get cancer during their lifetime.

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/statistics
I would like to complain about name similarity to vmprof (my project)
I was yearning for something like this literally just last night. Still am, tempted to give it a try.
I think entering orders manually is a use case that is getting obsolete very quickly. There are plenty of use caes outside of trading. How about calling a chart for a ticker, e.g. Equity AAPL GO
You don't distribute the batsh language. You distribute what you build with it.
Ask HN: Someone is systematically trying to access my accounts, any advice?
On Tuesday morning I received a couple of 'login attempt' emails on my gmail account. They were unsuccessful and had locations in India... I've had a couple of these in the past so didn't think anything of it.

Fast forward to this morning. My Apple ID password had changed (I've now enabled two factor auth and changed the password along with other security questions/details). I've also gone through any accounts I can think of and have ensured that they all have new passwords and have enabled two factor auth where available.

I'm continuing to receive password reset requests or security alerts (but none seem successful) for, amongst others, LinkedIn, Spotify, Netflix and other various email accounts.

This seems very targeted and I'm worried that someone already has access to something or I've missed an account that could be secured further.

Does anyone have any advice/tips on what I can do further to secure my accounts, not miss any accounts or attempt to discover who/why this happening?
If you just want to fool around there is a converter on the website.
Inspiring Children to Code
This probably depends on who you are. Like all organizations in higher learning, the boot camps serve two functions. The first, and what we'd probably like to think is the most important, is the value-adding function of education. The second is to serve as gatekeepers of their brand so that they maximize the marketability of their graduates, and thus encourage would-be applicants to come their way. Ideally you'd be able to offer such a stellar program that you have no one getting C's because they know all the material. In that case, yes, it's great that no one graduates with C's. And employers may not even care that the school is cruel and fast to shed students who are dragging. But for potential studenta, that situation is much worse. The school is much less valuable to students if they achieve their numbers by tough admissions and low retention, because then it's much less likely that the boot camp provides much in the way of education.
TL;DR; it's a visualizer for cProfile (with all the cProfile problems)

DISCLAIMER: I'm an author of cProfile competitor, vmprof
Judging from the comments, there's a massive misunderstanding going on between the readers, the author, and everyone's understanding of ourselves.

There are certainly odd things in this article. What I think the author wants to get at:

We don't store specific information like "on a dollar bill, there's a line going from x of the left side to y of the bottom side with a curvature of z" in a specific container labeled "info about dollar bills", to be read out everytime you interact with one.

Instead, each time we pay using such a bill, the chain of neurons firing from the moment you open your purse to the moment you get your receipt, as a whole, is responsible for your internal representaion of a dollar bill: (1) first glimpse of sheets of paper in purse (2) fumble indivual sheets to examine more closely (3) recognize key elements like green colour, rectangular, famous bust in the center (4) in case you didn't, now you know you've got cash in there (5) remember the total, do some arithmetic to figure out which bills to hand over (6) extract bills from purse (7) extend hand to hand cash over to cashier (8) wait for receipt/pack things (9) get receipt (10) purchase complete.

This entire chain (which is obviously incomplete for the sake of demonstration), with all the completely unrelated stuff about rummaging in a purse or human interaction, comes together to form what you think of as a dollar bill. This is how we store information, by relating it to stuff we already know.

Which is why it makes sense that babies come into this world with only the bare minimum. We don't pop out ready made, that's the whole point of childhood and adolescence. We build ourselves, unconsciously incorporating our surroundings into our personality, by constantly relating to what we know, comparing new things to old things. This implies that a faulty impression early on has disastrous consequences in whatever is built afterwards, meaning most of it.

(edit) just came up with a nice formulation: the brain doesn't store raw data as in pixels or decimal values, it stores characteristics and rebuilds the thing you're thinking about as well as your medium of expression allows it to (which is why you can always think about something, but when asked to draw or describe it, it just seems impossible). This explanation is far from perfect, and I don't understand how our notions of numbers for example comes to be, but seeing as maths is really just a load of charateristics giving intersting results when combined, I see no problem.
Paul Jarvis wrote good article “What does a software company cost to start?”
The last sentence is strange:

> However, once the price starts increasing, Ether entering the DAO cannot be refunded in full.

What will happen if the price starts decreasing?
lol @ Vim users that have to write configuration files, memorize complicated keyboard shortcuts, and install 20 plugins just to be able to copy and paste text between files. It's 2016, try using a real editor like Atom.

(Am I doing it right?)
Here's the actual master decryption key for TeslaCrypt in case the article disappears or the image does:

440A241DD80FCC5664E861989DB716E08CE627D8D40C7EA360AE855C727A49EE

And software: https://github.com/Googulator/TeslaCrack
By that I mean "hide from people without showdead", of course. (I have it on.)

The question is "why do you move moderated comments from where they were to the top level?".
That page is not readable in Germany:
ERROR.
The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

Any idea what could block it? Never seen this before...
Internet filter bubble, there was book released about this problem way back in 2011.
Windows has knock-off versions of several unix tools:

grep = findstr

cat = type

which = where

sort = sort

more = more

sudo = runas
Something annealing and other local maxima algorithms do is always inject some noise. Annealing calls this the temperature. So Facebook could ensure that 5-10% of your feed comes from a "region" around where it thinks you stand, then see what you click on.

If you only Like Left, then you keep drifting. But (I assume) they will always include some stuff to the Right of where they think you are as an option. It won't be Far Right, but it will be in that direction.

Obviously, this is a lot of speculation of how Facebook is doing it's feed optimizations, but I expect they provide opportunities to get out of your localized maxima.
In my experience, the vibrations on the board are far too strong to get any type of decent video while riding down the road. Always comes out looking extremely shaky.
Viewing email is as you would expect, the email they sent to is in the header so it's just a single click away in Thunderbird.
That's not effective, because very few people use private mode.
Then your comment makes no sense in context, because you replied to my complaint that people lose information by doing these giant squash merges and having no nontrivial graph structure in their main project history.
i will never understand why people fetishize that awful language.