skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes English an elitist skill is precisely its natural language nature.
I hope you had some time to visit europe. All of us get English as a second or third language at school.In european countries were films and tv programs are translated to their own language is not that easy to find common people that can speak English beyond the pretty basic. And this is a reality in countries like Italy, Spain, France or Germany.

In such countries, when you want to learn english —and you do not have a lot of money— your best deal is to travel to UK and get a crappy job so you can learn the language.

If instead of a natural language they got taught a non natural one, they will not need to that, because one of their advantages is that you get them really fast.
In a sense, in that you could view any post-verdict judgement contrary to the verdict as a ruling that the jury attempted nullification of the law where it lacks the power to do so (nullification is only a power juries can exercise to return criminal not-guilty verdicts, other than that, courts may set aside the jury verdict of no reasonable jury could find the facts necessary to the verdict returned on the evidence presented.)
There is something wrong with me but I can not/refuse to use command line. It has no discoverability and no visible system state information. Every time I try to use it I start to panic because I can not see my files, I can not see the state of my task, I can not see anything. Maybe I have some form of dyslexia. Anybody out there with similar symptoms? Anybody knows a remedy to my problem please?
Actually, the opposite is the case. SSL is not forward in any way. That's why in the post above you can find cinap hinting towards the much more clean alternative he implemented for the 9front specific protocols, without any need of horrible certificates.
Yes, my point is that that baseline has swung too far towards protectionist interventionism.
I really hope you're joking.
I think you've just started to delve into the problem domain of copyright vs copyleft and why there are legal considerations when you allow people to access your software using an API.
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Like I said, I am glad that those people have a sandbox to "interact" in. Do you honestly think that sandbox is worth $20b?
I wholeheartedly believe that the reason for your post's low score is not the opinion represented, but the fact that you express it without any explanation of your thought process. Please explain what you mean, and how you judge the author to have meant that, so that you at least give the possibility of a positive discussion.
Planetary Resources Raises $21.1M Series A
It's hard to define 'content' in a way that doesn't make HN and tech forums sound more valuable than 'pure social' platforms, though.
This is not specific to plan9. SSL sucks on all systems.
Esta ensalada de bacalao con garbanzos te va a encantar
Security through unplanned obsolescence.
This really is a great question.

My guess would be that they might make progress in the direction of physics but not in the direction of higher order abstractions further up the stack. Those would just be interpreted as rules of the universe or background noise.
Maybe pay for vmware or similar to run your old systems on modern hardware?
I never realized how entertaining this trial was.

Schwartz: "Back in 2009, Android WAS lame."

Google atty: "Move to strike, your honor!"

https://twitter.com/xor/status/730456825649188865
I used to put The Social Network on in the background as well. Pi is another, but I also like Million Dollar Traders [1]. It's a great documentary, but it also provides a good office / working ambience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ciY8u04Kk
That's going to get messy. Very messy. It has to be crystal clear really for that to happen, but all you'd end up with is more debate on what parts have greater weight.
> that if security costs 10x to defend and 1x to perpetrate, then the system will by definition fail)

That's only if you have an infinite supply of evil doers. The cost in operational experience and manpower can deplete the number of operatives that can pull off a complicated attack.
Google Beats Oracle on Copyright, Defeating $9B Claim
They probably spend more on infrastructure than salaries.
Businesses using a "herd mentality" will be out-competed by those which are profit-maximizers
Did they actually set the expected value of the stock to $.001/share?
> The new stuff has too much churn.

<3 <3 <3

Indeed. Basically anything in the JS world, except maybe nodejs, will vanish in 5 years. (I'm looking at you, bower, gulp, EmberJS, even the giant dinosaurus jQuery is on the decline, given everyone and their dogs shift to Angular)

Seriously, if one is after long-lived software, choose a solid PHP framework (Drupal 7, for example, is around for 5 years now and probably will be supported for two or three years) or a Java framework, together with a rock-solid database (i.e. no NoSQL crap)...

Hate PHP and Java all you want, but these two languages put backwards compatibility as priority.
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A list of their competitors: https://www.quora.com/Who-are-Twilios-competitors.

As a Twilio customer that spends maybe ~$500 /mo i'll look at any alternative that allows me to send meta data or allows some process to have a foreign key allowing me to persist conversations in a sane manner (and I'm currently researching just that).

Twilio also does not have their own network, so competitors like Bandwidth that have their own network will be able to compete on price. That said current Twilio pricing is not prohibitive in our market and thus isn't a factor for us researching alternatives currently.
Sure, it's a judgement call and whistleblowers have to do the best they can. If they make the wrong decision they're in the second category, so they have to decide if it's worth the risk. If they reveal the secrets to lawyers they're still breaking the law.

I agree that from what I've seen, Manning is on the civil disobedience side. I wish he had changed voters minds more than he apparently did.

Snowden had evidence of clearly illegal activity. There was a lot more mixed in, but it wasn't practical to separate it. Secret abuse of power is dangerous enough that I think that should be acceptable.

If we don't have practical protection for whistleblowers, we might as well not bother putting limits on government power at all. Based on what's happened to whistleblowers who went through official channels, it's clear that that approach doesn't work at all, and I don't know why anyone should expect it to work.
Notice of Fee Increase for H-1B and L-1
This is the appeal against the appeal. You can guess what will happen next.
Messenger = US, WhatsApp = Rest of the world

Viber = when WhatsApp voice is down during the world cup
I suspect that "systems" is on the way to meaning "what you'd use to write anything other than CRUD web apps".
Thanks for the info, much appreciated! I did the Codecademy Twilio tutorial ages ago and wanted to try it again recently but it appears to be down unfortunately.

I'll have to give it another go and it looks like they have a Ruby gem up on their repo I'll dig into.
> Most tax revenue is a transfer of wealth from relatively poor young Americans to relatively wealthy elderly Americans through Medicare and Social Security. That an military spending.

Your sources say that only 28% of tax revenue falls into the category of SS/MC. That's hardly "most".

These taxes are both levied independent of Federal taxes and are handled differently. They are both payroll taxes, so they are only paid on wages, not income from investments. Additionally Social Security tax is capped and Medicare is regressive (rate goes down as wages increases).

So, while the top 1% are contribute a significant portion of income tax revenue, they don't contribute nearly as much to social welfare (which is by design).
Try to improve their hiring process without focusing on hiring minorities?
I am both positive and negative on it.

It's useful and fun to a large number of people and definitely has some non-trivial value.

Does it have enough value to justify this kind of money being plowed into it? That's where I'm not convinced. These are big numbers and for them to ever make a return the revenue growth would have to be really really huge. I can't see Snapchat becoming Google or Facebook since its interaction profile is too narrow and brief.

We're basically talking about an ad-engagement and profiling medium here.

Google has huge value as an ad platform because they serve ads at the time of maximum intent -- their ads are targeted to what you are looking for right now and so they're more likely to convert than ads served at random times.

Facebook has huge value as an ad platform because they have so much data to target ads accurately and gather metrics about who engages with them. Many people use Facebook ads not as primary ads to drive conversion but as 'probes' to develop customer profiles, so it's almost like a focus group as a service.

What monstrous value is Snapchat going to provide in this space that will generate returns higher than the S&P 500 on many billions in investment over the next, say, 10 years?
I don't know where you got "no one does wrong" from my comments. Allow me to clarify.

Students are cheating. This is wrong.

Universities are institutionally indifferent to student learning. This is wrong too.

The latter is our point of disagreement. You make it clear in your first sentence that you don't think there's anything wrong with the university system, and that the institution is an innocent victim here. On the other hand, I think there's plenty wrong with the system.
It is as ridiculous as it sounds. There is simply no case at all where API use cannot be sensibly argued as fair use. That's why you use an API in the first place........

What privileges would such a copyright provide?

In practice? None.
How about adding other parts of the company like HR/Sales/Marketing/etc etc to their data?
Given the fact that Java is open source and was open sourced in 2006, how does Oracle have a case? I'm asking legitimately not understanding how this even has a leg to stand on.
We are told we need knowledge about some things in order to make money and subsequently not to starve. We are supposed to gain this knowledge in school and maybe uni, and then head off to a grand career. I mostly agree with this idea (not so much with its real life implementation).

I get where it's coming from, knowledge is what pushes us forward, after all: mathematical knowledge allows us to play with abstract and complex systems, physical knowledge is the application of some of these abstract systems to physical observation, historical knowledge enables us to reason about our past or our origin. Then there's a massive body of knowledge about human products: literature, visual art and music spanning thousands of years, social and economic systems lasting centuries, the list goes on.

Now that's nice and all, but knowledge needs to be applied to something to be of any use. Which incidentally is the problem we are seeing currently: knowledge is pumped into peoples' heads and is expected to magically produce solutions, while we're not even in agreement over the problems (what are the common goals we are aiming for, as a race?).

No wonder it doesn't work, knowledge needs physical and mental room to grow. That makes a safe and comfortable environment a requirement for any supposedly functional educational system, but also one that is often not satisfied. In other words, the problem is not that education doesn't fix poverty, it's that our shitty politics and social non-systems do not give people enough piece and quiet to explore their knowledge.

Edit to add: It is much more convenient to blame a malfunction on the most obviously failing part rather than recognising that the underlying machinery is not providing the right environment for said part to operate in, wearing it harder than necessary.
"rehearse" ?
The sequel is a let down though. Oh well.
A large and growing network of users.
This a million times. The reality here is that its politically easier to simply raise taxes and feed the spending beast instead of trying to reform it and make it more efficient. This is a major problem in representational democracy where the voters are easily swayed to vote against their own interests. Look at how Chicago continues to vote itself bankrupt. They just dont have any leadership options who could trim down the budget and put bloaty public sector unions and their wasteful shenanigans in their place. These types of leaders never make it to the primaries as their corrupt counterparts simply outspend/outfavor them.

Taxes become a more delicate subject as you get older and realize that the salary you're making now is pretty much it for life. You'll get cost of living raises but its not like being young where there's nothing but upwards growth AND the tax refund system is very generous with you. Every tax raise then becomes a decrease in your lifestyle, quality of life, retirement, etc. The recent Chicago property tax means one less vacation for my family. We're expected to get 5-10 of these sized tax raises by the time I retire simply to catch up to pension spending deals signed decades ago. This is something to have legitimate outrage over.

Meanwhile Chicago is losing population, so yes maybe the ultra-rich don't move, but regular lower/middle class people certainly do due to taxes and cost of living increases:

Chicago area has greatest population decline of any U.S. city in 2015

http://wgntv.com/2016/03/25/chicago-area-has-greatest-popula...
"If a snapchat clone came out tomorrow, snapchat wouldn't be as sticky."

What makes you say that? Do you know how hard it is to get your social network to move to a new thing? The clone would have to have an amazing benefit, which Snapchat would be in a decent position to clone themselves.
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> If your organization's demographics don't match the demographics of the broader population of qualified candidates

This hasn't been demonstrated.
I remember that afternoon deserts served in Google restaurants when I worked there were very tasty - I hope everyone is celebrating with a good snack :-)

Seriously, I think this is a good verdict. I think that Oracle has been doing a good job sheparding Java, but this law suit really seemed to me to be too much of a money grab.
Is This a JavaScript Library
I second this. I worked at a research company that had terabyte-scale SQL databases of curated data, and the tests would take 5 - 8 hours to run because they were verifying query results rather than the queries themselves. This also meant tests would fail because of changes in the data rather than just changes in the code. I rewrote the entire test suite to match SQL statements against a symbolic SQL description, which turned out to be a much more robust and extensible solution.
Google argued that feature phones only had Java ME, which only included a small subset of Java's APIs, in contrast to Android, which includes significantly more Java (SE) APIs, as well as Android-specific APIs. My layperson understanding of that argument was that their use of Java was transformative because feature phones running Java ME were completely different from Android smartphones.
Or domicile your business in Delaware most other companies do.
I think not talking about race is more damaging than talking about race in many contexts. I also think that a decrease in institutional privilege (white male, in this case) is not discriminatory.

I also don't think "quotas" are a good solution, e.g., "Hire one more Mexican woman and we're good!" But acknowledging some statistical realities and taking a close look at what got you there isn't a bad thing.
This actually gets exploited all the time to get into the Federal Circuit's "arising under" jurisdiction :)
I interviewed at snapchat while they were still on the Venice Boardwalk. It was staffed by people who were laughing at their idiot users and trying to sell me on how many girls they pickup because they work at snapchat.

Those guys are all millionaires now. They don't give a shit about anything but money and extracting everything they can from their users before they fizzle out and die.
I agree with you, but I was responding to the request to keep "all the history". My understanding is the ref count would be the same if you merge in all the history or keep the branches around, so in those cases it wouldn't make a difference. I could be wrong though -- I don't know enough about git internals to know if one is worse than the other.
What do you work on...?

(It's relevant if you're going to say that Snapchat Software Engineers' problems aren't "real".)
I was recently looking into ggiraph (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggiraph/vignettes/gg...) for converting ggplot2 to d3 since it keeps most of the same syntax as normal ggplot2 charts.

However, looking at the output of these plot.ly charts may make me reconsider since they have good performance and the conversions appear extremely accurate (and the software is open-source). Well played.

Unfortunately, the charts hit the same issue as every other JS library in that they are nigh unusable on mobile devices for nontrivial visualizations. Which is beginning to get annoying.
I do part time work packaging FIBbed gizmos, the 'machinist' has done at best a 50nm diameter aperture in metal film (from what I recall, maybe it was 100nm) using a beam diameter of 10nm. This is on a machine that was new 20 years ago (newer machines are probably 5 to 10X better in terms of hardware these days, maybe 50X in software). Also, ASML is researching multi-beam electron steppers and getting more traction lately: http://semiengineering.com/multi-beam-market-heats-up/ (from 2 months ago)
If you found Sarah's coverage of the trial useful, she is accepting payments on PayPal since she was doing it with her own money:
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/731687243916529665
> Even YC thinks of the whole thing as a game (if you followed the snapchat thing)

I don't understand this line of thinking. Snapchat is emerging as one of the largest content platforms out there. The Snapchat pitch competition is simply a way to reach a broader audience. I have been watching the pitches daily and a large number of them have turned out to be substantive, high quality pitches. It's also a great way for young founders to learn about pitching a startup.
Not exactly similar but https://github.com/ludovicchabant/vim-gutentags is pretty great.
No, the industrial market is split between 28nm or below, 45-65nm, and 180-350nm. You can compete with fixed HW on performance, power, or flexibility. I think you're talking performance. Plenty of improvements a FPGA can get on lower nodes over 45-65nm or 180-350nm. It's actually part of how Xilinx and Altera got their market share: replacing older, low-volume parts with FPGA's on new nodes.
Google didn't base their implementation on OpenJDK, even if they had they didn't follow the terms in the GPL so (given it was copyrightable and not fair use) this wouldn't be a defence.
Usually people bring civil suits in order to get justice for some wrong that has been done to them, not to get paid for being an instrument in the revenge fantasy of a billionaire. I think the jury certainly has a vested interest in knowing if the case is of the first type or the second. Society most definitely does.

In this case it's the first. What those of us who are looking at this case with more long-term consequences in mind are worried about is the second.
react needs something like the ember-cli
http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/
http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/

Really?
No, "coercing" money from people isn't morally wrong, it's part of the social contract. I'm a pacifist, but I still recognize that the sort of society left undefended doesn't last long so I pay the share of taxes that go to the military. Trade becomes difficult without roads, so every member of a vibrant economy pays for the infrastructure necessary to conduct that trade. I extend that to healthcare. A sick populous is less productive and less desirable.
I was thinking more along the lines of how a newly-hired male nurse is perceived by female nurses. If he screws up, is it likely that they'll think "men don't make good nurses" and ignore the fact that he's new?

So, no I'm not suggesting that I represent all men. I'm saying it's possible a male nurse may in some way be representing all male nurses to his female nurse coworkers.
Hold up, an attempt to rectify systemic injustice is not reverse racism.

YC's doing a great thing here to support and foster underrepresented groups in the startup founder world. Being from an underrepresented group makes so many things harder because as a founder raising capital it, unfortunately, is often more about what you look like and who you know than your product or your vision.
Sort of. WeChat in China, LINE in Japan.

And again, if you look at what WeChat has done with embedded services, and believe that will spread, then you wonder whether it will happen on WhatsApp vs. something else. And I don't see Facebook putting the energy into the automation/interaction platform on WhatsApp that it is going to do on Facebook.
I'm not going to read that :-D
Not sure but these two articles/papers came to mind:

"Scalable Multi-Access Flash Store for Big Data Analytics"
https://people.csail.mit.edu/wjun/papers/fpga2014-wjun.pdf

"FPGA-based hardware acceleration for a key-value store database (2014)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374801
I have no experience with IPOs but as a Twilio customer they've been pushed a revamp of documentation, client libraries, their user interfaces, as well as several new products in the past ~6 months. My guess is an IPO would enable them to continue that. That or they just did it for a little hockey stick in revenue before the IPO.
I think it's worth more, honestly. Probably $100-200B.

That sandbox is a lot bigger than the sandbox you & I like to inhabit. The set of folks interested in technical programming & startup-related news probably numbers under 100K. I was an admin for a Harry Potter fansite in college that had 100K registered users, close to 1M when guests were counted, and we were far from the largest Harry Potter fansite. The set of folks who like clickbait, celebrity gossip, hanging out with friends, and making funny faces is a couple orders of magnitude larger than that, probably past a billion.

People are very different in their refined passions but alike in their base desires. That means that anything that caters to base desires, by definition, will have a market size much, much bigger than sites that cater to refined passions.