skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am planning a road trip this year from my home in Alabama across and up to Washington state in late August. I believe I timed it just right! Side note: I cannot stand the heat and humidity here in Alabama this time of year. When it's 98 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity is so high that as soon as you walk outside you are covered in water like you just jumped in a pool..... it's unbearable. I love the outdoors but due to the climate around here I can't do anything during the summer months.
Teen Plays Pokémon Go Outside, Finds Dead Body
I don't understand why to have all these tests for an applicant? Why not integrate an applicant into a team for a day and have pair programming sessions?

I found, that nothing else works.
Interesting, didn't realize they were using finger pricks (few drops of blood) on machines designed for venous draws. I guess the important point is that whatever they tried didn't deliver real value to their users (i.e. they did not 'make something people want').
> I don't understand the apprehension to using public transportation

I use public transportation twice a day every weekday but that doesn't mean I wouldn't also, occasionally, need to have need of Uber. They serve different needs, is that so hard to understand?

> If you have an absolutely urgent need to get somewhere, I'd argue that you didn't plan well

If only there was a service that existed to help you get somewhere if something goes terribly wrong with your plans! Somebody should turn that into a business and make money.
How susceptible is this Signal Protocol to a man-in-the-middle attack? Because if Facebook is going to be the man in the middle, then this feature is pointless.
GMail does some really interesting analysis on e-mails. It even somehow managed to detect and block a file I wanted to send demonstrating a dcraw parser bug in a really obscure camera RAW image format.
Theranos CEO’s Two-Year Ban Leaves Few Options to Save Startup
Why can't we have it?
A Playboy Conversation with Alex Gibney about the US Arming Its Digital Enemies
And Python conjures images of dangerous snakes (and people getting killed by them), Go conjures images of that argument with my SO, when she told me "go!", C# conjures images of sharp objects like knives, and PHP conjures images of programming in PHP.

It's just a name, nobody really cares about rusty nails and rust in tap water when discussing Rust the programming language. And by nobody I mean nobody in the statistical significant sense.

It's really bikeshedding.
Ask HN: A tool automatically setup an AWS cluster?
Hi there,

Is there a tool to automatically setup an AWS cluster? I'm using a variety of different AWS services (Kinesis, RedShift, Cognito, EMR, etc.) that need to be deployed individually for ~100 customers, it would be great if i could just run a script and have them all setup

Thanks
if I unlock my phone with a duress code or imprint my duress-coded fingerprint, reboot the phone (to look like it was a glitch-induced reboot) and present the PIN prompt again. Auto-wipe the phone if the duress code is given again this second time.

If such a feature was commonplace, criminals would know about it and wouldn't be happy when they saw you activate it with your middle finger (I mean, who wouldn't use their middle finger to activate such a function!?) after they just threatened you enough to make you attempt to unlock your phone.
This is specifically about the military, but searching for "saltpeter prisons" gets similar results:

http://www.snopes.com/military/saltpeter.asp
http://www.snopes.com/military/saltpeter.asp
He edited his post. He originally made the statement that his experience proved VR therapy was a stupid idea.
I think you may be mixing up carrier subsidized smartphone costs with actual smartphone costs. Unsubsidized smartphones that are good enough to run VR applications smoothly are still $600-$700.
I tend to like the pride argument more. To default is to lose face in the international world and at home. Better to sacrifice to uphold one's promises.

A false pretense when there is little respect outside of those receiving payments beyond their borders. Perhaps they think they would be admitting defeat and that would cause the coup to occur overnight?
Er, no.

Mass surveillance wants both metadata and content. Metadata happens to be a bit easier to analyse, but often they are only analysing metadata to lead them to the content in the first place.
(2006) the Vietnam of Computer Science
Engineering management may be the most unnatural act of all
Thanks for posting the errors, I'll get ubuntu running and look into it. It seems to be just the __unused annotations and the non-portable pthread call, so should be easy to get it working. :)
>CLRS is the book that most people recommend.

CLRS is a good reference if you want to look up some canonical algorithm and read the accompanying discussion. It is a terrible way to learn if you're not combining it with something more explanatory, like a professor. It's an extremely dense wall of pseudocode and proofs.

Kleinberg and Tardos is a little handwavy with its mathematical proofs, but does an excellent job of motivating the examples, holding your hand and explaining why the next step is next, etc.

It is not, however, a survey of the canonical algorithms and data structures. You will not learn how to balance or invert a binary tree. (My algorithms class was based on K&T, and while I learned a ton, I don't feel I learned how to pass a whiteboard interview). More of an introduction to algorithmic thought, with algorithms selected for their pedagogical value.
Strictly speaking, the only requirement a police officer need meet to be armed is to be authorised by a substantive Superintendent or higher. Hence the term 'Authorised Firearms Officer'.

All ARVs are AFOs, but not all AFOs are ARV. The difference is about 4 weeks (9 weeks vs 5 weeks), and the majority of that is the additional tactics around search and 'call outs' which an AFO (usually being entirely reactive) would not deal with.

The training is intensive, but there's no specific psychological screening beyond the instructors (and colleagues) realising that an individual officer ought not be trusted with a pen, let alone a firearm. There's more screening to become a sexual offences/CSE investigator than there is to become an AFO.

There are more AFOs than you'd imagine, and the majority of them will be only carrying a sidearm.

>They have to follow a rigid set out protocols before they can engage a threat.

No, the protocols are far from rigid. The training means that an AFO is fluent in the 'National Decision Model', which means that they can make dynamic assessments of risk without being hamstrung by a rigid "if this, then that" set of behaviours.

>I'll exclude Charles de Menezes from that, since I still believe that he was shot by armed SAS soldiers operating in public on British streets, authorised by the home office

Then you've been reading too many conspiracy stories. The whole thing was a fuck up from start to finish, but there's nothing in it that needs the SAS to be involved. If they had been, they would have had their own tactical command and De Menzes would probably still be alive.
Maybe a right to a speedy and fair trail is not scalable? Maybe at 300M people, there has to be a layer of BS?
Chasing Cats
"...didn’t give a sht whether there was an elastic band or an 8086 or a 286 driving the thing"

There actually was an elastic band in the disk drive: I remember replacing it twice in my dad's PCW9512 when it wore out.
The perils of fallthrough
I had no idea that Dylan Roof was African American.

"..actively being targeted.." is a red herring. Active, or in response, we need to look at the effect. Black on black crime is bad, and is a crime, and should be punished accordingly. Police killing someone has a much more difficult time of being convicted as a crime. In theory, punishment would be a deterrent, but giving someone a license to kill is a much different level of fear.
Looks like you had fun making this project!

I'm throwing out a challenge for you:

What will Verve do well, that no (major) language does well?

I hope you continue developing it, and that you keep having fun creating it.
There's good arguments for their point. For instance:

"When something goes wrong in a restaurant kitchen, and the boss appears to size things up, he is unlikely to pay much attention to a collection of workers all scrambling to explain their version of the story. Likely as not he’ll tell them all to shut up and just arbitrarily decide what he thinks is likely to have happened: “you’re the new guy, you must have messed up — if you do it again, you’re fired.” It’s those who do not have the power to fire arbitrarily who have to do the work of figuring out what actually happened. ..."

"True, bureaucratic procedure operates as if it were a form of stupidity, in that it invariably means ignoring all the subtleties of real human existence and reducing everything to simple pre-established mechanical or statistical formulae. Whether it’s a matter of forms, rules, statistics, or questionnaires, bureaucracy is always about simplification. Ultimately the effect is not so different than the boss who walks in to make an arbitrary snap decision as to what went wrong: it’s a matter of applying very simple schemas to complex, ambiguous situations." (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-revolu...)

However downvoted the parent post is, it's nevertheless one of the saner observations coming from a species destroying itself.
I tried Persona, great concept, the adoption rate was differently very slow. I don't know if they ever reached out to large players and encourage them to adopt, but I think believe even if GitHub did, that wouldn't matter much. Mozilla did not want to keep running Persona as the sole IdP in the Persona platform, it did only to encourage development and early adoption. Even internally I don't think all sites went to Persona, but the large one differently did though. With that attitude I was fearing a major migration which could kill motivation.
No, it isn't. I don't use HN much, just taking a look at this conversation. I shouldn't even respond to this comment considering its tone. You should keep in mind that this was in discussion of a new serialization library, not the PVP.

I actually had to create this new account because I forgot my password and my old account (probably mgsloan) doesn't have an email address associated.

> All I said was that FP complete is setting a bad example by actively refusing to follow established community guidelines (PvP).

We do follow the important parts of the PvP. Personally, I consider the 3rd section of the PvP a failed experiment. It just doesn't work well, and the maintainer / hackage trustee overhead is too damn high. My theory is that the folks who are adamant about the PvP are either damn tenacious and dedicated (hvr, dcoutts, etc), or people who don't deal with projects with many dependencies and custom packages.

So, yes, we are willing to dump tradition when the tradition is nonsense. I think that Haskellers ought to understand this very well - tradition should be questioned - particularly when it is a major pain point.

When there is great value in doing so, we are questioning some traditions and doing our own thing. This attitude appears to be ruffling the feathers of the vocal minority.
>This is interesting, actually - unsurprisingly, the US is the most punitive place on earth if you assault a cop, although I can't see how you could assault a cop in the US, given that they're armed to the teeth and usually in full armour, and usually sat in an armoured and armed vehicle.

Ah, I see you've watched the Ferguson riot videos.

Using the same process, I have concluded cops in the UK always carry shields and wear helmets with full faceplates, and that the UK military patrols minority neighborhoods in full battle gear including automatic weapons.
> No, it's really not

Yes, it really is.

> forcing them to price rides at $75 a ride is just a tactic to drive them out of business altogether, without the government doing anything to actually make the situation better for its citizens

They were classified as limos. I said I disagree with that. It's not some great conspiracy to target Uber, it's an application of the law. Would you rather they get lumped in with Taxi's and forced to follow all those regs?

> What enlightened local governments would do is figure out how to enact some sensible regulations on these new Uber-like services, and then let them set their own prices and compete fairly.

I agree. I support any efforts to bring in law changes to let Uber operate.

I don't support letting them just jump into the market and do what they want.
I'm a fan of Poly/ML myself. MoscowML is cool, but it seems like the devs either don't have the time or the will to give it any love anymore, and it has been languishing without any updates for years now. It doesn't even build on Cygwin anymore. Meanwhile, Poly/ML is still maintained, and considerably faster (though I couldn't make heads nor tails of its parser code...).
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<strike>While at launch it was a decent book, at this time the book is outdated, you are better off using Apple's book on Swift 2.2 (and soon 3).</strike>

Edit: My bad I was talking about Swift Programming The Big Nerd Ranch Guide.
I have lived in both Alabama and Washington state. Washington is nice :-D
Ask HN: $95,000 .cloud domain names – has the world gone crazy?
So I'm digging around for a good domain name. Maybe a ".cloud" domain?

Turns out alot of them are available ......

https://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?checkAvail=1&tmskey=&domainToCheck=fast&tld=.cloud&key=dpp_leaf_cloud

@ $95,000 per domain! Has the world gone nuts?
This seems like a really badly done study for multiple reasons. One, as a Hispanic, I would expect there to be a huge jump in numbers of Hispanics being killed in obvious places, Texas, California, Miami, new York. Half of the data is extremely slanted, there is no way that there are even a 10th the amount of anyone else being killed in some of those places (Miami) and yet the numbers are skewed to the point of hilarity towards the other races even in obvious places.
Basic income shouldn't leave you with much, if any, discretionary income. I don't see the relation.
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I always thought the whatever text editor that was used on the Archimedes had a very intuitive copy/paste, if I remember correctly you could move a "second cursor" around and then pressing a key it would paste the current character in the "copy cursor" at your current location

This would make it really easy to do something like duplicate a line while changing some things, just move the copy cursor to the line/variable/thing you wanted to paste and modify, then hold the copy key until you got to where you had to change something (at your current location the characters from the other line would appear), type what you wanted, then back to the copy key for the rest of the line

Seeing my best friend at the time use it it seemed really cool, some days I think of trying to write a minor mode for emacs that lets you do that...
Why do you think you can't ask candidate about what you need in this
interview mode? Sure you can. Just don't expect he (let's stick with this
pronoun) will know very much -- it's not his domain, he didn't work with that.

What you get out of hearing the candidate talk about his past project(s) is
the knowledge how he approached problems and if he actually completed anything
worthwhile, even if it was internals refactoring and there was no thing
visible outside.
Some distrust of those in power is not always assuming that everyone with authority is lying. That's the absurd part, although I do admit that approaching it as though lying by authorities is common is a good way to build the system -- similar to designing your internal network assuming that attackers have already breached your firewall.

because I understand that I could be tempted by that power

Interesting. I don't look at it that way at all. I don't really want more power in my life except for the power to live without people messing with me. Power over others has little appeal or temptation to me.

Policing just looks to be a dangerous, thankless, under-compensated job to me. Imagine having to walk up to someone's car to give them a ticket. Your job is to be "that guy" who pisses on someone's day because they were speeding, had a tail light out, whatever. Then add to that mix the probability that they'll try to manipulate you, possibly by insulting you and taking their frustration out on you. Finally, that person may have a gun and be waiting for you to get into the right position to blow a hole in you. Makes me happy that I earn my living by programming in my house.

I'm torn on your comment about respect. I think that there are some jobs in the world that are more deserving than others of respect. Doctors who save lives, for example. Most jobs that involve a lot of physical risk for little pay like the military and policing, for another. Sitting on my butt writing software is not really one of them and I'm okay with that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054230

And many other submissions besides.
This is very welcome. Most people read faster than they watch, so this is going to be a huge time saver for devs.
How is it outdated? Also the Apple book has nothing about ios.
The Dallas Police Used an Improvised Killer Robot to Take Down the Gunman
The book was released 6 months ago. I am halfway through it. Why do you say it is outdated?
Thanks, but I have accepted another offer
> If they burn all the bridges, this may not be possible to accomplish

The bridges were burnt more thoroughly by Chavez's expropriation as well as his and Maduro's price-control and rationing policies. I would put a dollar in Greece or Puerto Rico before Venezuela, despite the formers having defaulted and the latter not.
It points to even older paper for ANS: http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3861

The more recent one is: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540

The first one is about kind of multidimensional analogue of Fibonacci coding ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_coding )- on a lattice, such that there cannot be two neighboring '1's. It also uses an interesting concept of Maximal Entropy Random Walk.
Denmark’s Tougher Citizenship Test Stumps Even Its Natives
What do you mean by minimal? The syntax? I guess not since it's not that much minimal to other fp-langs such as clojure or even Rust.
What are the important parts of the PvP and why are they important?
Thank you, sir. :)
Thoughts on Streembit without getting too technical
ArrayBlockingQueue [1] uses a ring buffer backed by a fixed-size array, too. It is really hard to say where the speed-up comes from without seeing the code, but it is certainly not from using a ring buffer because both of the compared implementations do so. I guess they just were more careful when they designed the auxiliary state and the operation on it, for example ArrayBlockingQueue explicitly tracks the number of elements in the queue with a separate field - instead of deriving it from the insert and remove pointers - and therefore this field is contented by readers and writers. Also preallocating entries for all slots to work around Java's lack of support for arrays of value types certainly removes some overhead from the allocator.

EDIT: Just realized that the code is on GitHub - will have a look.

[1] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...
> files

Is this an explanatory simplification, or is it really only files that get scrutinized?

I would be equally concerned, if not more concerned, about network traffic (vulnerable daemons, clients vulnerable to maliciously crafted responses, etc) vs. files.
2 years ago I moved to SF from a shithole city. I had taken off like 3 years to work on my own projects. It was more difficult than I expected to find a job without any connections. Took about 3 months after moving here.

I think there's at least some bias against people who have taken time off because they appear comfortable not having a job and therefore the company has less leverage over them.
Why not. Replying via email.
Actually it is an argument as that's one of the defining characteristics of the condition, it's not a great argument because I don't know how he feels, but it's more than just "I disagree" which is no argument at all. In any case, I'm not the OP, I didn't call him a sociopath, I merely said he deserved the label.
This is a downside of any open-source project and is not specific to Microsoft.
> They serve different needs, is that so hard to understand?

Yes, because they serve the same need -- to get you from one place to another. They have different uses, sure, one being for something time sensitive and one for something potentially not, but they do not serve different needs. It's not fair to conflate need with want, because while humans generally need to get from one point to another, they don't need to use Uber. There are other options.

> Somebody should turn that into a business and make money.

That business model exists already, it's called a taxicab/livery service.
The content of this article is pretty cool...but if I had to come up with a HN title that a deep learning process would surmise would do extremely well, it would be literally this. Or maybe "Show HN: How to use deep learning to optimize honey production from beehives"

edit: The title of the submission has been changed; originally, it was something like "Using Deep Learning to Keep Cats off the Lawn"
Scott Alexander wrote up a fantastic analysis of this and two more articles: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/06/14/three-more-articles-on-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
If by "free" you mean "included in the paid plan," then yes.
This sounds like Android Doze, except Doze isn't (a) manual or (b) explained to the user as being off.
$6 a month per custom domain for static site hosting is a bit expensive compared to other offerings.
damn this would make a great motorcycle route, but keep it towards the higher side of 70 for the naked bikes. High temperatures and summer humidity can side line me as much as below freezing temperatures. I can do below freezing but I get leery of what I find on the road around the next corner. Summer heat can be dangerous as many will ride without jackets which is unsafe and dehydrating
The protocol of which version of skype client are you reversing? I guess it is NOT the same protocol web.skype.com uses?

BTW, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to mention that I daily chat with skype contacts by means of XMPP clients and gateway software "spectrum" http://spectrum.im/ (which works by web protocol of skype). All 1-to-1 chats work, recent groupchats work. File transfers from skype contacts don't work, and also calls. But day-to-day it is enough for me. I gain a lot of flexibility by this.
I'm not third hand diagnosing anyone, I'm not diagnosing anyone, and I'm not the one who even brought up the term sociopath as I'm not the OP; I simply said he deserves the label given what he's done. So if you're bored, feel free to go somewhere else.
Just as a first-order guess of your second half, what you describe sounds highly illegal.

The first part makes more sense - and it's not a conspiracy theory - they want to keep access to bond markets.