skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Static linking has benefits, but from a distribution standpoint it makes handling security updates (which people expect to be done correctly and in a timely manner) a HUGE pain in the ass.

You want to go statically link your internal rust binary that you are pushing out to hundreds or thousands of nodes and you need the extra performance? Go for it, you can handle rebuilding it every time there is a security update (and last I checked dylib's allow both static and dynamic linking against them, so you have that option). But if you want to include your binary in a distribution package repository it really should be dynamically linked, tracking what dependencies everything has and forcing rebuilds and updates for EVERY SINGLE BINARY that uses them is wasteful and a pain to manage.
I still think it's easier to verify two isolated projects: the compiler(that can be reused) and the apollo code instead of mashing all of the equations code in assembly. I doubt the people were so used to assembly(especially scientists) that they they didn't require a magnitude more time to mentally parse/unparse logic and equations to machine code. (Also the compiler doesn't have to be very high level, even just a glorified macro-assembler with some syntactic sugar for math does seem not hard)
>The police are definitely racist.

And you have evidence about that from....?

>However, there is a reason beyond racism that police react differently. 40% of officer killings are by black suspects

Unlikely, considering that police are less to kill black suspects than white ones (read that Washington Times article I linked). So it appears that white police are racist against white people. Let's start a "white lives matter" organization!
The Unixy version of LZMA is called XZ. Unix people prefer tar over zip, probably for historical/tribal reasons.

There are really three different compression "markets"; LZMA/XZ provides strong compression while LZFSE provides moderate or light compression so they don't really compete.
No company is going to own IoT, so please stop trying
I think the "other website" is HN.
> ...if Investing/General Partner is not present, the slot will be cancelled.

These seems to be an attempt to reinforce FOMO to force key people to attend demo day. Resorting to these tactics implies a pretty big perceived power imbalance... Eg. is this a reaction to senior partners sending their underlings because of DDay burnout? If so, this could backfire. The senior partners might just not show up (still), and force founders to attend offsite meetings later anyway (in addition to the new DDay meetings). In other words: This might just be a net increase in founder effort without changing the investor-founder DDay dynamic. After all: What do the senior partners gain / lose by this new situation? Not much (aside from FOMO), I'd guess. But the best investors will always be in demand anyway -- whether they attend DDay or not.
just remove ?m=1 from the end of the url
Thankfully google tag manager is one of the first things to be blocked at my router, right after GA.

This kind of unethical behavior is going to bite the industry in the long run. Get informed consent first.
The world is a museum of echo chambers. You can't escape it, it's in our nature. People want confirmation bias.
Your smartwatch is revealing your ATM PIN to hackers
What game does the description spoil? I have a Vive and have played all the Lab demos and I don't really see anything that spoils any of them.
I'm really surprised there isn't a moon landing simulator based on the real code yet.
Actually, for a long time now we've only allowed partners to come to demo day.

We are relaxing this restriction and allowing partners to bring associates to Investor Day, but only if they come themselves.
Facebook Decides Which Killings We’re Allowed to See
<3 Eno, but there are a lot of people making computer music and working with digital synthesis at a granular level (pun intended). This just seems like name-dropping.
It's hard to find a 12" (30cm) deep medium that would allow for fruiting plants such as tomatoes, be lighter than water, and not just be a support structure such as polyurethane foam (i.e. not having roots grow through it).
AMEX Phisher Leaks Thousands of Victim IPs
Azul is still state of the art, certainly for the JVM.
The battlefield series tends to support a large number of players on very large maps. No jetpack assisted skiing though.
> Someone who wants to raid companies doesn't join a 10 person startup out of college.

haha. dude. she's in her 40s and worth $500M (and growing) now. she is obviously pilfering yahoo and enriching herself and her friends. things change. people change. sometimes for the worse.

ironically, the corporate raider types are the ones who are currently trying to stop her, because she is killing the golden goose that has lined their pockets for decades.

to be quite honest i wouldn't be surprised if her loyalties still lay with the google cabal. you know what one great way to get rid of a major competitor is? become ceo and sack the joint. genius!
I'm really looking forward to when rustup.rs is stable (atleast for Linux)! I'm trying to push Rust at work, and it's one of those polishy things that would help.

Unfortunately, last time I checked development (on issues blocking the initial stable release) seemed to have slowed as of late, but I should be helping out instead of whining - the Rust community is doing great work!
> But to be fair to the anti-GMO people, what they're really complaining about is bad outcomes that are not proximate to GM technology, but are enabled by it, like having herbicide residue on their herbicide-resistant crops, or that are part of commercializing GM technology, like overreaching IP laws.

No, people with that kind of complaint are a vanishingly small presence among anti-GMO people. What they're really complaining about is that a part-fish part-tomato is contrary to the order of the universe.
I care not why the officer himself didn't administer aid, but why the no aid was called in time.
Hillary Clinton’s Email Was Probably Hacked, Experts Say
And besides, they just closed the venerable Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, so it's not that they are putting their money where their mouth is.

That was almost 2 years ago and it doesn't seem like it had much of an impact on their R&D spending
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Google+vs+Apple+vs+Micr...
Ah, okay. I was aware of those, and was thinking maybe people were talking about compile-time introspection rather than code generation.
This is a priority for the next update - git just ended up being a lot of work and got cut for the initial release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2D3qzHtqY
enjoy that illusion... one day you will meet the police and think back .. hopefully you remember and feel at least a bit ashamed
If 1000 people need to do that, the few seconds it takes quickly adds up.

It would be much easier if the original link was changed.
If you want to be private, don't use a social network where you are the product. Did you seriously expect reddit to NOT track your actions? If you ran the product, you would also want to collect metrics to understand how your users use the site.

Of course, I imagine the big win here would be people not logged in, so even registering to opt out would be a win for reddit.
The comma acts as a separator in declarations, function calls and initializers.

In ordinary expressions it is a normal binary operator (just like / or &&), but has the lowest precedence and simply evaluates the left-hand side, discarding the result, then (in that order) evaluates the right-hand side, returning its value as the result.
> I think it's selling Marissa short to say she just didn't understand the contracts or her legal options and potential consequences.

So she understood the consequences, but just had no clue as to their likelihood or didn't care because she would be set financially? It's horrible either way, she should not be negotiating deals at all.
> Ian was violently attempting to break into a neighbor's apartment by bashing down the front door.

That is simply not correct.
Thanks for taking the time to publish this, I've always been interested in tearing at CPython, but this pushed me over the edge. Looking forward to new and exciting ways to crash the runtime :)
It just recently had a major update so people can build their own bases and stuff now.
This is interesting

– (Azul GPGC: 100's of Gig's w/10msec)
– (Stock full GC pause: 10's of Gig's w/10sec)
– (IBM Metronome: 100's Megs w/10microsec)

Some how these numbers are hard to come by in Java land where any request for hard numbers receives response like Java GCs are 'generational', 'state of the art', 'best in industry' etc. All the technical arguments while true of course but they do not tell numbers.
I disagree and believe this should be better for founders. Demo Day works so well because it's a forcing function for getting a lot of investors to see you at once and make a decision quickly, because so many other investors are deciding at the same time. Typically, investors want a long time to consider a company, and they only move fast if someone is / might bid against them. Scheduling meetings post-Demo Day is tough, and most people do it sub-optimally (by scheduling them too far apart). This new system makes meetings happen faster and more per day, increasing a chance of getting a bite quickly, which should lead to a higher chance of closing the round.

The downside I see is that if you are bad at meeting investors / need to iterate on your pitch, these meetings won't allow you to do that, as they'll be over before you can rethink it. But I think it's generally worth more / faster meetings.

*As another investor pointed out, 20 minute meetings may also be too short. I am not sure what the optimal meeting length should be. 30 minutes might be better. 1 hour is probably too long (you can always schedule a follow up meeting).
Do you think it would be reasonable to package rustup in the Fedora repos? I ask because for a development machine, it makes more sense to be able to install multiple toolchains in parallel.
Yes. You can see a list here: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
No, it's not the same. Not sure why you think that analogy even makes sense.
Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)
Do you have any evidence or source that proves your claims about radioactive bee bread in Latvia and Lithuania? These countries actually were not affected that much. Much less than Scandinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#National_an...

You should actually be worried about pesticides which kills bees and poisons bee honey and bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees
And here's what the American Farm Bureau Federation is doing about it.[1] See their Ag Data Transparency Evaluator.[2]

The parent article totally ignores the major farming organizations.

[1] http://www.fb.org/issues/bigdata/
[2] http://www.fb.org/agdatatransparent/
Sure, but only in the sense that for many casual computer users, it's the default and therefore browser of choice. As for comparisons re: stability and usability it's night and day. Safari is a fine browser for OS X machines, and I've found it to be way more battery-friendly than Chrome on my Macbook. It has a decent enough built-in pop-up blocker and is supported by a few big adblocker plugins. I'd say the comparision is more or less unfounded, except on the grounds that it's the default browser for many users, hence its market share.
A few years ago sure, but 2016 has been pretty brutal for seed and series A. I imagine a small percentage of great companies will lose out as a result of a cold funding climate.
This is extremely valuable data for YC to capture for themselves. I wonder how they might use it other than for a match-making algorithm..
> And secondly, Ian was violently attempting to break into a neighbor's apartment by bashing down the front door. What exactly do you think should happen in such an instance? I'll tell you what I'd do -- I'd want the police to come as quickly as possible and deal with it, using whatever force is necessary to stop the in-progress home invasion, because if an intruder breaks through my door I have no choice but to shoot them until they're stopped, and I don't want that on my conscience. I don't have the skills or training to determine between mentally deranged people and killers, nor could I effectively or safely use non-lethal methods of self-defense.

Jesus fucking christ.

Here's what I did when a burglar Climbed up scaffolding on the building next door, climbed onto my roof, kicked a roof-access hatch in and gained entrance to my loft space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9871331

No killing needed.
Facebook's OpenCellular May Have Just Bricked Kenya's BRCK
Hey that's not fair, I haven't seen a windows blue screen since...

...well yesterday, actually.
I'm curious - did you model reserved instance pricing, or on-demand pricing in your comparison? AWS typically charges ~1/3rd the price for a 3-year reserved instance vs. on demand pricing. This comparison would be much more apples to apples if you are purchasing hardware with CapEx that typically depreciates over 3-5 years.
It is definitely an oddity that it's and/andalso instead of &&/and.

Similar to the fact that shell and perl swap == versus eq; that causes me no end of confusion switching between the two.

Though nothing will ever be as upsetting as the period when I used QBASIC at school and BBC BASIC at home. Number of times my attempts to use COLOUR compiled first time? Not even once.
As an investor, I think this will accomplish a few things:

1) A lot of scheduling friction will disappear. The week just after demo day is usually crazy because hundreds of founders and investors are all trying to schedule meetings with each other, and there are inevitable race conditions that lead to a lot of rescheduling and wasted time. (E.g. I email three founders with 5 possible time slots, and they all reply and ask for the same time slot.)

2) I think this will be great for investors who act quickly and go by their gut. There are plenty of investors out there -- especially those who write smaller checks -- for whom 20 minutes will be enough time to make a quick decision.

3) I'm not sure if this will be great for investors like me that approach investing more methodically rather than with their gut.* I love 1-hour meetings because that's plenty of time for both sides to dig in and learn a lot about each other. Twenty minutes feels very short to me, and I'm not sure if a 20-minute meeting is more likely to save me and the founder from an unnecessary 1-hour meeting, or if I end up having just as many 1-hour meeting -- but now with an extra 20 minutes tacked on.

That said, I don't want to judge this process before I try it at least once, and I'm looking forward to trying it out in August.

* FWIW, there are great gut-based investors and great methodical investors, and I'm not implying either approach is better.
In what way? The latest Sarafi Development Preview implements 100% of ES6 features which no other browser has done yet. And as far as I know, I haven't ran into any CSS features that Safari doesn't support recently when doing front-end development.
well -- unfortunately not. I have plenty of bad habits and ways I drive my coworkers nuts.
Some officer-involved homicides do attract increased scrutiny of the officers:

Darren Wilson (Michael Brown): http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-cop

Daniel Pantaleo (Eric Garner): http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/daniel-pantaleo-fatal-ch...

Timothy Loehmann (Tamir Rice): http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/01/timothy_loe...

Peter Liang (Akai Gurley): http://nypost.com/2016/02/04/partner-reveals-why-he-didnt-tr...
I think part of this is how much search traffic firefox can swing on the Internet. Remember that Google and Yahoo (and maybe Microsoft's Bing) were probably courting Mozilla for that contract.

In the context of that negotiation I could certainly see it coming up that Yahoo! might be acquired and Mozilla wanted some assurances if they went with Yahoo!. So neither Bing nor Google has that concern, so Yahoo! is the only one exposed.
Its strange where radioactive particles end up. In the Black Forest its in fungi that grow on trees, a favorite food of wild board. So all wild boar taken in the Black Forest must be tested with a Geiger counter before the meat can be sold! Over 500 REMS (?) and no sale.
It seems everyone is a forensic medical professional now. Did anyone actually read the report?

From the medical examiner: "I received and reviewed the Toxicology Report. The findings do not change my opinion regarding the cause and manner of death."
Discussion on Slashdot used to be better. I would imagine there are quite a few of us here on HN who used to meaningfully contribute to the discussion over there.

Further, I believe the GP was referring to HN, which has, like reddit, a one-dimensional voting system (for the most part).
Not sure if this fits the bill, but you can do code generation at compile time with cargo using build scripts: http://doc.crates.io/build-script.html

I have an as-yet-unpublished crate that takes a JSON API spec and generates an API client for it (in rust) at compile time using this method.
And the comfort of public bus riders is somehow more valid than other segments of society?
Is there any reason they can't just go back to Google? I thought they only switched to Yahoo because the contract was up and Yahoo offered a deal they couldn't walk away from.
A developer's journey to create 100 games in five years
> they just closed the venerable Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, so it's not that they are putting their money where their mouth is.

I seem to remember they fired Leslie Lamport.
For me, quickcheck! It's possible to live with a quickcheck feature that only works on nightly but it would be nicer if it were integrated like cargo test; cargo quickcheck.
Do you have a source on the testosterone information? That seems really interesting to me and something I haven't heard yet.
Yeah, I'm a long term cloudformation user and so frustrated with it's many shortcomings, the workarounds you need to make, and the hold on to your seat moment when you apply your changes...

It took me a while to get used to terraform, figure out the design patterns, and use all of the features properly, but its insanely powerful, and a really solid product.

Yeah, you can store the state in S3, or pay the $20 a month for atlas... Its really worth it.

You can reference stored states in your terraform modules, so for example you can have a module that creates IAM users, groups, shared s3 buckets etc for your account, then you can reference to resources in it from other modules with separate state, for example environments.

Give it a go and try it out for a while, you wont go back.
This is the humanity that seems to be all but missing in police training. s/exasperating/exacerbating
> This kind of unethical behavior is going to bite the industry in the long run.

How so? It seems like this could quite easily improve reddit's content. If you're so ornery to complain about tracking outbound link clicks you probably have already blocked said tracking so it is a moot point. The rest of users (and indeed also the ornery ones!) will benefit from better content.
So don't use social networks? That's a pretty big imposition.
>"Craig : [Laughter]"

I commented on the last article "Employee 1: Yahoo" [0] regarding interjection of "Hahaha" by the interviewer. Seems it was changed to [Laughter], which seems much more inline and professional.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12009360
Why the downvotes?

Seems like a well-reasoned hypothesis and contributes to the overall discussion. Has HN become that critical of different opinions that downvotes are used to punish dissent rather than using upvotes to indicate agreement?
I've been addicted to benzos (since recovered) and know many others who have been too, so I'm intimately aware of their addictive nature and rapid tolerance. Saying they "destroy" judgment is a bit hyperbolic though.

In any event we're all speculating. But I seriously doubt anything about this was accidental, even if the benzos were recreational. The drugs didn't kill him. The hanging did.
When his comments show up it is because one or more of us have vouched for it, otherwise you'll only see them with showdead. Look at his comment history.

He gets this treatment because he occasionally posts something technically worthwhile, and because his outbursts are likely a result of mental illness. Even so, very, very little of what he posts is visible to most people because even a lot of otherwise good comments have offensive parts tacked on.

(In this case, the last bit is a reasonably un-offensive output from his random text generator, it would seem).
The effects due to particulates are local and short term. The effects due to CO2 are global and long term. 400 ppm CO2 is indeed a real concern, but it does not follow that locally high levels of toxic particulates are not a real concern.
The rotation I did through a hospice service when I was a fourth year medical student was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.

Hospice staff are experts at effective pain-wrangling (pain in all its many manifestations), and, as they say, in helping people live until they die.

I'm grateful for the teaching - from both clinicians and patients.
The JVM's memory model was something amazing when I first encountered it.
The stable marriage problem has two natural algorithms that produce a stable matching: one algorithm give priority to women's choices and one gives priority to men's choices.

If the algorithm used by yc to produce the matching for each slot is based on these, which algorithm is used? The one that gives priority to women's choices or to men's choices? A variation that doesn't give priority to any gender choices?
I guess a touchy question I would've liked to see is "How was it working with Aaron Swartz?," because he seemed like a wonderful person to work with.
What makes you think it's just social networks?

Half the software you use is probably hemorrhaging info to Google Analytics, buried in a checkbox in the settings.
The problem with any negative feedback system is that people will always use it for stuff they personally don't like. It doesn't matter what you call it, people will abuse it.
But HN has separate downvote and flag buttons for comments?
Now there's a contrarian opinion ;-)
There was someone a while ago in a group I was in making the claim that python was no inherently slower than other languages that were more static like Java. I might have to point them at this now. Great read! Reminds me of: http://blog.kevmod.com/2016/07/why-is-python-slow/ which was discussed a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025309
>But you need three buttons, like/dislike, and "bad."

I always considered "bad"==flag, no?
https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/include/open...
> last I checked, there wasn't even a supported UI for directory operations (typing DN's by hand is for the birds!)

I don't think I've ever typed DN's by hand, because there are tons of LDAP UIs for pretty much every platform under the sun.
The way the algorithm is written actually balances out the preferences of both groups. Investors and founders will each get to meet with their counterparts based on a ranking they supply.
Just wondering: so you are one of those bright souls that know where the light is..?

People are not as stupid as you think they are. That's what democracy is about, like it or not.
Interesting. While recording police activity has certainly exposed many atrocities the few times I have seen police making legitimate arrests recently they are being recorded by a handful of on-lookers who are crowding the situation. I would imagine it is very difficult for police to perform their job under those conditions. There is certainly a benefit that comes at a cost.
Happy Fourth (Or, on the virtues of political homework.)