skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The puzzle doesn't involve the stranger saying multiple things. He just shows up, says one thing that everyone already knows to be true (e.g. "At least one of you has blue eyes"), and then leaves forever. And that's enough to cause everyone to (eventually) commit suicide.

The fact that this happens even though it doesn't sound like new information is what makes it an interesting puzzle!
Dogs can understand human speech, scientists discover
I also wonder this!

CRS-8 was launched on the 8th of April this year, so given that the launch of SES-10 is slated for Q4 2016, that means there's like, 6/7/8 months for the turnaround.

But I'm hopeful that we'll see an assembly line of rockets landing, being inspected, and being launched, sometime in the future :)
Drivers rate passengers? Where can I see my rating?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395442
Append to title: (2010)

Oh, Websockets! Never has a technology so unambiguously demonstrated that we abused the web to become a new desktop where we run (mostly) cross-platform pieces of minified blackbox JS and need the same types of abstractions like you'd find in a real OS, like, say, sockets.

That being said, it was better than imperfect emulations of the same concept that pre-dated it by ~6+ years (like long polling). I'd even go so far as to say that the rise of websockets and the excitement over streaming real-time data between webapps greatly contributed to the traction of Node.js, which was the runtime for socket.io.

Socket.io offered one consistent API that just worked, and internally it wrapped websocket or its workarounds, depending on where the code ran. It was beautiful. I remember many tutorials about Node.js starting off with socket.io.

Now, with HTTP2, Websocket is sort-of abandoned -- not because HTTP2 is that good, but no one is excited about WS anymore. But once QUIC becomes mainstream and HTTP2's imperfect attempt to reinvent a transport protocol over an existing transport protocol is subsumed into HTTP2-over-QUIC, there will be zero need for WS.
Could you elaborate on some of the specific issues you ran into?
At least there is no federal loan system to "scam" this time, and the private loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. I should also mention that some of the schools were already going downhill anyway, for example Heald College.
"Suppose I cut a piece. It's... crumbly, but good..."
This crosses into personal attack and you can't do that here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395442 for a fuller explanation, and please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381499 and marked it off-topic.
Was there any more progress or work done on this concept since '98?
Help me understand if you would. The code is the same code for everyone ? so if it was open source you could just download it ?
It ain't bad, but I have a Surface Pro 3 (the Surface's are awesome, btw).

Yeah, it's massive drawback. I prefer it anyway as it incentivises better features (at least I want it to): I can envision a reader that shows the edges of the pages so you can flip through many at a time (ie think of how the pages don't line up when the book is opened flat). I use the Microsoft Reader so I can use the pen so probably no such luck for me.
> (Is Ring actually used by any major projects so far?)

So, we're at the beta stage of releasing https://rustup.rs/, which is going to be the official way to download Rust in the future. It uses rusttls, which uses ring.

There's also a discussion going on right now on the servo-dev mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.servo/3m...

You'll find several people passionately arguing that Servo should use rustls as its SSL stack, which would make ring be used there as well.
The rise of robots: forget evil AI – the real risk is far more insidious
If it weren't for the online codes it would be a lot easier to get through college without purchasing textbooks. The books are easy to find but the most of the cost has been shifted to the online codes.

Most of the early math/phys/chem classes require codes to access the online homework.
Ask HN: How do you deal with performance anxiety during interviews?
I'm not talking about general nervousness. I'm talking about the kind of anxiety where you can't think clearly, where it feels like the part of your brain you use for problem solving has shut down. This is also called "Test Anxiety" but I've never had this problem with paper tests.

For an example in an interview today I was writing some code and wrote if (x > 0 || x < 0) instead of if (x !=0) ... I have been programing for over 12 years and I don't think I have ever made this mistake in real life.

Later on in the interview the interviewer asked a question that made me smile when she asked it because I knew I knew how to do it. Yet half way through after solving the hardest part of it I blanked out and spent the next 15 to 20 minutes going in circles with the interviewer giving me incredibly obvious hints. The answer was on the tip of my tongue but I just couldn't get it out.

This is not the first time this has happened to me. It happens to a greater or lesser degree every time I have a whiteboard or shared online coding interview.

I can do paper or take home tests fine. I can talk about my past experience fine. I can ask good questions. But I never feel like I am able to code to my normal abilities during a whiteboard test.

Should I try to get companies to give me a paper test? Or should I keep slogging through these whiteboard ones with the hopes that eventually I'll get enough practice that I'll get over it? Has anyone else here been able to overcome a similar problem?
When I said adult, I was thinking of people over 40. I think you're thinking of younger people. There's no way, for example, my parents would use it. They'd feel uncomfortable, that they were stumbling into some sort of "thing for young people".
I guess you haven't lived anywhere else in the world other than the US then... Because tipping is completely optional everywhere except the US (and Canada). Even the US has only done it this way for about 100 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12tipping-t.html?...
I am surprised!
When I was applying for college as an IT major some 11 years ago this was one of the school I applied to.
As an international student however the wanted me to jump through too many hoops so I did not pursue my degree there.
LOL just name names instead of making us hunt around.
"The Renting Economy" doesn't have the same ring to it...
And is this a falsifiable explanation, or another of those "just so" speculations?
I think they meant the conspiracy "media outlets are unlikely to point out the fact"
I agree that examples and asides are useful. What I had in mind is certain chapters in physics or math books that are fully boil down to one equation, but somehow end up stretching the narrative out to fill dozens of pages.

Just the other day I was looking for the statement of Stokes theorem in a mainstream calculus textbook, and fell upon two special formulations, one 'outline' of a derivation, before finally finding the theorem. Even though I knew exactly what I was looking for it took me minutes. What would a student remember from this chapter?

A much better structure would be to state the Stokes' theorem upfront and then give a few examples, and maybe show the derivation, then end the chapter. Short and sweet; something the reader will remember.
Fair points above, but what about Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, among others. Those are solid successes!
> On another note, someone is the wsj seems to really hold a grudge against Theranos and/or Elizabeth Holmes.

I suspect because they were, at one point, on the receiving end of her wrath. She strikes me as a Carly Fiorina, Jr., and not even remotely above pulling some contacts to exert some backhanded political pressure on people she doesn't like.

Not all reporters are idiots. And some of the reporters who cover specific areas are pretty close to experts in their own right. If you try to feed them a line of bull, they're going to smoke you.

The relevant line is: “Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel”
Databricks is one the companies that raised money from In-Q-Tel. Given that there are likely to be multiple Turing award winners from that company, I'd say its money well spent.
New Hop Variety Released – 5/2016
Wha? Pennsylvania hasn't been part of the west or even middle west since the days of Natty Bumppo.
Nobody is ever 100% right implies:
Nobody is ever 100% right even when they say "Nobody is ever 100% right."
How Apple–and the Rest of Silicon Valley–Avoids the Tax Man
How is sending people to Mars remotely legal? The astronauts undergoing this "mission" have virtually a 100% chance of dying and never making it back.

How is a heart transplant remotely legal? The patient undergoing this "surgery" has virtually a 100% chance of dying and never waking up.

How is crossing the Atlantic remotely legal? The crew undergoing this "voyage" have virtually a 100% chance of dying and never making it back.

There's a lot of things that we as humans do to push the frontier of societal knowledge with the understanding that the first to venture into the unknown may well not make it back. It's (to me) a fascinating crossover between living as an discrete individual and living as an integral part of a higher collective. It's inevitable that as we progress, we'll continue to seek out those who through their specific circumstances are willing to risk that sacrifice to help the "greater good". As the article says, informed consent plays a significant part of making this more acceptable.
$135k for a competent person? I'm hiring!
There's plenty of support for this assertion. If you spend a few moments, you can find it quite easily.

I included that point because there are a lot of foreign readers of HN who may not realize how widely flouted our labor laws are here in the US.
I think MD is not too bad for mobile. But it becomes brutally, unforgivably incompetent at managing white space on the desktop.

I hope that at some point in the future someone has a design epiphany centered around embracing information density.
>Good or bad, things will catch up with you eventually.

Any truth to this besides superstition, perspective, and cognitive bias? To me it's one of those things we tell ourselves to delude people into thinking the world makes sense. Also a great thing for a terrible person who's succeeding to say.
I found that learn you a haskell is pretty nice for learning the abstract 'mathy' parts of haskell, but it is pretty terrible at explaining how to actually apply that knowledge and it also does not cover advanced concepts and seems to just end abruptly.

If you are still not understanding how to actually make programs, I'd recommend you either go with http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ or http://haskellbook.com.

Real World Haskell explains the concepts decently and is free... But its syntax is very out of date so you can't just copy stuff from the book with modern versions of libraries and expect it to work.

haskellbook is better, but it costs 60 dollars. It does a better job than RWH imo, although it is still in early access and has some rough edges. For example, chapter 1 is unintelligible gibberish to me (at least when I read it, maybe its better now), but the rest of the book is mostly good. Also, due to being new, it covers things like stack as well.
Similarly I found Oklahoma to have the most hostile, unpleasant people I've ever encountered.
some ppl's quality of life is defined by being able to buy a bigger mcmansion. Other people likes the ability to reconnect with nature.

KS? sheesh.. no way man
Possible explanations:

+ the world ends and starts as music.

+ the resonance of the cavity of your inner ear adds to the suggested best-fit-auto-fit-auditory-consciousness-[memory] as qbrass pointed out.

+ birds must remember songs to communicate effectively, a lot of their understanding is based on the shape of their beaks and lungs. based on our "evolutionary shape" or "genetic fractal manifestations" our conch-like ears are good for resonating tones that could be beneficial to us (like mating calls)

+ from a linguistic evolution point of view, something that not only carries the soothing calm of a mother's voice but also helpful information becomes something worth repeating for sake of the individual and the species at large

+ typically people recall the lyrics to a song, or the vocal melody line, but people who play instruments can get bass or drum parts "stuck in their head" so evolutionarily speaking it is all about what your instrument of communication is (that coordinates sound and physical expressivity)

+ kaw!
Interestingly, I've used this technique for a long time with young kids at parties etc. that I have only just met. It is usually a great indicator of their personality traits, i.e. who has a compassionate, generous nature, or who is inherently greedy/selfish.
Qwkchrts.xyz 1.0 Launched to Tweet Images of Limited Data Sets
GitKraken V1.5.4 – Faster and More Polished
2012 grad here - the test has been abolished for many years.
I like my types, without runtime overhead of type checks
Huh? Chrome's fullscreen functionality is the same as any other browser's. And fullscreen hides tabs, so it's definitely not something you want to do most of the time.
USBee stings air-gapped PCs: Wirelessly leak secrets with a file write
I think server side Elm will come eventually. It's just taking time.
I guess I am wrong. Looks like I do have to go through some sort of Google login page when I set up my email for the first time https://imgur.com/a/Vlj09
Isn't your theory regarding roads directly contradicted by the history of the Interstate Highway System?
AirBnB is an evil company and YC should be ashamed to be apart of it.

AirBnB has the official policy that it's okay to lie about where listings are. I booked one that turned out to about about half a kilometer away from where is was marked on the map. I would never have rented it had it been correctly marked. When I complained I was told it's their policy. It's buried in their privacy policy in a paragraph aimed at hosts, not guests. Also, the law appears to say burying stuff in a policy is not a defense excusing deceptive practices.

I can list more AirBnB deceptive practices. I don't think the idea of AirBnB is bad but YC should not be associated with the kind of management that thinks deceptive practices are ok.
Manta: Computing on Storage for Science
From years of using, writing, and reading about network software. I'm not sure if you're being obstinate or naive, or if you actually have some silver bullet for writing secure network software, but if it's the latter, I'm sure lots of people would love to pick your brain!
I had a recruiter on LinkedIn do that to me. They literally said "I know that you're starting a new job next week, but are you interested in hearing about other job opportunities?" No, but now your recruitment company is on my blacklist, thanks for the heads up.
Surprised there's no mention of Nash. It's mentioned often in their book and a popular culture reference many would recognize.

https://books.google.com/books?id=cLUA-sRhJ5QC&q=nash#v=snip...
most of what you say is true.

they can endure such jobs only for 6yrs, beyond which the company that sponsored the visa has to file for a green card (if they do, then the employee can continue suffering for a few more years).If they dont file for a GC, then its a one way ticket back to their home country (or go to Canada with a PR ready).

the 70-30 split, is something I used to fume about, thinking its unfair to the employee etc. But that is how contracting companies work (not just for H1b employers). They pay the employee $.7X, and charge the client $X for every hr worked.

the benefit for the final company is that the headcount of H1b employees on paper remains low, and the cost of H1b kinda gets prorated into the hourly rate. It doesn't make sense to hire an H1b if the company knows for sure that they need her for just one/six months or a year. But a staffing consultancy can certainly justify filing for the H1b, if the same employee can work with 3 clients for 1 year each.

Though this looks like they (the companies filing for H1b visa) are doing something illegal, it is not, as long as a LCA (Labor Condition Application) is filed for the client's location and is approved, its totally kosher with USCIS, DHS and DoL.

Sadly, its hell for those on such H1bs (and I'm glad to never have worked with such consultancies)
Cool stuff with Raspberry Pi
Just wondering what cool stuff you guys built with a Raspberry Pi, I bought one, and set up a media centre but endeed up not using it very often.
Was your friend at a hedge fund? They're all laying off so it's going to be tough to find a new job.

Relevant to this article, active funds are losing business to passive index funds. Active = NYC; passive "boring finance" = Midwest
Exactly, the new G+ loads pretty fast. Luke Wroblewski has also been heavily influencing the design of the new G+. Some of you may know him from his A Book Apart book, Mobile First.

Check out his G+ posts to see all the work the G+ team has been doing.

https://plus.google.com/+LukeWroblewski
Signing in on this page will download PuTTY, for example: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&contin...
Meh. The whole system's a sham in my opinion; might as well get some decent technology out of it.
How about improved mental and emotional well being?
Freemius Monetization Review: An Easy Way to Sell Your Plugins and Themes
Are those more common in big universities? Mine had 15-25 average class size and we never had to do anything online.
I don't know if I explained it very well but I'll try to improve a bit.

The homework in large classes that have hundreds of students are usually graded online on the book publishers website.

For example Pearson publishes a Calculus textbook. In order to do the required homework in class you need to buy a license to the online software which is about $110. The license can only be used once for one book and expires after a set amount of time.

So the textbook is not really worth very much. Because it's the license code that is the requirement.

I see you were thinking about code as in software. I was talking about a license code. A code similar to the Windows activation code/serial/key etc.
Look at how cute I am in my Redfin cat shirt! I'm really bad at this staying anonymous thing. :)

https://twitter.com/kelukelugames/status/568851441068027904
Arbitrage is never shady.

Sure, the seller might feel upset that they lost out on a slice of the profit, but that doesn't imply that the reseller is in the wrong.
I loved my Pebble, but Android Wear offers such a superior experience when it comes to notification management. The only thing I use my watch for is processing incoming notifications (such as liking a tweet, archiving an email, replying to a Slack message, etc.) The 4.0 release notes hint at the power of the Android notification system, and it baffles me that Pebble still doesnt fully integrate with it.

I'm afraid that Android Wear watches will improve on the battery life and outdoor visibility front faster than Pebble will improve on the software front.
Better than "Certified Pre-Owned Rocket" :-) I agree with the folks who have tweeted they should start adding launch "check marks" to the paint but that assumes that they will launch it w/recovery and then do it again.
A non-vulnerability like this is a good example of how easy it is to get press for $important_company + security.

Top of hackernews at the moment and fingers crossed there wont be a wave of articles about this in the coming days from tech press who don't fully understand the issue but know clicks when they see them.
> You can't get anywhere near that kind of write performance with a fully transactional and concurrent write system

Sure you can. MSR's bw-tree[1] is my favorite example but there are others. I've learned some interesting things from both you and Howard and thank you for it, but the hype around lmdb is a little thick at times. It is possible to build lock free low latency concurrent transactional datastores.

Edit for folks to lazy to scan the whole paper:

They test a real world workload sampled from xbox live services. It's roughly 100 byte keys, 1k values, and around 8:1 read to write ratio. They sustained over 10 million ops a second on a 4 core machine. There are no locks and all transactions can read or write as they like concurrently.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I'm from Pittsburgh and I think it's a really nice city. But I doubt I will move back, the weather sucks. And, less of a concern, but PA is generally an unlovely part of the country in my opinion. I could barely believe my eyes when I saw Oregon and northern CA.
Found for large text books the Ipad air 2/3/pro to be a live saver. I tried E-ink but gave up after most of them suck for reading large text books.

Also advantage of the ipad is you can load it up more modern that can assist your learning where by a book is a dead tree.
wow thanks! This is exactly what I was actually looking for.
Compare to the history of:
- D
- Jai
- Rust
Each of which have had a very similar pitch.
How is it different this time?
...or who is smart enough to realize there is a social metagame outside the obvious game of cake optimization.

The REALLY smart ones may have done a cost-benefit analysis and decided that the payoff from the metagame - an increment in your opinion of them - is not worth as much utility as the incrementally bigger cake.
The key is to find them before they Flippa.i if you peruse forums you will find threads of ppl contemplating a sale, asking for advice. Get them there.
Hey now, that isn't nice. This is much better than that turkey.
Isn't this just a starter?
Since Google has decided that https://www.google.com/amp/[any_domain_here] isn't a vulnerability, then I don't see how combining that with a google login is a vulnerability.

OP talks about having the continue page prompt for password, but how is that any different from creating a fake Google password prompt page now? That page would not be on https://accounts.google.com/, and it would not have my personal info displayed, so why would I enter my password? Just because the last thing I did was log into Google? Is that supposed to "put me in the mood"?

If I'm on page A, and I click a link that prompts me for my google credentials, I've either expected that, so I check to make sure it's Google, or I haven't, so I close that tab. If I enter my username and password, or just my password, and then end up at page B, and it prompts me for my password again, it certainly doesn't know my username like the real Google password prompt page did. It looks different, and raises all sorts of flags.

Alternatively, if I'm on page A, and I click on a link that sends me to page B directly, where I'm prompted to enter my username and password, I don't. Why would I? It's not google.com, etc.

There's just no way that this seems like any more of a vulnerability than the open redirector already is.
Always buy higher-end arts tickets directly. You can probably claim most of it as a charitable tax deduction (the difference vs a GA ticket). The SF Ballet even has a page on it: "*You may deduct up to 80% of your Preferred Seating Premium on your taxes. Please consult your tax advisor for more information." https://www.sfballet.org/tickets/seating/repertory