skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all good points.

In this case though, C doesn't have garbage collection or OO features, and (I believe) has unspecified behavior for arithmetic exceptions. I assume Fortran does the same (since it's comparably fast), so I guess I still don't really see where people expect the difference to come from.
Startcom's certs still show as ok in Firefox for me. Any idea when this kicks in?
Did Obama and Cia get it wrong with Russian hackers also ?

Maybe one more Nobel's price for president Obama who's legacy is only war and lie to people ?
One big difference is the rules on pointers.

In C, if you write code like this:

void dostufftotwoarrays(int* a, int* b);

Then maybe b is equal to a + 3, so your compiled code has to assume whenever it writes to an element of a, it might have changed an element of b, and so reload b from memory. Alternatively, it can do a bunch of tests at the start of the function, and compile multiple copies of the function for different situations.

In FORTRAN, this isn't possible (you don't tend to pass around raw pointers), so it is much easier for the compiler to reason about what objects might be in the same place, and which aren't.

The restrict keyword goes some way to fixing this in C, but is tricky yo use correctly, and also doesn't solve all problems.
Is it? $95 per employee is probably roughly 10 hours unpaid. An employee would rack that up working there 1 hour every two days or every 20 days. This was maintained across 5 years.

Apple still comes out ahead.

Until fines are significantly more expensive (factor of 100+) than compliance, this will continue.
TL;DR: Even in environments where the community makes a very aggressive attempt to tackle homelessness, the problem persists.

I live in Santa Monica, CA. I've been her for 10-15 years and it's always had a bad homelessness problem. If you're not familiar with the area, the weather is basically great year round, we're a popular travel destination, lots of money flows through the city & by any definition, its a place that embraces social liberalism.

I used to live in downtown SM. It's upscale but you pass a lot of homeless people. I went from giving people change when I had it, to bills, to buying people meals. I eventually moved out of the downtown area to buy a house & start a family.

I figured since I was putting down my roots here, I should from applying bandaids to trying to help in a more systematic approach. I got in touch with a lot of the existing organisations. They all needed help, but I was surprised to find that outreach wasn't one of them. Long story short, if you're on the streets in Santa Monica it's more or less because you want to be.

[Side note: before people jump to the conclusion that means they don't need help, the deserve to be there, it's okay to forget them, etc. -- that's NOT the case and that's NOT what I'm saying either.]

I recently volunteered for LavaMae, who spun up an instance in Southern California. This was in Venice, so not the same people, but also not far from downtown Santa Monica (maybe a mile or two). You have time to wait to clean the showers & I got a chance to talk with a few people. I didn't want to pry, but if someone was forthcoming on their story, I asked a few why not hit up one of the shelters. My sample here is obviously tiny but I got a variety of reasons -- freedom of the streets, not wanting to wait in line, not able to bring alcohol, concerns about theft, etc.

It's a pretty tricky problem.

The presence of homeless isn't a sign of apathy on the part of the population or a lack of trying.
Seconded for Julia. I have been using it for math prototyping and it's recently replaced my old favorites like matlab / python / lua.
> First, "hardworking peoples' income tax" already goes to people who, in their view, don't deserve it. Not just in the form of welfare and social programs that already exist, but also in the form of massive business in the defense industry or in the environmental industry, depending on where your political views lie.

Telling people that things are already bad is not going to convince them to support policies that will make things even worse.

> Second, I'm far, far less concerned with who gets my tax money -- or even, to some extent, how much I have to pay for taxes -- than I am with my own financial future. If someone wants to propose a program which would make my taxes go up but also substantially increase my supply of potential customers ... that sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Good for you. If the majority of voters thought that way, we would already have a much better welfare system than we actually do. So, they must not think that way, and there is no reason to believe they will make an exception for basic income.
There are some important things to note about these benchmarks. On the Mandelbrot set, I noticed that the program does not use arrays despite the obvious 2D-array structure of the bitmap. Two of the four cores were also underutilized. Next, the k-nucleotide, reverse-complement, and fasta programs only utilized a single core, compared to the C programs utilizing multiple cores. It is not clear to me why this should be the case, but it leads me to cast doubt on the tests I listed.
Our search function has been playing up. This is our v.1 but that's not really the point - we haven't, for whatever reason, been able to execute the search function as well as we'd like. But we felt we just had to ship the product and get some overall feedback.

I appreciate you checking the site and asking your question. We will definitely be all over this over the next couple of days!

We're also looking at the possibility of differentiating our platform further, such as combining a coupon code feature to it, so it becomes a platform to find time-limited offers on great business apps - G2Crowd meets Groupon. Which kind of gives users incentives to a) check out the site, and b) try new apps which they might end up loving. Would love to hear some feedback re that idea, we're really trying to differentiate but haven't pinpointed exactly how just yet :)

Thanks again
What evidence you are writing about? Did you seen any? that shows what mass media are saying? I didn't. And after seeing how US lost in Syria with Russia and suddenly CIA talks about Putin directly involved in hacking US election I would be really cautious to make any judgments without seeing hard proofs.
Because they will be conditioned to a routine of getting up at 7am and getting to work by 9am putting in there hours and doing that five days a week.

People underestimate how important this is. When you are out of work people have a tendency to adopt sporadic sleep habits and lifestyle. It can be a big shock just trying to get up at a set time each day and getting to specific place with the expectation that you have 8 hours of work to do.
The point I was trying to make is that this is a hard problem. Not hard in the computational complexity way. It's not NP-complete.

It's hard because the expected output is not fully agreed about.

We don't know what we want, and we don't know how to get it. That goes for pretty much every programming language I know of.

It's a hard problem because we suck, as people.
Well, if we agree that a moderate effort (comparable to dental checkups) would make a big and positive difference in the surveillance arena, and yet assume that 'people' cannot be induced to do it, perhaps we are dealing with ideology and indoctrination, not with technical problems. If so, no technical solution can be applied before the ideological issues are taken care of.

To (ab)use another analogy, look at the history of the tobacco (ab)use. It was hard to get people not to indulge in it just because they will have problems 20 years from now, which is close to the surveillance damage. It took years and huge efforts to cut down the tobacco use.
Sadly I'm sure no one will be help accountable for any of this. All those innocent lives lost, the murder of Saddam (like him or not).

It's probably all just going to get swept under the carpet as the focus moves onto Syria. So many secrets and lies.
Great to hear they want to add Rust-like borrow checker as one of memory management options.
If the goal is to have more people working and we assume that the government would be paying the money for this "basic income", why don't we just subsidize companies that hire lots of people based upon how many people they have. And if you focus it toward jobs that require low skill only and manufacturing, then it directly benefits many companies in the US that would probably choose the same price for having something built in the US vs China. I am honestly pretty tired of flying to china to get products built.. Been doing it for years and I'd prefer to fly to Texas instead..
Yeah, try that in scale for a few years and watch the economy collapse under runaway inflation.
You keep the political crap off HN, and I won't feel the need to mock it. Deal?
Where to get designer clothes?
Hi,

Looking to start up a small designer clothes shop within my local town, but struggling to find suppliers that offer high end designer brands.

Anyone know where the best place is to obtain designer brands such as gucci, balenciaga, louis vuitton etc?
Did you just suggest we consider stuff they got right that we will never know the actual details of?
Nevada County, California. Not really that far from the Bay Area.

Bandwidth is currently spotty -- your best bet is Comcast in their small and crowded service areas -- but a local ISP has secured funding for a large last-mile fiber deployment and I think they've either just broken ground or are about to.

It's beautiful here, you can get to the store and back in 5 minutes, you can go to Tahoe or to Sacramento for the day, and, seriously, it seems like everyone is always doing at least three cool things.

http://gonevadacounty.com/

We're pretty high-tech for a rural county too, and we're actively recruiting tech companies to come up here.

If someone's seriously interested in relocating, contact me. I'm pretty plugged-in to the folks pulling strings to make it happen.
Are you sure? In which country? Because in Hungary we had a team of guys who regularly left bicycles out in the street (with GPS) and then waited for them to get stolen and then called the police with the GPS data. And it worked, the bike owner guys didn't get into trouble for leaving a "bait" out there. If someone steals it, they committed a crime and get caught by the police.
Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions
When I was in undergrad I did some computer simulation work for my professor. He programmed in FORTRAN while I had been trained in C/C++. I did my simulations in C/C++ and I also wrote some libraries for his FORTRAN code so he could have more dynamic configuration files. At the time I thought that FORTRAN was an anachronism and was surprised that it was still being used in physics.

This was 1992.
> I can't imagine Apple did this deliberately.

Somebody decided to do this deliberately. These are well-known rules in the retail sector.

And even if they didn't do it deliberately, this still did material harm to people.

One can still do harm even if you didn't mean to. And you can still be convicted of a crime for it.
Nope; I'm sure the information is out there somewhere. There was a big discussion about grandfathering, too.
There are various (english) news articles (for example [0][1]) and also a paper for the European commision [2] (so called ESPN Flash Report) claiming that.

But besides those sources there is also the fact that the child-raising benefits are only unconditional from the second child on, for the first child there is a maximum monthly income to get it.[2] If the main goal was the well being part, then this would not make much sense.

[0] http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/250612,Poland-pays-out-mil...

[1] http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/02/11/poland...

[2] http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16077&langId=en [PDF]
"It was probably an oversight by one/some of its managers or vendors."

The class action included 21,000 employees - that's more than just a couple of Apple stores, so lots of managers were involved.

And what "vendors"? Apple stores are owned by Apple and their workers are employees of Apple.
Agree, but I'm with John Carmack when Mr. C++ says something like:

"My pragmatic summary: A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. In a multithreaded environment, the lack of understanding and the resulting problems are greatly amplified, almost to the point of panic if you are paying attention. Programming in a functional style makes the state presented to your code explicit, which makes it much easier to reason about, and, in a completely pure system, makes thread race conditions impossible."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional...
Doesn't Rust have macros that let you modify the syntax? Maybe you could do this.
Yes, BASIC was all the rage, 30 years ago. Today everything is Web and Cloud. I liked computers because I could make them do things which were cool then. Now I would probably want to do things which are cool now.

As long as the kid is fine with JS I see no problem. If GOTOs haven't rotten our minds (or have they? omg!) maybe NaNNaNNaN Batman! won't mess up his...
The cross-section of undersea cables
What makes it tricky to use, and where does it fall short?
> In terms of the EFF article, it's just one of many which recommend the use of proxies and was just an example providing that this has been guidance that's been provided for quite awhile. There are even commercial web proxy providers like TorGuard which market web (HTTP) proxies:

Again, the article (which stems from 2006) recommends: 1) Tor. 2) Privoxy (which is not the same as 'recommending proxies' since you can run it on 127.0.0.1) 3) Tor + Privoxy (guess where Privoxy runs) 4) anonymizers.

The article should indeed not recommend #4 if protecting against a nation state. But that doesn't seem to be the goal of the article. The article is out of date, and its focus is on protecting the user's privacy from search engines and the like. It against profiling by ASPs.

A better question is "should out of date articles have warnings about them being inaccurate and/or dated?"

Finally, people who anonimize their BitTorrent usage via a proxy or VPN generally do this because of hiding copyright infringement or avoiding blockades. The intention is to hide their IP address against MPAA (and the like), not NSA (and the like). On top of that, "TorGuard" seems to have very little to do with "Tor"; that alone tells me to not trust such a service.
Slides from the scheduled presentations[0], as well as most of the accepted papers[1], are available.

This is some seriously mind-bending stuff. Google is represented by a couple of papers, but I was really hoping that the privacy-preserving techniques they used in training the network for Inbox Smart Replies would be explained. No such luck.

[0] https://pmpml.github.io/PMPML16/#schedule

[1] https://pmpml.github.io/PMPML16/#papers
Agree completely Leo. Growth rates are a snapshot and no replacement for understanding the market, founders, and product.

Further, after having worked with 700 startups at YC, it is obvious to me now that if you can't grow from small numbers, there is no way a company can truly be a good startup. If that's true, then the best advice you can give starting out is to grow. It's just table stakes.

The article is an absurd straw man argument.
I love the ideas, but I doubt the reality of ever getting this workflow implemented. I've been a professional developer for 17 years and exactly zero of the companies I've worked for would implement this process. Besides in research environments, is there any software shop out there doing this?
These are good ideas but they need to be fleshed out more. A lot of younger engineers don't clean up their codebase simply because they don't know the principles of clean code or good OO design. A pairing process with senior engineers seems worthwhile, among other teaching processes, but they aren't given much attention.
The article has a link in a sidebar:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01008v2
https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/576
Go to google, type in "web agencies [yourLocalCity]", make a list of the agencies, go on linkedin and try to find their technical director or lead developer or even the head honcho if they're small and get their name. Phone the main number, ask for that person, when you're on the phone with them, introduce yourself, say you're a new freelance dev with XYZ skills and ask if they would have any need for some extra resource. Try to get a meeting in person as you'll stick in their head more. Be ready to send a CV and/or body of work.

This works really well if you dont want to deal with end clients. You should also phone them every 3 months to remind them who you are, send them christmas cards, show them something you've done recently, etc. You can also replace "web" with "marketing", "advertising", "development", "design" etc in the initial google query.

If you're not an idiot and you're reliable and cost effective, this is a VERY good way to get regular, long term work.
My point is that the answer is a definite no.
They talked a bit about it on their LLVM talks.

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/#talk8
I thought a skyhook was one of those things you send the apprentice kid to the stores for, like tartan pain, spirit level bubbles, long stands and a weight with no point? Maybe even a left handed screwdriver...
And a Carbon-Spidey(Silky??) vs Electro sequel.
USP?
Nope... A browser is just a HAL.
I imagine that's a bit different. The ability to bend the system to your will, make the choices you need to make, and have it behave as you desire, regardless of what the people who were at the keyboard before you think, is empowering, and conducive to hacking. Having all personal data available to anyone in a mass database... not so much.
"it looks horrible and cluttered and wouldn't like to look at a complex version of this over flowcharts"

You are right.

It looks horrible and cluttered and could be made better. Though visuals and design aside, the idea is sound. There is a real barrier b/w textual/visual in software. You don't see this in other physical disciplines like EE.

It would be interesting to have a better (easier to read, standardised etc.) version of these flow charts. Not impossible and possibly easier to trace, explain and see alternatives/improvements in design.
Hardworking people would be free to leave paid employment and live on basic income themselves, rather than subsidise the unemployed. I think the hope is that work would become more pleasant as basic income lifts workers' bargaining power and that most people would choose to add to their basic income through paid employment.
Also, don't most pre-pay SIMs have an online top-up service, usually made available automatically if you try to use data without having any credit. As well as that, most ATMs have an option for 'top up mobile' here in the UK, and pretty much every corner shop will sell you a top-up voucher. Or, of course, you just try dialing a number without having any credit, and you're forwarded to the automatic top-up line.

The idea that one has to return to the shop you purchased the SIM from is insane, in fact, there are many places where this is impossible, for example the local pound store sells all manner of SIM cards for GBP 1.00 (identification? nope, but here, have a pound coin...) but don't do top ups.

If you want the future, look at software SIM cards or e-SIMs [0] (like the Apple one[1] in the latest iPad) which can be provisioned remotely.[2][3]

[0] http://www.gsma.com/connectedliving/embedded-sim/
[1] http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad/apple-sim/
[2] http://www.gsma.com/rsp/frequently-asked-questions-gsmas-rem...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_SIM_provisioning
What does non-aliasing mean in this context?
I think what dom0 means is a situation like the following. Say you want to schedule, on a calendar, an event that happens daily at 2PM in your local timezone, say America/New_York. If you record that even as happening at 2200 UTC each day, when DST rolls around, it'll shift to 1PM or 3PM in the local timezone. This is not what the user wants.

Here, despite storing everything in UTC and attempting to apply DST as late as possible as if it were a "display issue" — normally the right thing — here results in the wrong outcome.
Of course they could, after all they are the genesis of such certification, at very least the v1.0 of it.
But that's civilians. The police can't do that. At least in the countries I know of, Hungary can be different.
We need to unify this with actually hitting deadlines/making it economically viable, at least until basic income is a working model.

Maybe tie it so that every stage has a payout (20% ln start, 80% on finish or sth like it). First stage ist planning the project, in two stages: first has a fixed compensation based on headcount/"salary". This stage roughly estimates the scope and sets the upper and lower limit of budget. Based on this budget, the second stage does detailed planning, setting out as many sub stages as possible. This second planning stage is added on top of those stages, the total budget is divided between all stages and the first payout is done.

Like this, good planning is rewarded (teams with more stages get more frequent payouts) and there is still some pressure to deliver (payout) but even more to do good work (every stage depends on the previous ones to be doable quickly)
That's interesting, I created a similar service but targeted at the Dota 2 scene.

https://chattywizard.com

Did you by chance look at spoiled.io before you created your service? That's the service that inspired me :)

edit: if you sign up you get a free message!
Another explanation is they may have realized that the pre-incorporation "super early" startups were a riskier bet, and moved their sweet spot preference just a little bit past that based on the success metrics of their previous classes.
Agree, appears there's a pattern of Tandem Capital referencing YC in a less than positive way.
How to do what you love and make good money
I distrust any engineer who writes quality is infinitely superior to quantity.
Clojure+Datomic+CLJS (currently learning how to use Om Next + I just discovered Untangled which solves most of the full-stack problem using Clojure, Datomic, and Om(next). https://github.com/untangled-web
I misread that everything was backwards compatible, my bad.
Not all recordings are legal even if it is my phone. I am not saying that this is case here. But it may not be as clear-cut as it may seem.
Shorter list but at some point will be more comprehensive and source for linked article https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsite%20%3...
> Perhaps a better way to ask that is, what would stop us from recreating the current welfare state on top of UBI?

In a democracy? Nothing can prevent that. Even if we wrote UBI into the constitution, it could always be amended. There are always going to be proposals to give some people different amounts of money than others under basic income, and some of those proposals will gain enough voter support to pass.

You may be interested in Tyler Cowen's post on this subject, which I posted about elsewhere in this thread: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/wha...
No evidence that the silk contains graphene, low n. Visually inspect the em cross section... Can you see a difference? The authors don't produce a quantitative measure of entropy in the pictures to justify the claim that they are different.