skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several, one for driving the film printer in the Image Processing Lab - it allowed me to create a program for printing jobs and then re-use that program rather than to manually run all the steps. One for compiling graphics operations into the minimal RISC code of an Intel graphics chip. One for programming robotics behaviors in mobile robots, a variation on TUTOR for writing some automated student testing software.

But 'creating a language' is just a tool in the programmer's tool box that allows a set of capabilities to be strung together in different ways automatically. That has been a useful tool ever since Jacquard used it to program his looms.
Oh boy, sweeping conclusions based on psychology research!

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/25/071530

"False report probability is likely to exceed 50% for the whole literature. In light of our findings the recently reported low replication success in psychology is realistic and worse performance may be expected for cognitive neuroscience."
And only if Uber is the only one coming up with it. If VW/Mercedes/GM/Ford develop driverless vehicles, anybody can build a service based on it (most likely the manufacturers themselves).

The only chance for Uber to survive is to be the first one in that space. I don't see how that can happen with so many companies in advanced development stages.
Well on that note, if you just want the boolean, I think it'd be enough to say:

free_food = 'free' in soup.get_text().lower()
> Apps are sandboxed and extremely isolated from each other

One could make the same argument for iOS.

> Then, its market share is so low that probably no one makes an effort to build targeted attacks towards it.

No one also makes an effort to find and disclose exploits either. Security through obscurity alone is an awful idea.
Isn't that the usual explanation for why some program is faster than some other program? They do things differently.
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I'm loving it already. I was able to update from RC to RTM within 20 minutes on two machines with no hiccups. I was expecting hours of downtime. This is great stuff!
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Ending the ban on importing (often the same) drugs from abroad would go a long way to achieving this goal - no fancy system needed.

Also: "Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co. have taken steps to increase transparency about their prices." - let me know when they disclose how much they spend on development of non-generic drugs to treat serious medical conditions, vs. their other expenses (such as advertising). According to [1], the numbers aren't pretty. And that's lumping all of 'research' together - subtract generics and cures for baldness and similar, and how much money is being wasted in medicine becomes even more apparent.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
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so in summary, a place noted for a high concentration of tech-oriented introverts is full of people who like to be by themselves?
1ms is on the order of process creation time, so not very relevant: The measured program itself requires process creation. Most programs run considerably longer than that (otherwise timing would not make much sense).

It's really not more than that: an optimization.
If this matters to you, it's not hard to get it down to something much smaller.
>the battery life on my Apple 2 is leaps better than the 1

Having to charge a monitoring device almost every day defeats the purpose, at least in my opinion. My Garmin needs charging once every 7 or 8 days.
Whether what you're saying is true or not, do we really need to remember this every single time we read anything he writes? How about we just hear what he has to say and then decide if it's worth listening to?

(Besides which, at this stage, whatever his earlier successes or failures, you can hardly say he isn't at least worth listening to based on his experience at YC.)
Seems to be up for me again. I wonder if 8 minutes of downtime is enough to warrant a post-mortem blog post.
Interesting downvotes. Let us all hope that my observation is never validated, however I think enough examples exist already which could be considered to do so.
I think it's this one
https://www.amazon.com/Breville-Fast-Slow-Pro-Silver/dp/B013...
While the above is certainly plausible(killing someone with a car), I highly doubt this is the case here:

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-michael-hastings-crash-car...
The "Perfected Pot Roast" recipe from the "Great Food Fast"[1] book by Bob Warden is absolutely amazing.

[1]: http://a.co/441GESa
Fair. On of the good aspects is that it makes this chunk testable, rather than having to test the behavior of the long line of statements. If there's a test for it it's a lot harder to sneak in an implicit assumption.
It's frustrating that multi-process is still not enabled on my touchscreen windows laptop. The about:support page says "Disabled by accessibility tools". Feel like I've been waiting for this feature to arrive for years.
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No, as assignment always results in (), and if always requires a boolean. This is by design.
Isn't JNI on Android also "NDK"? NDK provides a compiler toolchain and a build system — if you're building native libraries to JNI into, that's also built by NDK.
Actually quite a few people don't run PulseAudio, as you can see from comments in that bug and the amount of votes the Arch Linux task [1] gathered in a short time. This is definitely going to be a problem.

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53195
Has anyone tried flooding the market for rhino horns with counterfeits?

edit: just searched, yes http://www.snopes.com/3d-printed-rhino-horn-developed/
What are your personal opinions on the future of Coffeescript? It's still being used for Atom, but I've noticed colleagues are finally getting used to ES6 and similar languages and switching to them. I'm still stuck on Coffeescript though for all of my frontend projects. It's too closely aligned to my utopia of a language to try to find anything else (which would surely have a smaller following anyway).
Just go to Whole Foods and you'll see this aren't going to stop soon.
Can't they get Viagra or Cialis in Vietnam? And that's not a joke question. And if they can get it, why isn't there a huge marketing campaign to make people aware that Rhino horn doesn't do crap, but these drugs actually work.
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I'm a contract developer based in London, United Kingdom.

After the referendum I applied for an Estonian E-residency as it might come handy in the near future, I was aiming to move my ops/accounting(now UK based) to Estonia but the only startup(to my knowledge) doesn't seem to care one bit about customers: http://imgur.com/a/Go9lP

What are my options here? Would like something that manages accounts/billing/taxes for me.
For a product as widely-used as Slack is, it might at least be interesting.
never under estimate the power of the "bully pulpit". If he gets people talking in the press about then it can bubble back up to Congress if not board rooms of companies looking to garner good will of the public
it would certainly be a good cue system for people with mild autism/aspbergers, or social difficulties.
Like, uh, draining the swamp?
I think parent was sarcastic.
AWS lambda functions __are__ serverless. There's no notion of uptime, provisioning or managing servers when using lambda.
Slack is down, productivity goes up... after using it for a while I find it does communications within a team well but does almost nothing to increase collaboration, so I guess slack is in area which apps like Discord will disrupt.
Anyone that thinks the Trump administration is going to lead the charge on reforming these agencies is foolhardy.

Governments rely on information to function.

Once an administration comes into power and sees the amount of information provided to them through these means, there's no way they would relinquish it in any meaningful sense.
Classification semantics is EVERYTHING.
Worked after 10 tries or so. Just keep clicking retry
Force enable it in about:config, browser.tabs.remote.force-enable i think
No, compiled languages have never ended the existence of Python, Perl and other scripting languages.

Similar principles will surely apply. For WASM code to interact with DOM or external scripts / JS libs in any meaningful manner, the wasm generator will have to provide in any event additional JS code anyway.
if there a way we could make poachers more valuable that the rhino horn?
Releasing the exploits is also the quickest way to get them patched.
You can buy a Pi-Top with a custom version of RISC OS preloaded.

http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/products/pitop.shtml
When will people stop pretending that Wikileaks is anything other than an anti-American political faction that is allied with Russia?

If Assange truly believed in transparency and a new kind of open democracy, he would stop preferentially targeting the US and get on with showing the world how all of our governments are the same in this regard.
Jsonnet is the closest I could find.
If the demand is so high, how about farming? Or are there restrictions on the kind of animals may be breed in farms?

Also, poaching can (and should, if you ask me) be addressed in a more serious manner. How about starting at the buyer's market with enticing cash offers and then hunt up the source of the illegal merchandise?
Weird, I found it exactly the opposite. Everything we've made in it has turned out pretty much perfect every time, just by googling for "how long to pressure cook XYZ"
> When e.g. a court needs to control someone's information surely they know who these people are and they can let them know?

The companies which furnish personal data aggregated from courts are legally required to stay on top of out-of-date records and purge records which are inaccurate. (it would be completely untenable for things to work the other way, with every court and agency which made records available being required to reach out to every recipient of the data. For one thing, in some cases the data can legally be resold.) They can be held civilly liable for distributing false information and might also be in breach of their agreements with the agencies which give them access to the data.

The urgency with which this is required under the law depends on the use to which the data is being put. It's really important to keep data used in pre-employment reports up to date. Marketing data can generally be full of garbage.

This is all generally governed in the United States under the FCRA. It's not an area of the law that you're going to get comfortably familiar with in just an afternoon of reading.
That "success" propelled him to countless more, including the presidency of YC. Altman's example demonstrates that success in the startup/VC game has much more to do with luck and connections than merit.
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It takes a special kind of asshole to do this to an animal in a western zoo. I expect the culprits to pay a very steep price for their crime.
Yes and no. The law says that works of federal government employees arent to be protected. But it is unclear whether this only applies within the US or whether the US governmemt can assert those copyrights against non-us entities. It's a constitutional question never clearly addressed. Also, these tools could easily be the work of contractors rather than government employees. The fed can own/purchase/assert copyrights in such works. We do not have enough facts to say they are surely public domain.
>Greg is a world-class recruiter (he plans every detail of interviews, heavily researches candidate’s backgrounds, sends thoughtful and persistent followups, and so on), and I now believe even more strongly that someone on the founding team has to be an amazing recruiter.

I maintain a version-controlled text file of people I want to hire for my startup, should hell ever freeze over and I secure funding some day.

The nice part is that doing so usually goes hand-in-hand with the product/market/technology research you conduct anyways, so the practice has a very low time investment attached to it. For the most part, you simply stumble upon desirable people during the course of seemingly unrelated research, dig into their background, and then add them to the list.

On a humorous note, quite a few people on my list later ended up being hired by YC HARC. Hey Sam, what are the finer points of YC companies* trying to hire talent attached to YC projects? Can you offer any pointers? :)

* Not a YC company (yet).
MaidSafe moved to Rust in 2015 https://blog.maidsafe.net/2015/07/01/the-ants-are-coming/

I gave a talk with a summary of why they switched from C++ as part of this general talk on production Rust last year: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-production
So they all benefited. Win-Win.

Even the "journalist" writing about it benefited for they had something to write up.

Charitable donations are first and foremost tax planning schemes. He used it as intended and all parties agreed to it. (And the government)

Is the only issue here that the author is jealous of their business acumen?
Generally, yes.

Maybe I'm confused. Are you talking about the Instant Pot story, or the ads around the story? I'm seeing a Car Fax ad, an ad for a movie, a t-shirt company ad, some other google ads and some ads promoting other BBC properties.
Writing stateful code by default in hopes that it will be faster is a premature optimization IMNSHO.

A lot of times it isn't actually any faster, and it's certainly more error prone.
Maybe you could rephrase it. For example, give it a title "software engineer", and then a subtitle or one short paragraph explaining: "the position was officially called qa whatever and involved developing software for this and that", and then list the accomplishments.
Perhaps what parent meant was that exclusive use of the code by agency would lead to easy post attack origin analysis, so by leaking the code in obfuscated form a few other people inevitably stumble on it and use it which generates a form of cover traffic for the original agents.
I think that in the end, the way to really address these issues is with WebTorrent or a similar service. When you're online, you should be:

1. contributing your own bandwidth to the images you upload

2. contribute your own bandwidth to the images you look at.

If you look at an image, maybe you should be required to seed it twice over. If you upload your image, maybe you have to seed it at least 10 times for it to stay up past a certain deadline.

As a user of image websites and, well, websites in general, I'd gladly contribute my bandwidth to help the services run. Or even act as a mirror rather than a shared peer.

What do you think about that? It could lessen the load on the image host and help scale things. I just can't seen this happening if you embed an image directly unless you embed iframes or require users to go to the site itself.
don't need black market, this is a multi billion industry just for Viagra and Cialis
Firefox is one of those projects that just keeps on giving, and it's all thanks to the hard work put in by all the contributors. It's easy to forget that sometimes. We use Firefox headlessly to render videos at https://www.musicvideodispenser.com , a task that certainly wasn't the initial intended use-case for that browser, but it still works, and we have the Firefox team to thank for that!
The CPU maker can now send commands to your system over the network, or even update the ME code running on your specific system.

I have heard that this only works over the built-in network interface- so perhaps it can be defeated by installing a separate network card and not hooking up the built-in card? Anyone care to comment on if that is an effective mitigation?
skydive incident... and John Peterson (PL) https://twitter.com/PhilipWadler/status/839134370854227970 climbing incident ...
So the answer was no
https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/the-public-evidence...

There is some evidence, but no definitive evidence.

'"[SecureWorks] researchers assess with moderate confidence that the group is operating from the Russian Federation and is gathering intelligence on behalf of the Russian government," the report from SecureWorks concluded.'
the placebo effect will never disappear
Just wanted to say thank you for CoffeeScript. Despite its somewhat ambiguous syntax it really was a better version of JavaScript, and it would be fair to say it really mainstreamed the idea of JS as a target language. Many of the ideas in CS made it all the way to ES6. Many other ideas didn't make it to ES6 because CS fleshed out issues that quite possibly would have been missed otherwise.

It was a huge net positive for web development. 2009-2011 were really heady times - a whole programming community emerged from a deep, dark cave with new tools and a new optimism for the web.
That passage is just dumb. Copyright would not stop hackers from using the tool once it is leaked.
Just going home at a certain hour is a good approach, but it still leaves the problem of impossible deadlines. So it's a good thing to combine with some level of explaining to management "this isn't going to work."
Great piece thank you.
I've never been to a Whole Foods store so perhaps the joke is lost on me but isn't the whole point of eating whole foods, escaping the potential yet unknown "magic" combinations that occur with food processing?
It costs a quarter to manufacture each pill but the manufacturers charge several dollars for that pill.

But they don't just price gouge. Drug companies need to file patents on their drug almost as soon as they sketch they come up with drug. From there they need at least 8 years to get through the FDAs approval process, so the manufacturers don't get nearly as much exclusive time with their IP as other industries. (They started getting around that by slightly tweaking the formula to last longer and calling it XL.) Plus they have to recoup the money they sank into other drugs that never made it to market. Sure, they can write down those losses, but a write-down ain't a refund.

If the government wants to start lowering drug prices, they can start by creating a special patent for the drug industry—call it a research patent—that can get converted to a regular patent when it gets FDA approval, and then give the drug companies the patent for the standard 20 years plus a renewal if they work the patent.

The next step: they can shorten time to market. We have evidence that the FDA errs too conservatively and doesn't approve (or delays) drugs that would have turned out totally safe and helped people. I remember they granted special approval to bring in a meningitis vaccine that Europe had for a while when an east coast school saw an outbreak. The vaccine still hadn't cleared the FDA, but I guess FDA special clearance is better than doing nothing. If it's safe enough for Western Europe, it's probably safe enough for Americans.
That is one of the saddest 30 minutes of video I have seen up to date.
It's very hard to beat the placebo effect that consuming a $60k product will generate.
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of course, but I was drawing comparison to the black-market trade of rhino horns.
Yeah it's irritating how our media is ignoring the propaganda machine and looking at "hacks" instead.
I don't think GP was relevant or that he's sympathetic, but he did post something mildly interesting I didn't know before; because of this I chose not to vote.

I don't think the flagging was proportionate, I'd prefer it to hover around the bottom of the comment section.
Given the increasing dependence on messaging platforms, I think any widespread downtime deserves a public post-mortem.

And that's not to speak to the amazing amount of curiosity and interest that any downtime in a large public system generates. From the PR side, I would think that some kind of post-mortem is almost necessary to prevent that curiosity and interest from turning to distrust and negative perception.
Now you've got me thinking. I need the right to stream sports events to my deaf friends as I can provide a more sufficient accessibility to them.
I stopped using Slack. It is a productivity drain.
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The interactionist perspective presented is enlightening. It both motivates and explains many of the classic reasoning snafus that we "suffer" from. In the end our mental artefacts (including beliefs) are just tools, and their value (or "truth") is a function of their utility.

If we were to present a 19th century carpenter with a nail gun he would agree upon demonstration; "that is very nice and all, thanks but i'll stick to my hammer". He would have neither a compressor, gasoline and a long enough hose, nor a wall socket and extension chord. The nail gun has no place in his toolshed because he doesn't have the required infrastructure and context to put it to use, and therefore the utility of the nail gun to him is close to zero.

Beliefs are the same, and a relation to "facts" or "truth" is not a requrement for their utility. When presented with new facts and truths we always evaluate their utility before we ascribe to them. We might fool ourselves that this process is somehow "rational" but rationality is just a social preference with some second-order effects with regards to science and the developement of technology (which indeed has "utility" but is far from the only "utility" beliefs can achieve).
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So having worked way too hard on my startup only to have it fail, I can somewhat relate to this (I do not pretend to be as amazing as Greg). You're right - after my startup failed people were throwing what were objectively great job offers at me. Even more amazing, many of my investors were encouraging me to start another company and were willing to give me fantastic terms just for agreeing to start a company (entirely at the idea stage I could raise 7 digits at an 8 digit valuation with no strings attached from investors I already knew to be great people).

This ignores the mental toll that exhausting yourself on a company takes though. There are lots of people that start companies, but many people quit when the going gets tough. Those that commit everything to it are praised when they succeed but mostly forgotten when they don't. I am just now recovering after several months of not working, catching up on years of lost sleep, and basically becoming a person again.

There are days when I regret it and there are days when I don't. I learned a hell of a lot and I recognize it has opened doors for me, but the real question is was it worth it? And that's going to be different for everybody.

An important note, which is particularly relevant for HN. Paul Graham once said Sam Altman was the right person working on the wrong problem (with regards to his company Loopt). I bet there are a lot of people like that who just commit themselves to the wrong thing.
Coincidentally we joked about the name ("pot") in both my jobs.

It's featured on an endcap and does not sell one bit. This was a surprise.
About 1/4 of the floor space of a typical Whole Foods is taken up by homeopathy and other quack remedies.
DEFCON also has a budget of millions of dollars to host a 4 day event, as well as a very loyal and dedicated team of volunteers. What value is there in comparing such a vastly different organization?
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Oh, I feel you. I had a hard time remapping Vimperator "Ctrl-u/d" to VimFX "u/d" and Vimperator "u/d" to VimFX "x/X" in my muscle memory.

On the other hand, some parts of VimFX's language are more logical, e.g. "yf" instead of ";y" to select a link into the clipboard.