skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really... the biggest example of this was probably the leak that happened from Manning - but it in large part wasn't really WikiLeaks fault, they gave an AES 'insurance' key to a journalist who released it without really understanding the consequences. WikiLeaks generally tries their best to release responsibly, but it's a challenge when you get governments unwilling to accept leakers and journalists who don't know how to handle leaks.
It would be awesome if they set up a remote office here in Vancouver :)
Please make a list of firms which have provided these comments denying that Wikileaks has provided them with information while claiming to have done so. This way others are able to confirm your comment. Otherwise it's really hard to take your comment seriously.
This article reminds me of a book written by Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Years of Rice and Salt". It's a historical fiction which explores a history in which the bubonic plague wiped out Europe, precluding Western civilization as we know it. The cultural and religious vacuum left behind is filled by Islam, Buddhism, and the Chinese dynasties. Robinson explores the evolution of humanity over the next 600 years under these influences in beautiful detail -- it's an amazing read!
I think there's a pretty reasonable case to be made that the cultural and political impact of Islam itself was a major factor in creating the conditions for the Golden Age. It established Arabic as a language of learning and philosophy; emphasized community and shared values; catalyzed the development of a unified legal code and judicial framework; explicitly promoted education and the acquisition of knowledge.
> Obama's CIA Posed as Russian Hackers

They're referring to the UMBRAGE program.

“With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types,
but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the ‘fingerprints’ of the groups that the attack
techniques were stolen from,” Wikileaks said in a statement.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/07/wikileaks-cia-...
Classifying NBA Plays and Predicting Shots [pdf]
Calorie is a unit of energy. Wooden logs have calories, and so does paper and chalk. Leaving safety concerns aside, I cannot substitute my salad with some paper I can get from the shredder. If I did, I am unlikely to get extremely obese on shredded paper diet, as most of it is fiber, so it just hits the output channel of the digestive track.

Calorie present != calorie consumed != calorie processed by digestive system != calorie deposited in the fat tissue

If all calories were the same, consuming 300 calories from a can of Coke and consuming 300 calories of green salad would lead to same outcomes. In long term they do not.
Be careful here. A Valid H1B does not mean "you are authorized to work in the United States". You are only authorized to work for that current employer. The new employer will have to file a new one (we call it transfer unofficially but it really a new application except that it doesn't count against quota etc like first time)
On SNAKISMS Being Rediscovered by the Internet
We've updated the title from “The hidden underground world of the Golden Age of Islam” to a representative phrase from the article.
Scaling your app isn't just about turning knobs. It's about making design tradeoffs based on your usage pattern. Most apps are very framework dependent and mixing and matching frameworks within a monolith is a nightmare. Having more flexibility around platform allows you to scale independently.
Think of Org-mode as more of a multi-language ipython notebook, where anything (plantuml, ditaa, python, etc) can be used, along with a data interchange format (org-mode vars + tables).

It can literally "do" any tool you use that has a cli interface.
Completely, and a small part of why employees are cautioned on here to take salary over equity.

The market telling them would be a loss of billions for the investors/founders, both on the value of their own equity and the increased equity they'd have to offer employees (many exceptions apply, but this seems to be the case particularly with startups who lack an easy path to profitability but can show substantial growth).
Why is this person being downvoted? Let's face it, the West in general does a great job of not giving credit to Muslims as it should. Chemistry, Algebra, Algorithms, Astronomy, the Scientific Method, etc.
If you can raise money on great terms, it's usually in your best interest to do so. Maybe they want to build up their war chest as they see increasing regulatory hassles, more competition, and a possible downturn in the market. I'd also guess they are expanding their scope now to more expensive endeavors, as they are building physical hotels now (and probably many other things they haven't announced yet).

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-com...
> Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease. Changes in lifestyle can reverse the disease.

Not so fast cowboy. Yes, diet and exercise can contribute to the disease, but some people can eat three doughnuts a day and not get DMT2, some get it despite a healthy lifestyle (including, if you believe the article, the CEO of this company, an ironman competitor).

And some of the damage is irreversible. Damage to pancreas, damage to circulatory system, etc. So catching it early (why they screen for "pre diabetes" and which is why the other company in the article went after pre diabetic patients). Once the patient has been diagnosed with full blown non-T1, then 100% reversal is probably not in the cards, simply a maintenance regime. For most people that includes drugs.

I agree with you without reservation that it's clear that you're better off on many dimensions by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but like it or not (and I don't like it) that's hard for most people to maintain for many many reasons.

Also, "diabetes" describes a symptom (essentially excessive urination with sugar excreted in the urine"). Under "T2" (basically: anything which isn't your immune system attacking your beta cells) are a cluster of diseases which cause the same symptoms.
Apologies for the Microsoft source on this, but it was all I could find. Interestingly, in December, Raygun posted about comparing performance of different nodejs frameworks[1]. In that, though they conclude it's not the fastest, they say:

> We still utilize express in our ingestion layer though in the future we may switch to an different language entirely.

So I'm guessing this is where they went. It would be great to see what other considerations they had switching away from nodejs, and what else was considered.

[1]: https://medium.com/@raygunio/node-js-performance-showdown-v7...
It tells you that the person advocating that philosophy has given themselves license to wield all of that enormous power you're describing, without check or balance.
To this point, here's a recent production that's been nick named "the Codec Destroyer" due to the way its visuals seem to exploit weaknesses in a great many video codecs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFs4d7npoyM
Almost certainly.
Welcome to the Future Range of the Woolly Mammoth
This is great news for both Canadian and international founders.

Is the next step having an additional Canadian office for those that can't get US visas? Canada has a generous startup visa for founders coming from other countries [0].

[0] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/
Solving traffic congestion through toll roads ignores the root cause issues and hurts everyone.

Fundamental to American culture is the ability to travel freely from place to place unimpeded. Toll roads completely undermine this principal, and instead replace it with a tax and a tracking mechanism.

If the goal is to solve congestion problems government should instead encourage business to locate in such a way to allow mass transit to function efficiently. Encourage centrally located downtown districts with vertical builds instead of massive sprawling campuses. This would allow useful mass transit and encourage employee freedom as all businesses are located together.
> I'm assuming we are in agreement that the pharmaceutical opiates are way more addictive than their illegal analogs.

Actually, that's... a complicated question.

Pharmaceutical opiates are definitely more addictive than raw opium (that's like asking if eating white sugar is sweeter than cane sugar). But once you're comparing heroin available on the street to prescribed opiates, there are enough variables (variable quality of product, means of ingestion, the different situations under which a person chooses one over the other, etc.) that there isn't a straightforward answer.
> He added that while Wikileaks maintained a neutral position on most of its leaks, in this case it did take a strong stance.

Uh huh. After the US Election debacle, I'm not so sure of that.
Profitable can also mean $1.
The Muskonauts figured out why their shit exploded. The Applluminati wants to replace the Muskonauts' shit with their own shit.
Wow. We often wonder how the Bay Area would be unseated as startup capital of the world. Maybe it'll be the US's immigration problem.
Seems over complicated to me. Why do they need so many components?
As long as you are ok with going through the App Store and only using iOS then yeah, good for you.

This is what I meant earlier with:

> I really don't see Swift becoming a popular full stack solution outside of environments invested in iOS and macOS.

But in many enterprise, industrial, education, and scientific applications, iOS is a complete fail. Not because of iOS in itself, but because of the many restrictions Apple imposes on the development workflow and the limited hardware.

Or if you need cough mobile crossplatform cough...
I was using spacemacs, but I didn't know emacs and lisp well enough to solve problems when I had them, and getting help was hard.

Now I'm back to using plain old emacs, and I'm hoping I can learn from spacemacs to make emacs better by contributing back to it.
There's quite a few windows developers out there as well for which I don't think we'll see Swift any time soon. In contrast Rust has fantastic windows support.

[edit]

Yup, no mention of win32 on that page at all.
Perhaps a startup founder could exploit "ease-of-travel arbitrage" and offer a service: Remote working from several countries that are easy to get to, accept a wide range of passports, and have enormous bandwidth.

Canada is a lot more open than the US at this point in time, but it's not all roses for people even to get to Vancouver.

What if there were a hub in, say Dubai? And a few other spots around the world?

I imagine Ycombinator would be one of many potential clients. Universities whose students have to delay a semester might use it. Other institutions would use it.
the video on kickstarter is hilarious
>There's a difference between racism and bias. We're all biased, but racism is an ideology that subordinate races are inferior, and that's why they're subordinate.

Yes, that's what I consider the true definition of racism, but that is not the definition of racism that's currently being used in contemporary American political discourse.

>Also, there are many ways that wealth and class are derived from gender and race.

Sure, but they are overwhelmingly hereditary.
they did a lot of hostile takeovers and suffered later on from a culture problem.
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Current discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830361
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The story Boston Consulting Group offered an MIT grad $16k not to tell (2010)
I've actually been using Simple Habit now for about 3 months. Cool to know the backstory. I started out on headspace, which I thought was pretty cool, but my morning uber ride isn't always 10 minutes...the 5 minute commute meditation is awesome (also the sleep one!) I'll try happiness one lol :)
As someone who went through quite the arduous process to end up working in the US legally, this is great news. Many friends I've had over the years have been unable to access many great resources due to their inability to lawfully work in a different location. I'm happy to see YC making progress towards offering quality opportunities to exceptional individuals in different locations.
The lack of increase in happiness sounds like simply hedonic adaptation.
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What's new in Rails 5.1
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"Companies to get" implies future tense, not past. Thus it makes sense the companies have not received them yet. But I agree that confirmation from the companies once they receive would be very nice.
1b @ 30b is very weird.
Or an earthquake.
The Canadian visa might sound appealing at first blush but won't help for ycombinator founders as far as I know.

To be eligible you need to have funding from a canadian venture fund, see below.

I guess ycombinator could setup a Canadian fund and apply for the funding eligibility, but with the principles being mostly American and living in the US, I'm guessing it would be a very tough sell.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/eli...
There is another project that does -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coste.sync...

syncorg on github
Well, it is a very assuring and comforting move for internationals in this tempest. Thanks for doing this.
They're advocating for radical transparency of governments and corporations, not individuals - there's a significant difference. Releasing these exploits as is would result in harm to individuals who are unrelated entirely to the CIA or government.
Does that have anything to do with Islam or more with autocracy? I'm not being snarky, I live in Saudi Arabia and certainly see the benefits of having an autocratic government for some things. I'm not sure religion plays a bigger role here in planning than it would anywhere else, though.
>concern trolling

Thanks, I was looking for a way to call people disingenuous without actually using the term, since it's apparently become a no-no word on HN.
>While Swift will compile on different backends now, XCode is still the premiere Swift dev environment and will be for a good while. So a non Mac Swift dev won't be having a great time

They won't have any worse time than someone using Go or Rust or D anywhere else..., that is, languages without "premiere Dev environments" and IDEs...
Thank you. Would have been much better to see this link as the OP!
"Move fast and break things" indeed :-/

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/839608371686801410
How about basically no framework with svelte? https://svelte.technology/
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Have you published the software anywhere? Do you have an open source implementation? (The Elastifile Github account doesn't appear to have one.)
They should stop calling companies like Airbnb "startups". They are big companies now and should be treated as such.
Harmful to whom may be the important question here. I thought the underlying premise of radical transparency was to make it sufficiently difficult to maintain state and corporate secrets that they either give up trying to keep secrets entirely or at least learn to avoid conducting truly shady activities because secrecy is no longer a guaranteed. If that's true then I'd say that admission is a strong endorsement that the practice is at least on sound theoretical ground.
I was wondering just a few days ago whether building a nice Mac desktop app or maybe a web app, akin to Ulysses, but for Org file writing/editing, exporting etc. would be a viable idea and whether it could eat some of Markdown's marketshare by not being tied to Emacs, which is why I feel most people don't pick it up.

Would that be something the HN crowd would be interested in?
The number of studies where participants ate less, engaged in more exercise and consistently lost weight is 0, though.

You'd think with a thesis this obvious it should be relatively easy to reproduce.

Hard to discuss the specifics of this exact experiment without knowing the details, but you have the control group that admits they have a weight problem and honestly tries to lose weight by signing up for this experiment. All of a sudden they turn into a bunch of cheaters buying up passes to an all-you-can-eat buffet? Is every obese person walking around extremely weak-willed? Is every thin person you see meticulously tracking their caloric intake and output?

What about entire countries that have low obesity rates? Are French or Koreans strong-willed at national level, consistently under-eating and over-exercising?
Mexico could capitalize on this as well. Guadalajara is a mini tech hub.
But leaving aside whether the advantages accrued to one ethnic group or another, didn't colonization increase the economic output on those land masses?

Overall, I mean (unquestionably it was destructive too).
> Rockets have, and will continue to occasionally explode.

Will they? I don't know a tonne about rockets, but maybe as we reuse them it will make sense to make more expensive rockets that do not explode since we're going to be reusing them. At least for crewed missions.
Because having 100 less resources with similarly convenient language is something to sneer at...
Ask HN: Using Factorio as visual programming, refactoring, and design tool
Hi,

I'm playing around with the idea of having developers I work with play Factorio for a little while as a good intro to design, implementing, and refactoring.

The idea that Factorio is visual programming keeps growing on me, and that the visual and game play feedback provided by a spaghetti base design that only you really understand and can extend is very similar to programmers reactions to legacy code in the workplace.

Needing to rip up your base and then re-lay it down as you learn more about the game play mechanics (aka become a better programmer) feels similar to refactoring for me. There is a sense of well it works now, why not just add on another wing instead of doing "it right".

Building small components that you can link into each other and reuse is almost the core mechanic of the game, and is also a core tenant of building reusable software.

Lastly, and I might be stretching here, the visual environment can be likened to TDD or at the very least a short feedback loop. When you take an action you have to deal with the consequences, and reap the benefits immediately which if you squint is like writing tests to exercise your API/objects as you write them, making sure that when you change your API/objects/whatever you feel the change as quickly as possible.

Is there any validity to this? Am I going to ruin their productive lives by introducing them to Factorio?
http://mithril.js.org/

Size < 8kb gzipped (includes routing and ajax)
May be this is a dumb question, I will ask it anyway, Tijuana Mexico is about 500 miles from Bay Area, where as Vancouver Canada is 1000 miles.

Que Canada?
The Times did this via email for World War I. It was kind of fun for a few weeks, but then I lost interest and it turned into spam. I'm also not much of a history buff, so maybe not exactly the target market.

http://ww1.thetimes.co.uk/
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Right because they should never publish anything that might harm the left, that automatically means they must be supporting the right.
Obviously because you don't want to have servers running OS X?
> How does that make presenting their product propaganda any more so than any other product presentation? Heck, they even use it themselves for their backend.

There is that aspect, sure.

But what I wanted to point out is the irony of IBM promoting Swift since there isn't really any obvious advantage of using it full stack unless you are using iOS. Which happens to be the product of their new friend.

That is all.
CoffeeScript 2 Alpha 1 released
I'm sure if YC opened up a Canadian branch they could be one of the accepted incubators. The federal government seems keen on trying to make Canada a home for startups, even if it hasn't been a totally successful effort yet.
Wow, that is an interesting move. If that is the route they are going after, it is more understandable.
Does this mean they're about to IPO? I should probably interview with them ASAP then.
It would be great if they held interviews in a couple of places besides Canada, one place in Europe and one place in Asia. Would be a lot of travel for them twice a year though.
>Your interviewer might have just failed in explaining the problem constraints properly.

The simpler and more common explanation is that the interviewer was looking to have his biases reflected by the interviewee. In my experience it is difficult for a certain kind of mind to distinguish between "This person is stupid/crazy/wrong for the job" and "This person knows something I don't".
> No new coal plants are being built now. It is in phase out mode. All new generation is wind, solar, and to a lesser degree methane. Coal is going away; like nuclear, it can't compete.

In the United States, at least, natural gas is the largest component of new generating capacity. Wind and solar are both independently fairly close to natural gas recently, but natural gas is still the #1 increase and has been for most of the last 10 or so years.

So yes, the rate of increase in coal capacity is very low (but still net positive), but it is not true that all new generation is wind and solar. New generation is roughly 1/3rd each natural gas, wind, and solar, ranked in that order. Again - in the United States. This varies from country to country, e.g. I believe China is still seeing substantial net increases in coal, whereas I believe Western Europe is seeing a lot more wind/solar.

You can get these numbers for the US from EIA reports: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/
You think they should have kept the emails back? Why?
Ask: How do you find a hardware engineer for side projects?
I've have a hardware idea that I'd like to develop but I can't seem to find a solid hardware engineer to work with. It's a pretty simply idea and could be implemented with something like Arduino, and I've played around enough to know it's feasible, etc. I'm at a point where I'd like to move forward but I'm not sure exactly how.

Also, is it worthwhile to file a patent before developing the hardware?

Would a good hardware guy typically know about patenting?

Lastly I'm located in Denver, CO if anyone wants to reach out to me, my contact info is in my profile.

Update - sorry, my bad, it's an electronic hardware project, if you have experience working with sensors that detect motion, that's the key thing I'm struggling to get working correctly.

Thanks in advance HN
C# 7 is here but are you up to speed with its predecessor's features?
What is the visa situation right now? What exactly has changed?
The child is my nephew. The reason I want to show him computer science is from my own experience. When I was a kid, I got my first computer before all my friends. Today, I realize that made a big difference. Also, I see that his parents do not do not care about that, they gave him a tablet just to play and watch videos on youtube. I just want to show him that there's so much more than that!
In the medium term, I'm sure YC can find Canadian funding sources if they wanted to do this.
Really? You can't imagine any reason someone might want to manipulate Wikileaks and its audience?
They are shown in a lightbox in the middle of a page.
My obvious thought: YCombinator is in English (based on what I've seen, at least as their primary language) and Canada is an English speaking country.
Well, neither Python and Ruby (prior to 2005-6) nor Node.js (prior to 2010-11) had any "established frameworks".

With this logic we'd still all be using CGI scripts.

Besides, Swift is several times faster CPU wise, type safe, and modern...
What if it's because I oppose the muslim ban and refuse to enter the US? That's a serious question. Actually I feel like the response to that will be, "It's your choice" but hey solidarity man!