skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, that looks very nice.

I might be wrong here but I think the background is just the picture, although scaled and has got many filters on it.
I don't know the green card process and what benchmarks you compare it with, but I've heard this about a lot of immigration procedures. Bringing a partner (with possibly a child) into Belgium for instance is also a long and error-prone procedure.
he writes an excellent example of why "all that computer sciency stuff" is usefull in day to day programming, yet still wants to take pride in his ignorance, like this is some strange sort of fluke.
I don't see (1) how this would solve the problem of global warming, or (2) if it did, how it could possibly be worse for Bush to have been right than for the problem of global warming to go unsolved.

[EDITED to add: or (3) how, even if it turns out that this does solve the problem of global warming, it would have justified Bush in blowing off warnings about that problem. Saying "I am not worried about X, because scientists will solve it somehow" is generally not a sensible thing to say if X is a big problem and no concrete solution is in sight, and it doesn't become sensible even if it turns out that scientists do solve it in the end.]
If that was the case, then through the "six degrees of separation" phenomena, it wouldn't take long before everyone's name and metadata were on the keyword list.
Nice catch ... it so subtle i didn't notice but none the less a very nice feature. Love the execution of their idea!
NZ PM: Public care more about fish quota than GCSB Spy law
Yes - from the subjective perspective of Schrodinger's cat. Yes - from the subjective perspective of the detector. From the outside we observe the cat's state becoming entangled with that of the radioactive sample, but from the cat's perspective it made the observation, collapsed the state, and either died or didn't.

It's exactly the same for us, making the observation - from our perspective we observed one result or the other, collapsing the wavefunction. But to an outside observer we entangled our own state with that of the cat and the sample, and we're in a superposition of (observed cat dead, observed cat alive) - and will be until they observe us, at which point our wavefunction will collapse to one or the other. And so on.
You do have direct control over it in this case. You can just change the fragment shader code to do with it whatever you want.
He's not a psycho just an arse licker
Live Coding example showing Life in APL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

I generally hate videos, but this one is well worth the few minutes it takes (assuming you are not familiar with APL; read the examples on the linked page first, it will save you a couple of reviews of the videos until you get it all)
> all of which are functional, in part also because OO/subtyping is hard to reason about formally

OO subtyping is hard to reason about formally in formal systems designed for FP...news at 11! I jest.

The reason FP does so well academically is that no one knows how to rigorously evaluate something that isn't theoretical (since FP is close to math anyways) or performance-based (most other PL work).

The Haskell crowd is also very creative so they do a lot of cool stuff. However, many of their ideas are transferrable to other languages without the FP ideology.

The OO people have something to offer also, but we've been kind of muted lately.
Repository is at https://github.com/the-grid/noflo-jekyll
> If it were still that way today, most of the startups
> that this site revolves around wouldn't exist.

In what way? The startups wouldn't exist because the founders can't handle the tools? Or, are you saying they wouldn't exist because there wouldn't be huge markets of people sharing cats pictures.

The more I think about it, both cases could both be correct, seeing how many people who call themselves developers would find it impossible to write a line of code if they didn't have eclipse....
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They didn't break epoll, epoll was straight-up broken. They just managed to supply enough pressure to reliably trigger the bug, which is even more impressive if you think about it.
Don't forget SPLASH Onward! [1], which is a fun conference for new PL ideas.

[1] http://splashcon.org/2012/program/onward-papers
We need more engineers practicing law
Always nice to see a company offering a free service with specs adequate enough to actually test anything for a novice like myself dabbling in cloud service delivery!
New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith
I do think this looks interesting, but the second bullet point makes me cringe (my emphasis):

- Secure: optional SSL client cert authentication

Reading the section on SSL in the guide makes me feel slightly better, although I'm worried that it doesn't mention anything about revoking certificates and/or online status checking.

Perhaps we need a (better?) library for TLS-PSK and/or TLS+kerberos for these types of uses of HTTPS? That or a compact stand-alone CA that simplifies certificate management and enrolment to the point where it is both usable, deployable and reasonably secure.

I'm guessing a compact "master CA"-service that only deals with maintaining (optionally) off-line root certs, that only certify intermediary on-line CA(s), that deal with enrolment and revocation of service and client (ie: "principal") certs.

Of course, at that point, you've pretty much created a kerberos work-a-like on top of TLS (for some extra spiffy-ness, set the intermediary CAs to issue certs with 10minute life-times...) -- and I'm not sure if such a system would really be better than just using kerberos in the first place...

[edit: formatting]

Maybe the ease of interop with other rest/http-based services and clients would be worth it -- maybe not.
Or you can just append #readme:

https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs#readme
That makes sense - although we already do this, and it's not limited to fingerprinting - includes biometric information, including iris imaging and so-forth.

You'd also be amazed at just how many people still make it over in the back of trucks. Don't know if it amounts to a majority, but talking to a few friends who drive trucks across Eurasia, pretty much every time they do a France -> UK crossing someone either sneaks, or tries to sneak, into the lorry. Common tactic is cutting the pull cord around the edge and resealing it with a lighter, or cutting a hole in the top of the canvas.

I actually subscribe to the camp of "let them come", as I don't believe in nation-state protectionism as a concept, but find the topic as a whole fascinating, from the economic level down to the human.
In the UK, if you don't pay your taxes, you get into trouble, just like every other country. In that way the NHS is as much a tyranny as any of the other things we pay taxes for, like roads, schools and emergency services. People here in the UK like having the NHS. The US system, where unlucky people get a choice between bankruptcy or death, sounds pretty horrible to us. When I see people get upset because their taxes are going to subsidise the healthcare of others, I don't understand it at all. It seems short sighted and selfish to me. Personally, I gladly pay to keep my country healthy. This is Britain, not some backwater third world country where poor people are left to fester and rot on the streets.

We do have private health insurance here in the UK, but I'm sure there are restrictions on who can do business and where and when. I think that is unavoidable. There are obvious difficult trade-offs when legislating this kind of thing. Not everyone can be made happy. However, the freedom to operate a medical business without government interference is not as important as ensuring that everyone has access to adequate healthcare. If your rights as a business owner get trampled on at the cost of saving human lives, well, frankly that's just too bad. There are plenty of other lines of work you can get into where there aren't quite so many dangerous and perverse monetary incentives.
>> OO subtyping is hard to reason about formally in formal systems designed for FP...news at 11!

Well. Even systems like L2 (which are not functional) find subtyping difficult. It becomes difficult in the presence of overloading and overriding.
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Only way to find out is if someone designs a survey. HN itself has builtin support for polls, doesn't it? Even a simple "Are you depressed?" yes/no with tallies of the answers would be very interesting. I'm sure that enough of HN readers would partake in the survey so that the result becomes statistically significant.
can't the same be said for pretty much any language? If you did C++, and found performance problems, you'd drop down to assembly, which imho, is even more unwieldy than using more advanced haskell libraries.
I substitute it with flickr's latest design overhaul.
I would love to see chromatic as a service I can pay for, maybe sell me a wordpress plugin?
Yes. See, e.g., http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WireWorld.html which has examples of OR, XOR and AND gates, and a little 8-bit multiplier.
The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if they bundled it in as a secret requirement for international trade deals.
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I'm not sure how you managed to misread my comment so badly.

Something can be very tasty and very poor quality. Add enough salt, fat, sugar, and spices and the worst quality 'pink slime' is tasty.

But a filet mignon is expensive, tender, usually high quality cut of meat that isn't particularly tasty. It doesn't have much fat and isn't weight bearing which affects the taste.
“Programming languages are not arbitrary. They are manifestations of deep invariants of human thought, i.e. they are grounded in logic.” —Bob Harper

Logic ~ Type theory ~ Functional programming
I've signed up a couple of days ago but no mail so far? (twitter: odinovereem)
There are a couple of ways of looking at this, these are all thoughts or considerations you should make.

If he is not yet been sentenced then there is no point in telling them. It could be he gets a slapped wrist or community service in which case there is no need to disclose this information as he can continue to work as is.

Also if your VC meeting is before the case then there is also a probability the case could be dropped (no matter how big or small). In which case he it will not effect them.

Is he still under probation? You could release him? Then its up to you what you say to investors.

If you tell the investors they might be rather brutal and say they want him gone before any investment talks, or funding. This could be especially bad if he is not proven guilty.

There is more than one thing to think about here, and not knowing all the facts just means we can only give you thoughts and ideas. Its up to you to work out whats best given the information you know.
Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App
This is the problem with having so much unchecked power. It's extremely tempting to abuse it and take full advantage of the benefits it gives you, and not think of the consequences years down the road, because you know you have the whole government backing you (even if it's unconstitutional) - at least at the time.
ahahaha.. lol!
Is it supposed to reload previously viewed images when the user scrolls up or down?
The town where WiFi, TV, radio, and cellphones are banned
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The last paragraph is a downer:

Mr Musk says he is so busy with SpaceX and Tesla that he will not immediately try to develop Hyperloop himself. Only if no-one else picks up the challenge will he consider attempting to make it a reality at a later time.

Hyped up article.

I wonder if the idea of such tubes is practical though. It's like a giant hi-tech metro tube with certainly only one or two stops. That's high maintenance stuff. More than one thousand km of infrastructure. A plane might be more expensive but its 100meter long tube is less to take care off.

OTOH today's metro infrastructure is quite huge too if you were to line it up.
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According to this NYT article[1] the rat was indeed submerged in the movie (the scene wasn't faked). The article also states that it's been tested successfully on numerous animals - and even one human (although apparently they almost died in the process).

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/06/movies/film-the-abyss-a-fo...
My point was that this distinction is dubious because while Harvard is probably worth more for some fields, like finance or law, in other fields like engineering, UC Berkeley + 240k is worth more in my opinion.
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Problem seems to be fixed here as well; thanks for the update :)
Sure, there are a number of similar tools for Go. Over the next couple years, I suspect the community will settle on a "standard." I think it's the lack of a standard that the OP is bemoaning. Go just isn't old enough for that yet.
I any case, I still don't get the pun.
Well, you get what you ask for.
No HTML needed
Thanks, unfortunately I'm getting a 404 Not Found when I click on the link...
You have to consider the total cost of ownership. The exercise goes like this. What is the total traveling population per year that would get from point A to point B that would ride planes if not for hyperloop (assuming it becomes reality). That gives you the number of planes that would be used per year. Need to consider per year, because a lot of traveling is seasonal. Then what is the cost to maintain those planes, operating costs like fuel and pilots, insurance costs for damages and risks, etc, etc.

I have no idea how the total cost of ownership would compare. But I wouldn't write off hyperloop just because it would be expensive. It may be possible to make it work. Given how much plane tickets cost, I can easily imagine people paying more money for something that's seemingly more convenient and safe than planes.

edit: The man figured out how to turn launching rockets into a profitable business. The man thinks it's possible to build a nation-wide charging station network that can charge all the cars his company builds for free. With this type of thinking, I think he takes cost feasibility seriously, so I'm curious what he has up his sleeve.

edit2: Maybe what I wrote above maybe sounds too much like hero worship. I'm not saying he has everything figured out. I'm just saying I'd be very on the fence and would not bet for him or against him, but most definitely not against him.
The Smartest Man Is Bullish On Europe
An element of your argument relies on defining a liberal arts education in a specific way that is by no means the accurate or sole definition. American schools are quite unique in that, as opposed to universities in the UK, there is something called a "liberal arts education," which in that context is taken to mean the concept of a core curriculum / general education requirements. There is no reason that a liberal arts education as you define it is inherently interdisciplinary, there is no reason that whatever advantages you claim stem from interdisciplinary studied is not covered under a core curriculum definition of liberal arts.

Nelson seems to think they don't.

You're seriously misinterpreting what he says about how modern degrees don't impart critical thinking skills. His criticism is directed at Ivy League educations in general - not only pre-professional degrees but also liberal arts degrees: "I didn't have habits of mind that a liberal arts education was supposed to have given me. And not only did I not have it, none of my other colleagues had it—people who had graduated from Princeton and Harvard and Yale." It bears noting that Harvard has no pre-professional degrees except engineering (no business degree); it's clear his criticism is drawn out of his disappointment that a liberal arts education was supposed to give him and his colleagues critical thinking skills, but failed to do so.

Furthermore, the instant I looked at the link you posted, I could already tell that that wasn't actually the degree requirements for Wharton (I could tell that those were the requirements for a major but not for graduation). So that's a really poor example. The full degree and graduation requirements are listed here: https://spike.wharton.upenn.edu/ugrprogram/advising/curricul...
Looks like the Guardian got hacked. I clicked, saw the article header, but was then redirected to a NSFW ad for Teen Party Sluts.
And remember the time where he scammed the telcos with some exploit? Or when he was convicted of insider trading? Kim is just looking for money.

The image of a heroic hacker standing up to defend The Cyberspace from The Man always was marketing. That's actually the only thing he's good at- marketing himself. The gov shutting down megaupload was actually the best thing that could've happened to him, it made him authentic and people who don't know better usually believe his crap based on the news coverage.

For anyone interested in this matter (or just wants a good laugh) I recommend finding kimble.txt. It's in german though.
Sorry about that, looks like a raw single quote in the URL was being stripped out on it's way in.

I've posted up fresh version with a URL-encoded quote and that seems happy now.
Besides the HTML to include the CSS... Nonetheless, still cool!
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Yes, it is very interesting but I don't think it will be "world changing".
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Who says we're paying attention only to the IDE itself? Apart from the fact that we support a wide variety of languages on the platform, both JVM targeted languages as those that are not, and that the fact that we're also developing our own OSS language, kind of is contrary to us only focusing exclusively on the IDE or the tools.

My point about it being on our GitHub account and OSS is that the source is available, much like it is for plug-ins for Emacs or Sublime or any other environment. It's not about blaming anyone or pushing the effort on to someone else.

We have quite a few developers dedicated to writing plug-ins in-house, specially considering pretty much all the functionality in IDEA is based around plug-ins and in fact we have around 3 people that are working alone on Scala plugin.
I think it's a bit more than superficially related - in a lot of cases, the only reason the government knows what it does about you is because you turned your personal information into bits and sent it to Facebook.
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You mean end up reinventing a browser inside WebGL?
Totalitarian or not, if it is economically stable and the neighboring countries are ravaged by poverty or war (like Kolechia), getting in may be your ticket to having a mostly decent life.

Then there are people passing through, visiting friends, and smuggling.
I'm not seeing any images on Chromium. Just a blank white screen with "Matt & Sophie's wedding photos" at the top.

Congrats on the wedding though.
I find it strange how we frame global warming as something that might or not happen but the causes of it are already upon us with the heavy levels of pollution in the air and all its consequences. There's really no excuse to be pro-pollution with or without global warming. Bush was deeply wrong.
Ask HN: which jobs are accessible to very introverted devs?
Whenever I get a job interview as a junior web developer, I am told that my technical competence is undeniable but I'm way too introverted to be hired, especially in web agencies.

Are there some other programming jobs in which being extroverted isn't a requirement? Or I should keep searching for the right company? I don't think I can change my personality.
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I used to hate campaigns that would just "Raise Awareness" because I thought that raising awareness never fixed anything. After a while I realized it was the first step to getting people to care. Presenting a solution before anyone cares doesn't fix anything either. I'd put "Do what it takes to solve the problem" instead of a blurb about IQ, but otherwise I agree.
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Looks like the author changed institutions and the paper moved: http://www.elsman.com/tldi03.pdf
I was expecting something like F-ed Company to reappear in 2008 or 2009. Dealbreaker.com was the financial equivalent. It's too bad that someone didn't keep it running. Then again, it embodied the Point of View of the founder too much to survive without his enthusiasm.
Oh, but what about NOT gates?

EDIT: never mind, found not gates here: http://karlscherer.com/Wireworld.html

This wireworld rules, never heard of it before, and initially thought it was invented just now by the maker of the Flash app but now know better :)
Actually in the UK one of the large department store/supermarket chains works this way, and it seems to work pretty well for them. Sure, the reward and input isn't huge, but they look after their staff very well, and they get a share of the profits each year.

http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/csr/our-employees/empl...
So much for the sunk cost fallacy. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...
Yes, Bitcoin is one exception because of the digested addresses, but if I'm up to date it's not currently used on the network. There's no opcode in the transaction script to perform recovery, so currently you can't reduce transaction size by omitting public keys. I suppose the primary advantage in Bitcoin is the reduced storage space.
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Redditor website goes viral. Redditors offer bandwidth and security tests
The major issue is that it's time consuming and expensive. There have been real and opportunity costs which my wife and I have incurred simply because there happened to be an international border that separated us.
Wouldn't that just be a raspberry pi?
that looks very good, but navigating with the 'back' button breaks the app. tested on FF24 / opera 15.
Can someone tell me what's so bad about this? I don't see what the big deal is about needing identification to function in / move into and out of a developed society. I really don't find it an inconvenience, more of a practicality.
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Yea it's a shame that Snowden risked so much just so that a newspaper could rewrite the same story 50 times. We could use more leaks and less grandstanding and posturing.
I did not create this, I just saw the link float by Twitter.
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The random/urandom devices do originate from Linux, other implementations should be careful about not making incompatible changes.
The smartest man - just waffles, sorry. Nothing tangible or of substance in there and nothing really useful either.
back button also breaks it in chrome 28 on a mac
You must understand, that the absence of a state is not equal to the absence of those organizations. The state simply taught you that only it can build and operate them. But the truth is, the demand for those things doesn't vanish with the absence of a state.