skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given what the previous instrument taught us, the science questions change, so the instruments you need also change. For instance, it surprised everyone when it turned out that most stars are more variable than the Sun is, and this extra variability has complicated the Kepler data analysis.

Additionally, you can incorporate lessons learned (from an engineering perspective, not science) into the next instrument. Some things work well and are preserved, and others don't.

Here's a link to some tech awards relevant to future exoplanet instruments: http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/
FWIW, these are great fun to print out on a 3D printer and play with.
Bloomberg bloomberg bloomberg bloomberg.

Sorry, but most of these changes, are the result of private businesses and taxpayers.

Saying "you can now build a skyscraper in area X" is hardly an amazing achievement.
... select or WaitForMultipleObjects in another form
Over 8 minutes long! I stopped watching when she talked about feeling alone in her personal struggle. Some young people really don't have a clue. She's among the worlds royalty, "The Princess and the Pea," and doesn't realize it. She's pretty clueless to not even acknowledge that people all around her are dealing with much more serious personal struggles. That would be the polite thing to do and might mitigate some of the cringe factor. Wow, talk about a life of luxury of time, youth, health and choice, that many can only dream about. She's pretty too. I'd trade lives with her in a New York minute. I'm sure she'll be fine.
Finally, a "Why I Left Google" post that doesn't focus on the company. A lot of people are saying, "This girl has a lot of angst"...well, at least for once she talks about herself and her reasons for leaving, rather than the reasons a company failed her. It's a nice change.
I dont mean to say you are insinuating the following, but i feel it is important to say:

Is that reason enough to keep them there? Isn't it better to do the right* thing at some point, than do the wrong thing forever? Should an innocent man be sentenced to death, if at some point before his extinction from this earth, we find out the truth?

Asking for forgiveness, and admitting the wrong had been done, is and will always be, the first step towards rectifying injustice.

<rant>

* Marijuana has never, from its physical effects, killed any one. It is one of the safest substances for humans to ingest on the planet. You would die from drinking too much water before you could kill yourself from a smoking/eating pot (long term smoking effects not included).

For those who insist on the "moral" cough bullshit cough perspective: People do not become menaces, belligerent, and or violent towards their families smoking weed. People don't black out and wake up wondering what happened. For alcohol, the same cannot be said. Yet, marijuana is immoral? Let me hopefully be the last to say, with a smile, fuck you and fuck that :)

Furthermore, as is the case, well in my opinion, with all drugs they are at most: medical problems, not criminal. The criminal system is anti-rehabilitation; and as a result; ensures the propagation of the problem and not the solution.

</rant>
There's a lot of claims (and rightfully so) about the right losing the demographic game to the left. If there's one area where the right may be on the "right" side with young people is privacy.

Big opportunity for them if they play this correctly.
The moutains go far to the west from the vantage point of SM or Venice. In the middle of Summer the sun sets in the north west, so over the mountains just above Malibu.
San Francisco isn't the best city in the world.
"KISS principle" for software development
This might applicable not only for new programmers, but also for senior programmers..
It's certainly opimisim. A quick look at the history would suggest there's no particular reason to believe that things always get better.
> many of the reports we get are nonsense or misguided

Alright, here's a preemptive question for you then.

Should a logged in user be able to retrieve the email addresses of an arbitrary friend, regardless of their contact privacy setting being set to "only me"?
You're setting a great precedent for people to not use your program and instead, leak out bugs for malicious purposes rather than conform to your dodgy call of ToS. Saying "this is not a bug" doesn't even ask for more information, it cuts off his entire report as FALSE even though you have now admitted the bug was indeed not the intended way for Facebook to operate (people should not be able to post on other people's walls).

You seriously need to pay this guy like you promised, especially since he went to all the trouble to report it to you. This is a real low move for a company against this guy who obviously isn't a first-language English speaker.

Even if he violated a very minor and insignificant point in your terms, he only did it after you flat-out rejected his report. If you want to encourage reports, you need to be reasonable. If I was this guy, I would be absolutely furious after putting so much work in, doing it the pussy-way and reporting it to the company rather than leaking/selling it for spammers to use, only to get blindsided and literally make it all for nothing.
Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg’s wall — RT News
Apparently it's on Youtube now. Pause a video, click outside of it, and type 1980.
Agreed. I'm very happy the OP is taking a risk, because, damnit, now is the time! I think the lesson is we all should be willing to ask "Are we truly happy with our lives?" and take the chance to answer without all of the external signals. There is more to life than a title! And, in my humble experience, titles only correlate with years working and not competence.

If it weren't at Google, then...

... she'd be complaining about the sociopathic politics and "endless email" at Microsoft.

... she'd be thankful to have only 3 conference calls, all within normal working hours, at IBM.

... she'd be fearing the pager (dev) or Wednesday business reviews (non-dev in Retail) and admiring Jeff at Amazon.

... she'd be tired of the arrogance at Facebook (caveat: MANY great people at fb, but there are a few PMs who think they are the second coming...)

... she'd be cursing the exploitation of VC-istan at _[your name here]_ startup.

(This post is from personal experience -- yes, I've worked at each company)
> So I don't understand how the Constitution allows the federal government the right to execute a citizen without judicial process. Any references would be sincerely appreciated.

I think you'll be waiting a long time for rayiner to give you one.
It should be exponential reduction of force required, but the length is longer, so the same work.
I think there's a spectrum between letting whitehats do anything (including violating privacy, hurting real user accounts, etc) vs. suing everyone who changes a GET param somewhere. Having a whitehat program with (IMO reasonable) guidelines around not impacting unsuspecting real users seems to me like a good balance and is fairly close to the first part of the spectrum.

Obviously I don't love the end outcome, and this would have gone better for all parties if he had used a test account and included some kind of repro instructions (like that video) in the initial report.
Spamming?

Edit: It was a tame music video. On the spectrum of demonstrating to a test account all the way through to selling his discovered flaw to actual spammers, I rate this at the low end.
I love this post, I really do and it's because it resonates so deeply with me. Ellen is really able to put into words what I could only babble on about in nonsensical conversations with people over the past 6 months. I left Google this year too as have many others (if only you could see the internal epitaph). There were many reasons why I left but none are noteworthy. Many have found themselves in similar situations, facing adversity in their lives, achieving the dream and then wondering what next, the quarter life crisis. Google is the dream but what happens when the dream becomes a reality? Does the reality live up to what you had imagined it to be? Now what? Do you spend 10 years at Google trying to level up? Do you work on complex problems at Google scale? Do you even get that opportunity?
What I learned Building
At the end of the day, you're still an animal whose main business is eating, pooping, and reproducing.

It turns out there's a lot of scope for creativity and joy while keeping the organism alive.
I have been doing Forex on an off, lost tiny bit of money, but overall having a lot of trouble consistently profiting in the market.

Do you have any serious tips on how to be consistently successful.
- Okay sukaka, I wil keep everything u said in mind.
Hmm, wanna report at facebook.com/whitehat with more details? Please include repro instructions :).
Try reading 1800s literature. It'll awaken a certain appreciation for modern writing in you.

But the point is that there's a certain box smart people today in the 1975-1990 generation are put in.

* Get good grades

* Go to college

* Get job at company (alternatively, start your own company. That's pretty trendy today.)

* Find spouse

* Buy house

* Have kids

...etc.

Why bother? That's a good question. Why not simply drop out and go surfing? What's the point of the job? What's the point of having the money to buy stuff? Why use your intelligence, this intelligence that so many people have complimented, in the same way every other person like you has been doing?

It's a variant on the age old question - who are you, really? Why bother being you as you are now?

Maybe that explains it better. But the article really resonated with me.
HIRING/RECRUITNG: Software Genius
Look, we are a growing consulting and product firm. We are looking for a person that can take our founder's (my) architect role and help make the company succeed while I am out whoring/selling us as needed. We build some awesome products, focused on mostly the e-commerce and big-data space. Far more on really hard big-data than anything, but e-commerce interests us as a unique opportunity.

We have an amazing group of people in Florida. Of which we have one person that could step into this role, frankly you would likely compete with them, but in a positive way. But because we aren't stupid, it seems logical to look at people smarter than ourselves. If you have interest, we want to talk. We aren't funded, we are bootstrapped. Which frankly means there is an opportunity that is usually unfounded. We are looking at Angles over the next 6-9 months, but frankly want to see if we can make it without them. Not because they are bad, but because we believe in our team and that our team should win above everyone, outside our clients.

If this sounds like something you might be remotely interested in. Send me an email. Let's chat. Meet up if you are in Florida, or if you are that candidate, hell I'll meet you about anywhere.

Our stack is mostly node.js, C++ and moving towards GO. With of course, the normal front end work you'd expect. Our consulting world seems to consist of mostly Microsoft and database scaling issues.... So much we can talk about.

I am the original founder, and no, I am not interested in those that aren't bought into our plan. You buy in or you aren't part of the team, its not gray to me. At the same time, we really want people to speak up, tells us we suck, and why. Who gets smarted by listening to their own hype?

Yes there is the option for ownership. Yes we pay our people, respectfully.
It is insidious. In what I thought was a clever inversion there was a gal in LA who had a 'reverse' birthday party, which was that it was her birthday but the living room was filled with things they didn't use, so the rule was everyone had to leave with a gift and no one could bring one.

I find I have a hard time throwing stuff away that I know somebody would use. (example a complete orignal Xbox with about a dozen games, two controllers, remote etc) Freecycle used to be good for this, Craigslist still is. Weird though when people get into fights over something you're tossing.
Pay the man.

He stumbled around a bit trying to work out how to help, but he brought a flaw to your attention in what he thought was a polite way. If unleashed, this bug could've been used to wreak havoc on Facebook and damage the company's reputation. $500 is the very least FB should be paying.
I don't live in NYC, but I've visited there many times. I remember as a kid in the 80s, during my first visit and driving through rough parts of the city thinking "what a hell hole". Cars on fire in the middle of the street, graffiti covering everything, in the evenings dark shadowy areas had an immediate feel of danger.

Over the years I noticed a definite improvement in the city. Cars stopped being on fire for one. The Subway, while not exactly the nicest place, isn't bathed in spray paint, etc.

The last few years I started doing week long business trips up there two or three times a year and the city seemed absolutely transformed. Parks were being used by families after dark, streets were generally clean, people were out and about strolling around, biking or exercising. It wasn't Singapore clean, but the streets were generally cleaner, and you really had to get into hard areas to see graffiti. Bars on windows started coming down, and the city felt like it was opening up. I also noticed a huge police presence everywhere.

And people were generally friendlier. Most of that New York snarl was gone (both a positive and a negative).

On one trip I did some consulting work for the NYPD and got a chance to see some of the data the city collects and processes and uses to improve city services -- I believe this system was put in place by Bloomberg. To say it's impressive is an understatement. Noise complaints are correlated to nearby construction and crime, NLP was being brought online to process 911 call transcripts to look for crime trends, recently released prisoners were being cross checked against recent crime reports for recitivism. I think they're still on the edge of what's possible with what they're collecting, but it's being put to immediate and long-term city planning use. It's not quite what you see in the movies, but outside of the federal government, I've never seen anything at quite the scale and level of detail as what NYC collects.

I'll have to say that I do skip the outer boroughs, because they've been particularly unattractive to visitors, but I think in recent years some of the major new development work is starting to make me think again about that. There's lots of downsides to staying in an overpriced cramped hotel room in downtown Manhattan, such as finding a reasonably priced place to eat dinner without heading 20 minutes uptown or eat endless Chinese food. But staying across the river, closer to a residential area with good local eateries might be a better alternative in the future.
Really cute mechanism in http://507movements.com/mm_123.html

The little pins hit the V in the center gear and cause it to shift to the other gear. Neat!
I love the advice on responding right away to opportunities. Although clearly important in funding, this should be carried over most, if not all aspects of life. Also agree with the mention of probation for new employees. Your new company will be moving at lightning speed, and you don't have time for babysitting/dead weight.
- I have no hate for corporate america vinceguidry. I had 2 jobs as an Electrical Engineer before I resigned and decided to do a startup. Still,, I want to thank you for your advice and knowledge. Im famaliar with HTML, JS, & CSS but I will step my game up as you've suggested.
The alternative "build a programming language that Dad can use" would have been much worse. I hope you see that. Unless gender bias is removed completely from our language (build a PL that your parent can use), the OP actually selected the lesser of two evils.
Show HN: A social network for file sharers
Yet another datapoint that marijuana vaporizers are a great bet for a hardware startup.
kepler wasn't built that long ago, as these things go. and ball aerospace which designed and built it is already designing and building an almost identical spacecraft for the b612 foundation. so of all the spacecraft you might want to duplicate, kepler would be a really easy one at the moment.
Chomsky doesn't think we should be trying to observe how people use language on a mass scale, so screw him imo. See: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3180 "The other argument has to do with the methods of science: Chomsky argues for "very intricate experiments that are radically abstracted from natural conditions". "
It was pretty straightforward to add the plotter. +1 for Plotinum :)
You're not wrong to be concerned; all things beginning with '_' are reserved for use by the implementation:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228783/what-are-the-rules...

Update: as another person points out, _Generic is now an official keyword as of C11.
The article is actually on mapping Messaging, Conversation Pattern and Asynchronous Processing to a real world example. Everybody keeps talking about coffee :)
except that a lot of smart people in other industries also study hard but can't save enough for those opportunities. the key is that she also picked a good industry to be in, which is basically down to luck and the opportunities offered by where she grew up
:D It just keeps growing horizontally.
What is it that you want to do?

Having taught myself SQL, starting off with Access, I can say you've still got a lot to learn...no single project can cover the depth of database operational issues that are common to all databases. I wouldn't branch off to something else unless you have a solid project in mind where a non-SQL system is ideal for
You might be interested in the Artificial General Intelligence Conference series:
http://www.agi-conf.org/

See also the "artificial toddler":
http://wiki.opencog.org/w/OpenCogPrime:Roadmap#Phase_2:_Arti...
You don't get dedicated IP and custom DKIM with SES. Those affect deliverability significantly.
Wow, could she be more self absorbed and annoying ?
I just don't think it's useful to use the word monad to describe the strategy you're suggesting. I'm not criticizing your suggestion, I just don't think it has anything to do with monads.

More to the point, I don't understand why we (HN and the JS community at large) keep having this discussion. Coroutines have been around since the 60s. This is a solved problem.
In the case of a ultra-simple design available to terrorists that reaches critical mass by simply "dropping" one chunk of fissile material on another there is no explosion if it doesn't actually reach critical mass.

Israel is a nation-state with a lot more resources available to it like the ability to measure purity and to conduct simulations. In fact a key part of nuclear politics for the last 20 or so years has been super-computer based simulations in lieu of testing. In the US the programs have been responsible for the construction of some of the largest super-computers of their time(s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Strategic_Computin...
By any reasonable account, things have been getting better for at least several centuries now. Infant mortality is down, birth rates drop as prosperity increases, advances in farming technology have rendered world hunger a logistics problem, literacy rates are improving and access to education (traditional or otherwise) has never been better. Fewer people are being burned as witches (particularly in developed and developing countries). Entire diseases have been eradicated and more will soon be eradicated. Tolerance of alternative lifestyles, once relegated to small pockets of geography and history, is spreading. Slavery continues to be on the decline.

The collapse of the Roman Empire was by most accounts a setback, as was the the Black Death and two brutal world wars (though even after those we resisted the temptation of widespread nuclear, chemical or biological warfare). It really is quite difficult to find broadly negative trends. Even the loss of the Roman Empire becomes a temporary setback if you zoom your timeline out more. The Romans were doing better then the Babylonians (well, some of them were at least), and we are doing better than they were at their height.

Things get better because that is what humans do; we stand on the shoulders of giants. Stubborn incremental improvement.
Did someone really hack Miss Teen USA's Bedroom web cam?
It feels like she has made the first genuine choice about her life. Most people seldom, if ever, make a genuine choice, but follow the obvious path in front of them. In this case, top of class, great college, fantastic job then career and so forth.

This site is rightly focussed around people who have made or are thinking about making genuine choices, founding or being part of a start-up.

It took me until I was 29 to make my first real choice, and then, and ever since then, I've gone about in the same way.

The key is to create real options that are all desirable, and to make a real choice that is for yourself, your family, and for the societal right reasons, not (just) for others' expectations.

So what I did, and advise people to do, is to prioritise three completely different options areas, such as travel, starting a company and going corporate. Next, work on each of them as hard as you can to make them as compelling as possible.

If you've done a great job, then the three options will be equally good, yet very different, and the choice will be incredibly hard. At this stage it's about refining your criteria and choosing the one that opens the most doors and leaves the least closed.

Set a date to decide by, maximize the value of each option by pushing hard, and then pick one.

And I recommend always having a plan B and C, no matter what you are doing.
Negotiating the rezoning process was largely a political triumph. Same for the bike lanes, parks, and redevelopment of public land. Bloomberg has had a very visible impact on the city - but even more importantly most of his reforms are a ratchet. Plenty of politicians implement a program for a time, they can later be undone. Bloomberg has done a bunch things that can't be undone. There is no way to put the bike share program or more park land back in the bottle now.
The problem is that we've been down this route before and it failed spectacularly (we've gone through two AI winters already!). It does not mean that such research is doomed to fail, but we have to proceed a bit more cautiously, and in any case, we can't neglect improving what works today.

The schemes that have been successful since then, like MapReduce or GPU computing, have been very pragmatic. It wasn't until very recently that a connection was made between deep learning (Hinton's DNNs) and parallel computing.
"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." --Bucky Fuller
Another useful windows trick: to open a new file explorer window at the pwd of the command prompt, type 'explorer .'.
San Francisco is currently in a building boom. Over the next 25 years, there is going to be approximately 92,000 more housing units. The population of San Francisco should reach 1 million by then. Here are some links:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/12/sa...

http://www.spur.org/publications/library/article/san-francis...

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/07/19/plan-bay-area-passes-in...