skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any software that would allow one to easily build and simulate these kind of mechanical movements?
Yep, being able to store media digitally is HUGE.
Ev, you and Taylor were on the thread I had last week with Travis about this pricing practice. Will reach out.
The writing is pretty dull, but I think that's because of the nature of the situation.

She had a vague dissatisfaction with her time at the company, and she tried to walk people through how she gradually discovered what it was she didn't like.

The whole point of it is that there wasn't any specific thing about Google she didn't really like; that's what makes it interesting (yet also boring and confusing) to read about.
On Google hiring a head of social... [2010]
From TFA: If I wanted to do nothing, I should. If I wanted to fuck up for once, I should.

Wanted means conscious will: she craves the freedom to do everything she wants, including fucking up. I guess an account manager at Google doesn't get that sort of freedom, which might be a good thing after all.
Rationalism and left and right libertarianism will get you there. The same mix is against the high prison population, harsh penalties for non-violent crime with low economic value, e.g. copyright infringement by individuals, expensive wars, continuing to build Cold War weapons, etc. The federal Drug War itself is expensive, but it also a large fraction of local and state policing, prisons, and even the State Department. Lots of expensive economic drag is tied up in that. We would prefer to be more prosperous, in addition to being freer.
- I dont mind the risk, I believe, life is a risk itself. Thank you so much for this info sukaka. I will look more and, do research in this.
Yeah, I'm a bash user.
Domain and page authority in this case is relatively useless. The problem with lyrics SEO is rampant duplicate content. Every site has the same content and since Rap Genius is relatively new to the game, the way to climb the rankings is to do exactly what they've excelled at: getting their users to submit unique content. It's the same reason songmeanings.net has succeeded as well.

Your comment about storing each comment in a separate URL seems to be the true value here. Then each landing page can distinguish itself from the dozens of other lyric clone sites.

Disclaimer: used to work for Tunewiki, another lyric site
If it feels like she took too long to get to the point, maybe it's because you missed it.

Her point (as I took it) was that she had such a strong habit of living her life entirely in terms of her accomplishments that she was living her life inauthentically without even realizing it. And it took a whole lot of space away from her life just to become aware of it.

Not everything can be reduced down to a three-word "TL;DR."
Solid article on the importance of leveraging Demo Day hype to raise a round. As someone who is trying to raise without being in a world renowned accelerator like YC, I only wish I had an opportunity like Demo Day to help the round close quicker.
I for one am glad to see a "why I left Google" post that's not about why Google is doing stuff wrong.
Or maybe it's just optimism and the belief that society tends towards increasingly more rational behaviour. Unless there are some dramatic scientific findings in the future, the case against cannabis is flimsy at best -- especially when compared with other legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco.
Not a good idea to publish the guy's cell number, regardless of what he's done.
I don't get it. Marijuana laws are used against minorities all the time, not just middle class white kids[1]. Furthermore he talks of decriminalization as the solution, not legalization. Plenty of states have already decriminalized marijuana , but only two have legalized (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_non-medici...). Decriminalization allows the state to continue using pot as a weapon against the people, legalization doesn't to any appreciable degree.

I get that he wants the whole thing to fall at once (but at the same time wants decriminalization, not legalization?), but that simply isn't something that we can accomplish in any foreseeable future, not for several more decades at least. Just getting the public to turn around on pot (something that is genuinely mild, not physically addictive, and is plainly mis-classified as Schedule I) has taken a ton of effort. Furthermore the only reason that effort has been so successful is because pot is so widely used; somewhere around half of all Americans have smoked pot at some point in their life. You don't have any sort of similar base on which to launch a publicity campaign for crack (in the specific case of crack, at least we've got the Fair Sentencing Act. Certainly a good start, but that has a hell of a long way to go).

[1] Per TFA: "Since Mayor Bloomberg took office in 2002, there have been almost 460,000 misdemeanor marijuana arrests. And while blacks and Hispanics make up 45% of pot smokers in New York City, they account for 86% of possession arrests." Saying that legalization of pot only helps middle class white kids is just plain wrong. It is so stunningly wrong that it seems almost maliciously so.
She made a video response: http://youtu.be/Qeyt2Mw4sK4
Agreed, it's a key advantage for YC companies.
No. Too many dull words. There's quite a difference.
Remember that old poster "Poverty Sucks"? Some thoughts are better left unexpressed.
Unfortunately, OpenBSD 5.3 didn't have any support for my Atheros WiFi card, so I'm sticking with FreeBSD.

I'll agree that many Linux distros are better for beginners, but I dislike having software which I won't use included in my operating system, and I appreciate the FreeBSD ports system and it's ease of use.

Suspend/resume would be nice, but is not a deal breaker for me, as shutting down and powering on doesn't take so long that it's unreasonable, and with a 12 cell battery my netbook runs all day on a full charge.
While 18 is the minimum age for killing people and getting killed in war. Sounds about right!
- Does this ~> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_inter... by any chance help?
This really hits home for me, and I haven't even finished my degree yet. I should probably delete this comment so my prospective employers won't find it when they start trawling through my social networking history.
it seems like she never took the time to find herself. It sounds like she was always involved in something and she was able to shoot strait too the top without thinking about it much. I think a lot of people people just need some time to get it figured out and sometimes some fun years at college isn't enough. I know that was super involved as a undergrad and i thought I had life figured out by the time i was done, but it wasn't until i was an unemployed, relatively unknown person in a different area for my graduate studies that I was able to find out how i wanted i really wanted to do with my own life.
I'd be wary about relying on, what is, frankly outdated assumptions.

You'd be wary, and so you'd replace these studies with what exactly? Which of their assumptions are outdated?

Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that programmers before us didn't understand as much. As far as I can tell, the issues were much the same. A greater problem with older studies is that their sample sizes were mostly small and their experiments never replicated.
Why the hate for corporate America? It really isn't that bad. You work half as hard for twice as much money as you would freelancing or consulting.

But if you must, front-end development is hot right now. Learn a popular JS framework like Angular or Backbone and whore yourself out to design shops. They'll work you to death but you'll have your $$. Bonus points if you can pick up Rails and therefore be able to develop an entire app soup-to-nuts.
This obviously is cause of language barrier. It seems bug reporter didn't have any evil intentions but was just trying to get attention of facebook so this can be fixed. so I think he should paid. maybe you can ask for an apology for tampering user data as he was wrong on that part but still he did discover a valid flaw in facebook's iron clad security.
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Thanks for sharing. I stick to the LTS versions but I hear you on Ubuntu being a moving target. I'll try my hand with Debian.
you can make the simplest atomic bomb by dropping one piece of fissile material on another, provided they are big enough to become a critical mass.

My understanding of Ted Taylor's claims about compact fission bombs is that, absent high-grade manufacturing processes to properly shape the fissile material, we are looking at a couple of hundred kilograms to achieve critical mass.

Actual "suitcase nukes" in the 10-20 kilogram range require perfectly shaped components and are also very high maintenance due to their electronics degrading rapidly from such close proximity to radiation sources.

Then there is the question of testing. They say you can recognize veteran bomb makers by their missing fingers because they don't get things right the first time. Any testing of a fission bomb anywhere in the world is going to be noticed by seismographs at the very least.
I thought the same at first and honestly expected that the guy had just flat out committed libel. But after a tiny bit of research, I found that his claims about the restaurant's cleanliness were in fact accurate. (http://bit.ly/16xkdCO)

So while he probably was just writing the review to help his friend, his review is informative and factually based so really, there is no reason to remove it or the guy's account as far as I can tell.

This also makes Andy J's threat to make his active Yelp friends aware of his discontent with the restaurant make all the more sense as they are obviously better at it than him.
>An actual bomb is beyond the capability of anybody but a nation-state.

No, no it isn't. The theory is well known. More importantly, the theory has been been put into practice before, and the practice is pretty well known too. Actually making the parts would be relatively easy. The hard part, as usual, is getting one's hands on the fissile material.

In a study* from either the late 40s or early 50s, the US put a handful of "normal" physicists (ie, not exceptionally brilliant) in a room without access to any classified nuclear research, and told them to design a bomb based only on what information was publicly available. Their design was handed to the people actually designing and building atomic bombs for evaluation. The result? The design was a viable a-bomb, not the most efficient, but it would have worked.

*I don't have details handy, but the guy who wrote "Dark Sun" covered it in either "Dark Sun" or his first book.
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Ask HN: What is a good, modern database technology to learn?
Howdy all!

Economic researcher here. I taught myself MySQL for a project and it's been enjoyable, though not without the occasional issue.

I chose MySQL mainly because I had heard of it before. I'm sure that wasn't the wisest way to choose, but it made the selection process much easier.

Now that I've got a bit of MySQL under my belt, I'd like to branch out to some other database systems.

I've heard good things about NoSQL, MongoDB, as well as larger systems like Cassandra.

What I'd like to know is your recommendations. If you feel up to it, having your personal guide to best tech per function (e.g. use _this_ database system for website content management, use _that_ for static data access, etc.) would be awesome.

Thanks everyone!
> when I walk along the beach alone on a warm summer night and watch the sunset behind the Santa Monica mountains ...

The sun sets in the East?
Hopefully, yes. I think that pardons would be in order for those convicted of only pot offenses (carrying an illegal handgun while also dealing would of course not be pardoned).

In reality I expect we would let them continue to rot in jail since they were technically breaking the law at the time.
dude you are talking like a robot , how do you expect a hacker to behave upon your rules and follow your silly (tos) ... really unbelievable.
I'm much more excited about watching all of these little mechanical animations on a Saturday night than I ought to be...
> Ummm...also because they like to get toasted.

Not really, I prefer drinking. ...coincidentally, the legal age for doing that is 21. How discriminatory.
There is a whole industry of Drug War sponsored quack science that is no more legit than tobacco company sponsored "science."
This is an introspective essay describing a difficult mental process, involving a complete questioning of one's motivation in life.

Rather than condemn the author for being a narcissist, people should take the opportunity to study this excellent example of human introspection. I think a lot of people would benefit from having a close look at their goals and motivations. Seems like every other week I see a post on Hacker News about depression or burnout which could have been avoided if the author was able to look at him/herself from a distance.
The wife and I moved cross-country two years ago, and were living out of suitcases for a couple of weeks while the moving truck caught up to us. Somewhere around day 10 we realized: If the moving truck was vaporized by a meteor, and they handed us a check for the amount it was insured for, we would have considered it a good trade.

So a lot of crap got ditched (after paying to move it clear across the country facepalm). We now live by the equal-volume rule: For anything that comes into the house, something of equal or greater volume must leave.
I'm all for getting rid of stuff; stuff costs money, takes up space, and you have to think about it every time you come across it.

But you can take my heat and air conditioning out of my dead, 72°F hands.
If most humans eventually learn to talk computer, what's the difference between "human" and "computer" language?
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What point?
good luck! Also know about stop loss. More often than not, sell if the price has dropped more than 5%. If not, you'd be out of the picture and might be waiting indefinitely for the price to crawl back up to just break even.
Does it concern you that ultimately the way the OP got your attention is by posting to MZ's account? Are you sure you'd have ever "discovered" it if he hadn't? I agree that the OP didn't do a great job, but if he's submitting a vulnerability that you really want to hear about and you're ignoring him because of some miscommunication and you ding him for doing the one thing that gets your attention, you're creating an environment where you're less likely to find out about these things.
Well that is a fair enough concern, and I notice I used the word "Monadic" to describe jquery carelessly, to mean "Monad-like" though that isn't really what "Monadic" means.

For the case in hand though, you can get to almost but not quite really technically a monad, and still cure most of the nested callback headaches. One way I think about monads is they are a strategy for turning nested functions into sequentially composed functions. Which is, pretty much what we want, right?
Thanks for reminding me of the talent Camus possessed. The Stranger shaped me as a teen, and this brings me back.
Why is testing an issue? The Trinity test was successful on the first run. Nation-states only conduct tests to calibrate destructive capabilities and fallout effects (a non-issue if you just want a big boom) and signal to other nation-states 'Don't mess with me'. Furthermore, states such as Israel, are believed to be nuclear, without ever having conducted any (known) tests.

An unsuccessful nuclear explosion would just be a dirty bomb, which would still have the desired effects from a terrorist attack perspective. So there's no real reason to test before hand.
>So you don't have a historic example?

Why did you fucking ask for one? I've got tons of historic examples -- from US and from all other the world. I'm not some kool aid drinker that thinks things are different in the US. It amazes me when people are so naive (and politically infatilized) as to think those kind of barriers matter or that they respect the law regarding US citizens. That's probably why people are amazed time and again, like goldfish, when this kind of shit re-emerges in the news.

>There is a big history in the 70s, and anyone who has studied the Church Committee, COINTELPRO, Nixon Administration, and FISA courts should know where I'm going with this. Its basic 1970s history, and the NSA was all wrapped up in that controversy from years ago.

Basic 70s history if you're an American (and even then, most can not tell Belgium on the map). I've read about all this cases time and again. Didn't bother to check if NSA was involved (rather than CIA) because I could not give less fucks. When it comes to this, those are the same kind of agencies, working from the same side and for the same purposes and using the same practices. The pendantic distinction you made between them would only interest a bureacraut.
I make up a different name every time I go into a Starbucks. I could be Marty one day, Siegfried another, and Rupert the next.
Yup you hit the nail on the head. Great strategy for starting out an driving traffic quickly. I think the value add long term comes from being an authority in decoding hip hop, not just lyrics per se.
Building a new something that was designed, built, tested and launched quite a while ago is difficult because a lot of knowledge of the processes have been lost, along with tooling, supplies, etc.

However, I do wonder why they build 1 Kepler space telescope and not 2, or 3, and then store the already built ones until they are wanted.
a little anti-aliasing would go a long way in these rotated images
What is happening, exactly?
We're not talking about distance from the CPU. At least I'm not, and I'd be shocked if Dijkstra were. No, the issue is that a program has at least two different logical structures: its lexical organization in text, and its dynamic organization in time. You want these two to be as closely related as possible, because humans rely mostly on the program text to understand it.

"Time" here doesn't mean CPU time, it means logical time--the temporal (as distinct from textual) order of operations in the program. To put it another way, the "time" that matters for program clarity is not when stuff happens at lower levels (e.g. when does the OS evict my thread) but what happens when in the source code itself. This is not so far from your phrase, "how the steps in the process relate", so I don't see the disagreement.

I certainly don't agree, though, that the OP's design recommendations lead to higher-level or easier-to-reason-about code. Do you really think they do?
Am I the only one who somewhere along the article expected the feminism bomb to go off? "Right after this sentence! Camp fire, this is a trigger! High school boyfriend, oh boy here we go!"

Quite surprising it wasn't even remotely refered to at least once.
My perspective is that the tech community at large - quite some time ago - abdicated integrating into the rest of the world. I invite a careful read of Barlow's bombast[1] from the early '90s and consider how that has played out into today.

With the techie desire to remove politics and marketing and the overweening wish to be logical instead of emotional comes the abdication of dealing with the messy, compromising, and non-technical parts of the world and thus, the disengagement.

My one experience in SF was generally negative: homeless people were sleeping all over the sidewalks, and the beggars were aggressive. There was a great deal of wealth in evidence, but I didn't see the wealth translated into meaningful assistance.

I guess I would expect to see some sort of mission building in the area I was in where people could sleep & use restrooms and not be on the sidewalk.

Anyway, I think it's time the tech community grokked that the Internet is and is not a separate space and really got serious about engaging with the world (again).

[1] https://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html
Holy crap!! I cannot believe Facebook would be such scumbag dodgy fckers to not pay the guy. He reported it as he should have and then they call some bullsht about terms of service.

Note to anyone else who discovers a vulnerability: leak it and blackhat the hell out of it. Exploit users maliciously to the full extent of your power.
Agreed, the conclusion was somewhat nebulous to me (and I'm probably a bit dense as well) but the tl;dr I got was that the author left to "[build] a start up that is risky and deeply personal (Mend)". We all have to subsist, and how she chooses to do it is a large part of how many of us will define her identity.

I feel like the authenticity she refers to is very much a 1st world problem (though I'm sure she's worked hard for her success). Most of us work to pay the bills and don't feel like charlatans if our industry doesn't happen to be our life's dream if we even have one.

BTW, anyone have a link to this authentic startup she's referring to?
I don't see any quid pro quo at all; the message simply seems vindictive.
The coast takes a sharp turn straight west just north of Santa Monica so from Venice looking north west you see Malibu and the Santa Monica mountains. Therefore during the summer the sun does in fact set behind the Santa Monica mountains as can be seen in this photo. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7369/9267881002_dc30589ab0_o.j...
Non-rhetorical question: is your team concerned that not paying out a bounty for this report may be exploited by anti-semitic groups?

I can already picture people saying "of course, Mark Zuckerberg would refuse to acknowledge the work of a Palestinian." (regardless of the fact that Mark Zuckerberg describes himself as an atheist)
It was 100% tongue-in-cheek, but I'm happy to be extracting even more information from you by having my poor attempts at humor misconstrued. :)
A standard commercial reactor is ~5% enriched. That means that 5% of the Uranium is U235, and the rest U238. U238 absorbs neutrons, however, eventually becoming plutonium. This plutonium is where a majority of the energy comes from. It's just too damn hard to separate it out into something that would be weapons grade, unless the reactor was specifically built that way from the start.
What, no actual experts are going to comment in here? I was looking forward to the inevitable flamewars.
Joyride is good. Hopscotch is being used as a component already on LinkedIn, and it was part of an incubator project which is the reason for the (public) announcement and reason to open-source it (http://engineering.linkedin.com/incubator/creating-product-t...)
" The new material, the researchers say, could revolutionize the assembly of airplanes, spacecraft, and even larger structures, such as dikes and levees."

I hate sentences like that when journalists are talking about a scientific paper. I feel like I read one of those every week--and they're rarely revolutionary, usually just the next step in what has been a long process of discovery and may not even change things that much, especially as far as the average Joe is concerned.

So let me ask someone who knows more about this than I do the questions I really want the science-covering media to answer: How realistic is it that this will become a reality, whether physically or financially? By when? And how will it impact me?
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You're disappointed because you expected the article to be about X, but it was actually about Y, where both X and Y are words in the article's title. (X=Google, Y=I)

Not a great reason to get so unkind.