skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting way to look at/remember this it is through history. Evolution by some early thinkers was thought of often as Ernst Haekel's tree of life[1].

In this representation of life it is directed and goal based. This is a misunderstanding of evolution that was common in a world that saw humanity as the peak of the process of evolution. For this reason Darwin perferred to think of it as a directionless bush rather than a directed tree.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_of_life_by_Haeckel.jp...
For some reason I'd thought that for-profit cooperatives existed. Thanks!
Please make a reply if you recall the name or author, even some keywords and general publication year and I can probably track it down.

Would like to read.
AirBnB chooses Dublin for EU base
What a rookie mistake. They really should've not encrypted that cross-datacenter traffic.
RIP.

Now that I think of it, I can't think of a audio tech brand, except dolby.. its such a common thing. I'm off to google who are dolby's biggest competitors.
Call me a cynic, but this is about the guy who went to live into the wilderness underprepared and full of noble ideas and died, either from poisoning or from hunger.

Now he has his own wikipedia page and inspires people.

I mean, wouldn't one rather admire someone who tried a similar thing, but was prepared and succeeded?
Maybe having 2 winners on their hands would be seen as too much?
Telling me there's an 30-second overview of Markdown at the end of this post, but not providing an anchor link to get there, and another to get back, is really sloppy. It's probably as a result of Markdown's ``intentionally really simple'' syntax. I write in Markdown all the time and I certainly don't know how to create an anchor link within it.
They also provide an option to automatically detect the service tag of your PC on the service page as well (with the installation of a plugin in IE).
Selling requires more effort and is risker due to buyer protection. It seems that Microsoft found the sweet spot.
1. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Your idea is most likely not nearly as unique or revolutionary as you think. Most people you tell it to will probably be neutral to negative, and the chance that you will tell it to someone that both thinks it is an excellent idea and have the resources in time and money to follow through on it is exceedingly slim.

2. You need the invaluable input from other people. Maybe your idea is crap, maybe it has already been tried, maybe no one is prepared to pay to solve that particular problem, maybe someone else is already doing whatever you want to do successfully and are years ahead of you. You better get to know these things before you spend 18 months coding in your basement.
So don't use fingerprint ID. It's pretty simple really. Or don't carry your phone when you commit crimes. Everybody knows that. Use a burner phone and leave your iPhone in your lair. The paranoia in this tread is bordering on pathological. If you did commit a crime then a lack of fingerprint scanner isn't going to help you much. If you didn't commit the crime but happened to be there, then perhaps cooperating with the police to catch the real perpetrator would preclude being forced to scan your finger to prove something that you've already claimed when cooperating with the police to solve such a heinous crime, whatever that crime might be.

For the average non-criminal, the likelihood of ever being both falsely accused and falsely convicted based on evidence from an iPhone is almost infinitesimally small. Considering that if you didn't do the crime, if anything the phone should exonerate you.

The fairly rare cases of something 'bad' happening and getting falsely accused shouldn't be the basis of making tech decisions. A similar logic would compel us to never ride in a car, since the threat profile of an auto fatality is much higher than that of being forced to incriminate yourself with an iPhone. Decisions should be based on a risk management profile. If you tend to hang out with criminals, then your risk management profile would be different than someone who works at home and only goes to the gym once in awhile. And if you are a criminal, you'd be foolish to use any identifiable electronics devices at all. Your retired aunt Sarah who hangs out at the hair salon and church food pantry would hardly need to be as paranoid as a guy who's good friend is an ecstasy dealer. There's no reason worry about that exceptionally rare situation where you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a real-life Law and Order episode. There are plenty if other, more realistic things to worry about in terms of digital security than being forced to fingerprint in a courtroom.
Of course they do. A soft landing is better than a total-loss. But it's not generally termed an 'exit' with a degree of success unless there is a multiple on the investment.
Having worked in a place using only their top-line products (laptops,workstations and servers) since 2001, I can't stress how true this is. That stuff is pure quality. Quite a lot of the machines that were bought in 2001-2003 are still there, up and running (of course with second or third batch of new hard disks). Those that are not there anymore were abandoned because they became too slow for current standards, not because they broke. Which basically means we're not sure of the actual lifetime yet since there hasn't been any of the machines that just didn't work anymore.

Also extremely important: Dell obviously did quite some research in figuring out which components work together well. This translates in close to zero OS problems due to hardware goining nuts. In other words: no kernel panics, no blue screens. Some people hardly belive this, but the only time I saw blue screens/kernel panics in the past ten years was when doing stupid stuff myself, never because of the machine.

(note: I cannot compare to other brands here, maybe they are as good as well - I certainly hope so for their users)
Wow that is an interesting blog post, with a happy ending to boot (Amazon refunded the $1000+ in bandwidth fees, due to the accidental nature of the usage).
> I don't think a simple claim that can be shown to be false qualifies as fraud.

Then what does? If they're using claims they can't back up, or that they know are false, to sell their product, that's pretty clear-cut fraud to me.

> If evidence was doctored to back up the claim that might qualify, but otherwise it's just be an opinion.

Well, you have a much different standard for fraud than I do. I think my standard is more useful for preventing harm and sending scammers to prison, however, so I'll stick with it.
Hi guys, here you can find the full API Documentation: https://www.mashape.com/lxbrun/nlp-and-voice-interface-for-a...
Agreed. It's an appalling kludge, and I bet most of these ``distraction-free writing environments'' (vomit) don't highlight the extra trailing spaces in any way.

I have the following in my .vimrc which at least makes them visible:

set listchars=tab:»\ ,eol:¬,trail:·

Of course, having them visible doesn't change the fact that they're an appalling kludge and I still tend to use <br /> instead.
And what would they do with that data?
Programmers are awesome.
Yes. Thank you to point it out. That is what I meant by standardization. An effort to identify and sort out these ambiguities or missing features like how to escape * *, etc.

I'm a fan user of Markdown, but I'm also frequently frustrated because it could be made so much more powerful and efficient while preserving the same initial spirit.
Exactly this. I worked in investment banking in NY and SF before moving over to VC/growth equity (and now a hedge fund).

Not only are bankers by definition terrible managers, but there's absolutely zero incentive for them to try to treat the junior people below them well. Junior people's time is viewed as an consumable resource like an oil well or a coal seam.

As a result, the sort of "pizza-sized team" project management that is the heartbeat of software companies is just a total unknown on the corporate finance/M&A side of investment banks. (Less so in consulting.)

Worse, there is no concern for what we used to call "yield loss:" slides or analyses that we'd create because a senior banker demanded them that were never presented to the client or in which they client had no interest. Countless times I've been the creator of and recipient of extensive presentations of which maybe one slide was relevant. I recall numerous instances of sending such books by messenger or FedEx to hotels/partners' houses, only to learn that they were never even picked up, let alone looked at.

As a VC/private equity guy, the presentations and investment memos that were no doubt largely written between 2 and 5 AM were mostly discarded; I extracted the few numbers I needed and tossed them, as I wanted the raw data from management and not the bankers' glossy sales pitch. I had stacks of these things in my office.

I'm not of the opinion that investment banking adds no value. But I firmly believe that the culture and habits of investment banks result in piles of unnecessary work that just burns out everyone associated with the enterprise and is not in any meaningful way related to the quality or value of the service delivered.

Clients don't care how many hours you worked, they care about the end results.

(I make exception here for situations with real economic deadlines like M&A auctions, but the biggest issues are not usually financial--they're business issues that bankers don't actually help much with compared to strategy consultants--I was one of those for a summer too, and the hours were long but reasonable.)
As a former newspaper sub editor, I can say there is no difference. Neither should EVER be used. The phrase they are looking for here is "has died". In news reporting it is wrong to beat about the bush, to try to soften the blow or to sugar coat things with meaningless rubbish like "passed away" or "joined the choir invisible". Harrumph.
Nobody would celebrate that. :D
Infographic of how government corruption is done in the Philippines
Arduino Compass Belt
Really? That's not my experience with LaTeX at all: I (and others like me) am constantly looking up commands, special characters, parameters to commands, remembering to close braces, etc. And when things don't work as I or they expect, finding the problem is a nightmare. LaTeX is great for typesetting -- that is, when you want to focus on how it looks.
Gen pop don't get smarter if you don't make them think. Confusion can be useful and in this case likely a good bit of medicine. Grade school education level of understanding on anything is pretty useless and implying that they cant do better insults pretty much everyone. Hence the d/v's.
Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts (1998)
Why Anders Breivik is welcome at our university
Does this mean you can create a script to reward finding the preimage of an arbitrary sha hash?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Center_Configuration_Man... used by large IT departments to ship and deploy updates
I think this is terrific news. A publicly traded company has only one goal: increasing short term profit (max one year). Thus, no long term investment is possible any more.

Buying Dell back enables them to think long and hard about the future of computing--to invest into the future. This makes me very hopeful that my next computer will be a Dell: A well-designed machine that was not just a marketing-driven reaction to what the others were doing, but a result of thorough engineering and thoughtful design.
Op here - Posting this because I feel it is a great example of how to constructively deal with terrorism.
Puppet sucks?
Yes, or _disclosing_ one (see the 'Why hash locked' link for example of how that can be used to bootstrap more powerful protocols).
I can't think of a bigger perk than having a "private" airport that close to Google HQ

The fuel discount, while sweet, is probably an extra
In Soviet Army the gas masks were always used along with OZK (common troop protection kit), which is basically a full body rubber suit. It's reasonable to expect that Russian-drilled, chemical weapons possessing Syrian military has the same procedure. These suits are even cheaper than the gas masks.
> relatively intelligent person by trade

Interesting trade. Your place doesn't need someone of mediocre intelligence do they?
Only other company I can think of is Bose[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation
Part of the point seems to be to explain the efficient implementation of such an approach. (How would you write GHC if you didn't have it available...?) Try to translate your code into C++...
That is not true, and HN continually rehashes this argument. There is no law or standard that a public corporation must maximize short-term shareholder profit.
Null pointer referenced
Physical money costs Americans more than $200 billion each year, so why bother?
I don't write C++, but if it has linked lists then at least the first one should be trivial. The second one would probably involve function pointers.

Maybe his point was that you need to use a linked list rather than an array to get an efficient solution? Coming from a Scheme/ML/Haskell background I tend to view linked lists as much simpler than arrays!
Men arrested over 'cyber plot' to control bank computers
Of course its more complex. EAS includes a lot more than the IMAP protocol, e.g. Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Documents support.
So we are. But then so are the others. Everyone, as long as he/she does great work, is awesome.
Out of 710. And I'd bet money that of the 155 at least a few (or more likely, most) were also Google flights that did some minor data collection while off to where ever Googlers go. Has there ever been a case of corruption/fraud where the perpetrators weren't contributing something positive? If it smells rotten...
Shirley Temple.
Ah, the character witness.
They're fingerprinting everyone who isn't a US citizen who enters the US.

Repeat visitors are fingerprinted on each visit.
Thanks for the explanation, I am still trying to wrap my head around how bitcoin really works. This is so freaking incredible.
There certainly is no law, and I'm not sure what you mean by standard. But if you work at any number of such corporations you will notice there certainly is a robust trend.
Exploring Alternative History
I think the main threat to the advancement of self-driving cars was always going to be big companies without a product using lobbyists and regulatory capture to hamstring those with a product. So an announcement like this from a big player is a very good thing and will accelerate the product plans of the others too.
Ask Hn: What should I change about my first web app?
RISC Carputer - A RISC OS based car computer
Some of us do, when appropriate.

Docker took a technology known to many that setup/admin/manage machines, added some fluff, made things simpler, and marketed the idea.

In a crowd that might spend more time thinking about nodejs and callbacks vs promises or how easily one can tip a rails app up on heroku, existing systems tools for things like jails/virtualization may either be over looked or not a concern.

For every docker, there are people (of which I may be one) that think , "big deal, it is just x". Meanwhile that thing is getting traction and popularity. It might not last, but it is around and making noise now.
The news is it didn't have it before :P
but he still have variables...
Perks of doing a startup in India
There's basically two things I've found that put up obstacles for me - 1) not being focused on the task at hand and 2) having expectations of how things will turn out.

For the first one, once you give into those little temptations to distract yourself, it's much more difficult to get back on track than if you just ignored it in the first place. If you start to let yourself get distracted daily, you'll build bad habits that prevent you from staying on task. I know cause I've been there before.

For the 2nd point, expectations can be a HUGE obstacle especially when they go unfulfilled. People who are only working on something because of where it will take them and not enjoying the work at the moment, I think, have a very difficult time staying motivated on the task. Because if the expectation isn't coming, then it becomes harder and harder to stick with something.

I've put together a course to try to address these points and others that I see programmers commonly having a difficult time with. If you'd like to check it out, it's at https://www.programmingspiritually.com/
This is a free market issue that would be solved with regulation - in their eyes, keeping out black people gives the club a higher chance of success. In order for one club to stop being racist, all of them have to so white patrons just have to deal with being around (shock horror) black people. It just takes one to waive from this policy, and there isn't a huge amount of motivation to stick to it. So, govm't has to stick it's nose in and make sure bouncers aren't being racist (fairly easy, just send sober black people in who are 100% conforming to the dress code and see if they get refused), and fine them massively if they are guilty, thus de-incentivising racism. Eventually, patrons will grow up and get used to the "scary" blacks and score one for equality.
The Freedom - Responsibility Trade-off for Entrepreneurs
No there isn't a hosted child kernel. What the parent means is that the guest and host are using the same kernel instance, and the distro needs to be able to handle that to run.
It basically searches 80k+ wine reviews and cross references with a listing of wine that is available in my province.

Gives you the best wine for the money you can actually buy.
The real life Terminator
I'm in a similar situation (early 30's, 10+ years of development experience) and also left a previous job to start a business that didn't work out and just came back to work at a 'normal' job.

There is a good demand for C++ programmers in financial hubs. In Europe, this is London. I see 20+ jobs being posted every week for senior C++ developers. I'm guessing Wall Street will have similar requirements. Game development is also an option, but at your age/experience, I don't recommend that industry.
Of course there are other companies that require C++, my last job was making a portable (Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android) music streaming library with custom DRM. You will find these 'odd' jobs with C++ requirements less frequently but can be a good option.

So, that's C++. Now about focusing on something else. It really depends on your goals/life. If you prefer a startup type company, then yes, node.js/ruby/Python are your best bets to get a job at those (doesn't mean Haskell or Scala won't get you a job) but if you prefer a more enterprise company (which there is nothing wrong, I do, since I have a small boy at home and really value the work/life balance I get) you should probably focus on either Java or C#. There are tons of jobs around for these technologies (in Europe, C# seems more in demand than Java, no idea on your location).

If you want, you can also always learn Obj-C or Java(Android). Mobile developers seem to be in hot demand right now and it can be something completely different from what you are used to do (which can be a good or bad thing depending on how you feel about learning)

Technologies aside, if your 10 years experience really brought you to Senior level (I've met folks that seemed to have just repeated the same year 10 times) I don't think you will have a problem finding a Senior role in whatever tech you choose. I started with C, moved to C++, then C#, Ruby/Rails, Obj-C. Even though I don't have 10 years experience with each of those, I easily found a job for senior developer (actually, I got a few interviews and got offers from all, from Sony to a big financial firm in London and small start upsas well.)

If you have any questions or just want to chat about your situation, shoot me an email (email on profile).
Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5
It does read like an ad for HoneyDocs, but this was actually the first time I've ever heard of it, and upon checking out their website it actually seems like an incredibly useful service. So if it is an ad, they appear to have succeeded.
> In the immediate future, this will make zero difference for consumers. Applications that ship today will continue to be compiled as 32-bit, so that they can run on all the other iOS devices as well.

Actually, applications that ship today (well, in a week) can be fat binaries, compiled for both 32- and 64-bit. Apps should see a performance boost from this, though in most cases it's probably negligible.
Hey Eran! We actually help quite a few e-commerce sites today. To be clear, 99% of our scores are updated and ready within a second of receiving the transaction. The fact that the response to a transaction does not include this score is a design flaw, and you're not the first to bring it up. We're working on a fully revamped API that should address this, and the revamped API will be launched in the next 2-3 months.

I do remember your emails from back in the day -- will followup offline.
But what's the point of having a door if you're constantly chatting or video conferencing on Google Hangouts?
Are we going to see an influx of pointer fingers getting mysteriously burnt when their owners have been arrested?
I see it's certainly easier to force someone's finger onto their home button than beat the pin code out of them.
Love Hyperion so much. Maybe it's about time to read it again.
So are we supposed to take a holiday from programming on programmers day, or double our efforts and do more programming?

Or just drink a lot after work?
clearly you've never had a coworker that pitched a fit when it was pointed out that watching his kids (and trying to hold meetings over their screaming and racing around) is many things, but work it ain't
Twitter’s seven-year journey from idea to IPO
No problem, a lot of the "block explorer sites" give a very highly cooked view and really obfuscates the underlying behavior (e.g. makes transactions look like they have a from address, translates scripts into addresses and don't let you see them directly, or doesn't show output indexes, etc).

There really isn't a good low level viewer out there other than the Bitcoin-qt debug console or the bitcoind rpc.
No, Secure Boot doesn't check if the OS is supported, it just checks if it's digitally signed, and that the signature is valid.

And you don't even have to disable the check if you want to use an unsigned distribution: most (all?) implementations allow the user to load her/his own public key to verify the signature against.

While we should worry about its impact - particularly in certain implementations - it's really not even close.
Consider the author concluded with

> In effect, the whole idea of an array is built on being able to change part of it, and if we intend to avoid changing memory once we have put values into it, we need another kind of data structure entirely. Next week, we'll look at what such a data structure might be.

I'm assuming that a linked list is precisely the data structure he'll introduce next week. ;)
Yeah, I'd much rather take $200 from a store than ~$233 with the bother and risk of an eBay sale. It's not even close for me.

However even better is just keeping my iPad since it's working fine, thanks.
Firefox OS Typeface — mozilla.org
Yes, you are right. I meant for digital goods eCommerce
A bunch of the "unconnected" companies (as well as the connected ones) are in fact y-combinator companies. Seems odd that they missed such an obvious (and well-publicized) network.
There is no place where he's assigning a value to an already-defined variable. Nothing is "varying." Perhaps the restriction can be put this way: you're only allowed to define variables by naming them as an argument to some function and then calling that function with some value.
Born on Programmers' Day, I feel like the night I was born, a falling star killed the village elder.