skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long did bacteria and penicillin coexist? Thousands of years? Then practically overnight the bacteria decided they needed to evolve...

I don't think evolution always works according to the popular "and then the next giraffe's neck was 1mm longer than its parents'" gradual change model.
This should fix the issue your seeing: https://github.com/HubSpot/vex/commit/0649f2eedf406a7347f6ef...
Well, America still doesn't deal with non-inmate populations humanely, so we have quite a ways to go.
I agree that if my my writing style is not good, and adds to confusion, then that is something that I need to work on.

But I sometimes feel that there is a definite emotionality involved when people hit the vote button and people jump to a quick conclusion depending on either the particular subject or the person who the commenter is making their thoughts known on. It seems that when discussing these "protected" individuals or subjects you have to take extra care to say things in a way to protect against downvotes. And sometimes that is just not worth the effort so you don't say anything.
Similar story with our current living situation.

I think that having a community is very important in making any business venture--I would be unsurprised to see this emerge as a pattern in entrepreneurial ventures for folks our age.
Where is there a Trader Joe's that just opened up a week ago?
Great Piece. FYI: last year we brought 500 female led startups together througout the year, to connect with the eco system of investors. we organized 2-monthly Pitch training programmes that won the recognition of the European training Foundation. We have monthly coffee chats for female entrepreneurs. We bring a fresh approach to the startup female entrepreneurs, connecting them with investors. We are building an inclusive startup eco-system, and indeed, if there would be more corporates, VC's, who would support this, we would go faster - and so would the female entrepreneurs. Every country in the world understands that female entrepreneurs are key to future growth of the economy, ( do a google search and you will know) but the Dutch government is not yet there. Next week we'll talk again
> I also noticed I was subconsciously confusing his statement with the claim that shareholder interests and society's interests are aligned.

I noticed this, too. If you don't pay close attention it seems like he's saying there are not ethical concerns if you think long-term, but the statement is actually narrower than that. In addition to employees, there can also be people with no involvement with or even knowledge of the business who are affected by negative externalities.
For me, this is good. Generally speaking, I like the right side more, although there were one or two (notably Salesforce and Hipmunk) which I thought regressed a little. In both cases, the lower information density on the right hand side is the problem.
> For example, if you want to do something software raid-ish, ZFS has the philosophy that should be done at the filesystem layer, not as a virtual device like every other linux filesystem, ever.

Not exactly true. RAID and mirroring logically sit at the zpool layer, and therefore anything on top of a given zpool has the zpool's RAID/mirror characteristics. This may be a filesystem, but it could also mean a zvol too. A zvol would be analogous to your /dev/md0 block device in that you could put a FAT32 filesystem on top of a zvol and still benefit from the underlying redundancy, parity, and checksumming features of ZFS.

Addendum: Strictly speaking, redundancy (RAID or mirror) configuration is on a vdev, and a zpool is comprised of one or more vdevs over which data is striped.
Crude automatic translation from Google Translate:

Since you're so good rummage in English grammar, and you so annoying lack of commas and hyphens, tell me how to better articulate and "prufridat" here is the comment, or ... you have this same emptiness in one part of your, grammatically sharpened the brain (where, incidentally, you can put a hyphen) prevents you meet the challenge?
next time (by the way with a capital letter, you can start) before its nasilyvat Claudia, better go to the podkursy Russian or Chinese, or at least the same English.
not very difficult to leave garbage comments not related to the topic of conversation by the way, and call themselves Viking encoder. much more difficult to live up to its name, and "vikingovat" architecture, code, thoughts, philosophy of creation.
if the Internet and / or a hacker would Neuse total waste basket, and it was possible to vote for things that go there, you can count on my vote.

Then, in English:

> ... see above? grammar that.

First time I've heard "grammar" used as a verb. :)
I'm sort of dismayed that they apparently didn't have this position before?
It's not arbitrary, though. It's called wealth disparity and it's a real thing. Yes there's fewer than 500 billionaires, does that make it more acceptable or less that they have billions of dollars and the average income is $52k?

You don't seem to have any grasp of why this is a problem, let alone how to begin to deal with it.
Norway doesn't really have a permanent criminal class, and the main aim of the criminal justice system is to keep it that way. Whereas the US (and many others) have an enormous criminal social class, firmly-rooted criminal organizations seemingly in a prepetual state of war with law enforcement, and so on. That stuff isn't going away even if you did liberal prison reform. The circumstances are very different, maybe it's appropriate that the aims and methods of law enforcement are too?
The issue with "swiping" gestures in general is that most users will never learn about them. Even if you introduce them visually in some kind of intro walkthough, they're too easy to forget.

The underlying problem that makes them a bad interaction paradigm, in my opinion, is that they have no affordances whatsoever. You just can't tell by looking at the UI that swiping left/right/up/down is going to have an effect.
In my opinion, it should bring people to repentance and reintegrate them into normal life - helping them, as opposed to the society. They need the help, after all.

Interesting fact: The word penitence, from which we get penitentiary, stems from the latin "paeniteō" - which means "to bring regret"...
Google's word2vec deep learning, in Python
I am certainly surprised the "national security" button was not pressed during the bailout. The thought of a few years in Gitmo would have helped various CEOs consider carefully the meaning of fiducary duty.

However whereever you place the cut-off, we can find a example that will look silly. I am not arguing that a specific number of dollars is or is not an national emergency. I am simply arguing that at a certain point things look so bad we as a society want to say "You, you get carte blanche, do whatever, kill whomever, just fix it. We will review it all in 6 months".

This takes us away from can we trust the security services and into the security services as a national emergency response team.

What the NSA, CIA etc have done and are capable of, is in some respects utterly awesome. When they throw around that kind of capability and weight it should be respected, not feared or ridiculed.

At the moment we hear sirens and think "cops hurrying to the doughnut shop" not "fire engines rushing to save lives"

Maybe I am romanticising the role of the security services, but if they are not there for emergencies, then what are they there for?
They did a conference a long time ago: CodeConf. It was a blast.
Welcome to the 21st century I guess. Interesting note on the Bit9 hack though. I always figured that to be a nation state not a contractor.
Some of them look like they're from my e-ink Nook.
Why Apple's Power Cords Keep Breaking (2012)
Different people have different tastes. I don't think anyone who hates it is wrong, but I'm glad I'm not in that set! Super-excited for tomorrow.
yes, we do have people on the ground in Chicago. And, we are looking for more ops focused people to join. Please email us at jobs@instacart.com - Thank you.
STL files are the source file for most 3D printers, which is probably the vast majority of 3D files on GitHub, I'd imagine.
Appirio acquires TopCoder
> But I sometimes feel that there is a definite emotionality involved when people hit the vote button and people jump to a quick conclusion depending on either the particular subject or the person who the commenter is making their thoughts known on.

I agree with everything you said, although, per my other comment, I think it was you who "jump[ed] to a quick conclusion" in this case. :)
Soon keyword analysis, keyword targeting, etc all will be almost dead

Even the owner of the site will not come to know for which keywords he is getting the traffic from !!

Just wait for 4 Jan 2014 and almost 100% keywords will be not provided !!!

Google seems to be in really bad mood, even they haven't updated the PR (at least for the webmaster might be they have updated internally and haven't declared it publicly) !

Hope this will surely help to keep the SPAM away from google search and give users the best results...!
TopCoder gets acquired
This blog [1] claims, and the reference 11 therein (or directly [2]) shows, that the Swedish-speaking Finns score lower than Finnish-speaking Finns. It pretty much cannot be explained by socio-economic status, as Swedish-speaking Finns have higher socio-economic status than Finnish-speaking Finns. So the blog conjectures that it might be related to the languages.

[1] http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.fi/
[2] http://ktl.jyu.fi/img/portal/8317/PISA_2003_screen.pdf
Reimbursement of Exit Operators
> immigration policy that borders on xenophobia

You can't be serious.
Show HN: abstract, write articles summaries and share with everyone. Feedback?
And.... they're down.

edit: back up yay!
That is utter bullshit. Finnish schools have homework - and sometimes a lot of it.
Wow, who ported all those Metro-style apps from WP?
Well written, I will add that it's pretty clear cut that zfs on linux would be a derived work of the kernel cause it has some differences specific to linux internals to make it work. That's why zfsonlinux only distributes module sources. Since it never distributes a binary, it can't run afoul of licensing.
I mean open in the sense that they have clear terms such that they don't effectively own your content. In building a 3d printing social network, not having to trust us was important to our design.
Hmm, github.com is throwing a 500 error at the moment. I wonder if this is somehow related?
the 2.5 month summer vacation, prestige and relatively good salary. the Cato quoted PPP corrected salaries might mislead if they fail to account for stuff you get for the high taxes (healthcare, education, retirement homes etc).
Hej from Sweden! Find me a US state (or area with equivalent population) with

- national health care (dental might be exempted, but still capped after a certain amount)

- stable, cheap, state-subsidized public transport with great coverage

- school system equivalent to Sweden (though Sweden does arguably not have the best one in Europe I still encounter many shocking things when speaking to Americans)

- included in that: ability to go to university without being in debt for the rest of your life / without scholarships / without rich family

- clean cities, low crime rates, low to non-existent amount of guns in circulation

- widespread atheism, embracing science

- widespread high bandwidth, affordable internet access

I could list more things but I think this is enough for now. I'm not saying that all of these are without flaws or that we are the best at them, but the US lacking so many of these in a widespread manner makes me not consider it a first world country.

Edit: I forgot a big one!

- Employment security: No unfair terminations, regulated pay, overtime/nightshift/weekend pay regulated ...

Edit 2: This is in response to a "dead" comment I got. In case you've got show-dead disabled here's the comment

"..And where your tax rate is up to 60% of your income. http://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/nov/16/sweden-tax-burd... - polaris9000

Yes, our tax rates are much higher but that's not the whole story. If you compare average personal income between Sweden and the US (I couldn't find a source on median income) you have approximately 10k USD more in net-income in the US. I'm not an expert in finances so I won't try to adjust this for things like the gap between poor&rich (which would pull the US down a bit).

How much of these 10k are gone after spending them on all the things we get delivered through our taxes? (Health care, subsidised public transport, education and so on)

And one thing that doesn't directly affect everybody's life quality: How much better is our infrastructure (paid for / subsidised by taxes)? I'm speaking about everything ranging from streets to power grids to internet connections.

How much more stability do we have in our lives and how much better is the average life satisfaction?

I'm sure there is no canonical answer to any of these but I'm also sure that Sweden scores better on average (and remember that this was originally about Norway, which is doing much better than Sweden)
Blizzard to Remove Auction House from Diablo III
D3's most controversial feature to be stripped out...
> I do mean after accounting for the accompanied reduction of the undesired behavior by making an example of offenders

Do you really account for it?

Assuming that there is a certain percentage of people who will not commit a crime under any circumstance, another percentage of people who will commit a crime and are not deterred by any punishment, there remains a sub-population who will offend if the cost-benefit ratio is right. The only way to drive up cost for this population is by making them suffer, unfortunately.

Do you see another solution?
That was about as clear as mud.
Thanks guys for your very kind words. Feel free to reach out to me on zefi[at]kivo.com with any questions or comments.
Everything looks a lot more like Android now. I am interested to see if Kit-Kat makes any significant stylistic changes.
GitHub - Major Service Outage
LinuxShowdown - TrueAbility
For written communication, yes. For verbal communication, the 2000s can be a bit burdensome to pronounce.
That article is one of the most thoughtful I've read -- at its heart it is not a simple or obvious problem.

"For example, why do Wyoming and
Oregon have the lowest overall recidivism
rates for offenders released in 2004, and
why do Minnesota and California have
the highest? Why does North Carolina
return relatively few ex-offenders to prison
for technical violations of their parole,
but reincarcerate a comparatively large
proportion for new crimes? What drove
the recidivism rate down by 22.1 percent
in Kansas between 1999 and 2004, and
what drove it up 34.9 percent in South
Dakota during the same time period?"

"Florida and New York began the
twenty-first century with nearly
the same size prison population
(about 70,000 inmates). During
the ensuing decade, Florida added
30,000 inmates and now has more
than 100,000 persons behind bars.
Meanwhile, New York’s prison
population fell below 60,000. Yet
the crime rate dropped in both states
by about the same rate. In fact,
New York’s crime drop was slightly
larger (29.2 percent) compared with
Florida’s (28.2 percent)."
Poor father sells land so daughter can enroll in master’s program in India
Are we sure this isn't partially state-sponsored?
"man up and walk it off" is what we tell others
If yo take a Makefile which say Linus had written and tack on some of your own rules, you have almost certainly (unless the original Makefile was something trivial like ::) created a derived work.
Firefox OS Design Process
In other (possibly related) news, the entire website is now throwing an error.
Which is where the specific mechanisms the NSA uses become relevant. The Constitution did not, and was not intended to, abrogate most of the common law powers of the courts. Judges can subpoena pretty much anything, and that's a historical practice that dates back to long before the Constitution. If they subpoena, from a third party, information that happens to let them track who you're calling, that's legit from an "enumerated powers" point of view. Also, defensive spying is older than the Constitution and the Constitution gives Congress the power to provide for the collective defense.

Though I think your line of argument is a better one than conjuring a "right to privacy" out of thin air.
I have a question. Since I'm nowhere near the valley and the start-up community in my community might as well be non-existent, I was wondering how I might go about meeting and getting introductions to investors. Not being well connected with a very poor local community makes it hard for me to know where to start.
What I said was:

"This is interesting and contradicts a bit of "disrupt" meme:"

If I was trying to rebut his point I would have stated that I thought he was wrong "and here is why" which is not what I did, did I?

With medical and legal advice by the way, it's highly likely that you if you talk to 10 professionals, (as the saying goes) you might very well get 10 different opinions.

"I'd say the prior odds of pg contradicting himself "

I didn't say PG contradicted himself at all. I said what he was saying contradicts the "disrupt" meme (if you want to call it that).

"Rather than point out the apparent contradiction and go all j'accuse on the author"

How does what I said in any way rise to the level of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27accuse
Canada has something similar, it is called "Dangerous Offender Status".

There are of course, avenues of appeal, but it allows the state to imprison or place conditions upon extremely dangerous individuals for an indefinite period of time.
I wonder if this feature is targeting the growing consumer 3D printing market. Being the goto place for collaborating, and versioning, 3D designs would be a good play for them.
we need to combine individual experiences and create a curated tabular list of investors classified by different dimensions in pg's great article. such a list combined with this article would be the ultimate cheatsheet for fundraising.
Git Hub Down
That's why I added "obvious", because even though there are a lot of autonomous efforts (large and small) from other companies, Google seems to be getting all of the attention.
Github Major Outage
https://status.github.com/
I tried to git push; I kept getting 502 errors. I though, "Why isn't it working?" I came here to confirm it was down.
Would you like any help building/designing/softwaring that? I have a soft spot for rolling my own lab equipment.

Only asking here because github is down, otherwise would be looking..
I beleive Schneier does care and was not intending to come across as belittling such things. Despite the Chuck Norris meme I am sure he is as human as the rest of us :-)

Its just we do live in a world where somehow we must efficiently allocate resources. In the UK we use a term QALY (Quality years of life) which is used to decide between which operations should go ahead (likelihood of success x expected number of qualifty years) - so a 80 year old looking for kidney dialysis is lower down the list than a youth looking for a common hip replacement. The US does it simply on income.

We should I feel have a debate on these things - why is it cars can kill thousands but a cancer drug cannot kill one or two. These trade offs get made in odd ways - and while I doubt we shall ever have politicians campaigning on the slogan "vote for me, only a tiny percentage of you will die because of it" its an important discussion.

I would suggest also a poll taken in the security / check-in lines at JFK:

Would you support allowing one major terrorist outrage
a year if it would reduce queueing at airports by

a) 1 hour,
b) 2 hours
c) eliminate queues completely?

:-)
The incumbent car manufactures, by which I assume you mean GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, and the like, are operating a far different market segment. They face a much more difficult market, where profit margins are tighter, because they by default aim to the mass market.

Tesla is operating in the upper luxury end of the market, where margins are fatter, where vehicles sold can be lower but the margins maintained. They are making very large cars, even their follow up model to the S is the same wheel base. Why is that? Most likely because Musk knows they cannot deliver the range needed at cost and more importantly, a size, that a smaller car will be.

There are many self driving efforts going on in the market, both Mercedes and Infiniti have vehicles on the market that offer some limited form of self driving. Mostly lane departure and the like but they are pushing distances.

Tesla should be the one who worries most, because they have a unique product only for a short time and they won't get into the smaller sized car market because the technology path they have followed is not progressing fast enough.

If they made a car the size of standard midsized car, lets pick Fusion or Accord, the wheelbase shrinks by ten inches on average, width comes down too. All that shrinkage will take away from battery capacity, hence range. That is one reason many of the offerings by the incumbents have less range. Many use a battery solution not all that different, just restrained by size and technology.

There was a reason Musk went for the price point he did, it allowed larger vehicles which current technology requires. Never bet on the incumbents sitting still, Musk certainly is not. It just comes down to, can Tesla execute well in the mid size market, should they ever get there. Who knows, he made cede that space by licensing tech to let other people work the small margin sales
You did that over a period that was a decidedly bull market, though. Presumably sokoloff's question was intended to point out that very similar strategies (trying to pick "winners") is likely to underperform the market in bear conditions, sometimes very badly.

I knew a lot of people who thought they were hot stuff day traders back in 1998 too. Spoiler: they weren't.
ZFS shoves all that inside the filesystem. [...] I've had LVM and software RAID and all that for many years on existing linux stuff.

I suggest you study the design of ZFS and also NetApp's WAFL to understand why they are combining what have traditionally been separate layers into one larger system.

The short version is that this cross-cutting of layers enables substantial optimizations and new features that aren't possible when everything is kept to strict interfaces.
Ask HN: Why does Github go down so often?
It seems like Github has been going down a lot lately. Is there a particular reason that is the source of their troubles? What about Github's architecture might make it more vulnerable to downtime than other sites and services?
How the New York Times Used Haskell for Fashion Week
They don't mention

"We should set up on a reservation. Taxes are for little people."

Possibly because he might not have worded it like that.
STL files aren't sources. They are near the very end of the toolchain. At the front of the toolchain tends to be scripting languages like AutoLISP, OpenSCAD, MGED (BRL-CAD), etc.