skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha ha! Oh wow! I just ran a google image search to see what you were talking about...

Knowing what a cloaca is beforehand, and then searching for it anyway on Google produces some truly curious results. I was trying to mentally prepare myself for what I may be about to see, because I couldn't imagine what might be on the other side, that would prompt your reaction. The only thing I could think of was some bizarre new form of bestiality that lurks in the shadows of taboo obscurity.

It turns out that most of the images are of obvious medical or scientific origin. I don't even know why pictures of humans show up in the search. I saw lots of pictures of various reptile junk which was totally expected, and none of it was being unceremoniously violated by unscrupulous human beings, so thank god for that!

Apparently there's a medical condition, "Persistent Cloaca Perineum", which is frequently misdiagnosed as "Imperforate Anus with Rectovaginal Fistula." The pictures that depict the condition are mostly de-identified newborn infants, and they originate from edu domains, but in a google search without proper context, they're kind of unexpected. I guess you learn something new every day...
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CMI: the original Stack Exchange.
For a girl in India, studying computer science is one of the best options. Jobs are abound, pay relatively well and work environment is thousand times better and safer when compared to other industries. This I guess, explains what you observed on your trip.
C++ 98/11 manual page for Unix
Or it's an inside job.
Precisely. In the case of the NP-hard example I presented below, the researcher (who's name eludes me) attempted to prove that a solution did not exist.

From a computer science perspective, this would be favorable, as a solution for NP-hard would render a lot of crypto useless overnight. =P
This was fun! Anyone else feel this is kind of a real-time Worms 2D?

Wonderful to see "Download for Linux" on the frontpage, even better to see it's available in the Arch repos.

Where is the donation button, though?
Yeah, perhaps even more than the announcement would suggest. I know that at one point Wikimedia's policy on including women called sex-positive feminism fake feminism and said fighting it was an important part of attracting more female editors. Wonder if that was her doing?
This is going to be the list to finish this year!
Here is a similar game: http://www.hedgewars.org/
Modifying websites is not "fighting back". Your time is wasted and meaningless and will not evoke change.
Is Amazon as good at hiring developers as it is hiring recruiters, then?
From the Welcome page[0]:

> A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting.
> Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good
> hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have
> to be deeply interesting.

> What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that
> teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for
> example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if
> this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend,
> then perhaps it could be.

> The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's
> intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous
> people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political
> articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news
> site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which
> tends to be quieter.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
How does one actually enable Vim mode in LT?
I have thought about it, and my reply didn't really address what you have said. Single-letter names obviously don't improve the code's performance. The reason they tend to be used is that the values associated with each binding tend to be very generic. If you have code like

id :: a -> a
id x = x

you can't really say anything more about what x is, since it could be anything. There are also patterns, such as xs is a list of x, and n is a number. When it's something a lot more specific, names that describe the variable's purpose should and are used. Typically, both the name of the argument and the type signature are looked at to quickly gain knowledge of what the function is probably doing.

The lengthy documentation tends to be more descriptive of what the code's purpose is rather than explaining what the arguments to it are.

I do acknowledge that Haskell code isn't usually too pretty to look at. I tend to find it rather readable myself, although that varies from library to library, and application to application. Applications tend to be a bit more readable than libraries, since the library implementation sometimes deals with concepts that are not exposed to the library's user.
And ethernet. Kids today.
App monetisation still biggest challenge for developers: Survey
It's not - I just don't know what to do.

I guess the first move is lawyer up.
Better monitors in terms of brightness, color and other monitor-specific features. But not in resolution. And personally I really don't understand who in their right mind might want this kind of insane resolution for a TV. The resolution only makes sense for a monitor.

Fix the issues, turn this thing into a monitor, and corner the market for big monitors.
They publicized this just after the conclusion of the year-end fund-raising push.

The timing could be coincidental. Or not.
Employees also likely have a 6-month lockout, so even if they're vested, they still can't sell yet.
I think bitcoin is great, but I don't think that making bitcoin a standard anything is a good thing. It's waaaaay too early.

There also are too many ways to steal one's bitcoin wallet, computer security is not mature yet.

I can't believe people are still finding ways to talk about bitcoin by advocating it as a standard.
The angle and color/temperature are wrong. He's spraying something with his left hand.

Why is this on the front page of HN?
>Basing opinion on citation index is like saying if this person is not widely cited he is likely to be wrong.

No, it does not say that.

Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevant or only found extremely limited circulation. Both makes the claims less trustworthy. However, on the other hand, Perelman...
I'm not saying there are no bad traits, I'm saying there are no people/groups/nations that are all-bad and others that are all-good. Someone being racist doesn't mean they are evil, just like someone not being racist doesn't mean they are holy. "Good guys" and "bad guys" implies moral absolutes.
You're reasoning in circles. The loan is not 0% interest when denoted in dollars, since a deflationary currency will be worth more dollars as time goes by. Your reply only makes sense in a world where bitcion is the only currency in existence - a logical absurdity. You've disproved your point by negation - giving someone a 0% interest loan should indeed not be profitable, but with a deflationary currency it is.

Disclosure: I have no stake in the success or failure of bitcoin. I'm interested in knowing if you do, just so I know to stop wasting my time?
Doesn't Jeff Bezos own the Washington Post?
My response is about your comment and not the topic.

I am going to use your response as a template to use for the rest of my life. It's perfect. Thank you in advance for the time and trouble you have saved me.
Yeah it does look like RT Worms 2D but I think the real first game of this genre was Liero http://www.liero.be/ Pixelated but fast and responsive as console games (ex SNES). I have spent countless hours in the past playing Liero with my brother on the same monitor sharing a keyboard.
Fun times :)
Why can't you setup one phone screen + one full day interview?
https://github.com/teeworlds/teeworlds
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6997159
My favorite company: Convergent. We made and offer, or rejection, before the candidate left the building. The last one to talk was HR, who was actually stalling as the interviewers met and compared notes.

I don't understand why this can't be the norm. E.g. Most auto shops have you make an apptmt for routine work; Midas does it while you wait. What's the point in the delay? Its the same work to do it NOW instead of later, when you've forgotten your first impressions and maybe even their face.
Thanks for the useful advice - sorry for my writing - I was a little rattled.

After all- this is my first business deal - ever. And it was with my first boss - ever.

After sleeping on it - I am defiantly getting screwed.
I'm really not being aggressive on my B estimate.
I think c is the only option.

The current plan of attack -
1- talk to the best lawyer I can find / afford
2- pull together all relevant business information and arrange it in a way others can understand
3- find a bigger fish
4- crush them
That's true, but if the paper turns out to have an essential flaw, it does not prove that no solution exists, it just does not prove that a solution exists, just like this post.

I think it would be funny if someone really went just that far, though: give an existence proof for a solution that is not constructive.
What's really interesting is other countries could do this to US citizens who are arrested/detained/imprisoned and there is no way the US could argue they are being tortured. Because we have clearly declared it is not torture and never prosecuted those doing it or those ordering it.

Remember this the next time you travel overseas. I guess we should hope local police forces don't decide this is acceptable behavior.

The guy who invented/instated these techniques is going around on a book tour now on all the news-tainment channels declaring how he did nothing wrong.
Gosh I miss playing soldat. So much fun back in the day.
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I don't think the line is blurred at all.

People who torture are bad guys. It doesn't matter if they torture us or they torture others on our behalf. They are the bad guys.
Entry into higher education is more competitive in most European countries...
but of course any intelligent person can do those jobs without a "business" degree.
I remember playing Core Wars on the BBC Micro, good times.
Hey look, its not even in the AUR, its in the official Arch repos: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/teeworld...
Scientists explain their processes with a little too much honesty [17 pictures]
Some general points
1. Most of human history has been deflationary (either .8% or 1.8% if I remember my monetary history correctly). That used to be normal

2. There are several ways of having a gold standard, namely one where people use actual gold, one where the exchange rate is set by convention, and one where the government does sets the exchange rate.
I'm pretty sure it's after 1989 but another good one is Robocode: http://robocode.sourceforge.net
Do the right thing, Wait to get fired
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Cryptocurrency and elemental metal will be the last bastions of money because credit is only money when there is trust. Everything else can be counterfeited.

The "bad for humanity" thing this author is talking about is called "reality" in some circles. An economy is supposed to transmit the pain of dwindling resources by the proxy of dwindling money, so as a society we then act to conserve. The last decade of the US consumer and several US-led invasions of other countries probably wouldn't have happened without so much easy credit.

When the US borrows money from others, it burdens them with an eventual default risk. When the US makes unfunded future promises to americans like social security, and medicare, and inflates their dollar with QE, their people's pain is merely amplified and delayed.

I don't believe there is an absolute right or wrong answer to Keynesianism. A little is okay, too much is catastrophic. The US has been borrowing continuously for decades. I don't think you can really call that Keynesianism.
altcoin index fund? that would never work!
FYI, Video 7 under '[25] Science' is now a dead youtube url
Marine cyanobacteria release mysterious nutrient-rich bubbles
Then the dealer doesn't value the pot at 1 tomorrows bitcoin today. His willingness to accept payment in the future points at the discount he sees.

I don't have any interest in bitcoin, I'm a spectator. Edit: I realized that's not entirely true, I got 1.5 namecoin from a fountain a couple of years ago.
Money as an abstract 'value store' is not stable. It worked in the past with gold, because we did not have too many ways to speculate on it and transfer value from one asset to another. But it stopped working already in the beginning of the 20th century. This is perhaps a bold claim - but I believe that stability in money can be only an effect of regulation. This regulation does not need to be rigid centralized manipulation - but perhaps it can be a market-driven mechanism (http://mercatus.org/publication/market-driven-nominal-gdp-ta... - have not yet read this one).

Money as an abstract leads only to bubbles, because personal gains the of using it as a zero-sum game (outguessing your peers) dwarf gains of every other human activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeworlds

"Teeworlds is a free, open source sidescrolling multiplayer-only shooting game. ... In December 2007, the source code was made available to the public under the terms of the zlib License."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License
It's an impressive story and hard for anybody of us to even imagine in this day and age.

These days I live in Bangkok and have been fortunate enough to take the train that rides over the track these POW have made. It was a very humbling experience.
Especially the parts where the train drives through rocky areas where the walls have all been cut by human force, no explosives have been used.
It takes a whole day to drive the track which is among the parts that make it so hard to believe it has all been made by hand and that so many people have died while making it.

See also:
http://www.seat61.com/Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai.htm

If you ever get a chance to visit, then I can highly recommend it.

Unfortunately looking at what these POW achieved is one of the few things we can do to honor those who suffered there.
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Suppose 1 BTC = $X today and $Y in a year. If I pay my dealer 1 BTC today and he doesn't spend it, he has $Y in a year. If he extends me a 0% interest loan for 1 year, there is a probability P < 1 he has $Y in a year, for an expected value of P x $Y < $Y.

Loaning someone an asset at 0% is always worse than holding the asset. The value of the loan is P(repayment) x value of asset in future. The value of the asset today = value of asset in future + option value. There is no escaping this mathematical identity. Provided P(repayment) < 1, you are better off holding the asset, regardless of the rate of return on the asset.

If you were correct, then you could make a profit by loaning out shares of SPY or other security with a positive expected rate of return at 0%. You can't.

If you disagree with this, please express your disagreement in math.

I don't own any bitcoins, and have no stake in it. I think it's a good idea that might solve the current mess of payment systems, however.
"love sports" like in "couch potato watching sports on TV getting fatter with beer, pizza and chips"? no thanks
Golomb is way too static, it doesn't compress as well as Huffman, let alone FSE.
HackMIT presents: Blueprint, a high school hackathon in Boston.
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>I had always understood rebase as a mechanism that replaces merging a feature branch onto master, that allows you to squash all the 'messy' development commits on the feature branch, onto a single nice clean commit on master.

For squashing into a single commit, you can even use

git merge branch_name --squash

But, yeah, rebasing is a nice and more general way to do it.
Absolutes or otherwise, it's hard to conceive of torture as a 'good' thing, ever. And no, I don't believe in the mythical situation where torture reveals the disarm code for a ticking time bomb. Even if it could, there are more effective means of interrogation.
> an amazing technical achievement

static linking?
You forget that the largest recipient of welfare ('security') has been corporations, not "bums" as you put it. Despite this, the elitism of society blames "bums" for our economic problems. It's the corporations who drain the economy, not individuals - that much is clear.
I don't think his comment was the interview practice itself (though that needs an overhaul too), but rather the pacing and relation the company maintains through the recruiter with the candidate. Neither internal nor external recruiters seem to share the same priorities as the hiring managers nor the candidates, and I know a couple of companies (yes, predominantly SV ones) who have left such a bad taste in my mouth just from my interaction with their recruiters that even though I've never interviewed with them I don't ever want to work for them. That is probably unfair, but if I'm of so little value as a potential hire as to respect the basics of human decency, I don't really want to see what happens when I'm actually dependent on them for my salary.

What's interesting, too, is that the only time I've -not- encountered -any- of these issues (with a large SV company no less) was when I had an offer in hand from somewhere else. Being able to say "Sure, I'll interview with you, but you need to be pretty quick about it because I have an offer in hand that is pretty attractive" got me through from initial phone screen, to onsite interview, to verbal offer, without me having to drive the process at all, in less than a week.
Oh yeah good point - no one every wrote a book that was just "outright activist propagada[sp]"
Or simply take those $30k and get some colocation and hardware - get the monthly operational costs down to sub-$10k easily.

It strikes me every time how much money people sink down on Amazon(AWS) when they can do it themselves for a lot less. The usual counter-argument is "but we didn't have money for a sysop", well yeah - your devs/devops needs to manage the AWS system as well, it's not much harder to manage real hardware / servers and network.

Another post that striked me was $300k in consultants, thats more than 3 years of full-time employees - what did they do? Was it worth it?
I find it strange that if Mr. Nagase had been a rather indifferent PoW camp "administrator" who did not actively participate in torturing him, the late Mr. Lomax would likely feel no great urge to meet him and make friends with him. I' ve read that a kind of bond is almost always formed between the tortured and the torturer. Something for psychologists to explore I guess.
Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stressed-Out Loner
Regarding the TLS 1.0 and 1.2 but not 1.1 sites, I think it's related to this:

Changes between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]

- OpenSSL 1.0.0 sets SSL_OP_ALL to 0x80000FFFL and OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.1a set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x00000400L which would unfortunately mean any application compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.0 headers setting SSL_OP_ALL would also set SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1, unintentionally disablng TLS 1.1 also. Fix this by changing the value of SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 to 0x10000000L Any application which was previously compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1 or 1.0.1a headers and which cares about SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 will need to be recompiled as a result.
Corporatism was developed by the Greeks and viewed in a positive light when pondered by the likes of Plato. In such a light, the concept is often viewed positively.

Later, the concept was also used by some fascist states, especially Mussolini's Italy. In this sense, it was used in a more negative light.

As such, corporatism is not necessarily a fascist concept but I can see how you could make that connection.

There wasn't any indication from my side that I wish to maintain a coalition of powerful subgroups. However, I'd be naive to argue that any large scale society has existed without a number of subgroups who either share power within the accepted system, or take power from outside its constraints. This is because society is made up of people who have all sorts of positives and negatives but have also adapted to form groups (families, tribes, states, nations).

The thought was initially posed due to the limited time and effort that any human being has. If you want to go through the list of groups that experience the most harm and reduce that harm and move onto the next group, you need some way to choose which group to start with. Devotion to that group or perceived ability to change their fate are simple ways to select which cause (not necessarily group) to align yourself with.

In no way does that require you to align yourself with only one cause or group or exclude yourself from the same. For example: being devoted to your family doesn't make you not devoted to your country, it simply adds additional complexity to the rules and scope of your devotion to both groups.
Do you think that those you think of as "good guys" never tortured anyone? Because they probably did. That makes everyone bad guys, so the distinction of "good guys" and "bad guys" is meaningless.
> he always has the option of sitting on the BTC for a year.

Eureka! That's also known as bitcoin hoarding. If the value (in dollar terms) of holding on to bitcoin is indeed greater than spending it, people and financial institutions will hold on to it and primarily keep transacting in dollars. Which leads to a nice logical contradiction, since how can a currency be worth anything if no-one wants to spend it?
Setting up a facebook account with your name, then logging in to various wifi spots around the country is exactly what concerns our OP.
If bridging between two wires is rebroadcasting, so too would it be rebroadcasting to place a DVR or VCR on the wire between antenna and television. The SCotUS has already ruled that this is not the case.

When I think broadcast, I envision fanout. There would have to be more than one outgoing wire.
Love the game, but i hate that i can't play with with my laptop, i always need a mouse :(
Ask HN: Process for application for immigration to the US
As a followup to my questions in (Senior dev, no degree – which countries may accept me?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867363

Do i apply for an H-1B via first or apply for jobs that may cover a visa for me?

Very important is that I have a family and want to move us all over together.

What is your recommendations and/or experience?
Youtube link, please?
Navier–Stokes Problems
They had to release Sarah and be public about it. What happened here goes straight against journalistic standards and the mission of Wikipedia, and the story would have broken sooner or later anyway. It would have been bad for donations.

There's two things I just don't understand. First, how can anyone be so stupid and as a high-ranking member of Wikipedia accept money to pass of advertisement as copy? Second, what's with the culture of the Wikimedia Foundation? How come that they can hire someone with questionable ethical standards? They have continuous problems with the staff they hire, but then, from the outside, the place doesn't look like something that someone with a choice would like to be employed at.
> I'm saying there are no people/groups/nations that are all-bad and others that are all-good.

Do you think the person you were replying to would disagree with this? (I agree with it.) It seems more likely to me that they just weren't using the words "good guys" and "bad guys" in the ways you interpreted them.
I don't think of those who torture as "good guys" to begin with.
> Other forms of power and retaliation also suppress valuable speech.

Right, like covert, paid shilling, which is what is at issue here. If Coca-Cola got to write its own page, Wikipedia would be a lot less useful.
I think he was using the words "good guys" and "bad guys" as synonyms to "us" and "them" respectively, I'm just pointing out that they would probably be reversed if he were on the other side.
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