skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan isn't the only country where developing a startup culture is difficult. Many Asian countries have a much more heirarchical culture where simply following what your boss or political leader says to do without question is strongly ingrained. I was part of a team under John Roese at Huawei that was trying to help Huawei learn how to be innovative. Their executive leaders understood the need, but there turned out to be too big a cultural divide across the bulk of the company to get the support and engagement needed, so the effort collapsed after a couple of years and most of us moved on to more productive efforts. It was however a very insightful period in my career since I learned a lot about where China (in general) has advantages over the US and where the US (in particular Silicon Valley) has advantages over China. The willingness to openly share and "give before you get" is definitely some much more common in the US and leads to much more effective collective efforts here. On the other hand I have never seen more effective "manufacturing-like engineering" at scale than I saw at Huawei. In an ironic way we are often able to leverage the power of numbers (i.e crowd sourcing, open source, cross-collaboration, etc) more effectively than the country that has the numbers but not yet the understanding of how to best leverage them.
> other than printer drivers

That's surprisingly important to the average user.
It's possible, but without any kind of answer we are all just guessing.
$100 seems low?
Then re-read my comment within the context of this discussion, which is OpenBSD being on the verge of bankruptcy.

If I believed all the BSD forks had a chance to live long and prosper on their own I wouldn't be saying that, but right now it seems to me that none of them have any real long time chance to remain generic OS on par with Linux (except possibly FreeBSD but it's not even certain anymore). Linux just moves too fast these days.
Non-scientific explanations do have to account for the neurological research that can explain the causes behind those very idea themselves, though.

We're dealing with faulty analysis software (our brains), one with documented bugs and all kinds of premature optimizations. We have to account for that.

A developer can convince his teammates, QA, management, and even the customer that a given bug is a feature. When that "feature" causes the plane guided by that software to go crashing into a mountain, however, we can't declare the mountain a "moral hazard" or "something beyond the understanding of requirements gathering". Instead, we fix the bug to account for the mountain, tell the developer to stop making that mistake, and try again.
Since Tcl 8.5 (Dec 2007) interps have timed resource limits available for them.

bch$ tclsh8.5
% interp limit {} time -seconds [expr {[clock seconds] + 15}]
% while 1 {set a 9} ;# 15s elapse, then...
time limit exceeded
bch$

edit: Add release date for Tcl 8.5
Good point. I will take that thought into the next blog post. The next blog post will cover CPAN and Nuget, too.
Yes, thanks for noting. This is a bug and we're working to get these characters supported as soon as we can
It's a due diligence kind of thing. If you're asking people to make significant monetary contributions, it makes sense to provide a clear picture of what you're using that money on.
Why Real Estate Tech Is So Attractive For Founders
Pycapnp is not pure Python. It wraps Cap'n Proto's C++ dynamic API. See http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/otherlang.html#supporting... .
It is an exciting idea but the two obstacles I can see are:

1) When asked, people may say they want security and privacy - but in practice convenience and functionality win.

2) Among people who genuinely need secure communications, encrypting the content of calls/texts is good, but isn't normally sufficient - they're still vulnerable to traffic analysis.

By traffic analysis I mean that even though the adversary can't read the content, they can still figure out things like:

"Mr X is the ring-leader of the freedom fighters since his phone is used to send encrypted messages to several other phones, which then send messages on to several other phones."

"Mr Y is guilty of orchestrating the protests since we saw a strong correlation between the times of the protests and messages coming from his phone."

So I'm not sure how popular the product would actually be. Unless we can somehow solve the traffic analysis problem.
Why not move the machines, and if the Amiga breaks down and they can't find a replacement, end Amiga support? I mean, that's not a wonderful outcome, but what would you prefer to see given the following options?

a) Shut down OpenBSD

b) Shut down Amiga support in OpenBSD

I mean, is it even a hard choice?

Besides, if there are many developers who like developing for Amiga, surely they would be able to find a replacement?
It could work, though you would want to do some trial and error with different algorithms; in particular, you'd want to ensure that the compression doesn't screen out the quality of the call.

It would not be a trivial problem to solve, as these compression technologies are designed to be used for standard speech patterns, not (to the outside observer) garbled speech patterns. They normally do an amazing amount of compression while still sounding largely unmodified to your ear.

I'd make an encryption algorithm with a passkey that is handkeyed into both adapters, breaks every 100ms of speech into 10ms pieces, and reorders them according to the algorithm. Certain parts of speech would probably still get muddied by the time they were passed in and out of compression.

I'm sure someone's already successfully tried it and you can buy their wares somewhere on the internet (maybe with a pit stop at a certain place on their way to you).
The point is that technology is supposed to be helping make the world better. However it clearly does not work very well, or very fast, in the case of personal conflict. Could it? Perhaps, but let me ask a few similar questions.

How quickly did mass literacy change society for the better? How quickly did public education change society for the better? How quickly did the printing press change society for the better? How quickly did antibiotics change society for the better? I'm sure it wasn't fast enough for many who perished during the transitional points.
Mathematical writing is a particular genre of writing that doesn't work that well for technical and design documentation. This is not to say that these things can't contain mathematics, but you can't follow the usual template of:

* Abstract & Introduction

* Lemmas, Theorems, and Corollaries, each with their own proofs

* Some examples sprinkled throughout

* Maybe a concluding section with further questions or areas of investigation

* Bibliography
>I'm not clear on what is left to know that falls outside the reach of science.

Ethics. Morality. Art. History. Politics. Philosophy.
If you're asking for help and you have constraints, you better qualify those constraints in a way that builds confidence.

The more transparency you have in your discussion, the more supportive people will be.
This is cool.Thanks for sharing.
+1 Popular = important in dealing with other humans, whether you like it or not.

We're not going to convert the whole world to atheism tomorrow, so being able to understand why Buddhists don't drink alcohol or why Muslims say "إن شاء الله" when using the future tense will probably only help you co-exist. A little understanding goes a long way, whether you agree with their beliefs or not.
Ask HN: Hackathon money stolen by a teammate. What to do?
Few months ago I went to a hackathon and met few other developers and non-developers. We formed a team, build the app and won $5000 in cash prize. The organizers asked us to designate one of the team members as a recipient of the money so he/she can distribute it to the rest of the team members. One of the team member was overly enthusiastic of distributing the money, so we designated him. After couple of months the organizers transferred the money to the designated person. This guy since then has "disappeared" with the money. No response to our emails, text or phone calls. Its been 2 months since the money was transferred to him.

What to do in this situation ?
Blue collar is manual work which is not the same thing as lower or lower middle class.
They could at least say, We use X watts to power Y machines

If they don't know at least numbers like that, there are some bigger issues.
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> We should not be surprised that Obama did not reverse any of Bush's controversial decisions because they were not actually controversial among those with power or with the potential to gain power.

We are not surprised out of the blue; we are deeply disappointed, as he clearly won elections based on promises he pretty much knew he cannot keep.

Similarly this would be like getting into relationship based on trust and someone shows you their big house, their boat, their company, claim they can have children and care about animals, while within a time, it turns out that person is a neutered scumbag that runs a horse-kill house and that house and boat was his friend. And then he tells you "what do you expected honey, I wanted to be with you, this is normal that I lied otherwise I wouldn't win your affections".

Sure, plenty of us could do that; its just a matter of choosing one or another side of life: good or bad. If Obama knew he cannot change anything and continue anyways, he's just a scumbag like any other scam artist.
Not to mention all of the machine learning behind the recommendation systems that try to figure out the best ad to show to a given person at any given time...
Ok, you convinced me to try again, thanks.

FWIW, I'm from the west coast, but have spent the last several years in New York working with natural sciences students and post-docs. I might be what you would call an "ideas" person. Abstraction appeals to me. People in our department seem happier when their work is closer to physical observerations. Measuring stuff with yard sticks and radar: good. Getting big piles of data from other people, and doing stats: OK. Fitting a parematerized model to someone else's data: healthy skepticism. Of course healthy skepticism is generally cultivated.

It wouldn't be surprising if our friends reading lists (and reactions) depend on what they do for living. Did you meet a lot of people in finance or economics on the east coast? Maybe people's professions are spatially correlated.

My peers seem to treat models cautiously (including their own), and have tended to respond to abstract economic ideas with measured skepticism. I can't speak for them, but I sometimes perceive that economic arguments are suspected of being insufficiently empirical and subject to ulterior motives. Which, it seems, is at least a part of what Taleb is complaining about. Obviously these things can be true of any kind of argument, I'm just reporting my impression. Anyhow, it would be easier to listen Taleb if his tone was more restrained.

Most of the economists I have paid attention to (which are not near as many as I would like) seemed inclined to provocation. Sowell in "Basic Economics", and Friedman in his speeches (I haven't read his papers) tend to poke fun at their fellow citizens, for example. I think they sometimes alienate those outside their discipline because of this. It makes reading fun though. I find Friedman very amusing, and I think so does he.
I think it actually has a good reputation here. The people who seriously oppose it today either are committed to mandatory state education for political reasons or have not met many homeschoolers. Most of the hard political battles about the right to homeschool were won 20-30 years ago. Most public and private schools have programs or arrangements for homeschooling families that wish to take some classes or enroll in some extra-curricular programs, as do junior colleges, so even many professional educators have positive things to say about the method.
Any chance you guys plan to add link hrefs to CSVs? I'd love to use this now, but I need the href for backlinks and future inference.
This is why I love 'I'm Feeling Lucky' on Google's radio stations.
If current experience with XP is any indicator;

" companies want desktop operating systems they can rely on for three to five years"

should probably be changed to

"companies want desktop operating systems they can rely on for thirteen to fifteen years"
When I see Tour conflate the discussion of evolution with abiogenesis, however, I lose all hope for the quality of such a debate.
One thing that perhaps Americans always miss out or under rate in their own startup culture is the support ecosystem, especially the media

I see that in US, there is a media circle that continually builds itself around entrepreneurs and celebrates local innovation (like how TC began as such an idea), as the old ones grow bigger, younger ones come in and keep even the fringe entrepreneur in the lime light

In addition to the Tech industry you can also see this in the US sports industry. No other country perhaps has made sports such a successful business endeavor as in US. A great part of credit goes to its media.

Another big plus for US startups is 'local adoption', I consider this a huge advantage for all of them. Perhaps you have never felt it as you have never seen the other side of it. For e.g. you can never take it for granted in India, in fact being local startup has a good chance to work against you with customers. The positive news is that there is a sea of change in enterprises here, I have had recently a large corporation go for our product vs that of IBM/SAP. This alone can be a start of good times for Indian startups.
> For most people's uses, Linux is a perfectly reasonable and functionally complete alternative to Win7 or XP.

As long as they don't watch Netflix.

Or play games.

Or have any unsupported peripherals.

Or want to use any commercial consumer software.
Lie!

Tell F.lux it you live on the equator in the settings. If it's triggering too early, move your fake location west.
The Second Machine Age: Meet Your Computer Overlords
Name another free ssh implementation.

On every* UNIX and UNIX-like OS ssh is OpenSSH. OpenSSH is why we don't telnet everywhere anymore.

*- Honestly, I don't know of anything that ships with something that is not OpenSSH.
We're in a post-NSA revelations world and you're happy to see a project like OpenBSD disappear just because the people behind it aren't nice?
Being a mathematician does not in any way imply that one will necessarily be skilled at writing for a mathematical audience, either.
If you don't care about achieving a particular set of acoustic properties, that might be a reasonable solution.
So, like everyone else in this entire comment section, I will ask - do you have any evidence to contradict the studies that show that home-schooled students generally do better than their public schooled equivalent? Or are you merely asserting how you think it should be based on 'common sense'?
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong - that's lovely. There's nothing more frustrating that trying to get a mildly complex Rails app deployed on a mutable server.
His administration's descent on this issue has been disappointing. I mean how is the quote any different than something that would have come out of the previous administration?

“There are people out there every day who are plotting. The notion that we would put down a tool that would protect people here in America is hard to fathom.”
Kimono can handle many pages with malformed/ old HTML. Of course, it's still beta and there are still pages that break it, so we're improving it as we go with the help of early adopters like everyone on this thread. Of course, our goal is an ideal state it works everywhere perfectly :)
I still wouldn't use it. Then again, I wouldn't take a "bill by the hours" contract. I stopped visiting RentACoder when it was clear that this was where most of the work was going.

If I tell you I'll deliver something for $xxx, by mm/dd/yyyy then I'll deliver it for $xxx by mm/dd/yyyy. It shouldn't matter whether it takes me an hour or a week, as long as you get it for the agreed price by the agreed date.
>> "Why look at homeless people and say Twitter/Google/Apple etc. should fix this instead of the government should fix this or maybe I should fix this?"

When you vote in government that don't support a strong social/welfare system companies and citizens have a social responsibility. I don't think Twitter should be housing the homeless but doing things like building services inside the business so employees never have to venture out hurts local businesses and the local economy. All businesses should be supporting their local communities, not just tech businesses.
> Look at how unaffected the DC housing market was by the crisis over the last 6 years.

You mean the same way most American cities went?

http://timiacono.com/wp-content/uploads/10-11-30_cs-hpi.png
Maybe not to zero, but what about from $0.14/kWh to $0.06/kWh?

(I don't actually know what they currently pay)
Whoops! Looks like your right... AES doesn't use public key exchange, and public/private key pair generation at all! I was entirely confusing it with other completely different things.

Ha ha! Sorry...
This was my reaction too. Something like "Holy crap! I forgot about that language"
Well, I think I addressed that. I had chores I always had to do that paid nothing (cleaning my room was not negotiable, for instance). The money I earned from doing additional chores was not that much--a couple bucks plus or minus, depending on the difficulty.

My parents also didn't buy me much. I paid for many of my own toys after I was old enough to do chores. For example, I bought my own NES and every single game I owned for it. Each game represented perhaps a month or two of savings. Although I had fewer games than most kids I knew, I definitely valued them more. (Or tried to. I still distinctly remember the joy of buying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES game and the subsequent crushing disappointment of actually playing it.)

Christmas wasn't a lavish present shower that it is for a lot of kids. My parents didn't have a lot of money, so I'd usually receive a few action figures, maybe a small vehicle for them, a book, and some socks.
I got away with being a bad programmer because of How I Look
Which can be safely ignored when using the firstElementChild, nextElementSibling properties and so on.
They are not available in old browsers, but a polyfill should be available.
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I've been called an insult to idiots or similar by Theo de Ratt. Once.

I use OpenSSH every fucking day.

I'll take the insults. And apologize to the idiots. And pitch in when I can.
I agree, I think the anomalies are more interesting than the expected.

Here's an example:

http://www.sightsmap.com/index.php?lt=45.104179&lg=-94.37551...

Also I'd love to do the reverse. Show me public places that have very infrequent photos. Especially campgrounds. I'd pay to know the least used campsites in my area.
Honestly, even when there's money for medical attention, these people still exist. In Toronto we still have people like that, though from what I heard, less of them. Here, a man like that would've had access to all the medical help he needed at no cost, but there's no way, apart from arresting him and then getting a judge to agree he's a danger to force it upon him. Without revoking his rights, there's really no way to force help upon him. And definitely no way for Twitter or Google to do it.
oh man, here is an applause for your comment! The wtf / minute rate shot up as i read it, and i laughed and felt shock simultaneously :)
Wow, I had no idea its that bad. I have never worked in India, but my Indian friends describe a similar environment in the Indian public sector - jobs for life, generally no job-hopping, no worries about money, company homes, company schools, company hospital, servants provided for, essentially just punch the clock, pretend to do some work & go home.

I wonder how the salaryman culture gels with the Japanese being so innovative. In Rising Sun (both the bad movie & worse book by same name), Michael Crichton make the claim that the Japanese are light years ahead of the US viz-a-viz computing/tech/optics/physics. There's a scene where Sean Connery walks into a physics lecture hall in ucla & points out that all the students are Asian while Americans are missing because they avoid hard subjects. If they are all boring homogenous salarymen, what's the impetus for being so innovative ? Any innovation by definition rocks the boat, so why do that ?
Maybe not for some values of "obvious". But I think it's at least as obvious as "the concept of gradual change over time in a population of self-replicating entities subject to selective pressure and heritable variation", which was the standard for "obvious" used in the post I was responding to. In fact, the average lay person will probably understand the concept of "DNA evidence" more easily.
The First Sale Is Not The Only Sale.
I think that knowability is one place where it pays to be careful and pedantic.

So in that framework "stored somewhere" is a long ways from "You can characterize the contents of a known drive".
I disagree that BSD market share is eroding. It may not be gaining as many desktop users, but it's still popular on the server side, especially on file servers due to support for ZFS, is used as the base for other operating systems like MacOS X, Juniper's JunOS, and even Playstation 4's OS. Netflix adopting FreeBSD also means a very large portion of bits being shuffled around the Internet are off FreeBSD servers.
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One of my favorites:
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I'm pretty sure that a lot of the older hardware at least require some degree of hands on administration. Rebuilding an testing a new kernel on a VAX with no remote administration features would slow things down. Having stuff easily available makes a lot of sense to me.
> so he was probably pushed by his parents to do this.

Or maybe he was just entrepreneurially minded.

When I was 6-10 I sold lemonade probably once every week or two during the summer. I liked to make money, and it was fun especially with friends; my parents never pushed me to do it.

Age 9/10, in the winter before it snowed I used my saved money to buy a new snow shovel and for card stock which I used to make business cards. I walked around and gave them to neighbors, when it snowed I would usually get a couple calls and then would pick up a few more walking around.
You haven't actually considered that the system is reasonable as it is. Which is the hubris that I'm talking about.

I don't blindly trust institutions. But I also don't blindly distrust institutions when the system they perpetuate has merit.

Life is quite good in America if you're in the middle class as compared to the standards of living in the past and around the world.

I'm careful with my judgements as I understand that I don't fully understand all of the realities and circumstances and interests at play. I can only look at the result, which from my perspective is quite good relative to what I know about the world today and in the past.

Are there serious problems in society? Yes.

I went through a stage of cynicism when I was in middle school through high school so I can appreciate your perspective.
There are also a good number of older printers out there that aren't supported by the latest versions of Windows but are supported in Linux. Some didn't make the jump to NT/XP, and some didn't make the jump to Vista/7/8.