skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Twitter's global policy team said it withholds content only "after due process", such as after having received a court order, and in a tweet said it would not do so "at the mere request of a gov't official".

This is disappointing. Legal standards on free speech are hopelessly inadequate in Turkey, as can be seen from the existence of court orders banning the whole of Youtube. If Twitter obeys whenever a Turkish court orders removal of content or banning of accounts, it will be assisting in censorship - plain and simple.

As for the specific cases of the two accounts that were withheld: The real content of the leaks are on Youtube, and these two accounts were used to 'announce' the leaks to the public, presumably by the leakers themselves. These accounts were retweeted by tens of thousands of people, so if the contents of these two accounts' tweets were illegal, so were those retweets. Will they ban the retweeters too? I don't think so, and this means Twitter's actions will contradict with each other.

The leaks were important in showing the corruption at the top of the government and should not be censored, whatever Turkish courts decide. Tax avoidance, invasion of personal privacy, etc. all seem to be excuses by the government, created to lull their supporters.
It is not only that but he does not like to organize code in a good way and does not care about security too much either. Pax team was asking him to merge in the security patches to mitigate some of the problems inherited from the monolithic design and the lack of kernel and user space memory separation but those efforts were greatly ignored. On the top of these he is suffering from not-invented here attitude (to be fair this is common in the open source community) and license problems as well. This is why everything gets re-implemented in Linux, prime example is dtrace vs. opentap. I think the world deserves a better kernel that is designed for the modern era, security and maintainability kept in mind. There are some interesting work done in few projects already:

https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv
https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/
Sorry when I said "(tried the usual suspects)" I should have pointed out that meant exactly what you posted.

Thanks anyway though :).
Hey thanks for the time!
For the first point, is it not clear that you first have to enter email and then click register button? (btw, it is currently connected to the mailchimp, I just did not used their form builder)
2.Tried different H levels but H1-H2 seemed too big for the layout, maybe layout or placing is the problem.
3.Yap, that was mine concern too, looked good to me but seems like dark text would look more legible.
4.Will think about making it one clear sentence.
5.Mabe will remove it after thinking about 4.
6.This was intentional, did not want to be rude with sharing buttons, but wanted to get the message across.
The implied-preference-set shouldn't be restricted to the false binary choice of "the broken standardized system" and "Google's half-fixed proprietary approach".

With the talent & resources that Google has, or the talent & resources that Mozilla has, or the talent & resources that Microsoft has, this should have been better solved, in a way that works for all TLS-reliant applications, years ago.

Using Chrome's built-in auto-updates to make a subset of "high-value revocations" work, at a daily frequency, for Chrome users only, is not a very web-friendly solution.

It's like a gated community hiring its own rent-a-cops... maybe that's an improvement for the fortunate ones on the inside, and maybe a necessary stopgap. But to people outside that perimeter – like someone whose revocation doesn't make it into the Google CRLSet – it feels like an abdication of duty by the web's stewards.
Neat. Have you found any bugs with it yet? Any sense of where you're going to take it?
Link added to navigation bar. Thanks for the suggestion :-)
There are services like that. Check out https://www.ponoko.com
Not just you, every new release has been a major improvement over previous ones for me running a 7750 at work and 6950 at home.

I suspect the steambox been debian based has helped drive this :).
Learn to code?
The “Vulgar Mechanick” and His Magical Oven
It's actually inspired me to write my own article, but that will take time.

Meanwhile, I actually write a blog called "Math Intersect Programming." Even though it's more about my specific interests than how a freshman should approach the topics, and I certainly emphasize the mathematical ideas over the engineering challenges, it still gives a good idea of what I would suggest:

Orient the learning around applications in CS. Find a problem that requires the mathematics you want to learn, and learn it with the persistent contextual understanding that you are trying to do something more than just tinker with definitions. Do this for one application and repeat as desired.

My view is that when this is done, you learn to focus on the things that matter over the things that are used to fill empty space in courses (calculus courses come to mind as a specifically abhorrent example of this). You get better at seeing the forest over the trees.

The problem is this avoids the OP's question (and this ensuing discussion about the OP's questions and the purported answers), since you can't organize a single class around it. Another problem is that very few books are written this way, or are only superficially so.
Either.

In the first case, it's unreasonable to put in more than a couple of hours of overtime here and there for even market rate wages at any company, whether it's a startup or not. "Uncompensated (comp time doesn't count) overtime" is a euphemism for "exploitation."

In the second, the employee is effectively creating at least one of the revenue generating engines of the business. He deserves to reap the rewards of his labor. That means more than below-market wages plus "startup bucks"/lottery tickets.

The entire issue, as I see it, can be distilled to this: founders want employees who are taking significant risk, who will work for and treat the business like the founders themselves would, but who considers below-market wages plus "startup bucks" as great compensation, even when it is historically not.
Those sharing boxes are classic unbounce. Is UB your platform?
I've been on both ends of the spectrum - as an employee who got very little equity and as a founder who had to distribute it. All I can say is that you don't fully appreciate the worth of equity until it is your own that you are giving away (and I consider myself a relatively generous guy). :)
Is it typical for companies to grant $1mm in equity? I understand that it's vested over 4 years, but that sounds quite high.
Linear algebra is insanely important. I would consider the most important area of numerical mathematics to know. Any sort of mathematical modeling you do is going to involve linear algebra at some point.

I have argued that almost all numerical mathematics, in some form, can be modeled as a linear algebra problem. Google's original page rank algorithm is linear algebra. Remember that Netflix challenge? All linear algebra. Optimisation? Linear algebra. Want to do any engineering of a system? Behind the scenes it is all linear algebra as every single numerical technique for solving PDEs, that I am aware of, can be thought of in a linear algebra sense. Fluid modeling is all linear algebra. A lot of the machine learning I've seen is just linear algebra. I would also that almost every simulation running on the world's supercomputers involves linear algebra.

Do you absolutely need linear algebra to do this things? No. Just like I don't need to understand how my car works to drive it. But having an understanding how these systems operate can really help you use them in a more logical way.
I rather gave an example of chimp which is not only our relative but also i guess the most intelligent animal other than us.

But something is evidently clear, i am not talking in religious terms, rather layman. I am not the sort of animal as other are. Why is it so. Lets figure it out. But when we do, we will have to look beyond the basics of evolution theory, Evolution theory itself, is not completely wrong. But if you instead start analyzing that Nedenethals were actually the prototype for the end product 'homo sapiens'. It may solve all the mysterious that surround the evolution theory. And the final part was, I am not willing to believe 'life' sparks at its own as says Evolution theory, It was sparked. If it did spark at its own, what is keeping it from on mars., as I was of the view, self-starting life can begin at its own, according to the atmosphere of its planet.

On the other hand, if when someone say 02 and h202 are the standard for life. don't you think it proves the religion point, a standard was intentionally set so that life could not take place on other planets. as we are the only 'visible' intelligent, there are two other intelligent species other than us according to religion. angels, and jinns but both are invisible according to the religion.

I wonder since religion says Jinn are as intelligent as humans beings are and were created zillions ago than human being, what they have been cooking up, if they really exist, when I tell they are the alien, everyone would dismiss me as being a lunatic. :) But if you can believe in aliens why not in jinn being the alien which religions validates too, and there is no validity of any kind for aliens most people talk about. :)
In case your cvs-fu is rusty FreshBSD[1] or OpenSSL Rampage[2] provide an easy way of keeping an eye on the changes. One of my favorites so far is: "Remove hacky workaround for Cray T3E," as in the debuted in 1995, Cray Research T3E.[3]

-/* Added for T3E, address-of fails on bit field (beckman@acl.lanl.gov) */
-#ifndef BIT_FIELD_LIMITS
memcpy(&server.sin_addr.s_addr, ip, 4);
-#else
- memcpy(&server.sin_addr, ip, 4);
-#endif

[^1]: http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=project%3Aopenb...

[^2]: http://opensslrampage.org/

[^3]: http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/01f41ed5b37037b963c0de2c2...

[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3E
I think you mean the blue pill? If I remember correctly, the blue pill was the return to normal while the red pill was the "trace program"
I just tried this stuff out and I can't get it to work. I have a python Django app.

When I push the deploy fails. There's no information on Release History, it just says failed. The duration of the build task is 0 seconds.

If I do locally `appcfg.py update --oauth2 .` it work as usual.

I feel like we need more info when things fail.
It's such a shame they insisted on their timing schedule for this release. It means the biggest Linux distro is committed to running X applications natively for the 6 years to come.

Imagine how good it would have been for the Linux community as a whole if they would have been able to exclude X from this release. We came so close to finally shaking up the Linux user interface stack.

I wonder if they've had a discussion about moving the LTS down half a year or perhaps a year, just for Mir.

edit:
To help a bit with the imagination part, if we'd have Mir in this release, then a whole bunch of big UI products could say in ~3 years that about 80% of their users are running Mir enabled desktops. That could aid them to consider moving to a native Mir stack, the increase of work on this layer would not only benefit Mir but also Wayland as a side effect. An even more beneficial side effect would the assistance of big companies like NVidia and AMD and perhaps Valve be to this process, if things go according to plan their drivers on Linux could benefit a lot from more well defined/thought out interfaces, something which again could benefit Wayland also.
Here's my best guess given what you wrote. The company felt that you were good enough to be an intern there. They also had other candidates that they thought would be better. They only take n interns a year. That started from the best candidates and worked there way down until they got n yeses.

Once you graduate this will be less of a problem. Most big companies are always hiring. If they like you they'll make an offer. This can still be a problem at smaller companies though. If they only have one or two positions to fill they'll usually tend to be pickier.
There's also http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/log/
That's even more proof you didn't read it. How does enabling it in chrome make any difference to code signing?
You reminded me of something that does exactly this for machine learning. I posted it on the front page of HN (Metacademy).
I think that would be brilliant. It would provide a strong incentive to Go Fucking Do It.
SupplyBetter: https://www.supplybetter.com/

We use them constantly.
The importance of structure preserving mappings shows up in many other places besides functional programming. I do believe context is important, but having multiple contexts is even better.
I tried to advocate this approach in military intelligence for information deep dives.

It didn't go down too well haha. Great interview though and I am glad my thinking has been somewhat exonerated.

Much appreciated.
Yes, certainly! And I admire the author to have put the idea into production.

For even more inspiration, the "Application Handbook" linked to on the Wikipedia-page for the MC145000B has a lot more examples similar in spirit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_MC14500B

But then, in an industrial job, you'd be scolded for the implementation, because only few of the colleagues would be able to follow this thought or make modifications to the logic stored in the 2kByte ROM.

I don't know about the precise time the article-author had put his logic into use, but PALs (the predecessors of FPGAs) were available since 1980 or so, and they should have been sufficient to implement the "printing-press" logic mentioned, and they meet the "programmable" requirement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Array_Logic

(it seems the 2716 used in the article's schematic was introduced 1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM )
Wouldn't it make sense for levinux to ship with a C compiler then? It wouldn't make much difference to the file size and would let people start with C if they wanted to.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong - I just started levinux, ran the initial download, then sshed in and tried 'cc', 'gcc', 'clang', and 'tcc' before giving up).
Emacs Org Mode? (http://orgmode.org/)
With such a huge middle class in the 20th century in the U.S. and the collapse of the Soviet empire, I think a lot of politicians, economists and media pundits felt that class was no longer an issue. I suspect it will become more widely discussed again if our current economic trends continue.
Unbounce. Sorry, I had typed Unbounce a few words before I used UB; I thought it was clear.
Reminds me of the "BlueSniper" rifle from a few years ago: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408...
This is explained at https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=39149, which nkurz helpfully also posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617762. I originally buried the latter as a dupe, but the posts, though closely related, are also really cool. So let's have them both.

Edit: A text version that loads faster and is more readable is at https://gist.github.com/daeken/11123897 (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618313).
We've done a few blind taste tests at the office between an AeroPress and percolator (and keurig and pour over if we're counting). I suspect it's largely personal preference as the percolator advocate has chosen the percolator brew and I (the AeroPress advocate) choose the AeroPress. To me the percolator has a certain (undesirable) taste profile that always tastes like percolator. Academically I don't like that the percolator keeps "recycling" the water during the brew cycle.
Thanks @HenryMc, Solution 1 implemented (owner of the album can decide).
Understood. Will not be commenting like this again. Thanks for the warning dang.
SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docked With The Space Station
I find it weird that the only discussion about this seems to be coming from the founder/VC side of things.

Any offer has two sides. The one who offers and the one who accepts (or declines). And I feel like employees need to fully understand what they're getting themselves into. Then they can decide whether what they're being offered is worth it.

The last time I was offered a chunk of equity to work with a start-up, I ran the math and decided it wasn't enough to compete with other opportunities. The start-up wouldn't agree to raise the equity to a point I was comfortable with, so I walked and went on to other projects.

If more employees negotiated -- and negotiated seriously from a place of knowing both their value and the value of the offer -- I feel like we'd quickly get a better sense of how much equity is fair.
When Marketing Crap, Less is More
Not in the US, up to a certain point. Certain kinds of weapons and weapon shapes are regulated.

As a rule of thumb, historically US law has reflected the following, "If it's not explicitly banned, it's OK. And if you do it while banned and it is kind of awesome, the law will change". This has changed considerably in many areas, but still generally holds true as an ideal.

edit: let's not downvote someone for asking a reasonable question. lots of places exist with lots of regulations.
I love that chart, I always show it to people who are afraid of Nuclear power.
again not music but audio files. sure there isn't a sure shot way of stopping people from sharing music, but there are some things that can be done. for example, max time limit can be set to 60 sec for each audio file.
That's why I assumed the innovation was in the carboxylic part of the ester. Seems like they sell ethanol adsorbed onto (cyclo)dextrins.
Haramzadeler does not mean "sons of thieves". It means "sons of bitches." AFP, so prudish.
No, I saw it on reddit, and though it might be HN worthy, despite the bad headline. I'm not sure how meaningful the dose of radiation is, but the comparison it super interesting.
Being brutally honest ...

Instant reaction - it looks like a gazillion other sites.

Second reaction - too many words to start with - I'm not instantly engaged.

> Social sharing done right

I don't know what that means, and I find it hard to care.

> We are solving your problem of managing different
> social media presence and reach. Let us cut out
> your wasted time, allowing you to spend more time
> creating cool stuff and engaging with followers.

You're not telling me what you are actually doing. How about:

Save time! We ...

Well, at this point I don't actually know what you actually do.

Reading further ...

> Manage your posts and schedules and let us
> do the rest while you do other important
> things for your business.

Is this primarily what you do? How about:

Write when you like, let us handle
scheduling for maximum effect.

Track the effects! We can help you
see the results.

Or something.

It's completely unclear that one should click on "Enter your e-mail". It's not even completely obvious that "Register" is a button. Then when I cluck on it, then I get errors, because I hadn't entered my email in the place I should've cluck first, but which wasn't obviously a place to click.

If you see what I mean.

I'll stop now.
Put it in perspective. When Stalin was speaking, there were people actually dying of starvation, millions of severely undernourished people, and huge structural problems with food production. In the UK today, most people have copious amounts of food, a lot actually goes to waste every day, and while some people might find it hard to put food on the table, it's within the means of private charity to help them without the government having to intervene. The reported increase in the problem seems a bit dubious to me, e.g. here is an actual food bank founder speaking:

Consider again the views of Robin Aitken of the Oxford Food Bank, a former BBC journalist who now collects unsold fresh food from supermarkets and distributes them to charities in Oxford. He says: ‘Some people like to believe that there has been this enormous upsurge in food poverty. My point is that there have always been poor people in this country. You could have gone back ten, 20, 50 years and there would be people who don’t get enough food. ‘The fact is that food banks are a new phenomenon. Now we have got up to 500. If you provide a service, people use it.’ Significantly, he believes that people suffered greater hardship in the recessions of the Seventies and Eighties than today, when food banks didn’t exist.
Disclaimer: I work at Yelp.

Yelp started out as finding a referral for doctors, and recently Yelp has added public data to their respective hospital pages:

http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/03/study-yelp-ratings-work...
+1, it's not a good idea to use a rifle form factor. A good hack, but a bad idea considering others' reactions. I'm pretty comfortable with guns (raised in more rural Idaho), and I'm not particularly keen on the idea of seeing someone point a "rifle" out their window.
Though the door man (of one's apt. complex) often does things like this for a small fee, too.
I would label this a finite state machine more than a computer. Still, if it got the job done, great. It doesn't say when he created it, but if it was any time in the past 15 years, a microcontroller would have been smaller, cheaper, and easier.
Funny how you didn't quote the actual case mentioned, just the text ahead of it. Ctrl-F'ing a little quick, eh?
I can think of 2 options.

1. Benevolent option: the money goes to the website but it goes back to the user after a year, less a fee (the website will also earn interest for that year so you'd get fee + interest income). Not only do you help people stop procrastinating but you also help them with a saving program.

2. Devious option (and probably more commercially viable). the website takes the money but the website also runs a weekly lottery that pays out some fraction of the revenue collected.
Problem: Completion rates for online courses are dismal and engagement with other students and faculty is low.

Idea: Weekly online, live discussion sections to accompany self-paced video lectures. Discussion sections have 5-10 students and are facilitated by Teaching Assistants

How it works:

Students taking a MOOC course sign up each week for a discussion section. There can be multiple discussion sections to accommodate changes in the student's schedule, different time zones, etc. Students pay ~$10/discussion, once a week, for an hour.

Discussion sections can be G+ Hangout style and taught by crowdsourced Teaching Assistants. These TAs can be grad students in universities looking to make extra money. They can assist students with HW problems, go over tough concepts, and talk about material outside of the immediate subject matter.

TAs can rev share per discussion. Example: 30% rev share for a class of eight students paying $10 each --> $24 for the TA for an hour of teaching. This is significantly higher than market rate (~$10-16/hr)
No actually it means, "The Sinner Family". "Haram" being sin, as in anything denied to humans by the God.
I really liked the point of mechanical philosophy you made. This is science in action, when one paradigm can no longer be a valid model, a revised one with none of its weaknesses but with more virtues arises, in this case, the computing machine philosophy.

>And there are plenty of reasons to think that what goes on inside the brain cannot be mimicked by a computer or algorithms as we currently know them. We don't even know what consciousness is! We should at least admit as much...

I agree, it's a huge jump! And that's precisely my point. The brain as a computer paradigm has nothing to do with the idea that an i5 core can't recognize cats, is the theoretical aspect of a computing machine that is used when trying to argue in favour of the BaaC paradigm.

Conciousness is precisely what doesn't fit in the BaaC paradigm. So the research should start from there.
I'm curious if the definition conciousness will have to be changed in the near future. Exciting times!