skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend listening to JavaScript Jabber's Zone.js interview [1] with Brian Ford that came out yesterday. He mentions collaborating with this NodeJS Zones project and the possibility of convergence.

I also recommend watching his ng-conf talk [2] on Zone.js to get a better understanding of what zones enable.

[1] http://javascriptjabber.com/110-jsj-zones-with-brian-ford/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IqtmUscE_U
This was your subtle way of saying that the average lifespan for a typical Afro-American name is lower, right? :)

It's ok to differentiate things amongst races sometimes -- it isn't always racist.
I believe the market for this type of tool is massive. Google/Amazon, etc. want people to shop using their own site and it's hard to change people's loyalties when it comes to online shopping. By offering an extension that enhances the experience a user has while shopping on the sites they are already loyal to we believe we can reach more people.
The source tarball was always available for download on truecrypt.org.
The median is actually not 75 exactly, I looks to be 74ish on the graph. This makes sense.
I just want to know who's still compiling against 16bit windows or OpenVMS. I know my world view isn't infinite, but those systems seem a bit out there.
Kickstarter Campaign To Revive 'Reading Rainbow' Nearing $2M On Day 2
Not only can you get a good idea of age from a name you can generate names that match age and sex. I have a niece who recently did a science fair project where she used Markov chains seeded with U.S. census data over the last hundred years to create new names. With about 90% accuracy people could tell if a fake name was from 100, 50, or <10 years ago and the sex.

An interesting side note was that she put in a simple profanity filter but in all of her trial runs it never picked up any "fuq" or variant names.

Edit: Here are sample boy names:
Shill
Flay
Roshard
Per
Coll
Milius
Madfrego
Derry
Fer
Fordy
Carlel
Marler
Rommyronance
Jord
Felwooke
Rott
Luper
Bent
Zekin
Othen
Nolanterry
Jerarton

Here are some girl names
Esalessie
Rine
Nolenn
Alynna
Myrtinet
Faybeciline
Aline
Orassabenda
Phina
Dorgia
Lideleaste
Beara
Sonilinn
Judelia
Monangeora
Jarnina
Geleene
Emozellyn
Maudra
Verta
Lortis
Fret
Kathoph
This guy wrote an entire thesis about that:

"There is no international agreement on the vertical
limit of State sovereignty, the boundary between
territorial airspace and outer space. The need for
defining this boundary has been debated for over 50
years."

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA436627
> The partner who names the higher price then buys the company at the price half way between the two prices.

That's a nice twist. I used 'person that quotes highest buys out the other parties at that price', but yours is even better I think. Thanks!
Successful Marketing: What's The Real Bottom Line?
If you are the partner who is bringing some substantial asset to the partnership (perhaps code or whatever) the ownership from this asset should be un-vesting.

If it is a pre-existing product or business this can be substantial.
That was certainly an example, but I moved away from it for generality (and brevity), not concerns over racial tension.
Talk on behavioral economics applied to building products
It still has almost six hours to go, why post this now? There's a good chance this will be gone from the front page by the time the event happens.
I'm currently reading "The Space Shuttle Decision" by T.A. Heppenheimer, which discusses the planning in the late 1960s for a reusable successor to the Saturn rockets.

One interesting thing is that they then envisioned this to happen in phases: a "type I" partially reusable vehicle (with expendable fuel tanks and maybe expendable boosters), then a type II fully-reusable rocket-propelled vehicle (probably two winged stages which both fly back), and finally a type III air-breathing vehicle (Skylon-style air liquefaction was talked about already then).

The more advanced concepts cost a lot of money to develop, but reduce the per-launch cost. So the hope was to start with a type I vehicle (the eventual Space Shuttle) to reduce launch cost and grow the market, until there are plans for so many launches that it makes sense to fund the advanced types.

In hindsight, the Space Shuttle unfortunately kind of botched the reuseablity. But with SpaceX we finally seem to be on track to having a working partially resuable launch vehicle. Maybe this will "unfreeze the future"---with a bigger launch market and commercial pressure people might be tempted to go for something like Skylon rather than more of the same in follow-up Arianes...
That quote and those numbers are incredibly misleading, I'm not sure why they use that to prove Node 0.12 isn't coming soon. If you actually look at the issues on Github, only around 30 of those are marked as 0.12, with the rest being various other milestones including 0.13 and 1.0. It has also already been stated that there is only one more 0.11 release before 0.12.
It can be argued that "right" as in "right side" has good connotations, because it is also the word for correct. In Germanic languages, it is the same word as the word for "higher", which arguably also has positive connotations. Then it can be argued that "right handed" has culturally, and through these languages, been given a higher status than being left handed.

If I could flip a switch, I would make it so that "their" or something similar was a gender-neutral pronoun, so that we can avoid both sounding sexist and sounding awkward. On the other hand, languages probably have a lot of cultural baggage associated with it that are outdated. But these are artifacts of the history of the languages intertwined with the past cultures that used it; we don't tacitly embrace the old connotations that they had simply by using it in this day and age.
'Live' meaning 6 hours later than the time this was submitted ....
Best reply.
Yes- Modern baby names are status symbols and are treated like a branding exercise by many helicopter-parents. Its both topical and relevant to the world we live in. As is the analytic exercise of extrapolation from incomplete but meaningul sub-sets of otherwise random-seeming data. Its the data-equivalent of found-object art, another past-time of the 20th century aspiring middle-classes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object
I'm guessing that the Twilight book and movie series has something to do with the rapid rise in popularity of the name "Isabella."

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=isabella
Straight from the horse's mouth[1]

> Also, the income they earn though their paid consulting work supports their unpaid work on OpenSSL, so by hiring OpenSSL team members you are not only solving your own problems but also helping to ensure the long term viability of the OpenSSL product.

They also on their website list hourly consulting starting at $250/hour. Neither of these describe how much they get out of this, but it seems reasonable to say that the "OpenSSL runs of $2k/year" line is disingenuous at best.

[1] http://www.openssl.org/support/consulting.html
To be honest, the boxy, clunky feeling UI is what kept me from using FireFox. The new UI, coupled with a couple misteps by Chrome, got me to switch back to a Mozilla browser for the first time since Chrome was released.
More broadly there are doubtless correlations to various demographics (income, education level, etc.) that have different life expectancies. Though race is certainly one. (As, obviously, is gender.)
Historically this is true, but recent x64 Linux has made a lot of improvement here. In particular, gettimeofday() is usually optimized so as not to require a context switch: http://blog.tinola.com/?e=5. And then there are some even faster options that do the caching for you: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
Um, where is Reddit? At first I thought they were excluding exited companies, but then I saw Heroku at #15.
I bet Liam Neeson is the reason for the new wave of Liams, but I can't decide whether the Karate Kid remake is the reason for the wave of Jaydens, or if it's just a coincidence.
> No it's not. Libressl is a different team

OpenSSH and LibreSSL are both a part of OpenBSD. So when you donate to the OpenBSD Foundation, you are very much donating to one project.

> one that feels a fork was more appropriate than just fixing the problems in openssl

You can't start fixing things in other peoples' source tree just like that. I'm pretty sure nothing useful would've come out of it if the OpenBSD folk had sent half a million lines in diffs to OpenSSL; http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00026.htm...
You'll like this. Maps of top girls names by state by year.

http://jezebel.com/map-sixty-years-of-the-most-popular-names...
1. Is that based on revenue share? How many new authors can afford good editors? How many writers are good editors themselves? It's relatively easy to proofread but to edit a book is/should be different. And obviously this is just one of the many aspects that comes to my mind. Cover art, PR, marketing? All this could be done without a publishing house but there's value in each one of those. Value = money and/or time (something that a (new) writer may not have in abundance).

2. Fair enough. But arguably the "value" is still there (having an artistic vision, etc.) for the aspiring authors.

I feel like I'm being the devil's advocate sometimes when discussing about publishers. There are many things that are suboptimal or wrong about their business practices but I think it doesn't necessarily mean we have to underestimate their contribution to the whole ecosystem. I, for one, am very curious about where the new equilibrium will settle and how many other disrupting forces we're going to witness.
i'm not sure publishers are ever pricing ebooks higher than the physical books, and certainly not often. I'd like to see that if they are. Yes you can buy used for almost nothing, but that's not really a fair comparison. It's already been sold once and is in used condition.
I'd much rather have 1 really really good ssl library that everyone uses instead of 2 so-so ones.

That's reasonable, but those aren't the options at play here. Not only because GnuTLS is already a thing, but the chances of OpenSSL becoming really really good are questionable.

An OpenBSD guy gave a talk a few weeks back where he said that Heartbleed wasn't the reason for the split, it was the reason for digging into the code and realizing that OpenSSL under current leadership isn't capable of being a really really good option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU
The post seems like strong evidence that the finding of the paper is wrong, or at least not justified by the study performed. "Hoax" taken literally would imply deliberate malfeasance, and that doesn't seem to be proven
I still have trouble believing it isn't (very dedicated) satire.
"Well, are there any nationwide dry cleaning chains?"

Yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinizing_Dry_Cleaning
It's only ambiguous absent other information and the second half of the sentence provides that. So now it is someone whose identity we do not know, but we do know that the someone is female.
It seems odd that they would remove all of the binaries as well. Want to commit a readonly version? Fine. But what about now, when less technical folks might want to install TrueCrypt on a new computer?

The point is, now another entity will need to establish validity as being a trusted provider; there was no reason to rock the boat per se, and as someone who laughs at most things, it just... really isn't altogether funny, unfortunately.

edit: assuming that it turned out to be a joke, for the sake of discussion (though is there a difference at this point?)
I'll just note that the biggest "moneyed interests" in the technology industry have more or less waived most of their ammunition to stop research under the CFAA by posting public bug bounties. Not only have they made it much harder to sue researchers, but they also pay strangers to do it.
Cloud Benefits
I was searching for a link to download the data (a csv maybe) for me to play with. Did someone find a link?
This is one of the ways cold readers hone in on all kinds of things about the person they are reading. It is a very effective way to guess someone's mother's or grandmother's name or sister's name.
if the audience is a group of mostly 30 to 50 year old women the reader has a good starting point. It goes something like "Is there a Laura or Lisa here?" There is a high probability there will be one of those. Once a woman acknowledges their name is Laura the reader can see what her approx. age is and make a guess about what their mother or grandmother or grandfather's name is. They use other cues to figure out which dead relative the woman is there to "hear" from and then say something like "Someone with a M or K is coming forward" if the target reacted to one of those letters the reader guesses "Mar.... Marg... Mary...Margeret... Margeret... Is that your mother?"...

You get the idea.
"Tornado 2km Northeast": PressureNet adds crowdsourced severe weather alerts
Some stuff I hadn't seen before.
Aggregating and marketing (as in bringing to market) is not as thin a layer as it may seem. Ebay, airbnb, etsy - these are "thin layers of code" too.
If there's enough profit in there to support a company dedicated solely to an app, there's enough profit for it to be worth the laundry service provider (hey, there's a new acronym: LSP) pushing them out of the way, no?

> are there any nationwide dry cleaning chains? What is the markup on dry cleaning? How successful are the best dry cleaning shops?

These all seem like bigger knocks on the viability of Wash.io et al than anything else.

> And, as mentioned, they lean towards being run and staffed by immigrants. They can make a living, but I would doubt it affords them enough of an income to run a silicon-valley startup.

Putting aside the "Those People don't know how to make money like we do" argument, this strikes me as short-sighted. Because clearly the startups think there's enough money in laundry to support Silicon Valley lifestyles, right?

Of course, they could be wrong about that... but again, in that scenario I'd be worried more about the future of the startups than of the people actually doing laundry at scale.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but SSH wasn't crappy, it was just proprietary. (I'm no fan of proprietary software, but let's at least be honest here.)
Climate research is nothing like economics. Politics is involved in how we should react to the scientific results, but that doesn't mean the science itself is "entangled" with politics.

You might just as well suggest that paleontology is entangled with religion because its findings offend some people's religious views.
Apologies then. I don't think it's that people are unaware of alternatives at large, rather, that tcplay is a limited option at best.

If you're using Linux, or DragonFly, or even Tails, then sure, it should work fine (which is likely why it's being considered as a replacement in Tails), but it doesn't have stated support for OS X, Windows, etc.

TrueCrypt, on the other hand (despite whatever else ails it) is supported on all of the above.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I'm pretty particular about grammatical correctness but I've come around to thinking that singular "their" is a reasonable approach. I wouldn't necessarily call "his" sexist but, especially when used in the context of certain occupations for example, it does perpetuate a stereotype. And interspersing random "hers" calls attention to itself and is distracting.

There's also precedent with thou and you although that evolution was a bit more complicated and isn't quite the same thing.
That seems to be a non-sequitur, but in any case:

17% of "tech" employees at Google are women (worldwide): http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech

18% of CS degrees are earned by women (in the US): http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp

so women are not in in fact over-represented among Google engineers, at least by that measure.
Ebay and Etsy don't have to pay for teams of "delivery ninjas" in every city who pick up goods from sellers and deliver them to the buyers. They leave all that to UPS/FedEx/USPS/etc.

Ebay and Etsy also aggregate lots of sellers along with lots of buyers, which makes it harder for any one seller or buyer to corner their end of the newly created marketplace. But from the article, it sounds like several of the laundry startups are all really just frontends for Wash Then Fold. That gives WTF (hey, I just realized how clever their name is) a pretty fair amount of clout over them all.

If that's the case, it actually suggests a pretty clever business strategy for WTF: let the startups burn other people's money proving the market and finding out what sort of features people want in a laundry app, and then once that's established swoop in and do the same thing yourself. Free R&D!
"just fixing the problems in openssl."

That's what libressl is about. If you're in any doubt, please see this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU
Possible Bug:

After installing (but before signing up), I sent a comment from the Agora page. This came back to a blank page. Now clicking on the Agora button does nothing, right clicking on it and selecting 'Agora' takes me back to the Chrome web store.

Version 35.0.1916.114 m. The belt works fine after I created an account, but I have to navigate back to Agora.sh by hand, and can't find a way to access the tutorial again.

Feel free to email, you have my address in your comment inbox. I like this product and want to help you improve it.
That's very much culture / language / country specific. Naturally societies tend to have certain preferences in names in different time periods. But those only a tendencies, not a set in stone set of names.
You're having a different conversation from Mindcrime and Protonfish.

Mindcrime expressed confusion that anyone could actually believe such a thing. Protonfish expressed his belief that such comments are primarily intended to hurt, by which he's implicitly agreeing with Mindcrime. He doesn't think the attackers actually believe such a thing.

He's not trying to minimize the attack. He's just attempting to help Mindcrime understand how someone would say something that they both believe to not be true.

What he's not doing is addressing the origin of the desire to hurt, which likely is based (at least so I believe) in misogyny.

No one has at any point said there is no such thing as sexism or misogyny.
Well, fwiw this seems to be the last pdf/lecture from a total of 16: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14sp-cs240h/slides/

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any accompanying notes/etc.
Up next, the Airbnb of the Uber of laundry! Connecting people who do laundry to those who need it done. It all comes back around to mom doing your laundry. It just doesn't have to be your mom anymore.
Job losses as the mechanism of inequality would very little nothing to do with Piketty's claims, which are about concentration of wealth at the very top due to intrinsic properties of returns on capital. Piketty's theory doesn't involve this either causing or being caused by job losses. So seeing unemployed people and taking it as confirmation of his work would be incorrect.

(In any case if you are correct about direction of causation, then surely we should worry about how to reduce job losses than how to take wealth away from the rich.)
"Bitlocker is probably the most viable alternative on Windows."

How would a software with closed source from a company that has been gladly working with the US government in the past be a "viable alternative" to TrueCrypt? Really, please try to read the comments above before you enter the discussion.
I completely understand where you're coming from, but I'm not sure that a level playing field is necessarily a good thing. Everyone should be given the opportunity to shine at their highest potential and it is my opinion that a level playing field gives candidates the opportunity to shine at their lowest potential.
If you have a mouse with detents, there seems to be no problem.
Read the article.

It specifically mentions that girls names are generally more constrained in time, so the technique they use works better on women.
I'm not sure I can see a belief that some people are inherently cruel enough to use whatever attack is available to them as "wishful thinking".
I am a ninja, or was for a number of years, and I chuckle then sigh everytime I hear that. These people wouldn't know a ninja if they met one.
I'm slightly amused that my parent post is being downvoted yet no one is willing to respond to the reasoning I've presented.

I think HN really needs to track downvotes if only because it is intellectual cowardice to try to bury a dissenting voice without explaining why.
Of course I'm not disputing that. Google absolutely targets new graduates, very aggressively. We also target experienced engineers, very aggressively. As @mark_l_watson said in another comment: "Google is hungry for good people, and they are casting a wide net". Experienced employees are, in fact, valued far more than new grads, since they've proven themselves in industry, and because of that google gives employees substantial referral bonuses for bringing in good people.

As for cold recruitment pitches, they typically come from recruiters on linkedin. And its very easy to tell roughly how old I am from my linkedin profile. But you make a fair point about recruitment pitches not being the same as job offers.

You say you work in IT - am I guessing correctly when I say you don't work in the Bay Area or Seattle? Because it really is a crazy job market right now, and its probably hard to believe how much so if you don't experience it yourself. Its hugely different from how things were in 2008, when I got laid off by Adobe and had to take a less than ideal job to pay the bills. Today I am very confident that I could get a new job by making a few phone calls, but I choose to stay at google because I'm working on a great product with a great team, at a company that spoils me to a point I actually find embarrassing.
How difficult retrieving old photos could be in the future
Your niece is cool.
Thats the point. There is no truth only useful perspectives.
Weird and Unique Coffee Shops (Podcast)
Thought this would be similar to the European TransferWise and TransferGo startups, but this doesn't transfer money directly. Makes it apparent how different the financial situation is in Latin America.
or you know you could give up on sending humans to space at all, and with the money saved, build a fleet of near-intelligent robots (lots of them) and let them explore space, reporting back when anomalies are found. Seems like a far more reasonable use of the money, scientifically speaking. It seems unlikely that humans truly provide value in excess of the costs of sending them up in a can- the argument that putting a geologist on the moon led to groundbreaking science is suspect.

Building a sustained human presence on mars is not even something that could be budgeted to any reasonable degree: we can barely keep people alive in near earth orbit, and that has huge impact on their health.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817583.

Moreover, it's fluff. There is nothing substantive about an announcement of an announcement.
Absolutely, but that doesn't exclude them from enjoying and loving the other topics.
Thanks! As a datapoint, the order of magnitude [10km -100km] range seems like the focus of his recommendation:

More and more States are developing their own domestic space launch capability. Few of these new space powers will be able to freely access space, or utilize the most efficient launch azimuths, if neighboring States can claim
sovereignty up to even 62 miles (100 km). They will have even more difficulty returning objects to Earth if the boundary is set at that altitude. Even the U.S. and
Russia are facing limitations on their ability to freely access space. Setting a low vertical limit on State sovereignty will ensure all States have equal access to
space. (p81).