skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not claim that those governments are not in any way corrupt. They are simply the least corrupt of an inherently corruptible tradition.

The point is that we should be following our hopes rather than fleeing from our fears. Comparing yourself to the worst of your peers and patting yourself on the back because you are still somewhat better is blinding yourself to the absolutely unacceptable backsliding that has been occurring. Even comparing yourself to the best of your peers and dreaming about surpassing them is not enough. The ultimate, unattainable goal is zero corruption and perfect transparency. Effort required increases asymptotically as we approach that limit.

So it would seem that the only way to avoid having corruption in your government is to not have one at all.
Long click on the "123" number button. You'll get a pop up menu with an undock option in it.
thanks, Peter! I slaved over words in that deck, so getting this kind of feedback makes it all worth it!
This is the NYT article that drew a lot of attention to the practice: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/final-word-on-us-law-is...
How Apple TV Might Disrupt Microsoft and Sony
I'm pretty sure it wasn't there when I checked as the TV show joke is below that I read up to it, but anyway. Now they say "specialized glass". Still not clear enough.
You used enough unknown-to-me idiom in that that I actually have no idea what you meant. ("wacky-wave hands"? "mouth breather variety"?)
Why corporate penny-shaving backfires. (Also, how to do a layoff right.)
It is not about being funny, "call me maybe" is very relevant in the eventual consistency world.
And If you know any other article by aphyr, you jump immediately to read it.
Elon Musk is a heartthrob.
Obviously that is the point.
The accept header is designed to do this, the file names are a hack. Often times hacks are easier than standards, that doesn't mean they're correct.
Can we add the quotes around stole in the title that the original article has?
relay.js is also nice: https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js
You should give all of the free services a try to see what you like. Do you subscribe to a lot of feeds?

Disclaimer: I run https://minimalreader.com
But it's kind of a black art.

Yes, it's truly interesting to read up on all the "wetware" aspects while trying to introspect on how the medication affects you accordingly.

The whole thing feels like finding hacks to make your mind work properly.
Starbucks reignites Qi vs. Powermat wireless charging war.
I wasn’t comparing Tesla to IV, I was comparing another auto manufacturer to IV. The point is, no one wants to be the chump offering their own patents on FRAND terms while the competition is not playing fair. And the ways that a competitor might play unfairly are probably impossible to enumerate in a single blanket license, thus necessitating the vague language of the blog post.
The App Store Is Down
He used his own custom URL, which is cleverer because he can take it with him, but not so clever because ... reason we are having this conversation now, you have to think this through! I've never used Bit.ly's hosted service, but he already said there's no way to export the data. So, hopefully clear there is some data, Bit.ly has a list of shared URLs from his customers, and they've populated a database with some short codes in order to redirect them.

They are (correct me if I'm not understanding how this service works) the only ones in a position to know which short URLs are already used and which ones are not.

So, if the list of short codes is short enough that he can search it in a couple of days and follow all of the links, then that's obviously what he should be doing rather than having public gripe time on HN.

(Then again, if he pays them just once he gets a decent bit of extra time, and they get paid for providing the service when his business was too small to justify him bringing his own infrastructure. Win-win?)
All in one Social Launchpad Contact App
What makes this book exciting to me is that "computer programming is used to explain the mathematical formulas".

As someone who struggles with some areas of mathematics (the ones I wish I paid more attention to in high school because I could be using them now) but who finds more ease with understanding the code examples used in this book, I would love to read more books like this. What other books on mathematics could you recommend to a programmer such as myself?

Are there any books on Linear Algebra or Calculus who take the same approach, to teach using a programming language?
Yes, I know. The *BSDs are the exception that proves the rules. I also said it was "a smell" and not an outright dismissal.
> that the slides were from 2010

Considering this, what do you think has changed in the past 5 years? Eg the slides mention SHA3 as a future option, now it is finalized and afaik usable.

There is also one interesting thing about SHA3 which I learned recently, namely that it can apparently be easily used as MAC too:

> Unlike SHA-1 and SHA-2, Keccak does not have the length-extension weakness, hence does not need the HMAC nested construction. Instead, MAC computation can be performed by simply prepending the message with the key

from http://keccak.noekeon.org/

In this light, do you think it would be reasonable to add exception for "DON’T: Try to use a hash function as a symmetric signature." rule?

Another thing is that ECC seems to be on the rise (or is it just my perception?). Do you think a revised slide set would include something more about elliptic curves?
Does Tesla want the big automakers to build cars with equal capabilities as the Model S? Assuming they did so, would they not be more cost-competitive due to economies of scale? Their mission of promoting sustainable transporation might be at odds with their fiduciary duty to their shareholders then.

If Tesla really wanted to see the big auto makers build more capable electric cars, AND if they also want to be a profitable enterprise, THEN, the best course of action would be to OEM the powertrain parts that they have already invested in inventing and building.
sweet, this is really clean and runs really well. - my Mom is 67 and has been on IRC for 20+ years using mIRC for most of those. I bet if this got packaged so that users like her could one click "install" it they could grab a huge portion of the user base.
What's new in Git 2.0?
It absolutely is a factor, which is why I cautioned about a uniform, random sampling. Selection bias implies non-uniformity, and 10, 100, or 1000 samples won't fix selection bias since it is, by definition, non-uniform across the intended subjects.

It's good that you question it, it should always be one of the first questions asked when looking at these sorts of statistics.

I was just pointing out that the number 35, by itself, is plenty to justify a conclusion, and because perfect uniformity is not completely possible, more tends to be better. If the conclusion is faulty, it isn't typically due to the sample size of 35 being too low.
Your content is great, but this really is a horrible abuse of SlideShare. I suggest pulling the content out in to an article as well.

(One side effect: I wanted to save this to Pocket to read later on a flight, but couldn't because it was slides, not HTML).
> "[...] an obscure theory, like graph theory [...]", [founder] says

Even nowadays, no more or less respectable university will let you graduate with a CS degree without learning at least the basic ropes of graph theory (more than rightfully so). If this is representative of their priorities, I am left wondering if their ranking will actually be of interest to any organisation looking for competent programmers (as opposed to bedroom-trained PHP/Python hackers).
IBM's Watson and the OpenCYC project are doing that.

a Cycorp engineer informed the system they would be discussing anthrax. Cyc responded: "Do you mean Anthrax (the heavy metal band), anthrax (the bacterium), or anthrax (the disease)?" Asked to comment on the bacterium's toxicity to people, it replied: "I assume you mean people (homo sapiens). The following would not make sense: People Magazine."

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/articles/thinking_la_times_6...
"Budget car customers" include a lot of relatively poor people who cannot afford to make that fixed-amount decently-large payment every single month. And certainly not upfront at time of sale. Have you never seen someone who can "only put twenty buck of gas" ?
Spotify: A case of copyright bankruptcy
>This is the precise thing that patents are designed to prevent: to keep the market from turning into a race to see who can outsource most efficiently to China and inundate the public most completely with advertising.

I have absolutely no idea how you possibly came to this conclusion.
Very interesting and nicely done. Surprisingly addictive!
Anil from HRX here. Without getting into all the details this early: we're building tools to test for exactly the things you've stated.

There are tasks/competencies that can only be tested via manual intervention. But things that can be automated are in our roadmap.
Maybe the reason people are upvoting this is because the book uses software and programming to make the mathematics precise.

This is not a typical math book - just like Sussman's classes in which you program up physics stuff as you go along is not like a typical physics class.
I was recently interviewing for a new job. One company asked me to solve a coding challenge. I had one free evening to do it and managed to get it mostly done but didn't feel comfortable submitting it as there was still a few issues and I didn't have time to clean it up like I wanted to.

The other company asked for some code samples of work I had already done and then I walked them through it to show that I understood it and what design decisions and trade-offs I had made and why.

The company that asked for code samples ended up making me an offer and due to lack of time and the fact that another company was already interested in hiring me, I never even continued the conversation with the coding challenge company.

It seems that if a coding challenge is trivial then it doesn't really prove much. There's probably an answer for something close to it online and even if the candidate did solve it on their own it's still too trivial.

If a coding challenge is complex enough to actually test a candidates range of knowledge then it's often not worth it to complete the challenge for a possible job opportunity.
Browserid already allows you to choose which identity to sign in with on every site.
And that's why it's to be avoided like the plague. :(
The choice to take an upper bound (which will systematically err on the high side) and call it an "estimate" (which is not expected to have large, systematic error) inflates the numbers.
So an informal non-aggression pact is nice, but absolutely no automobile manufacturer would rely on that when a new car costs a significant fraction of a billion dollars to bring to market. (If I were a cynical man, I might think this didn't escape their notice.)

If it were me, and the true intent was to distribute the Tesla patents as widely as possible, I would have said "Tesla pledges to license its entire patent portfolio, on a worldwide non-exclusive no-royalty basis, to any interested party. We will ask for consideration in the amount of $1 for a 99 year license. Your lawyers and accountants can reassure you that these sort of symbolic commitments hold up in court. They'll also no doubt ask to see the full terms, which are about as boring as you'd expect, and which are available from our Legal Department."
Patentleft is analogous to 'Copyleft' which is a play on words to Copyright.
In fact, at this point in my life I view using Ritalin much in the same way as wearing my glasses and hearing-aids.

That feels like an apt analogy, I'm looking forward to see how Ritalin works for me.
Yeah I know what you mean. I sometimes start flagging the wikipedia articles when there are too many on the front page. It really does feel odd when there's too many, as if people are just desperate for karma (a la reddit).

I'm not saying that they shouldn't be on hackernews exactly... but I wish people would at least write up a blogpost or find a news article about a subject, rather than just posting wikipedia pages directly.
A Data Science Approach to Detecting Insider Security Threats
On top of it all, a lot of these people are hacking away on apps that won't accomplish anything or assist humanity in any way shape or form.

They come here, shit all over Musk and his accomplishments, and then go back to making a shitty photo sharing website. Seriously, fuck 'em all

Here's to the faith.
One is a general programming/hacker site, the other is the same product built as a recruiting tool for recruiters/companies.
From my experience the ability to sideload android apps is a major motivator for android users wanting to make the switch over to BB10. I'm a bit of a BB nerd, but I see this conversation come up again and again in online discussions
Honestly, this article just feels like an overreaction / rant the other direction. That there is No way that fist combat could have affected skull morphology. Like alot of evolution, it mostly comes down to a) does a trait make you more likely to have sex / better or more effective sex? b) does a trait make it more likely you'll survive to have sex? I find it hard with this amount of evidence to say that fistfights could be a driving trait, that would single-handedly shape survival / mating statistics, but I could see it being a contributor, something that helps other factors dominate survival / mating statistics. Perhaps our skull features are mostly for effective eating, but have an ancillary benefit to survival / mating when it comes to fights.
I'm not saying these tests are totally useless.

They're also easy to fake. If this became widely adopted, you could hire someone on Fiverr to boost your score.
I wonder if there is a more concise and general term for starting with the high end to develop technology and move to the mainstream when scale and technology becomes more affordable and usable.

It's basically a specific subset of crossing the chasm, right?
Law Enforcement Agencies ... Claiming The United States Is A 'War Zone'
> Holy shit. How is this not highly illegal?

Because Congress has never passed a law preventing it?

> That's like if Congress started changing laws without telling anyone...

Except they do tell people. Quietly, and inconsistently, but they do tell them.
The opinions published immediately after the announcement of a decision are marked as draft and subject to change. They then undergo editing, until the official final version gets published in the U.S. Reports. (The NYT article describes this).
Oh god. The SECRETS I wish I could tell everyone about Twitter!
Is Tony Fadell the next Steve Jobs or ... the next Larry Page?
Also, 5 years of Swift experience.
That's because he is being disingenuous there, he is not talking about money invested in R&D but percentage of electric cars in total sales.

Those companies have an established market share which correspond to a massive number of non-electric car sales, it is not surprising in the least that the new developing area they are coming in (electric) is being very small right now. That's doesn't mean they aren't doing a lot of R&D or lack the ability to uses those patents.
I got one on the 18th as well. Spooky.
Scared and happy at the same time.
It seems odd that they don't combine the two. You could have a paid version for companies that lets them create their own coding challenges and view candidates who have completed challenges in problem domains and languages they are interested in.
I can't imagine what "these programmes" you're referring to could be that could possibly be cheaper than providing full-time personal assistants to every visually impaired person in your area. The statement sounds pretty unlikely, and really demands a very reliable source, but you've provided none for support.

Beyond that though, even if this were true, the added expense alone is not enough to justify treating people with disabilities as second-class citizens, who have to be "minded" rather than allowed to freely navigate their own communities, "because it's a bit cheaper that way!"
This, along with the fragility of the bones in the human hand and the hardness of the skull, make it pretty clear that we aren't evolved for punching or being punched. Boxing was developed specifically to get around the many problems with punching: protecting the hands from being broken, and developing defensive strategies to avoid blows from even padded fists. Barehanded boxing is worse. If you want to hurt someone with impunity and ensure you win, grab a stick.

If anything, the evolution of humans as bipedal creatures should have made the legs into the weapons of choice, since they are not only stronger and larger but can be wielded with momentum for increased force. But the legs make for poor weapons because all the vulnerable targets are up high. While the most direct way to hurt someone is actually a straight movement towards someone, our limbs are designed to swing and swivel, not shoot out forward.

If hands were for punching, then the tissues attaching our arms to our bodies would have been designed to issue strikes faster and more powerfully. Currently it's very difficult for humans to issue incredibly rapid strikes with power; we have to use our lats, core, legs, and hips to rotate our bodies to increase momentum in a punch and line up the shoulder with the target, lest you deliver with reduced power. In contrast, kicks can be issued just as fast and with greater power, so one would think that naturally humans would have gravitated to kicking each other rather than punching, but the opposite seems to be the case.

IMHO, the most ideal strike a human can give without injuring themselves would be from the shin or heel. If you look at animals that don't have sharp teeth or claws, often they'll use their hind legs in a kicking motion to provide the most powerful hit, while moving their sensitive head/neck/chest away from the target. A few human groups developed fighting styles this way, but for millenia we've still been fighting standing up. I can only assume this is because we got so used to being bipedal that we adapted our fighting to it. I think our evolution probably prompted us to develop new ways of fighting that were comfortable to our bodies, rather than vice versa.
Given that so many have not wanted to look into the OpenSSL source code, that could actually get really ugly. Some operating systems and distributions would need to back-port bug fixes. That would be a rather large undertaking given the quality of much of the OpenSSL code.
Mimeparse has implementations in a lot of languages https://code.google.com/p/mimeparse/
Please apply individually. We just added a field where you can list any people you'd particularly like to work with.
Google In Talks To Take Virgin Galactic Stake
The Game of Thrones Graveyard
I think "horrible" is pretty strong and perhaps you meant a lighter shade of gray :-) It is unfortunate that this doesn't work on Pocket. Thanks for letting me know!
Try being a bit less condescending. Just because someone thinks displays like this are hypocritical doesn't mean they are heartless. It could mean they are acutely aware that the only reason people care about this is incidental circumstance, and that equally sad events pass by without scrutiny because it didn't happen to someone who's milked it out for attention. Because that's what blogging about your daughter's cancer is.

If you're the kind of person who prefers fairness over indulging feels, then token efforts like pinning ribbons to things look like an ostentatious display of hypocrisy to friends and family, to show that you care about something everyone still collectively agrees not to do anything about (i.e. a kid dying).
The Bill Gates book review: Have you hugged a concrete pillar today?
So it makes perfect sense to continue not giving them what they want?
My edit expired - Here is the deal. A person can share Amazon Prime with other people - family, friends, etc - but the primary benefits such as this music are available to only the primary email address holder. So when I said 'upgrade account', even though the Verify Prime indicated Active, it was not active for music. The upgrade button instantly charges 99 dollars.
It would probably do more harm than use. People would stop developing for FxOS because developing for Android would have a wider reach.

Another reason is that, while I am not very familiar with internals, I think running FxOS app on Android is much easier than native Android on FxOS. Because FxOS app essentially is just a web app, which Android is capable of running out of the box. Can't say the same about Android apps.

So not sure what's your argument for that?
Just tell it to HN. We promise not to tell "everyone" :) :) :) :) :)
The Gmail app for iOS does as well.
I went and pulled the original article. The characterization of recklessness is in my opinion unfair here. It's not like these researchers were cooking this up on their kitchen counters:

"All experiments with 1918-related viruses were performed in biosafety level 3 (BSL3) agriculture containment laboratories. In vitro experiments were conducted in Class II biological safety cabinets, and transmission experiments were conducted in HEPA-filtered ferret isolators (Imai et al., 2012). The research program, procedures, occupational health plan, documentation, security, and facilities are reviewed annually by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Responsible Official and at regular intervals by the CDC and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Select Agent Program. More detailed information on biosecurity and biosafety is described in the Supplemental Experimental Procedures."

Also, if you read the discussion, there's this point:

"We found that a 1918-like avian virus exhibited pathogenicity in mice and ferrets higher than that of an authentic avian virus. Moreover, we demonstrated that acquisition of only a few amino acid substitutions can confer respiratory droplet transmission to 1918-like avian influenza viruses in a ferret model, suggesting that the potential exists for a 1918- like pandemic virus to emerge at any time from the avian virus gene pool."

The body of the paper goes through all the details of which specific amino acid changes are needed. This is important information for understanding how these proteins function. What is it about those few amino acid changes that confers droplet transmission? Others can now study the individual proteins and build off this work.

Reference: http://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/pdf/S1931-3128(14)0016...
How does the 'all or nothing' approach work in this situation? LibreDWG stays GPLv3, but no projects can use it. Eventually the development team gives up and leaves because their work isn't being used. But it's a win for Free Software because the license remained unchanged! A victory! Round of drinks for everyone! We made sure that our work remained pure, despite everyone else and their 'practical' concerns!
Is there a website that has information like this listed so that it can be updated over time? And perhaps where items could be discussed?

For example, is the suggested key size still the same as 2010?

Thank you.
I'm with you there. Every time I've tried to engage, it felt like a million conversations that had nothing to do with me and for which I had nothing to contribute.

What is frustrating to me though: as an outsider that is not logged in to twitter, is that visiting the site almost forces you to log in before you can find anything. If you know you can go to twitter.com/search/ then fine, but you won't find that link on their home page.

For that matter, the twitter home page doesn't even tell you what it is, I guess at this point we're just supposed to know.