skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a sophomore (in CS) at Berkeley. My background is a bit similar - I took a year off before college to take a software course and work at a startup. The year I took off was probably one of the periods of greatest personal growth I've ever had in my life. I learned a lot technically, but that wasn't the most important thing I gained (or even the second or third-most important thing). The most important things I gained were friendships and connections with people older than me, and greater perspective on my goals and on college. I like to think I'm a bit more street-smart than I used to be, having been exposed to the real world. It's important to note that taking income minus taxes/expenses, I earned next to nothing over the course of that year (and have a bit of stock that isn't worth much even if the startup continues to do well), so I gained nothing financially.

I don't put much faith in the arguments that "you'll never go back" if you take a year off - I did, and when I made the decision to go back, it was precisely that - a conscious decision, rather than how most students go to college (which is by following the default path). At any time, the decision is yours to return to college - if you decide not to return to school it will only be because you judge your current opportunity (the startup or wherever your career takes you) to be better than going to school.

Obviously the details of this opportunity are pretty important - how much equity are you getting? How much control? Who do you get to work with (the people you meet and/or work with is probably the single greatest factor in your early career)? How much funding do you get? How flexible is the parent company in letting you make decisions (remembering that if you don't have >50% of the equity, they have final say in all decisions)?

If you want to take this offline, my email is in my profile. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss an opportunity like this. If you think your skills are up to it, it's worth considering. At the very least, I would take the trip to Japan, and come prepared with tough questions for the executives (questions about control, autonomy, flexibility, the conditions of funding, how they make decisions, their philosophy around product management, etc.)
All those additions are welcome (and wayyyyyyyyy overdue to be honest) but something is striking me as quite old-fashioned :

for (var [key, val] of items(x)) { alert(key + ',' + val); }

That syntax isn't really natural, I would think something like:

items(x).forEach(function(key, value) {
alert(key + ',' + val);
});

is more natural and readable. It also brings up the question of interpolation, why do we even have to use + in the first place?

Also, can someone in the know care to tell me why that is that those additions for what is the end rather basic functionality is coming so late to the language?
A method to explode a bitcoin private key with SSS into multiple secret parts and use them to collaboratively sign transactions has unfortunately not yet been discovered.

What exists already, though, is something similar. Instead of fitting a polynomial through the points (=secret shares), where the intercept would be the full secret, there is a scheme where the full private key is just the simple multiplication of the secret shares.

From there, the co-signers use Pallier encryption to collaboratively compose the signature without revealing their secret parts to each other. It only works with two co-signers at the moment. Here is a demo:

http://www.jpaulgossip.com/demo/split-key.html
I wonder if 2x2.5G (if you can get it to work) would be better than 1x10G.
Bigger picture... this happened in any capacity. GS should be in serious hot water with somebody... perhaps even a government regulatory body.
If you test comcast in the same fashion, the rouge employee can see that you are sending several thousands unique credit-card number to some website and are thus behaving in a very strange and obvious manner. They can see plainly if the request comes the investigating branch of the police.

With a tor exit-node, the operator can't identify who is sending them the traffic. They can't distinguish a investigating police from a victim.

You can disagree and think that rouge Comcast employees are easier identified than Tor operator. This is a trust question, and everyone is free to pick who they trust and who they don't. The argument given in favor of Comcast just don't sway me, and it would likely require a research paper with test data in order to actually prove what has higher risk associated with it.

The NSA do not target people specifically. That was proven by the revelations from Snowden, and has been quite obvious for quite a long time. NSA doesn't care who their victim is when they are collecting the information. It is cheaper and more effective to target everyone, and then data mine the result after everything is in their hands.
Swedish space rock may be piece of early life puzzle
There are only two types of things which can be produced: information and material.

Most people aren't very good at working with information beyond basic pattern recognition/recall and to some extent, human interaction. Most of the people who are good at either or both of these things are already gainfully employed.

In the material realm, we already produce enough food, clothing, housing, and computers to suit the needs of the public. We have more empty residences than homeless people. As technology advances in the imminent years we will become less reliant on people for producing these things--not more. Most significant material advances will come from knowledge work discoveries (e.g. larger capacity batteries), not from material work (assembling batteries by hand more quickly or using more people).

Dolphins do not derive their self-worth, happiness, or other aspects of their life from a "job." Perhaps humans are poised to become as advanced as they are?

Imagine if a million people had the freedom to experiment in whatever way they chose: to make music and art, to enjoy their lives without the approval of others as expressed by dollars of consumption. How much would the culture they create be worth?
The current coinbase reward is 25, not 50, bitcoins. Halves every 4 years.
You might want to try out the more modern fish shell as well: http://fishshell.com/ It makes history searching even easier.
Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research
I actually bookmarked a similar page a little while ago, super useful: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/21rm3o/what_is_a_usef...
Citeseer caches papers, I'm not sure how legal that is. I find my papers get copied a bit around the web, and there is always Google's books' project.

I don't see much point to arxiv, and I also am not sure how to put my papers there given that it wants me to use latex in some certain way. The real DL disruptor is Google Scholar, which provides much more value in just making things "findable" as well as dealing reasonably well with citations and finding a free copy somewhere. Citeseer used to fill that roll, but hasn't been updated in a long time.

How fast a paper goes into obscurity is a litmus test in determining its value (and if its worth downloading and reading). So if the author stops caring after 5 years, then why should we care also? Much of what gets published just isn't very good. On the other hand, a good paper (that people find valuable) will get copied around to various locations, and will be findable that way. But there is always stuff that falls through the cracks of this test...like old overlooked work that was actually decent, but I have the feeling that we've expanded so much as a discipline, that finding such work will be virtually impossible for anything published after 1997 or so, DL or no DL.
So now we're excusing the inability to actually pay attention and read the article _as it is_! Poor comprehension isn't the articles problem.
Of course, there's no reason not to do both. A service like yours could catch anything that falls through the cracks with EN. If you could eventually create browser extensions like theirs that add results alongside search engine results, it might would help people rediscover pages they've used in the past.
Most major companies with sensitive data to protect have multiple safeguards in place to ensure said data does not leave their control. It's common/standard practice for email filters to auto-encrypt all email attachments, or just downright forbid them from going out. Some appliances will even read text of emails for sensitive data being discussed with unauthorized individuals.

See SEJeff's comment below for more details and links.
You should put your contact information in the 'about' section of your
HN profile since you didn't give any way to contact you.

On the first of every month, the HN user "whoishiring" makes a few job
related submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

"Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366

"Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970372

"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970405

The first two above might be good for you to find work, and the last one
is where you should add your info.

Good Luck!
Mining bitcoins is a hardware arms race that will be very hard for new entrants to join unless they are willing to spend a lot.
It's even worse: For decennia it was thought too much vitamin C would exit your body easily by urinating. Instead it's rather harmful: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/09/us/taking-too-much-vitamin...
I am a 38yo professional programmer. I used to be an ACM member largely because I could benefit from the CACM subscription. But at some point, the stack of CACM paper editions filled my cellar, and around the same time Moshe Vardi published one of his controversial editorials on public access, so I cancelled my ACM membership, because:

* I could not get a digital-only subscription

* CACM's position on public access made feel uneasy about supporting this ancient organisation with my money.
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Or drop a `stty -ixon` into your .bash_profile to never have that problem again.
50 square miles is about a 4 mile line of sight range. I have a GSM BTS the size of a normal wifi router(though the antenna is a bit bigger) that can handle that.
Cool idea!

Some questions/thoughts:

Do you provide any access to raw tick-by-tick event data or just bars?

How do you secure your users' scripts so they don't worry about you stealing their ideas or front-running them?

It might be useful to provide FX rates as a feed so users could come up with a synthetic price for non-USD pairs.

For guys who want to work passive orders, an API where they can pass a dictionary of prices/sizes they're willing to buy/sell at into a goal seeking algorithm that handles canceling/placing individual orders might be a better match and more convenient.
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dr,
Can send you data sheet on module. Email hello@helium.co
- Not sure on 1v8
- SPI / UART
- All module and bridge programming happens OTA
- We have arduinos for making pocs, the module is currently 19x12mm I believe.
- Our next module will have u.fl. (in the works now)
- Network goes in both directions. Access from the internet via ipv6. drFritz.xx.helium.io.
-You can also communicate to other devices. The other device can be anywhere as long as it's on the helium network and you are allowed to speak to it.

shoot us an email, would love to speak more!
The richest people in the world look for and build networks. Everyone else looks for work. --Robert Kiyosaki
I see we came to the same translation ;-P
Given that their code is on github and many people criticized the unidiomatic nature of their code, wouldn't it make sense to set up a competition to improve the code? Everyone can submit pull requests with their improved codes and the authors should simply rerun the codes on a standard machine to get a benchmark. Obviously, a couple of rules should apply:

1. when you improve the code, do not move any elements outside the benchmarked language, i.e., don't use mex files in Matlab, c++ in R etc.

2. maybe create two or three different versions of your code - single processor, multiple cpus, gpu and run it on a single machine with a predefined set up.

This will remove at least some of the criticism thrown at the economists and has an additional benefit: researchers trying to find the best-suited language for their problem can not only use speed but also expressiveness, aesthetics, code length, boilerplate and ease of use to guide their decision.
Pretty sure that SyntaxTree is the chap behind Mono.Cecil?
Additionally, I'd assume that most organizations that are able to run or back-door a large percentage of TOR exit nodes are also able to mint SSL certificates under keys that most browsers would accept as legitimate.
jrockway, would love for you to test with us.
SandBoxd - Sandy Bird - Flappy bird multiplayer
Well that would be the equivalent to verdict of the court.

Another question that came to mind: if they fired her out of sexism, why did they co-found with her in the first place? Did they only get sexist overnight?
15 million illegal immigrants are a damn good reason to perceive foreigners as unwashed masses seeking to abuse the system.
To bootstrap or not? 5 questions to ask yourself
If I wanted to support the NSA, I'm sure I'd do volunteer work for those organizations -- and if I ran an intelligence agency, I'm sure I'd recruit assets off university campuses across the globe. Just saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXl8DJdrsuc
Do you have an example where you rewrite the virtual DOM? I don't see anything like that on the React site.
thats great news
Thanks for the reply! I would appreciate talking to you; I can't seem to find your email in your profile however. I was going to ask you anyways what other questions you would ask? I really have no experience with regards to many of the business side and harder questions you have proposed. What critical points besides equity and funding should I look at?
The RFS talks about sparking a million jobs, not necessarily a million full-time, long-commute, high-stress jobs. They could be the sorts of opportunities where the takers can get a fairly painless way to cover some bills for 15-20 hours a week from home.

Or a way of handling job sharing so that a million full-time jobs are just as easily managed by two million people who'd prefer to reduce their hours. (People going on maternity/paternity leave would love an opportunity like this.)
To some extent, you may still need to be physically present in the US/Silicon Valley in order to join in on some of the startup fun. However, it is often possible to do that without moving over.

I personally only participate in a startup, if I don't have to come over. It is expensive over there and your simple living expenses will add to the burn rate of the startup's seed capital; in addition to having to face unpleasant bureaucracy concerning your attempts at immigration.

There are just too many people who are desperate to move there and who are not bringing anything that the local population would be interested in.

Why not pick a cheap and easy country to live in, and work remotely with your colleagues from all over the world? Why physically move to the US/Silicon Valley?
Battery friendly positioning with iBeacon
In all likelihood, they will be the ones to be punished if hidden alcohol is found, whether they drunk it or not. Everyone will assume it was them. I would also guess that they will be punished more severely then other kids for the same transgression.
Circular Linked Lists – Attributes, Implementation and Uses
stop telling me WHAT it does (dime/dozen and I can come up with that quickly) and tell me HOW it does it
I regularly work with 70MB-150MB csv files that need editing in a few places before being imported to the db.
Just to clarify: In my comment I was not actually suggesting that I consider Russia to be a democratic country, quite the contrary in fact. Sorry if that didn't become clear.
Isn't your math off?

Due to path loss, rx signal is 1e-10mW => -100dBm, not -10dBm.

Plug into the formula and we have a maximum theoretical bound of ~ 0.14 bits/second, or one byte every 42 seconds.
> a) use of interstate mail and communications for illegal activity
b) the illegal activity is specifically a violation of the California code prohibiting prostitution: facilitation of prostitution.
So the federal indictment is completely dependent upon the criminal violation of a state law. However, myredbook, or its owners, have never been indictment, let alone convicted, by the State of California. This is after more than a decade of operation.

Good point, it is times like this that I miss GrokLaw for dependable in-depth analysis.
Who is this targeted at? As it stands, the documentation requires quite a bit of EE knowledge. If it's meant for novices, you'll probably need to define half the terms mentioned on the first page.

The other major issue IMO is instrumentation. Sims are fine for learning, but is the student going to have the satisfaction of characterizing GBW, slew rate, harmonics, etc? Is a computer sound card enough, and is it robust against beginner mistakes? That's the sort of stuff I would think about if I were you.
Hey Kator, We figured it out. Hope you can give it a shot now.
We have 50% genetic similarity with bananas - does that make us nearly bananas? More to the point, we have 96%-98.8% (depending on how you calculate it) similarity with chimpanzees. Presumably our similarity to Neanderthals would be very close to 100%

"More than half" is a very poor measure unless you define "more than half" of what. I think it's a fair point to make that Neanderthals are not entirely extinct - a good portion of their genes just are.

I guess one way to look at it is, assume that there are some genetic markers that make someone look asian. Now genocide everyone who's "pure" asian, i.e. has more than 50% of those markers. Would you consider "asian people" to be "extinct" then, even though most if not all of their genetic markers are sill in circulation in the human gene pool?

[*] http://genecuisine.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/human-dna-similari...
UC Berkeley researchers use algorithm to describe sex
Received.
The article doesn't say, so it's worth mentioning that you can type ctrl-R multiple times to search further back into command history.
Good point, and you're right. Will consider it indeed! Thanks.
You know what I hate? My history isn't aggregated in real time across all my Mac OS X terminal windows.

You know what else I hate? Typing in long commands in the Mac OS X terminal and then them wrapping weirdly. Especially when I hit the up arrow to go back in my terminal history.
A fairly standard SaaS model. We haven't decided exactly what yet.
In fact I was trying to suggest that Russia is NOT a democratic country and that hosting user data within their territory will probably mostly serve the intelligence needs of the Russian secret service (FSB).
The Law of Emulation – Pathway to Human Achievement
Java 9's Project Jigsaw: Phase Two
`man readline` and `man bash` alike blow my mind every time I pop them open.
Fix bugs on-the-fly without going through the AppStore
> My history isn't aggregated in real time across all my Mac OS X terminal windows.

zsh has `setopt inc_append_history` and `setopt share_history`. i am sure bash has something similar.
Event Based Marketing for the Telecommunications Industry
Cars were not faster at the beginning.

You don't know if something will eventually become better unless you try hard.
I just dislike the Ford adoration, but fair enough.

Still, my last statement stands; paying well is not incompatible with hiring few.
Speed was really a killer for me too, it became slow very easily. It also began erroring out of update-checks and package installs, making it feel quite worthy of the beta tag. Look forward to seeing where it is now!
The supplements industry is basically snake-oil so far as I can tell. Unless you have a known deficiency, or a horrifically unbalanced diet, as far as anyone can tell they're a waste of time and money.
I'm curious about the latency
I personally think that companies should avoid asking anybody to physically come over. Working or even partnering up remotely is perfectly possible.
Bind Therapeutics Declines Afterhours After Collaboration With Amgen Ends
I'm not saying licensure is compatible with libertarianism. I'm saying I never advocated for the elimination of all licensing, so you were attacking a some imaginary libertarian strawman, not replying to me.
And this is the key issue - Facebook is not some buff actor telling you that you're inadequate if you don't buy a certain aftershave. Facebook is the lens through which people see a significant and important portion of their world. Friends, family, etc.

Artificially adjusting what is seen though that lens with the express intent of modifying someone's mood is horrifying by itself. It's even less acceptable when it is done without consent.

I'm very surprised that so many HN commenters seem to be unable to see, or unwilling to accept, this crucial and key difference.
So basically... vitamin D and probably not much else.
The Amish are fascinating from so many different angles. Their history of surprisingly successful legal clashes with the US government (no selective service, no Social Security contributions, no education past 8th grade). Their decentralized legal system, which despite being famously strict, is pacifist and arguably anarchist. Their theology/philosophy, if you're into that. Their local economies. Rumspringa. Meidung (shunning). And of course, their extremely fast growth (estimated around 5% per year), which I've heard attributed to "traditional birth rates and modern medicine."
link to the paper:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/11/1406556111

Although gene-expression and socio-evolution might have a bigger role in selection than the genes itself.
That diagram is about the energy inputs to heat the plasma.

Energy output to generate electricity is quite indirect: hot neutrons escape the magnetic containment and are caught in a lithium blanket. This produces tritium from the nuclear reaction between the neutrons and lithium nuclei, and heat. The blanket is cooled with water which is used to drive a conventional steam turbine generator set.

See the last paragraph of the reactor overview at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER and note that they do not plan to generate electricity from ITER: it is purely experimental.
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Risks and Realization of HTTPS Traffic Analysis
They may not have a choice. I can perfectly well see why they erect barriers and put large obstacles in front of people trying to cross their borders. The problem is rather that startups should not demand that you physically move over there. I have had the case several times and I had to refuse the project. Moving over there, is unpractical. Why not collaborate remotely with people around the world? Do people really need to sit next to you in order to work with them?
"How do you expect them to do anything?"

By getting informed consent before experimenting on their users? You act like this is some outrageous bar they have to cross: it isn't.
The Key Feature Of The iWatch Could Be Voice Messaging
Shuank, helium edge routers will have a global footprint to minimize latency to the internet. We always want latency from the internet to helium enabled devices to be as low as possible.
I understand that common names are reusable. I understand that your product is different than mine. Still, I wish there was still some respect when choosing product names, especially open source projects.

https://github.com/geuis/helium-css
I too feel this way, it seems to still have that signature javascript 'lag' where ST3 is very snappy, also it still can't load files > 2MB.