skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that places who have wait staff would not appreciate people taking up tables without ordering since it would directly affect their pay. But a coffee shop that does mostly take-out business may not mind so much having the appearance of a busy, popular cafe.

I do think it's good to be mindful that you are utilizing a business's space and facilities, and they are able to provide these to you by selling food and drinks. So you should try to be a courteous customer and support their business.
Sorry, but "deceased" is way more formal in English than in French.
http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/manual/datamash.html

This looks pretty cool. Anyone used it in "real life"?
Actually can we get it submitted with a title that explains what it is, and then have a mod change it to the first H1 on the page without comment? Thanks in advance
To be fair, many tech companies have no use for someone who looks and dresses differently from them either. For example, a fifty year old woman who comes to an interview for a developer job wearing a business suit. She could be an incredible developer, but sorry, she wouldn't fit into the culture...
They don't even feel ashamed for being technically illiterate because they're not "nerds."

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/9cdz79/ko-computer
I tend to pick low periods in which to work out of my favorite cafe (mornings in China, because no one drinks coffee before noon here; also pervasive take out is an American thing), and I'm a reliable 52 RMB a day, so I'm pretty welcome.
Reminds me of a recent remark[1] by an FBI executive about how the federal governments drug testing policy was hampering their ability to get leading cyber-security expects on staff. A policy that very few top technology companies share.

Obviously this isn't the exact situation as described by the article but it still goes to show how out of touch the federal government is with the tech industry and how much catch-up they need to play if they want the best of the best.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/fbi-director-says-agencys-pot-policy-...
The interesting thing is that Obama had this figured out and it helped him get reelected...here's what the guy who ran his campaign's IT infrastructure looks like: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/harperal.... The story (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...) of how much better Obama's IT was than Romney's is a fascinating read.

But there are so many regulations to government contracting that you can't simply choose the people most able to complete the project. You have to choose from the limited set of people that have jumped through all the necessary hoops and cleared all the necessary hurdles, which basically eliminates anyone capable of producing something usable/stable. When all hell's breaking loose and you're attempting to avert a crisis, only then does it seem that you can bring in qualified people, but those people aren't going to be paid the hundreds of millions of dollars that the original incompetent team was paid to create the mess in the first place.
Government will continue to have major problems hiring some of the best people in the tech industry until they stop screening for past use of drugs, even soft drugs like marijuana.

Considering that two states (Washington and Colorado) now make it legal for its citizens to purchase and consume marijuana from the age of 21 onward, it's ludicrous that the federal government can sustain itself by completely excluding the citizens of two states from holding federal jobs.

There are absolutely other structural and cultural problems that prevent government from attracting the best from industry, but an insistence on a drug-free past has already and will continue to be a show stopper until attitudes (and procurement requirements) change.
The real question is whether or not we can take these 150+ rules and distill from them some heuristics which perform better than our current protocols in practice

This seems to be a very common problem in machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and similar AI-like approaches: computers creating solutions that work very well, but ones whose functioning we have little or no understanding of.
While researching contemporary intersections of encryption and databases (for a presentation), I learned about Microsoft's Cipherbase.[1] They made a dbms which uses an FPGA as trusted hardware that will decrypt db fields & perform the appropriate query. In my wild fantasy, I hope to recreate the ASIC for bragging rights.

Talking about ASICs, I'm surprised no one mentioned how the public heard of FPGAs in the last few years: bitcoin mining.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/cipherbase/
LibreSSL 2.0.4 released
Nice job at trying to scare people for a very unlikely break-in-scenario, as the other comments point out.
Marketing is solely about tricking people into buying things? What about informing people of goods and services they might want but didn’t know about?
Quite possibly. Run an internal and external nmap scan against your device so you at least know the attack surface.
All X86 ops are translated into very simple (RISCy) micro-ops before being scheduled, so the problem probably lies in that part of the processor.
Unless you stick with MS dev tools like Visual Studio and .NET, unfortunately, I'd have to say yes.

You can still use Windows for general software development, many people do, but most tutorials and tools are aimed at unix compatible systems. Also, when it comes time to deploy a server on AWS (or any cloud provider other than Azure), it'll help to know your way around a unix-like OS.

Also consider that for iOS development you need a Mac, and those seem more lucrative these days than Windows apps.
God's world is perfectly just. A confession doesn't matter one way or the other.
What is the genesis of this drug? Was it started in a university? Acquired?
Athelas is pretty awesome, and potentially life-saving. Fantastic job Tanay.
China poised to overtake US as worlds largest economy in 2014
Yeah, our current CEO has some weird notion that we're all going to dress to match and basically present as a uniformed presence...I think it's the silliest goddamn thing in the world.
If workers at pharmaceutical plants are going home every day to "casual" attitudes about sanitation, they are much more likely to have these same "casual" attitudes at work. If they're not worried about things like "night soil", they probably aren't worried about contamination at work, either.

It's easy to have problems making pharmaceuticals. It's bad enough in the USA, I'm sure its worse in third world countries. E.g. here's something that an FDA report said [1]:

Microbial contamination is a risk to biologic product
quality and safety. The cost of inadequate microbial
control in biologic product manufacture is enormous
as facilities or bioreactor production trains may
have to be shut down for lengthy periods of time
...
The recent cases of bacterial contamination of
biologic products suggest that preventative
maintenance plans ... need further attention.

Sorry, I know this is a horrible stereotype. But what happened to the "good old days" when the Swiss made our medicine?

[1] http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/CDER/UC...
I suspect this will draw downvotes but I think you're right on. The bias towards people under 30 regardless of the skills and experience that others carry is growing rapidly. Frankly I do not think it will end well and could be directly responsible for this bubble popping due to quality gets worse and worse.
It is about a third. The US government is effective at funding early research but quite poor at funding development, and they ignore some valuable areas of research for reason of political optics. Development tends to be where almost all the expense is incurred. In practice, there is a hand-off between government and industry in the transition from research to development because it plays to their respective strengths. Most of the research done by the government, like all such early research, turns out to be medically worthless during development.

Looking at it like a startup, the expected annual return on biomedical R&D if you have a huge portfolio is something like 10% even with the unrecovered government investment. In other words, better than investing in an S&P index fund and worse than broadly investing in early stage tech. Without the early government investing at a loss, it might not even be worth the money of the private sector to follow on for the development compared to other things they could be investing their money in.
This sounds like something that is done in every American hospital - the "automated diff." In a blood count, the cells are examined and determined to be red cells, white cells, or platelets. Within each category of cell there are sub-types (neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils) and sub-sub-types (bands, metamyelocytes, etc). Basically, you can automatically identify members of various cellular lineages.

Cool that they got this to work through an iPhone camera.
Mind elaborating on your experience with the TX/SF foulup?
All property rights are artificial. Intellectual property rights make us richer by encouraging people to develop intellectual property, just as physical property rights make us richer by allowing us to own and control the use of physical possessions.
How does one decide who to fund? You're going to have every half-baked 'researcher' getting in line for their free funding. A whole industry of lawyers and consultants will pop up specializing in gaming the system to get funding for their clients. I don't trust any system designed around spending other people's money. It inevitably leads to waste and corruption.
Good idea about using Spaces. For me, using that and creating multiple tabs within Terminal really helps. When I use my iPad as a second monitor, however, I use it for displaying a Dotcom-Monitor dashboard I created, so that it is always visible.
> Price signals are based on demand. The same demand is still there in the sense that customers still interact with private health providers.

Price signals require both a supply side and a demand side. Government funded healthcare likely increases demand, since it reduces cost on an elastic good. However, it also reduces supply, since it reduces payment.

(There's a good discussion of this at http://www.cato.org/blog/price-controls-rise-latin-america)

To put it another way... if we passed a law saying that all programmers could charge at most $30/hr [edit: which is a good wage compared to other non-degree requiring jobs] we would have increased programmer demand (since now more businesses can afford programmers) and would also have less total programmers since many would switch careers to meet their financial needs. Something similar would happen in the medical industry with a single large federal buyer.

> The government knows how much demand they have for XYZ product or service so they can negotiate based on volume. Have I missed something?

This is also missing the supply side. When you take money from one group and give it to another it is very very important to look at what happens to the group you've taken from in addition to the group you've given to.

The real value in healthcare hasn't been created yet. It's in the drugs of the future. Changing the incentive structure for health startups changes how many people found healthcare startups.

A system with basically a single buyer is a reverse monopoly (ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony). If you find you're building a product for essentially a single customer... you should probably found a different company. They're not going to voluntarily pay you anywhere near what you'd make in a real market.
I haven't used it myself, but I've had close friends use Clerky and speak highly of it.
I must have missed the mention of the big consulting firms that make TONS of money on bad government development practices.

Hiring and promotion are certainly amongst the first things to fix. But you're going to have a tough time retaining decent engineers in a toxic environment, one that has been around for many, many years and is probably impossible to fix.
While I don't see how spending $100 million will make a course any better, the price tag is not unrealistic if you truly make the definitive course on a topic that doesn't change frequently. For $1 billion you could have the equivalent of a college major in a single subject. Over a few years, you can certainly find 10 million people willing to pay $100 for a college degree equivalent in mathematics, for example.
They are. The market rate for a maid might be $2k/month locally, and $500/month + food, board and health insurance for a pinay. Singapore is rather unique in that it accepts the existence of global labour market instead of closing its borders (and understands that freeing the local population from back breaking manual labour is generally a good thing, but that's a separate issue). Market rates are much higher in Switzerland because the country has almost no illegal labour (unlike the US, most EU countries, etc.) and issues few visas for manual labour. But I remember, for example, the Geneva police force being mostly French citizen, because they would do the job for 60k CHF/year vs the 90k CHF/year a Swiss would want (I think this is changing as the Swiss realize that foreigners don't really make motivated policemen). [A lot of the complaints about minimum wage/welfare also stem from "let them eat cake" syndrome, in my experience ("what do you mean, a family of 5 in a one bedroom apartment? every child should have his own bedroom when growing up!").]

That's incidentally the crux of the issue with US immigration policy. It used to be that anybody who made it there could stay, and an enormous number of dynasties were started by fresh immigrants (or second generation). As the welfare state was introduced, the borders had to close to avoid an influx of welfare seekers. As other countries got more competitive, there was further political pressure to impede foreign talent from competing with local talent; most recently, you see it in the H1B crisis as American developers suddenly have to contend with large numbers of well educated Chinese, Indian or even European developers willing to work for a lot less. Because the southern border was so hard to make hermetic, illegal immigration for manual labour became the norm and now about 3.5% of the US population (around 11 million) are illegals (and have limited individual rights as a result).

What is so unique about the Singaporean system is that they have managed to set up a system allowing foreigners to come work in the country and retain individual rights and the rule of law whilst being paid a market wage.
Windows: good window manager, bad stack

Ubuntu/linux: bad window manager, good stack

OSX: good window manager, good stack

Window manager: how much time you spend fussing with UI settings and how reliable it is day-to-day

Stack: how much time you spend installing, maintaining packages necessary for what you want to do (apps, libs, envs, etc.)
I'm a doctor. The running theme up until a couple years ago among my colleagues was that, if forced to choose HIV or hepatitis C, we'd choose HIV (because there is effective suppressive therapy). With modern HCV therapeutics for genotype 1a, and, in particular, thanks to the non-interferon therapy widely expected to be approved this fall, I would say that there has been a dramatic reversal of views on that topic.

Hepatitis C is a slow death sentence, and these drugs, based on studies to date, appear to be life saving.
The valuing of seniority hits a nerve. There's an inability to reward top performers even if the person's supervisor knows they deserve more pay. Pay is heavily determined by years of experience and their step system. Granted merits do come into play a lot more regarding promotions, there's also circumstances when teams promote an individual "up and out" so they won't have to deal with them anymore. It's so hard to fire someone, it's easier to promote them....

This is a recipe to losing the best and brightest. In addition to this, the slowness and amount of red tape they have to deal with. Tech culture, for better or worse, revolves around new technology and shipping vs. gov't tech with a lot of maintenance of legacy systems. One friend told me a military base's system is running on top of Pike (language), that no one knows. There was a stackoverflow thread that show about 6 people on the site uses it...
Oh, there is some thousands of years of historical perspective behind that.

Historically lower castes in India were supposed to be the people responsible for cleaning, janitorial work etc. That's more like putting it mildly, they were sort of forced generations after generations to do absolutely despicable stuff like scavenging human waste. Cleaning streets, gutters etc. What's more you are forbidden to marry outside your caste, and there was a another social disease called untouchability- which was basically you can't share the same space with the lower castes. Like religious places etc. There are some extreme instances where people weren't even allowed to walk on the same roads.

They were barred from education, or any other work of dignity.

In short the worst kind of jobs were left for the lower caste. And people expect the same to continue, now as well!
It's because of Israel's actions towards the Palestinians that the Arab world hates the West so much - after all, the US funds and condones it.
Perzo: a military-grade messaging service
There are rumours of funding from Goldman Sachs:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/03/us-goldman-messagi...
I don't want to support any side of conflict mostly because I personally know people from both camps.
Ukraine and Russia are connected to each other more then they want to and much more then ordinary person who reads western media knows. Connected in all aspects, cultural, family ties, friendship, buisness, ethnic. You may not believe me but current situation is like if Canada decided to have a trade/military treaty with Russia breaking any ties with US at the same time. So before this conflict waving russian flag was actually quite normal.

Theres alot of russians fighting in ranks of DNR/LNR forces, true. But theres alot of Ukrainians too. You may call this conflict anything you want, but if one group of citizens fight with the other it is civil war.
This conflict is supported by russian government only blind will say that LNR/DNR are on their own. The main thing is: LNR/DNR are possible only because they are supported by locals and because of actions of Kiev right after Maidan. Statements that where made by Kiev politics, law acts they enforced, there where alot of mistakes made by Kiev government that led to current situation.

Some information to consider:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislation_on_languages_in_Ukr...

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:2001_U... (red color is for people who pose themselves as ethnically russians)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_revolution#Prote... (just to understand what actions of new government caused so much protest)

Theres alot of information in russian internet but you probably dismiss it as being propaganda and me being brain-washed again.
The big problem is that the people in government who spend the money don't actually have to earn it, which means that they don't value it. It's the same way with Trust Fund babies, who suckle off their parents' wealth and spend it all on drugs and partying. Since they didn't have to earn the money, it's meaningless to them.

What happens in government is that the ones who spend it have all this power, they don't value the money, so then it goes to people that give them kickbacks, and then there is no accountability. Except in the government you talk about hundreds of millions and billions of dollars as opposed to millions and tens of millions around here.

The government needs to take up a different way of budgeting their money. Instead of cutting budgets where people can save money, they should be increasing budgets of those people that can save money or spend it wisely. There are so many things wrong with how the government spends money, no wonder people hate paying their taxes, when they see $300M spent on the government website that could have been made in SV for less than 1% of that.
I tried this DOS VGA font out just for fun and it kind of stuck...

http://www.dafont.com/perfect-dos-vga-437.font

Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/4iavF8A.png
The mods have been doing a much, much better job of explaining title changes recently (and occasionally either reversing them, or not making them in the first place.)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
I am currently taking the edX Intro to Linux course. I don't actually need the course, but since I am self taught I wanted to see if I missed some things. Popd/pushd come to mind as a feature I've never used.

The course though is rough. I have found frequent spelling and grammar problems. The English is plain broken in the recorded examples. The interactive portions don't attempt to emulate a terminal, it is just straight string matching. Plus, it is amazingly easy even if you are unfamiliar with Linux.

To contrast this Udacity has made some great interactive learning experiences. Their python based courses were very good. The only disappointing this is that they were fairly watered down.

Coursera is in the middle. Some courses are great in the content aspect. Tim Roughgarden's algorithms course comes to mind. But at the same time they are usually a rough port of the classroom material with a slight amount of interactive window dressing.

As I try to pull myself from being a crap programmer to being a good software/hardware developer I am begging for difficult content. Everyone has a bunch of lower division courses in various subject available. I want hard courses that shape my thinking as I try to solve them rather than easy courses that stroke my ego about how "smart" I am.

Also I really wish Udacity and GIT would have opened their 7000$ masters up to people that never finished university. Though I probably wouldn't attempt all the coursework quite yet, I feel shut out of that option. The whole point of pervasive online learning was to remove barriers and friction to learning. By having a arbitrary degree requirement it just takes a step back to the old system that it shouldn't have.
in Python:

# assume every generator produces integers and is unbounded from above
def diagonalize(generatorOfGenerators):
currentMax = 0
for G in generatorOfGenerators:
for x in G:
if x > currentMax:
yield x + 1
currentMax = x + 1
break
Architect the future of perks as an engineer at AnyPerk (YC W12)
They probably don't want or expect too many people to be cured with it, at this price.
They are a good idea because they expand the physical interface to smartphones.

In general mobile devices face the challenge that they can't be too large. So you will find wearables, sensors, radio beacons, and other technologies used to make the interaction "surface" larger.
It is always interesting to see people use CSV in place of the established file format for translations, POT files.

CSV is common because there are many more applications that can read/write it, it's relatively standard, and translation data tends to be vaguely relational.
It is at least much less of one than iOS
There are stories of railroads being built by government contract doing squiggly lines and taking the least efficient path possible. They were paid by the mile. There were also many successful private railroads.
For those that attended, was it tough to concentrate in that large warehouse-y room? Looked loud and busy.
Try Ctrl-i, right-arrow 3 times, then Alt-k.
The new features are awesome. At the moment I use both DevTools and Firebug.
I like surge (http://challengepost.com/software/surge-pricing-as-a-service) - Surge Pricing as a Service. Though it is quite niche, it can provide value that companies are willing to pay buckets for. That is, assuming it works. :-)