skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a recent high school graduate. I got turned on to this by my comp sci teacher, I'll be going to university in a week for computer science, so I'm bending the rules because I'm not in the software industry yet.

I totally agree with A, B, and C, but I also really enjoy just the interesting articles I wouldn't find elsewhere. Here I can actually learn as opposed to school (Can I use that as a verb? I can break the rules if I want!).
Uber for Hookers!
Not sure what the impact is to Lob, but Ubiquiti's meta-ISP marketing (https://www.goubiquiti.com/) uses Lob to sent postcards on behalf of lots of small-medium internet providers AFAIK starting in January.

Their area/rural route sending is something that I've used from other vendors for my marketing in the same vertical.
I'm a student.I come here for passing the time.
FCC requires text-to-911 – but it still depends on local governments
If it doesn't have a debug console. I'm not supporting it :P
The mandate for mobile carriers doesn't mean much if local jurisdictions don't play along.
While this looks really cool. The site is janky for mobile. The tweet 'div' having overflow scroll and the website also scrolling causes for some weird UX/UI.
Thanks for all the comments.

I think that the real issue is how to create a world in which we help the people getting our email understand us better -- including if and when we need an answer.

Email is currently sorted by time, and this is not representing correctly when people should stop their work and attend to it -- shortwhale is trying to solve this.

I also don't think that shortwhale is just for busy people, since distractions are bad for all of us.

Now, I getting back to work

Dan
It's interesting that all your calculations are about the memory footprint of these data structures, which in my experience, have very, very little impact on the performance of a big application. Need more memory? Just buy it or allocate it at startup. Problem solved.

I really wish more of the scaling problems I encounter on a daily basis were memory footprint related, but the reality is that they never are.

The real problem that was plaguing Perl in the example posted above was the runtime cost of operations which, in any reasonable library or language, should be constant but is apparently linear in Perl.
Microsoft Scraps Windows 8 Major Updates. Bets The Farm On Windows 9
Help a bunch of JavaScript developers buy JavaScript.ninja
I never thought you could describe one of the most natural processes in that light.

Tons of natural processes are creepy as hell. Just check out the life-cycle of the Pepsis Wasp[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsis_wasp#Behavior
A single comment has never made my more sad and upset and frustrated at the same time.
Interesting consideration, but is it a legitimate concern? For the actual "Bunchers", it seems like there are much easier ways of acquiring cats than trying to steal domestic cats. And for cat owners, free roam cats face an endless array of very serious perils, including disease, cars, malicious neighobors/teens, dogs, coyotes, etc. I can't imagine that people stealing cats for research account for much more than a blip compared to the completely banal sources of imminent mortality when a cat runs free.
I'm a historian? Maybe? I've taken to calling myself a security anthropologist lately. I study the history of security, talk about it, write about it, think about it endlessly.

I love this community. I've had amazing conversations in the comments and taken a few of those to email or twitter as well. I know that I would eventually see most of what I read here elsewhere, but this is the only place on the internet where I read the comments.
I don't think they are drawing those conclusions from this case. They appear to be pointing out that these are known reactions, based on the references.

Really, they are just reporting the surprising fact that it is possible to overdose on bergamot by drinking a large, but not unreasonably so (at least by UK standards), quantity of tea.

This of course is only one case report, so one should not assume that one needs to drink 4L of Earl Grey to induce these symptoms. I typically drink about 2L of tea per day, yet 2-3 cups of Earl Grey makes me feel nauseated. I've never had cramps or vision problems, but that's probably because I stop when I start feeling ill. This is good to know for future reference.
yes, i know what the acronym is, that was a typo.

even if they only are going to function as what's referred to in HIPAA as the "Business Associate" standard, if you really dig into it they'll essentially need the same level(s) of control as a straight-up HIPAA compliant business would. that is if they want to be in a defensible position when they get breached...

additionally, the reason that I mentioned ISO 27001, is that it's not just HIPAA, it's also all of the other controls both internal and external you must have in place. if your assertion is that they have sec dialed because their site is SSL enabled, well, that's frankly a little scary and somewhat naive.
https://www.care.com/homepay
While I agree with the chicken and egg statements, I think the sensationalism is a Good Thing in this instance. The language of the article and the way the information is presented gives way to some good discussion points and thought projects. If you simply wanted more "facts" and "knowledge" of human reproduction, go read Wikipedia.

These kind of articles don't cause misunderstandings, people interpreting the language as fact, do. So long as the reader understands the language in the article, I see no problems with it. Nothing in the article states that the presented information is beyond theory. It's a discussion of those theories with supporting science thrown in where necessary to drive further questions and discussion.
Nice to see rump make the front page again.

The author's command of the English language easily trumps any deficiencies in multiplication. His little quips crack me up. "All that and a can of paint."

"Rump" is just a cool name in my opinion. I liked rump(3) before I even knew what it did. Naming and coming up with clever acronyms that are not annoying is difficult. Props to the author for that alone.

Whereas something like "Docker" makes me cringe. No matter how good it is. Some of these names people come up with are just terrible.

Anyway, we know that rump can be used for mounting filesystems (e.g., ones containg applications) that reside on USB sticks or other removable media. By using rump_ffs, there is no kernel panic on errors associated with the mounted filesystem. For that one use alone, nevermind its otherwise enormous potential, I'd say rump is worth the rumpification of the NetBSD source tree. It is not easy to crash the netbsd kernel, but filesystem errors are one way to do it, in my experience.

I think the author should have at least one article about rump that uses a certain song title from Exile on Main Street.
How did it make $1350 in revenue? I can't see any revenue-generating aspects at first glance...
it just looks like a user-submitted gallery site to me.
The risk for credit cards is there. And yes it really is as easy as issuing a chargeback and maybe claiming your card was stolen. The only reason it is not occuring more often is because most people are honest, that's all.

I demonstrated to you that accepting bitcoins is safer than accepting CCs in most scenarios like (1) when the merchant's half of the transaction is cancellable, or (2) when the merchant waits for enough confirmations. Now in the last scenario (3) where not only the merchant does not wait for confirmations but the transaction is non-cancellable (eg. guy walking away with laptop), nothing inherent to Bitcoin PREVENTS the merchant from taking all the same precautions he takes for credit cards: for example he could check your ID, check your credit score, verify your presence in his own database of high-risk customers, etc. Bottom line is neither in (1), nor in (2), nor in (3) is Bitcoin inferior/riskier than CCs. In fact it is clearly superior to CCs in 2 out of 3 scenarios. There was a great Mashable article recently explaining merchants love Bitcoin precisely for this reason: http://mashable.com/2014/08/06/bitcoin-retailers/

MyBitcoin claim they were using 0 confirmations, not 1. (But many in the community and myself included think their whole story was a lie and that instead MyBitcoin stole the bitcoins, but I digress...) BetCoin also was using 0 confirmations.
Which kind of highlights that a stripped-down "core only" browser really doesn't need it. If browsers were invented today, bookmarks would be an extension and not a core feature.
Rust compile times are not due to the borrow checker. They are primarily due to optimization.
> What is wrong with two people freely working together to burn a factory down?

I think this should be obvious, but burning a factory down is fundamentally different from hiring agreements, in that it is destruction of someone elses property. A hiring agreement does not involve the destruction or restriction of property, but laws against such agreements do.

> To collude to deny others the right of free association and free employment is just as wrong.

Hiring agreements do not deny anyone the right of free association or free employment. Employment is a free exchange between the employee and the employer. Not coming to an agreement (not offering you a job) in no way is a restriction of your right to make an agreement in the first place. If I don't want to work with you, that doesn't restrict your right to form an agreement with me or with someone else.

> The CEOs of major corporations that dominate an industry can have a disproportionate impact on an industry

I don't see how that's relevant to the fact that laws against hiring agreements are laws against free association.
It would be pretty easy to assign any image an arbitrary value. Compare the image's current (unquantized) DCT values to the desired ones, find the value that differs from the target but is closest to being quantized as the desired bit, and apply a filter that just barely flips it. Each time you do this you reduce the Hamming distance score between the image and the target by 1.

If getting close enough results in unsightly blotches on the image, reduce the power of the low frequency luminance channel across the board, which will mask the changes by making the unmodified high frequency components more noticeable. That looks like what's being done in the catdog image, at least.

You could increase the saturation as well, as this fingerprinting system ignores color.
Would love to play with this, but clicking the expansions crashes Safari on my machine
Show HN: Timedrip – Drop a message to the future
I'm a hacker, as in I'm employed in Information Security. The other use for the word "hacker". I spend much of my days doing pentests, malware study, and forensic analysis for a multi-national. Lately, with some inspiration from HN, I've started into Python to replace or augment what little I script in Bash to help with my work.

I was drawn here because of the name, became disappointed that it was hacking in the sense of coding, stayed because I have nothing better to read. Since Paul Graham has his own forums, I wish Bruce Schneier or Brian Krebs had their own for people like me.
The difference between merge sort and tim sort is not "removing a check"; timsort is actually a different algorithm. In the ordinary sense of the word, there is no check. In fact, the use of insertion sort is most important to speed up sorting random data, because the real advantage of insertion sort is that for small enough chunks -- anything that fits in a few cache lines -- the amount you save on comparisons vastly exceeds the amount you spend on swapping. Most well-written sort functions use insertion sort at small enough sizes.

The adaptive speedup in timsort does not come from adopting ideas in insertion sort; rather, it comes from strand sort.

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

As to the speedup, who knows? As you've stated, this is an apples-to-oranges comparison. It depends on the Python vs NumPy object model, and it's pretty suspicious to see mergesort beating quicksort.
That's true. Most companies though just shouldn't cave in to those arguments. They should respond with "Pfft... you want us to meet this imaginary paper valuation even though your revenue and technology doesn't even support it.. go ahead and fail, and get $0 from it."
Of course. On my profile.
GIFs are better on legacy browers
"he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture."

Such a quaint little idea: the way Americans see the war will affect how the American government runs the war.

Some gruesome ones did leak and run. "Treason !" cried everyone.
> I am unsure if the on-off power cycling reduces machine longevity.

Possibly the disks are the most vulnerable components. I wonder if it would be possible in software to shut down the CPUs and have only disks + network running...
There is nothing preventing you from engaging other employers if you wish to improve your compensation level. We saw this with Facebook ultimately being responsible for the breaking up of the downward pressure on salaries.
No, the question is why there are so few men in Public Relations! Clearly, Public Relation is not man-friendly, a lot of bullying occurs. We should promote Public Relation in little boys. Let's have a Public Relation for Boys education program. Let's educate women in Public Relations to be more welcoming to men!
I don't understand why people are allowed to let their pets roam free. I grew up fishing feral cats out of places they weren't supposed to be, and it drove me crazy that people would just let their un-spayed, un-neutered cats wander around to become their neighbors' vicious little problems.

Even if your kitty is fixed, she's plenty destructive to the local wildlife, not to mention a disease risk when she gets in fights with raccoons and other animals that carry rabies. Dogs aren't allowed to run free, and cats shouldn't be, either.
I don't think "acquihire" is the correct term. This seems like a company hiring 3 guys...
I guess I'm on the fringe of the tech industry. I work as a systems analyst in the IT department of a logistics company.

My primary job is not to write code or develop applications, but being able to write scripts and small utility applications really comes in handy when analyzing data. I write lots and lots of SQL and regular expressions for work, I do tons of grepping / sedding and am quite comfortable with bash, but I don't consider that coding.

Programming is also as a hobby for me, I have some side projects which are mostly Python and JS stuff, and a little Java. I also have an interest in functional languages. So there's loads of interesting content for me hear.
This, right here, at multiple levels. A company paying market rates have benefited from this collusion. Any company still paying market rates after this is knowingly taking advantage of this illegal behavior.
I'm working on innovation in education as part of a small team working independently within a moderately large organization. I ended up here while reading about different lean startup methods. I dabble in client-side coding to make some prototypes, but certainly don't consider myself a programmer or hacker (unless you count the times I ferociously enter passwords in a sad attempt to obtain access to our own systems).

I get stories and perspective. I love reading a story, having my own take, then jumping in the comments to see how others view the same information. There are so many lessons I would rather learn from someone else rather than from my own experience...that's why I'm here.

Also, thanks for posting something I am qualified to answer, it prompted me to finally stop lurking.
John McAfee at Def Con: Don’t Use Smartphones
This existential comic is the first place I heard about the "fallacy fallacy". It's a good concept.

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
What's artificial about wages or prices determined through agreement (the market)? What constitutes an agreement's artificiality?
I can't stop laughing of that shower head.
Are those guys his bodyguards or something?!
Haskell's problem isn't that semver (ironically called PVP in Haskell land) is broken, it's that library authors don't care about providing stable interfaces, so the set of libraries really are not compatible.
Thanks for all the replies, everyone, and sorry for the late response. Every reply here has been very helpful.
I try to take promises as a compliment and nothing more. Just say to yourself "this is just him/her telling me I'm doing a good job" and don't let yourself get wrapped up in the rest of it. If you're not happy working for the rate you're currently getting, then start looking elsewhere. Letting yourself believe "I'll be happy here as soon as they do X Y Z" is a recipe for disappointment.
It's a hobby. It seems you are falling into the trap of vanity metrics when paying attention to number of followers.

You've nailed it here (such an easy trap to fall into).
This would be any Earth-based story from the perspective of animals who interact with humans.
> So does this mean that photos taken with a “selfie stick” don’t belong to me, but rather, to the public domain?

I don't know how a selfie stick works, but it doesn't just magically activate the shutter, there must be some implied intent to activate the shutter.
This is a hard space to be in. I am glad ycombinator is funding startups like this. To survive in this space you need to be profitable early on and it looks like you guys are already focusing on that business wise.

The challenge for your business is the various Emr/EHR systems that you have to pull data from. Some of these vendors might not be so friendly, has data lock in is a business strategy. Some systems might not have HL7 or some other type of known integration; the interfaces could be proprietary. Some systems might use their own custom database. Getting out EHR data even in known databases (MySQL , SQL server, etc) could be challenging if integration doesn't work and you have figure out the schema mapping, as the vendor has no incentive to give you the schema.

I am not sure your one price fits all can work well. It seems like it would work for known systems you know you get data accurately out of. What about all those one off deeply proprietary systems; it might take allot more time. I guess getting EHR printouts and manually entering in data is one strategy, but it's quite error prone. Accuracy means everything here. On top of that some of these doctors might not have any incentives to let your team figure out how to pull data from their system.

I know this because I use to do data migrations for a top EMR company. Medical records migrations are considered the most complex.

I would also add that how would your customers know you won't lock in their data. Will you publish your data format?
Feel free to ask questions here, but be careful not to post spoilers.
I see that number thrown around a lot as well. Unsure exactly what it means and how accurate it is of most acquihires.

Does $1M include salary over X years? Is it just the retention? How much is paid up front?

How mature is the product you've been working on? Is it something you've been doing on the side with your co-founders? How much time has been put into what you've done; both as a product and as a team.

You'll have to see what they're going to offer. I imagine you don't have much leverage though so the final price will be in the ballpark of their offer.

My email is in my profile, feel free to ping me for personal experience with this.
I've been looking at learning Haskell for al the obvious reasons, but I've been put off by all the lengthy and detailed introductions to the syntax, and math oriented examples, that seem written by theoreticists.

What I would like (and in my opinion what Haskell needs to grow), is a more practical introduction, like doing a database conversion, or writing some network service. Syntax can be explained in passing. Does this exist?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu
TurboFlix.com – MultiRegion Netflix
turboflix.com

I participated in a closed beta and was blown away. Basically, you get access to US and UK Netflix shows on your Canadian account, free (for now...). They're only taking 10000 registrations, so I wanted to let my RFD bros know before they're all gone! You get a free month and a shot at a yearly subscription (they're giving away 100).
Stickers? No. Decals? YESSSSS!!!
Take the argument to the extreme, is it OK for every employer in every industry to agree on wages and no-poach? What about on child labor? Minimum Wage? What about colluding on prices? Aren't these all the same infringement? The truth is sometimes society has to take away the rights of the few for the sake of the many. While I agree we tend to do it too often, you will be hard pressed to find many who agree with you on this matter. The fact is rules like this almost certainly make our economy more productive as a whole.
NY DA Employs Secret Orders to Gather Complete Dossiers from Facebook
About a year ago our cats went from free-range to contained. We now have a contained outdoor area for them which I’ve dubbed the “cat terrarium” as it is outside my office window so I get to watch them prowl while I’m working. Photos and design explanation here: http://www.michevan.id.au/content/cat-terrarium/

A year later it has worked pretty well. I had to put some more netting along the bottom of the fence when the neighbour moved a garden bed on their side of the fence which opened up a gap they could get through. But apart from that, their escapes have always been via a door left open too long, not via the terrarium.

I really need to set up some more toys and stuff for them out there sometime. Any ideas?
Even as a vegan, this interpretation had never occurred to me but just blew my mind.

Thank you!
Paper USB Business Card Lets You Track Usage
there is a typo

This document implements a small, dyanmically-typed,
subset of Haskell that includes integers, lists, functions,
pattern matching and recursion.

Also, Haskell is strictly typed... but most of us aren't ready for that anyway :-P
You're in a great position to start experimenting right now. Starting your own projects, jumping in as a part-time cofounder of somebody else's, even taking on a few clients; I'd say do it all.

The one thing I wouldn't recommend is jumping in head first with no safety net. The fact that you have a day-job is great; you can take the time to feel out your options and figure out what works best for you.

The eventual full-transition will be a no-brainer. When you find that thing that you're supposed to be doing, it will be obvious. The important part is giving yourself enough lead-time to really figure out what that is.
I still remember a gem of a comment from last time, where someone miswrote the title as "They're made of meat" (without the "out") and a responder accused that person of completely missing the point of the story because "out" was critical to underdstanding.
Nah, he's a knowing abuser of the stuff.
So, I get that a lot of people prefer html-email to email (text/plain), and I'm not going to argue with that. But if these are "really good emails" -- do they embed all resources in the email in order to be off-line friendly, and privacy-friendly? Do they supply good, standards-compliant text-parts? If not, they certainly don't fit my definition of "really good emails".

Judging by the fact that there's no preview for text-only view, I'm guessing not...
I have a fairly terrible memory as well, especially for tasks less often executed or when it comes to getting up to speed with new stuff.

I used to dump new stuff I learned into an A4 black book then discovered OneNote. Now I have a trove of handy stuff I can search for such as tar command switches :).

Get yourself one of these types of apps, it doesn't need to be OneNote, there's plenty of other tools like EverNote that'll do the same thing.