skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the concept so much. They are their own languages, and I'd rather write very low level ansible primitives and build upon them than rely on a somewhat opaque translation process. Also, all automation I do going forward is PowerShell, not batch.

I could see a lot of places using it, though, so bravo for sharing.
The whole point of this series is to pick people who are knowledgeable in their respective language. Jose wrote Elixir and Fred is a known personality in the Erlang community.

It is so much more powerful when it is people with knowledge who writes these!
My husband and I have been doing independent research in computer science since about 2003. We have funded it all through it consulting work, mostly with the state government.

It is possible, but up until this point it has not been profitable. But there are other ways to measure fulfilling work, and independent research has been enormously fulfilling. Having absolute freedom to set our own research goals was what kept us from ever taking VC. It is not the life for everyone but it is the life for us.
> This is probably a consequence of pipelining in the ALU itself.

Yep, the P4 "fast ALU" was double-pumped and did 16-bit chunks of a 32-bit add/sub in adjacent half-cycles [1]. This meant that dependent chains of, e.g., adds could still issue back-to-back, since the first half of a dependent instruction requires only the low 16 bits of its sources. Always struck me as very clever!

[1] http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/ece568/papers/Pentium4.pd...
This is a great write-up about a world into which I normally have no visibility. I didn't realize on a that manufacturing capabilities for small-scale operations had advanced that much.
Foreign Affairs is an interesting periodical, but it might be worth bearing in mind that it's something of a talking shop between various International Relations academics and policy wonks. It's not uncommon to see people completely contradicting each other in successive issues or even the same one - which is not altogether unreasonable since International Relations is far from an exact science and seeing the different viewpoints is educational in itself. However individual articles can often come off as tendentious - sources are not required and arguments are often implicitly based on a worldview that is expected to be known to regular readers, whether or not it is agreed with. It's not a scholarly journal, despite the scholarly affiliations of many contributors.

This article strikes me as unusually shallow - while I agree with the basic premise that Vladimir Putin finds western encroachment on Russia's borders intolerable, the author argues as if he had little choice other than to annex Crimea or to announce a referendum and then move it to an earlier date, twice. One might ask why Putin didn't go through the motions of presenting his complaints to an international body like the UNSC or levying sanctions, even if only as a fig leaf for his eventual strategy.

Lastly, I think it's quite reasonable to have some articles about this complex topic here on HN, even quite partisan ones. It's not just that it's generally newsworthy, but the strong possibility of international conflict casts a long shadow over topics that hackers care about, from network security to surveillance to path-dependent technology trends. If, as seems likely, we are headed for a new and protracted cold war, or worse, some sort of hot one, there will be major feedback effects in the sphere of technology - which is, after all, where the West's major comparative advantage lies.
> If you start looking at all of the UK, there are different APIs for trains and buses, and then various local services which have no API at all, so you'd have to manually input timetables.

I was wondering... could it be possible to not rely on any API, and deduct bus routes and timetables from crowdsourcing the locations of travelers? You'd need to sample the location quite often, but I think it should be possible to detect when someone is walking, and when someone is riding a bus. If a lot of people come from different locations, wait in the same spot, and they all start moving simultaneously much faster than walking, they are probably in a bus. It could also map out all the stops, although it might take some time for stops where people rarely get on or off. Should work for above-ground transportation, but perhaps metros block the GPS signal.
Certainly an interesting approach to writing an ircbot, just using socket... is this python3? 2? Seeing has how input (from irc server) strings are decoded from utf8, but strings are sent raw? (Ie: what happens when someone supplies an utf8 nick? (if that's even possible -- I'm not particularly familiar with irc at the protocol level, nor freenode)...

Refreshingly simple, but I'm also a little afraid, now ;-)
Maybe test social conformity. Mind you the second you do, well people will game it
It's a real shame that the only widely deployed OpenID support is tied heavily to Google or Facebook.

Actually, is that still even OpenID? Or is it something more proprietary?
Ask HN: Hidden netowking tips?
Hi, I'm very shy and I have a hard time during networking events. Which are your tips to be bool at networking and make relevant connections?
How does taxing the wealthy to pay for the war on drugs allow the well-to-do to benefit from the poor? This idea makes little sense. It may hurt the rich less, but it hardly benefits them.

"For one thing, most of our very poor don't work, which makes it hard to exploit them." - Paul Krugman
Source: https://github.com/BYVoid/Batsh
Ukrainian troops killed despite Kremlin promises of 'green corridor'
This one of the ideas we have been attempting to realise in Eve (eg http://www.lighttable.com/2014/07/18/imperative-thinking/). We separate the data model (expressed as relations) from the physical implementation of that model (one or more physical data structures per table that implement the queryable interface). The compiler is then responsible for deciding how to evaluate a given query, based on the available data-structures, indexes, hereustics and user hints.

It seems radical in a programming context but it is a pretty standard and well proven separation in the database world. My favourite work along this line is https://infosys.uni-saarland.de/publications/DJ11.pdf which defines the data model to be an append-only list of tuples and treats the creation of all other data-structures, indexes, views etc as part of a single global optimisation problem.
Hi, did you turn on (or can you) selective forensic logging from the ip-adresses you believe are attacking, logging username/password pairs? AFAIK the list in question isn't public, it would be nice to see if there was a pattern (to uids and/or uid:password pairs) -- that might be turned into an IDS rule? (failed login for user: alfa, followed by user beta, followed by... -> block/flag originating ip etc)
Exactly, when the automation need arises just Batsh it.
I had similar ideas when I was in college.
There are quite some projects trying to do similar things: http://htsql.org/

and my naive and outdated blog post from college
http://dhruvb.com/blog/posts/specialized-syntax-for-quick-sq...
I'll completely disagree college should be necessary. It is this kind of thinking that leads people who have plenty of job skills but no college education to feel like a failure in life.

From what I've seen personally, there are a real lot of factors that keep the poor poor. Probably too many to count. College education in and of itself isn't remotely enough. There's also "life skills" (for lack of a better word) that are not emphasized.

I grew up poor and I now work in an office with people who grew up middle class. I sometimes find it difficult to relate to them.
Location: İzmir, Turkey

Remote: Yes

W2R: Yes!!

Techs: Expert in Python, Django, JavaScript, CoffeeScript,
HTML5 and CSS. Learning iOS app development with Swift.

Resume: http://evrenes.at/resume.pdf http://linkedin.com/in/evrenesat/

Email: mail@evrenes.at
Microsoft closed the skype api a few weeks ago :(

Much sads.
Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Sure, but prefer in-house

Willing to relocate: Yes

Expertise: Product and Project Management, with a little bit of penetration testing/security work. I have done some dev work but I am no expert (nor do I want to do it day to day)

Technologies I've played with: Java, HTML/CSS/JS, Django, Rails

Resume: alexmanusu.com

Email: alex.manusu@gmail.com

I'm currently an honours student (undergraduate thesis) studying merchant Bitcoin adoption. I'm looking for interesting companies to work with in the new year particularly in the Bitcoin space.
Given that your quoting of Insel wasn't in response to me, wasn't related to anything I said, and given that I've not been disputing anything Insel said... You demonstrate an eagerness to rant about issues that you're sure you're right about (and often are) regardless of whether they actually address the thing you are replying to, and keeping up is too much work getting past the noise.
Ask HN: Google search query to search for a word within in a table?
I often find that the information I am looking for is more relevant when it is in tabular form. Excluding searching for Excel filetypes, is there any way to make Google only bring results of which my keyword(s) are in a table?

For example, the word 'OPEN' is within the second column of this table:

http://www.melbournebikeshare.com.au/stationmap

Is there any Gooogle search syntax to prioritise these typse of search results?
I think he is probably referring to these discussions:

- https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121

- https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/578

where the devs are quite defensive about their choices to (1) reinvent the wheel (2) use technologies that are (according to the comments) not secure (3) not audit their proposed crypto/security architecture by experts.
Easy mobile passwords
Dunnhumby's Consumer Purchases Dataset for Academic Research
I don't think kids should learn to code at such early age, not without proper ethics training. Programming gives you a lot of power. The power to do both good and evil. Children just don't have that kind of judgement.

If you teach your kids to learn to code and they end up hacking the bank and got caught, who is going to take responsibility? Does the kid get tried as an adult or juvenile?
A Certification Program for Primal Living
Depends on if you were recruited or if you applied for the job.

If someone is working to get you in, you come out of the gate with some political capital...
I posit the effects run deeper. The idea when discussing these photos is not so much the effect on the subjects (who did indeed choose the field) but the effect on the onlookers and the resulting effect on the general population of women. I hypothesize that viewers of such content are more expectant that all women are to be viewed as sexual objects.

Admittedly, I do not know the extent of which this idea is true; I'm researching now.
Yup, and that's the problem, not bat vs ps1. People said the same things when 98 was EOLed. XP is dead.
There are already some solutions for this (and other problems). For example [NDN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking) which was designed based on today's Internet usage pattern.

The major problem with it is that existing protocols need to be reinvented once again to fit new way of communicating. Of course you could encapsulate TCP/IP over it, but then you're losing all nice properties of the protocol.
Are you sure that "we used to adopt them out" more than we do now? Since I personally know quite a few people in their 50s that were teen mothers. Also teen pregnancy in the US is decreasing and are now at historic lows according to the CDC[1]

The age of consent isn't 18 in most places either.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db89.pdf
For anyone who is interested in further reading on the impact of drugs on Baltimore neighborhoods and the people who live there, I urge you to check out The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1). One of the readers on Goodreads summed it up quite well:

Books don't get much more powerful or moving than this.

The premise is simple--Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon (who's lately been earning acclaim as the driving force behind HBO's "The Wire" which takes place in the same area)and Ed Burns spent a year living on or around one of the busiest drug markets in Baltimore and reports what he learned. In doing so, he tells the stories of the people who inhabit this world: street pushers, kids trying (although often not that hard) to stay straight and the parents who worry about them, when they're not too busy trying to score their next fix. The stories are harrowing--from people who spend their days cashing in scrap metal for cash to get hooked up, to families sharing one small bedroom in a shooting gallery. Pretty much everybody is hoping for a change in fortunes, but the book offers few happy endings. In spite of this, its a fascinating glimpse of a world where most of Simon's readers will never go.

The narrative is occasionally broken up by Simon and Burns' musings about the war on drugs. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, its hard to disagree with Simon's belief that the war has failed, at least in his little corner of the world. There's a particularly powerful passage near the end where Simon flat out shatters the Horatio Alger myths that many middle-class suburbanites cling to, particularly the idea that should they find themselves in that situation, they'd simply apply a little Puritan gumption and work their way out their unfortunate circumstances. In the end, he doesn't offer any solutions and precious little hope.

Yet, the people who live there are more than mindless junkies. They're human, with hopes and dreams and stories to tell. Perhaps Simon's greatest achievement is the way in which he employs his sharp eye and powers of observation to paint a wholly three-dimensional and, given the circumstances, refreshingly non-judgmental picture of a community in deep decline.

In the end, its an amazing powerful read, one that will leave readers deeply affected and likely having shed at least a couple of tears along the way. (2)

After reading the Washington Post article, I wondered about DeAndre McCullough, one of the teens described in The Corner who seemed like he had a chance to get out despite some terrible family problems -- what had happened to him? Sadly, DeAndre died at age 35. David Simon wrote a touching obituary here (3)

1. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/23/reviews/971123.23mosle...

2. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17690092?book_show_act...

3. http://davidsimon.com/deandre-mccullough-1977-2012/
I disagree. The marginalising, discriminatory effects of web developers using the state of the art is critical to moving web technology forward as quickly as possible. By penalising users who use antiquated browsers or computing devices, it helps create pressure and demand for:

a) more affordable modern computing devices
b) more intelligent auto-updating browsing software
c) more educated and engaged consumers

Mollycoddling stragglers only hurts everybody in the long run.
Location: Leipzig, Germany

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes (especially to Berlin)

Technologies:
-- Languages: JavaScript (with and without jQuery), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Python, HTML(5), CSS(3)
-- Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
-- Other: Comfortable with Linux, Git, Vim, and the server-side in general. Professional experience with Backbone.js, Underscore.js, d3.js, Require.js, Sass, Mocha, Phantom.js, Grunt, basic Node. At my current job, I also helped with Django, our REST API (TastyPie), and hooking it up to Neo4j, Nginx, & Uwsgi.

(For my minor in Computer Science I studied Java, Python, C, Unix, computer architecture, object-oriented programming and design, computational linguistics, and web programming. I am not keen on delving back into Java.)

Spoken Languages
English (native - US Citizen), German (conversational)

Resume: http://monicalent.com/monica_lent_resume_2014.pdf

Email: monica.lent@uni-leipzig.de

---

I am looking for work in the coming months as a frontend engineer and/or interface designer -- my passion lies both in designing a beautiful user experience and implementing it in concise, elegant code. I minored in Computer Science in university, so I am well-versed in the fundamentals, while having almost five years of practical work experience in IT. I'm comfortable switching between front- and backend, and can debug the full technical stack.

I'm looking for a job that will challenge me to grow in my field, where I get to learn from my colleagues, and be part of a both a technical and creative process. Throughout my career, I've taken on increasingly technical roles, but have always found a way to enhance my work with my design skills.

Please get in touch if you're looking for a frontend developer with an eye for UI/UX, I would be eager to talk with you!
Talking with Kevin Hale
Visiting Shenzhen is highly recommended if you have any interest in electronics at all --- I'd say it's definitely an eye-opening experience, and can change your perspective on the manufacturing costs of all the things we usually take for granted.

bunnie has organised another trip there near the end of this month, if you're interested:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4087
Yes, but as stated above "it is not guaranteed to stay in the language". The functions from "fmt" are guaranteed to stay in the language.

May as well start learning the language with best practices, even if it does involve an extra line to 'import "fmt"'.
I have been using mosh for two years now and it has greatly improved my life. It means that rather than buying a brand-new laptop, I can just connect to a $5/mo linode with an SSD and program on that.
They are reporting a specific attack on Namecheap accounts based upon a previous attack.
I really enjoy Hexiled.
Glad you were able to take down the copycat.
Wish you continued success with your apps.
Your tl;dr for #2 isn't accurate. Yes, these medications "have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment", but the measured benefit of placebo treatment in this case is quite large and the medications work BETTER than placebo. So even if the difference between placebo and treatment is small, the difference between treatment and no-treatment is quite large and is clinically significant.

As for the claim that the difference falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance, the "accepted criteria" used to reach that conclusion are pretty arbitrary and it only just BARELY falls below the arbitrary level picked (by some), depending on which studies are included.

More here:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/16/things-that-sometimes-h...
Could it also be a way to reduce the time it takes to perform cross-browser testing and troubleshooting for a new layout?
> Backward compatibility in a RNG is actually rather important, weirdly enough. For example, anything that uses deterministic seeds for repeatability of procedural generation or optimization. (Read: Minecraft, among other more important things).

This seems like a very, very bad thing to rely on. Other than Java, how many other languages have guarantees in generator determinism from version to version as part of the language contract? Certainly Lisp considers it an antipattern.
We actually have a little-known feature, which allows you to grant domain modification rights to other Namecheap users. https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

You can also add other phone numbers to your 2FA preferences, although I can understand if that's annoying for your colleagues if everyone is getting an SMS on every login.
Vagrant is available for Mac, Linux and Windows (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html). I'm not sure what other dependency the link above would have.
> Ghostwriting in academia is a violation of academic ethics, a basis for expulsion or withdrawal of a granted degree

I addressed the academic ethics part in my post. But ghostwriting for a personal statement? Some employers will definitely look at some projects/essays you did for the completion of the degree if they are relevant to the job (making cheating in that sense impractical), but I've never heard of any employers asking for the personal statement that got them accepted into a college.

> ghostwriting doesn't expose the student to the material to be learned, but test prep does

Personal statements don't have any material to be learned to begin with. I don't have anything to back up this statement, as this is all anecdotal, but those who spend more time preparing for a test are more likely to do better, as much of test prep is simply rote memorization/practice. A bad writer writing a personal statement can spend weeks writing his personal statement and it can still be crap, but a good writer writing a personal statement can produce a pretty good first draft.

Some will say that a bad writer should send the personal statement to a proofreader or editor, but then comes the question--where do we draw the line between proofreader/editor and ghostwriter? The experiences in the final product are likely to be the submitter's own experiences (unless the ghostwriter adds his/her own experiences as in this article), but much of the content will certainly not be from the submitter's first draft.

What's the difference between sending a first draft to an editor and having them add eloquent language and coherent stories, and sending a few basic facts/experiences to a ghostwriter? Is it the percentage of original content?
You've got directional frequencies in 2d - you'd measure it in the direction of some vector. With sinusoids, cos(wx+vy), the "natural" frequency is along the (w,v) direction. The 1D frequency along this direction is |(w,v)|^2. It's like how with the gradient, you have directional derivatives.
Research Square - Durham, North Carolina and remote - www.researchsquare.com

# About Us

Research Square (RS) is the parent company of American Journal Experts (AJE), Rubriq, and Journal Guide. RS was founded in 2004 as AJE and offers a fast-growth startup-like environment with 120+ employees. We've been profitable since day one. At RS, we see our mission as greater than just building a product, and we are passionate about helping the scientific research community discover and implement better research faster.

At RS we have an “Open Office” environment where people can choose to work from home. We have a good number of folks who come into the Durham office for periodic meetings, work sessions, board game nights, team outings, Kinect nights with the office XBox, etc. We like hanging out together...we're fun. We also have team members who do all that remotely, and that's OK too.

## Software Development Engineer

http://researchsquare.theresumator.com/apply/KbZdNP/Software...

This is the right fit for you if you're comfortable with both working collaboratively with other developers, as well as being independent. You will be working on a variety of projects for internal as well as external clients, including building web applications, APIs, search and social integration tools, data analysis tools, and much more.

Requirements

+ experience with relational databases
+ experience with object-oriented programming

Bonus points

+ experience with Zend Framework / Slim Framework
+ experience with ORMs
+ experience with JavaScript (jQuery)
+ experience with JSON, REST and APIs
+ familiarity with Git or other DVCSes
I do think that a directory service for search/lookup may be desired as well... where people can upload their device key(s) and bind to say their email address or other handle for search/discovery.
This appears to roughly describe a precursor to SQL, which appeared 7 years after this document. This was definitely a common problem. Imagine building your most recent application, but not having easy access to an SQL-backed ORM. How would you go about implementing it? The data model would definitely heavily confound your attempts to build a clean system.