skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably not the whole story, but the way I see it:

First, it's not "the European converts" that join ISIS, it's the Muslims that live in European countries (so no converting necessary, in the religious sense).

Second, I haven't had much contact with this immigrant minority, but from the media, I get the feeling that they are not really "respected" - their culture and heritage is demonized left and right, they are "foreigners" and "people of color". Probably, this got much worse after 9/11 and other terrorist attacks (e.g. in the UK), and was quite bad even before (e.g. in France, from what I hear).

Thirdly, the economic melt-down. It affects all people, but it affects the youth disproportionately, and I assume the immigrant population also. Immigrant youth -> affected really really badly. They see that people from the older generations got it much better (essentially, for most of their lives, things were getting better), while their (our?) future is full of problems (unemployment, both from the recession and from automation; climate issues and ecology; terrorism; dwindling natural resources). Is it really so hard to believe that they feel really disillusioned?

Anyways, you say it's a lie, what's the truth then, in your opinion?
Hey, me too. I burned the entire summer of 1996 between M59 and getting my driver's permit. We had a dial-up internet connection on the same line as our phone, so after numerous lag-related deaths caused by my mother or sister picking up the phone, I started playing almost exclusively at night. It was always so eerie (and, in hindsight, it seems kinda sad), sitting alone in the basement trying not to be killed by giant ants or spiders. I was crap at the game, but I really found myself immersed.
It's a little amusing to observe Twitter being used as a sort of "transport layer" for services because of how easy it is for people to use it; a few decades ago, to interact with a service you would probably open a TCP connection to it and communicate in a service-specific protocol. Later, that was largely replaced by the ubiquitous HTTP "web API", and now we see services built on services like Twitter which are already using a HTTP-based API.

Earlier, someone tried doing similar things with another calculator:
http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/a-quick-twitter-bot-bc_l/
I have to agree that this is a different situation.

Still, I'm not convinced that all those guys selling crack on the corner are trying to help their poor mother - its the draw of easy money.
Ah OK, in that case I can see both sides. From Damien's perspective, AnkiWeb is a free service, so development/support time and server load have to be considered for any new feature. From the user perspective, web clipping tools would be really nice.

Is there anything to prevent interacting between the desktop app API and a web clipping browser plugin, in the same way that the Zotero connector plugin does with the Zotero app API for example?
How would it not scale? Every ~2-6 years, voters in many countries around the world are invited to peacefully overthrow their governments.

That's disingenous. That works because there are precise game rules that allows it to happen. Changing the rules and the play field so often is a different story.

When did it become unfair to have debates and votes?

When they finally succeed, there won't be a chance to come back.
Yes, some types of companies need time to provide value, but in my opinion the vast majority of VC funded companies could easily be bootstrapped. I don't deny that the vision of receiving a fat check and being able to rent a beautiful office, buy the best equipment and hire a big team is tempting, but it's something for something - the main goal of VCs is to grow like crazy, without a sentiment. A bootstrapped company will grow slowly, but steadily, and I don't believe a VC backed competitor is a real threat in the long term. Sure, they can offer a similar product for free, but not forever - once the VC money is gone, they will need to get profitable. Fast. Without the VC money such company can dissapear the next month. Not to mention the interference of VCs how to run your company, which is of course expected - after all it's their money that keeps your company alive.
I don't drink either, but I decided to try the scientific method regarding beer, to see if I don't drink it because I truly don't like it or because I'm influenced by knowing the effect alcohol has on my body beforehand. So I tried the following:

* I got myself some German non-alcoholic beer, to remove alcohol from the equation altogether. This measure is flawed, though, because apparently non-alcoholic beer sucks. In the interest of science, we'll temporarily dismiss this as an excuse from drinkers and move on.

* I went to the Guiness factory in Dublin, and ordered myself a quarter of a pint. This should be a good baseline beer.

Result 1, non-alcoholic beer: it tastes awful. I'd describe it as sparkling tomato juice. Regular drinkers were apparently right.

Result 2, alcoholic beer: it tastes like beer. It turns out I don't like beer.

I don't know what I was hoping to get from this experiment, but there you go. Expect a paper one of these days.
One College Tradition Dismantled This Year: Java
Perhaps he's a part of the "meritocracy" of Silicon Valley's start-up culture?

The ~99% white male meritocracy, apparently they're the only ones who are where they are due to merit.
Yeah they were a colony. And that's sort of my point; they weren't hopeless and desperate--in fact my understanding is that the average American (not counting slaves) back then was better off than the average person in England--but they were exploited and subjugated to some extent. And they decided the final fix would be to change the whole political order of things, and to fight a revolution over their desired new order.
In this case they are using twitter because of the marketing value.
> The big advantage of OO is that it acts as a distillation of how humans think.

Citation needed.

Browsing around Google Scholar for variations of "object oriented empirical comparison" shows a huge body of research comparing various OO approaches to each other, but very few comparing OO approaches to anything else. Those which I have been able to find compare OO to procedural code, and find either no significant difference in comprehension levels, or that procedural code is easier to understand (ie. closer to "how humans think") than OO:

An empirical study of novice program comprehension in the imperative and object-oriented styles

http://ftp.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall00/cps189s/readings/p124-...

Assessing the cognitive consequences of the object-oriented approach: A survey of empirical research on object-oriented design by individuals and teams

http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.HC/0611154

An exploratory study of program comprehension strategies of procedural and object-oriented programmers

http://www.ptidej.net/courses/inf6306/fall11/slides/11%20-%2...

I've only been able to find one source comparing OO with functional programming, which didn't measure comprehension. Instead, it compared code quality metrics between C++ and Standard ML. Most showed no significant difference, except for SML taking longer to run its tests (it also had more tests), having higher code and library re-use and having a larger number of errors per 1000 lines (although the same number of known errors overall):

Comparing programming paradigms: an evaluation of functional and object-oriented programs

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/250597/1/report3_Harrison_95.pdf
Sure, but by the time they have folded you're already out of business!
> Value of remaining Alibaba stock

Who'd want to buy stock from a company firing everyone and shutting down?
Dutch court denies right to be forgotten to convict
Guiness takes like stout.
From what I understand, the keys stay the same - this is the whole point of this approach. So it's not a "new service". I agree that SHA1 should be deprecated ASAP though.
Dumping is usually only illegal for foreign companies to do. The government doesn't care about two domestic firms competing with each other, what they are worried about is the Chinese government using it's vast resources to subsidise the dumping of millions of almost-free tablet computers onto the US market and putting Apple out of business.
Non-drinker here.

> I'm curious how you guys are coping with the booze or the lack of it.

The same way I'm coping with the lack of ketchup in my chocolate cookies: I didn't know I was supposed to cope with it.
I understand that there are many different types of DDOS attacks, and that for some of them having access to the content on the application level makes your job of mitigating them a lot easier.

But even without that, would comparing the encrypted traffic patterns for an individual client to other client's patterns (or to that client's traffic to one of the other 2 million Cloudflare websites); and analyzing the encrypted traffic as in [1] not still give you a wealth of information to use? It might have made for a much more rewarding two years of development: even if such a setup would be slightly less effective at mitigating DDOS', it would be infinitely better in terms of privacy and trust.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0297
I have been toying with J for the past few years, and I think you only appreciate it when you see it as equivalent to mathematical notation, alien at first, but succinct and very useable when you know what the symbols mean. See Iverson's paper on 'Notation as a Tool of Thought' (http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm). I am self-teaching mathematics, and even when trying Julia as a math tool, I find the basic unit of J, the array, as more amenable to my studies. It's interesting how there is all the talk about 'vectorization' and such in other languages, which J has been doing for decades. J is functional, and can have 'for' loops, but loopless programming is encouraged and easy. When dealing with images or large data sets that are memory mapped, the operations are succinct and powerful and eye-opening.
My latest epiphany from moving away from using J as just a sophisticated calculator came after watching the 4 videos by Martin Saurer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJpJt3c11c). Iverson's books on arithmetic and calculus using J are mind-blowing. You are engaged, not distracted by the language. J is fast too. From another talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfJRyoiBlY&feature=youtu.be), creating a 1x10^6 element array and summing over columns or rows is fast, and the code is simply:

b=: ? 1000 1000 $ 10
+/+/b

These two lines create a 1x10^6 element array and then sums the columns, and then sums the single row total. Fast. These guys have really distilled the libraries and made them work well with J (lapacke c interface to lapack). You get c speeds from an interpreter. I guess this is why q with kdb+ is used so much by the finance community despite how expensive it is.
Anyway, I am currently staying with J, and I am writing my little tasks in J and julia to see how they fare against each other in speed and development efforts. Now that I have the knowledge to do Qt interfaces for J, I may just stick with J for the sheer joy.
This is definitely interesting.

But I highly doubt the ability to filter out bad freelancers.
Not just the midwest, I've seen similar help happen here in Arizona.
> was exposed to functional programming my first year at university (it was used in the introductory courses) and quickly noticed that contrary to the hype (similar to yours), functional programs tended to be more bloated with trying to work around limitations of the less expressive programming model/language and not particularly more robust.

In other words, when you first tried a functional programming language you tried to write imperative code in it, and the result ended up bloated and fragile? I'm not surprised.

Guess what, trying to write pure FP in Java by chaining together static methods and "Function<A, B>" objects would end up with bloated and fragile code too; but that's not a valid criticism of OO.
Ah, sorry. Looks like C++03 has the same wording in the same sections as C++11, and ANSI C's Unary arithmetic operators section is numbered 3.3.3.3 and also has the same wording as C99.
I'm a daily red wine drinker. Trying to keep it at, or under half a bottle of vino. Wine, like food, is better when shared :).
It's odd that you would see a reference to someone's eventual death as an insult. For a 70-year-old man, death looms large, whatever Wikipedia has to say on the subject.
At its core, it's a handy suite for submitting expense reports. There's a nice mobile app that lets you capture receipts from your cell phone camera, and a team of (presumably offshore) auditors that will catch the most glaring errors on submissions. Generally, it's more pleasant than dealing with the typical AP department.

I haven't really played with the TripIt integration or other bells AMD whistles.
> 6- Netbeans is modular

OK, how can I replace its shitty editor with something decent, like Vim or Emacs?

> 3- Teamwork

I don't see how clicky menu would help with issuing git commands apart from few obvious entries. I would end up needing terminal anyway.

> 1- Feature rich

So is AutoCAD, but this alone doesn't make it good environment for developing code.
> when you first tried a functional programming language you tried to write imperative code in it,

Guess again. Did I mention the arrogance and the unwarranted assumptions?
#apple usually does not refer to a fruit.
Android Makers Being Eaten Alive
Social drinker. I rarely get more than tipsy, even when I give myself permission to (e.g. parties and pub crawls when I don't have to be up the next morning). If I do get drunk, I'm unlikely to get a hangover. I almost never drink alone.
A quick three second search turns up this: 92% of black male teens unemployed in Chicago, 83% nationally: http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2014/01/92-of-black-male-te...

Doesn't look to me that young African Americans are given the same employment opportunities. They are disadvantaged from the start.
A HSM does not need to be physically attached to "every server around the world". This is what they've built here, yet another network attached HSM, but not by following the standard PKCS protocols.

(On the subject of HSM physical attacks: That's another issue altogether, and does not stop at the HSM. But normally that's not an attack you defend against, because you have the relevant contractual obligations against your infrastructure provider.)

I promise not to ask about downvotes again. But the question was honest; if I'm wrong I want to know it.
Show HN: I couldn't hire map designers, so I made these procedural worlds
Compatible with a dark matter particle on the order of 1 TeV - now just turn LHC back on, find a matching supersymmetric particle and give a welcome party for the 5th dimension.
> What is Windows Runtime and am I just supposed to know this?

If you subscribe to MSDN like any Windows developer, this has been explained multiple times in the last two years.

Just for the clueless ones.

Windows Runtime is an evolution of COM, based on the ideas that were on the genesis of .NET. Namely Ext-VOS.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-...

So a native version of .NET, so to speak. And unless Windows 9 changes it, the future of Windows APIs.

The .NET runtime starting with Windows 8 acquired additional capabilities:

- Ahead of time compilation to native code for Windows Phone apps, with the MDIL binary format

- Consumption and creation of Windows Runtime components

> but increasingly if you want anything new and shiny from them, you have to run the newest OS.

No different from other commercial vendors.
Top 5 the Most Beautiful Volcano Lakes in the World
Yes and No.
Yes ecologists take more time to collect data.

However ecology is much cheaper than mol. biology. Essentially its ecology = manpower vs mol. biology = manpower + expensive technology + expensive chemistry.

Also ecology has been one of the most resistant fields to sharing data whereas genomics (the big data end of mol. biology) has been the most enthusiastic. There was a vey noticeable divide in opinion on twitter when PLOS journals mooted making authors make all their data public.

I think this is precisely because ecologists invest so much on collecting their field data, so they become possessive. Ecologists can become very senior PI by essentially owning a long term ecological study and assigning their students to continuing it.

Genomics and to a lesser extent Mol. Biol. has been keener recently to share as there is a strong open source ethos coming in from the computing side - and it is often a very expensive multi-centre, multi-agency collaboration.
Depends on the movie.

The stuff from Jim Jarmusch is rather nice.
It's definitely also converts :(

Your second point is not even wrong. There's plenty of respect for decent people who treat others right. There is a growing dissatisfaction with religious nutcases and criminals and layabouts. There is outright fear and hatred for those who terrorize their neighbourhoods. And why shouldn't Islam be disrespected? Is it a good religion? Is it tolerant? Is it really the religion of peace? And why should honour killings and clannishness be respected?

Besides, schools are free, secondary and tertiary educations are free or heavily subsidized.

As to your third point, the economic meltdown and the enormous youth unemployment is mostly a Southern thing. Having a large unofficial economic sector is also mostly a Southern thing -- so the real unemployment rates are thankfully lower. The youth unemployment has more to do with rigid and stupid labour markets than with the global finance crisis or the Euro crisis. At least those who speak English (or a Northern language) have a chance to emigrate. The migrant workers in the South who are hard hit by the crisis are mostly Africans, not Arabs. The ISIS terrorists are mostly Arab. I haven't heard of a single Sub-Saharan African in ISIS.

The truth is that the (economically) Western European countries have been bending backwards for years (decades) to help them and that we have been treated badly every step of the way. The truth is, unfortunately, that not everybody is a good person, not everybody is equally aggressive and violent, not everybody is equally intelligent, and not every culture is good. And what's worse, aggression, violence, trust, and intelligence are all partially inherited.
I'm glad this question is being asked on HN, because it sounds like a culture of drinking is pretty prevalent in at least certain parts of the startup/tech scene. I'm hoping that the answers here will reassure people that you don't need to drink to fit in.

I'm in my mid-30s and have never drank. I have a lot of reasons for choosing to not drink, but probably the biggest is that I don't like the idea of it affecting my behavior or decision-making (especially because I've seen how it affects OTHER people's behavior and decision-making).

Nevertheless, I've tried to not let it affect my social life. In college, I went to plenty of parties, and it was a bit weird being one of the only sober people in a house full of drunks, but I never felt ostracized because of it. After college, I was one of the organizers of the Four-State Bar Crawl (four bars, four states, one crazy night) -- and naturally, I was one of the designated drivers.

I now work in an office where beer is stocked in the fridge, and most of my colleagues partake. But again, it doesn't really bother me because there's soda stocked too.

Advice for people who were previously drinkers but are now trying to abstain:

* Don't needlessly place yourself in tempting situations.

* If drinking was previously how you relaxed, or had fun, or networked, or socially lubricated yourself ... seek out alternative ways to fill the void. For instance, if beer gave you confidence in social situations, consider attending a Toastmasters International session, which can help you with your contemporaneous speaking skills and boost your confidence.

* Befriend other non-drinkers. We've had a lot of practice at finding ways to have fun without alcohol.

* Seek out support (and accountability) from other people or from groups like AA if it's a real struggle.
XSS,CSRF,SQLi – we don't have any of those in Rails at all
INCREASING ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN REVOLUTIONIZING EDUCATION
Assuming that Home Depot is correct and skimming is involved and also assume that the 56M cards is correct. That just seems to unlikely, even with malware pushed to the POS systems, that 56M cards could be stolen.

I mean there's "only" 350M people in the US. One in seven would have to have used a card at Home Depot (I know, people have multiple cards). Still seems unlikely to have 56M card skimmed in any reasonable timeframe.
I know the tweet is caustic but it did spark a good discussion.
OpenJDK performance seems fine to me, on platforms that have HotSpot support.

I'm not arguing that Emacs should target the JVM but don't see how building it on yet another bytecode VM is going to fix any performance problems.
Beer can be an acquired taste, Guinness especially.
I've seen IRC used the same way - and at least there you can move to your own server if the operator changes their ToS.
I'm from Europe, and let me say we had very little money in our family. Software devs in the US are apparently well paid and in high demand - are people that racist they they wouldn't hire black devs? Of all lines of work, I have the impression that IT is one of the most open and socially conscious fields there is.
Poll: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339667 - are you a drinker or not.
I'm teetotal.
I'm a social drinker (only at social gatherings)
I'm a light drinker (once or twice a week, with meals)
I'm a regular drinker (a few times a week, at home and socially)
I'm a heavy drinker (pretty much every day)
I'm drunk right now.
They can manipulate traffic, but so can the bank's operations division. The fact that Cloudflare is a different organization makes contractual agreements much more important, but as long as they are in proper order the difference shouldn't be of importance to the end user.
Poll created: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339900
Link to the discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339667
The game is fun to play, but I recommend using vector .svg graphics for when the board is zoomed in.
Florida Southern represents the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright's work in one place. It's worth an hour's drive if you're in Orlando and sick of the rat and other theme parks.

Because of the politics surrounding Wright's legacy and Florida Southern having different interests [ such as running a University ], than the main group preserving his work, the buildings in Lakeland rarely appear in books about him. Rumor is that including Florida Southern meant limited or no access to the bulk of the archives.

But they are spectacular and wholly superior to the most well known commercial buildings of Wright's later career, the Guggenheim. The Florida Southern buildings, including the library are oriented around people not contents.

[ Note: Florida Southern University is a private church affiliated school in Lakeland. It should not be confused with University of South Florida, a massive public university, down the road in Tampa ]
Thanks, I use Tesseract in a product I'm developing, I'll try using SWT then.