skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just another experiment with YO :)

Add YROULETTE to your YO and send/receive random links from random users.
I usually don't pay attention to who's who on HN but last week there was an interesting debate on the status of semantic web, and the name "mindcrime" stuck as I appreciated his comments a lot. Always a bit of a shock to find out those virtual personas are made of flesh...

Hope you recover fast, and yeah EXERCISE (if the doctor says so).
Many mysteries still surround Ebola
Microsoft Band SDK
Felix,

Has microsoft released an SDK for the Band? I'm inquiring on the possiblity to get real-time accelerometer and Heart rate data from the device and transfer that data to another computer via Bluetooth

Best,

Pasha
> So, run out of money - steal?

Pretty much. Though, compared with how corporations are fucking over little people left and right, it's hardly unwarranted.

This is not an unfamiliar story. There are people who did everything right, were kind and philanthropic their entire life, more than they should have been probably, but they find their whole lives suddenly ruined with just one accident. There are supposed to be certain trade-offs in a society, when one agreed to a social contract that they'll be nice to everyone, be law-abiding, pay their taxes which in part fund medical research, fund creation of roads and infrastructure that enable corporations to function and rake in money, etc., they expected for the system to be there for them in return when they had a time of sudden misfortune. If it's not there, I say fuck it, this is then time they also stop playing nice.
All kernels do not use the same libc. In fact, Linux is different in the fact that it doesn't ship a libc with the kernel. Illumos, the OS I investigated, goes by the philosophy that you _have_ to ship libc with your kernel, and thus they have their own libc.

My diagnosis for Illumos may not hold up on other OSs, they may invert priority for other reasons. In any case the spec is fairly clear that a signal is considered delivered when the "appropriate action" is taken. In this case the appropriate action is to invoke the user's handler, which is above libc on the stack.

Finally, in case you missed it, I witnessed 4 unique orderings across the systems I tested. They were not the same across the board.
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Why LinkedIn’s data science reorg actually makes a lot of sense
Excuse me while I put my marketer conspiracy hat and reply with "That's what they want you to think..."

Of course software creators want to have some sort of differentiation between their products and the competitors, but - as a consumer - branding has zero value if the products are interchangeable.

Just looking at Open Source web browsers: look at Chrome/Firefox. If the organizations (Google/Mozilla) behind the development were to start charging in exchange of the use of the brand, wouldn't people drop the branded product and switch to the brandless versions (Chromium/Icefox)?
Magicflix launches worry free digital parenting app that engage kids of all ages
I would suggest joining Toptal. It's not that hard and you do have a flexibility regarding working hours and availability. You can read about Toptal experience at http://cakecoded.com/article/toptal-review or https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141023135603-2...

I wrote the last one, and I'll be happy to connect you to my co-workers that can answer any other question.
Perhaps a better example: Censorship in Google China. The "don't do evil" vs "don't be evil" was almost exactly how they pitched that conversation.
Little mentioned fact is that after WWII the soviets took almost 1M people laborers from Germany to USSR. I think some of them returned.

The allies also used a lot of them. Not their brightest hour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_W...
Your concept sounds cool and useful but I have a couple of suggestions:

1) This is an important link yet seems broken https://docs.apitools.com/Contest/need-inspiration

2) The 3 examples you provide link to GitHub repos with no readme files at all so we have to dig or guess.
We are currently using this book for a course at the Leiden institute for advanced computer science. It's pretty up to date.

It covers LSH, cosine similarity, Jaccard similarity as well as recommender systems applicable to the Netflix challenge and so forth.
Thank you for this comment. For about a year and a half I've had problems with shallow breathing that have gotten worse and now just become normal (I always feel like I need to get a full breath, and can never do it because I breathe too shallowly when trying.) I have been having chest pains frequently. I went to see a doctor and without even listening to my chest said it was anxiety and to go see a psychiatrist.

That was a couple months ago. I think I'm going to go somewhere again. Maybe a psychiatrist, maybe a different doctor.

I'm the kind of person who just sits on things without really caring, and I probably do need to get this checked out.
What's next for Microsoft's platform as a service?
If I were a rich software engineer feeling angry at people who criticised the capitalist system we had, perhaps whilst failing to acknowledge that people in America die because they can't pay health insurance, or are homeless because they can't afford housing, or end up eating what they find in someone's trash because they can't afford to buy food, I think that I'd do one thing:

I'd consider whether perhaps I might be wrong. Maybe my worldview is a bit skewed by the situation I find myself in. Maybe my country isn't very fair at all, and it's not right that I have the privileges I do whilst my fellow citizens suffer. And maybe it's not the Government's fault, either. Perhaps those Europeans with their welfare states aren't all socialist nutcases, but maybe they have something right that America has got wrong.

Often I hear Americans say "this isn't real capitalism! we need more capitalism! less government!". And I look at the state of homelessness in their country, or those without health insurance, and I think "really? Do you really need more of that? Maybe instead you need to spend a little less on your military and a little more on looking after the least fortunate in your society, the sick, the vulnerable. Maybe that would make a difference."

The "more capitalism" mantra always makes me think of communists who argue "well, this wasn't real communism! That's why it failed!" And it's so ironic, because those most vocally against communism are the same people who are cheerleading extreme capitalism, failing to notice that they are simply on the other side of the mirror.
A decade ago, running FreeBSD on my main PC for a few years taught me half of what I now know about UNIX.

Over time, I grew tired of having my machine in a near-constant state of compiling code (updates are built from source rather than through APT or RPM repos). So I drifted away and ended up with Ubuntu, where I wouldn't have to tinker with the OS so much. However, I miss the amazing documentation that came with FreeBSD, and the things that it encouraged me to learn along the way.
> This article previously stated that “don’t be evil” was part of Google’s mission statement, and has been corrected.

Change the title.
Nobody believes you.

You care only when it serves your selfish interests.
No, _poor_ American households. See table 2-4 on page 52, look in the "Below poverty level" column on the right side of the page.
How is the .NET platform one of the worst? (The worst for cross-platform or simply the worst?)
So you are a fan of the solution that you have to pay the OS provider a fee so that they certify your app? Sure, that's a possibility, but hardly conductive to the open web.
The US financial crisis happened in large part due to the monopoly of the "big three"[1] credit ratings agencies mislabeling bad debt as good. These agencies had a corner on the credit ratings market thanks to the US federal gov't (SEC) bestowing them with the coveted "Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization" (NRSRO)[2] status, a status which only those three companies held between the mid-1990s until early 2003, firmly cementing them in the financial industry as the chosen ones for credit ratings. The US gov't also gave some extra protection to NRSRO-rated debt, e.g. by recognizing it as legal investments.[3]

So in this case, over-regulation and the monopoly it bred had quite a large hand in the financial crisis.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(credit_rating_agenci...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_recognized_statistic...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_recognized_statistic...
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I know how you feel, went through the same thing. Stress is a killer, and combined with poor health, even more lethal.
The approach currently used is in its death throes, to be sure.

But a working Semantic Web is a huge deal (think: bigger than Google) and will happen, make no mistake. But when it happens, it will be via a different approach.

Edit: spelling (thx Joshua)
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How much do you make working remotely?
It is interesting to me that there is a mystery death from the 1940s that people still track, whereas I expect that people die in India everyday that no one knows why, and there isn't a 50 year investigation of the details.

This seems to be a commentary on the huge population we have in our world compared to the size of the population only fifty years ago.

I think it also speaks to our desire for stories to understand the world. If the body had been found with just clothes, it would probably have been forgotten. But the existence of a scrap of the final page of The Rubaiyat in his pocket frames this as a person who was interesting, and hence having a story we might want to know.
It's clear you didn't read the post you replied to.

Check your political response reflex. It might be too hair-trigger.
There is a fantastic 2010 blogpost[1] from the Visual Studio Languages Product Manager that explains the rationale for supporting VB.NET as well as C#, as well as the strategy for doing so.

Of interest: he states that both languages have (had?) "roughly equal adoption".

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottwil/archive/2010/03/09/vb-and-c...
See Table 2-4, Page 52, the rightmost column ("Below poverty level"). 503/14157.0 = 3.5%.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf
The Future Will Look Different from the Present
What do 300 bent iPhone 6 look like?
Russian monument to Steve Jobs removed after Apple CEO comes out as gay
Where the data science jobs are, by sector and by state
So it's just like Chrome Canary? Not exactly "the first" then.
Growing heaps are in progress,

http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/request-for-comments-swi...

(It's unclear how that would work with heaps shared between threads, but so are most issues regarding threads - still just fairly early experimentation there, last I heard.)
Not really a reasonable expectation, unfortunately. To discuss stories of "I know this other person who also similarly fell sick" and "The current system is so bad if you get into trouble, X,Y, and Z should be different for better results" is very much a part of the coping and mourning process. And of course we wish mindcrime a speedy recovery.
Nope. Don't try to put words in my mouth, please.

apt-get install php-composer is much better than curl https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Amazon defends staff as 'diverse,' even though it's majority white and male
The inspiration link seems to live at: https://docs.apitools.com/contest/need-inspiration/
Facebook lifts Tor ban with new secure .onion address
Silicon Valley employment still bubbly despite some layoffs
Sadly I don't think it is. The creator of the site speaks up in the comments at the bottom:

> no joke. This is the real deal and we are doing everything in our power to make it happen. Please share to your social networks to get more signatures. It's time for change :)

> I know right! It seems like everyone has been thinking it, but no one doing a thing about it for so long.

They've also spammed it on a few different forums and mailing lists.
There's a fair number of patterns which are now outdated, because they were created before, e.g. Generics.

So the

bool Int32.TryParse(string value, out number)

method would probably nowadays be better done as

Int? Int32.TryParse(string value)

Similarly, WinForms has loads of different events of different types with individual delegates created for them. Nowadays you'd use Func and Action instead.
If there is North Korea left. They seem hell bent on destroying their country.
Works well so far. How is the data being pushed? Is it nust pooling?
I'm a C# developer of 10+ years. Your concerns are valid and no lost on many people. A class example being IList<T> and List<T>

I was once told that a lot of the original libs were effectively ported from C++ libs by C++ devs in a hurry. There are nuget packages with decent data structure / collections missing from the core BCL.

Interfaces like IEnumerable<T>, IComparable<T> and IEquatable<T> I find to be extremely useful and if you're following interface segregation principle and not chucking round the actual concrete implementations. I concede though that the BCL would be richer if one didn't have to think about this stuff too much.

I guess there's enough experienced C# devs around to know how to avoid those pitfalls. As the BCL is shrunk I expect it will be easier to substitute any structures your not happy with, with alternatives.
Chrome is currently slower, but the v8 team is working on a new optimizing compiler called TurboFan. There are indications in the source code that it detects asm.js code as a compiler hint of some form, hopefully this means it will eventually get quite fast on that type of content.
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The default buffer size is typically the page size, which is typically 4096 bytes. I would expect a large number of these scripts to be less than 4096 bytes meaning curl would output nothing before producing an error and the partial script would never be evaluated.
No More JavaScript: An attempt to build a replacement language
Sorry about that, restarted it :) I should probably upgrade that small DigitalOcean instance.
I find it odd that you seem to find my outlook pessimistic. Quite the opposite: I would argue fervently that I absolutely believe in a world of flight. It is a world underpinned, a world that must be underpinned, at heart, by one utterly simple principle:

Let us defend the right of one another to the freedom to act as we each see fit, as long as we do not cause each other harm.

Note that this is still a world in which many people can and most certainly will make poor decisions and fall behind in life. But there is nothing stopping a true libertarian from feeling that some of their time and resources can be best spent helping those people improve their economic decision-making.

Yet a true libertarian would also honour the decision of another not to care (though they might not respect it.)
> I thought I laid out a fairly clear argument that if everyone stopped working everything falls apart.

Or the price of labor goes up. In a system where money buys the legislature, your only real recourse is to say "Fuck it, I'm out." Basic income would enable labor to vote by withholding labor. That's a feature, not a bug.
where can I sign for nomorevisualbasic.com and nomoreperl.com ?
> "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." ... for NSA :)
A sale is not always a successful (i.e. profitable) exit.
> Why should we have to choose one or the other? Content negotiation is your friend.

You don't have to choose one or the other. I'm comparing technical merits.

> Strength 1 means that old browsers or browsers from uncooperative vendors can still run applications at some level of performance (which might or might not be a usable level).

It's more than just "usable". Chrome doesn't support asm.js, but it runs asm.js apps just dandy, albeit not quite as fast as Firefox.

> As to point 2, the fact that asm.js means that authors and tools don't have to target a new runtime language is a pretty mixed blessing, because perforce it means that they have to continue targeting the old one, which is JS.

I said runtime/API, not "runtime language". I'm referring to the DOM and other Web APIs here, vs. Chrome's Pepper. It means browsers don't need yet another set of APIs, and you get access to all the benefits of the existing set of APIs.

OK, you might not find the high-level DOM and the Web APIs that nice, but you get OpenGL ES and direct blitting, raw audio, raw controller input, and so on as well.

> When did "here, compile to a subset of this old high-level scripting language and we'll try to get the performance back using the latest in JIT and specialisation" become a reasonable candidate for a portable assembler system?

I don't see how the syntax really matters. asm.js is essentially a well-supported portable bytecode. The fact it happens to be a subset of JavaScript doesn't make it bad.

> Like a dog walking on its hind legs, it's impressive that asm.js works as well as it does, but that doesn't actually make it a reasonable approach. It only makes technical sense as part of a heroic effort to provide backwards-compatibility with JS-only browsers (see strength 1).

I don't see what's unreasonable about it. You compile native code to a portable intermediate language. It runs at near-native speed in some browsers, and reasonable speed in others. Yes, it's a subset of JS. So? Why does this bother you?

> A completely open standard? Has there been any sign that Google is frustrating or actively opposing efforts to standardise NaCl/PNaCl?

Not to my knowledge. However, NaCl implements a new set of vendor-specific APIs (Pepper) and relies on single, specific implementations (LLVM, Pepper), making it difficult, if not impossible, for other browser vendors to implement it. You can't really standardise PNaCl for the same reason you could't reasonably standardise WebSQL.
I have seen realtime signals before but never quite know what the intended use of them would be. They are relegated in my head to the same category as POSIX message queues -- remember for trivia question purposes.

So anyone used real-time signals and why did you pick them instead of something else?
Former NYT editor Abramson: Startup will pay $100K advances for big stories
You mean " . . . deregulated labor market." Other parts of the economy would still need to be regulated.
1) Sorry about that. The correct url is https://docs.apitools.com/contest/need-inspiration (will fix!).
2) You're right... we should add readme files def. Any questions that you have feel free to ask them in our irc channel #apitools in Freenode https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.org/apitools
Is there any way to eradicate mosquitoes completely? Are they useful for anything? They're just a huge nuisance and carriers of disease, why haven't we managed to get rid of them by now?

We're apparently pretty great at making species go extinct, just not the ones we want.
Location: Seattle

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I started working as an automation engineer 6 months ago after completing a python coding bootcamp. I spend my time working towards improving automation, monitoring, and scalability. I embrace the DevOps ideals of CALMS: Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing.
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Organic algae shot claiming to have over 65 nutrients… only has 2
And they are vocal about it because they want some people to get in under them in the pyramid.
While not a substitute for GIMP (because it does different things), if you're looking for "pure" photography software on linux and shoot RAW, go check out darktable. [0]

Lens corrections, advanced colourspace manipulations and all kinds of usually-applied-by-default photography tricks, in one neat package. Just don't even think about using the equalizer plugin without OpenCL enabled drivers...

[0]: http://www.darktable.org
The author covers that in the section following "A cynic may make the following excuses for developers that love Angular."
Thank You. Looking Good and inviting.
Kinda off topic, but just to add to the TLS error woes, you currently cannot access sites with self-signed certs (such as my router's config panel) at all in Firefox: https://a.pomf.se/zsrlud.png

If there are any Mozilla folks reading this: What's up?
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Because there are hackers for which the fall of the wall was the defining moment of their life, hackers that were not even born back then and need to learn some history and hackers that are just curious ...
I've provided sources of evidence to back this up here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551072

If you have sources of evidence that can sufficiently contradict my own and show that Gates has been an overall net gain instead of an overall net drain for society, I'd sincerely like to review it.
Hard to tell if somebody genuinely thinks this is a good idea or if it's just a major trolling exercise. For their sake I hope it's the latter.
Marc Andreessen: Startup Valuations Are ‘Running a Little Warm’
Actually that sounds so reasonable. I have been asking myself why Microsoft hasn't bought Xamarin. But Xamarin is actually an amazing Trojan Horse for Microsoft.
creator here:

Thanks.

I thought it was absolutely necessary to actually show it in use, in the most concise way possible.
How accurate will it be in detecting whether someone has broken into my home? Are you positioning your product to accurately detect intruders?
The price should be in the hundreds. According to re/code,
"Butterfly’s goal is to launch the device in as soon as 18 months — pending development and regulatory approval — with a price tag of hundreds of dollars, Rothberg said"

https://recode.net/2014/11/02/butterfly-network-raises-100-m...