skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was intentional. :)

I love Oxford commas. It's an unhealthy love, if I'm being honest. They'll come for my commas, eventually, those descriptivists will. When they do, they can pry my Oxford commas from my cold, dead hands.
I'd love to see some perspective from other high-profile, low revenue internet companies. Twitter can't be the worst of them, right?
What are gits huge problems and what other technology solves those?

Not trying to put you on the spot, just curious.
Try this:

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

...which also sort of goes along with this overview of depression treatment in general:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/16/things-that-sometimes-h...

The relevant upshot of that first link includes:

(1) Everybody agrees SSRIs are at least somewhat better than placebo

(2) Placebos really are unreasonably effective compared to non-treatment, so even merely being as effective as placebo is a huge benefit, not to mention being somewhat better than that.

(3) What constitutes a "clinically significant" improvement (even relative to placebo) turns out to be kind of arbitrary. As in, a drug that misses that arbitrary goal might still be hugely beneficial to people. (especially if you compare it to non-treatment)

(4) Glomming all SSRIs together into one big lump to reach conclusions about the group combines some that work pretty well with some that are known to not work well at all, which can bring down the average effectiveness of the group to below that arbitrary "clinically significant relative to placebo" mark even though individual SSRIs might on their own be more likely to make the cut.
It's important to note that the benefits of having SSL far outweigh the potential problems. The cost is fairly low for a business to have a certificate for their main domain, the speed difference is not very noticeable (to the point that many major social networks have https on every page). Every website should be developed with the ability to add https on every page
Haven't heard of any lawsuits but gonzi25 is correct: all code you write for anyone else is subject to approval, including open source.

Amazon ostensibly "supports" open source contributions, but all open source work (inside or outside of work time) must be approved by a committee that evaluates OSS projects to ensure they do not compete or conflict with Amazon.

In reality though, since nobody wants to be the one that signed off on an open source project that later becomes a pain or a competitor, the committee veers extremely conservative in approvals (read: they don't really approve much).

So the net result is that, as an Amazon employee, your ability to work on open source in your own time is severely diminished.
To push the ball forward, major link aggregators like reddit could implement HTTPS Everywhere style code. The front page has numerous examples of linked content over plaintext http that is also offered over https.
For these looking for skill modeling, AptMetrics is by far the top solution
"dirty, scary, and smelly"...Have you ever been to the East Coast? I would say SF is on par as far as dirty and smelly goes. Scary? I think it's pretty underwhelming but I come from NYC/Philly/Baltimore area so that might bias my viewpoint.
Ultimately, it's the government that mediates the dispute. They're the government's airwaves and you (the cell phone provider) receive a license to use them. I haven't read the relevant FCC regulations, but they can easily say "cell phone service is secondary; law enforcement is primary".

There is precedent: amateur radio operators can use any means available to them to transmit life-critical messages when licensed methods/frequencies don't work. If that was to set up a fake cell phone tower and get phones to connect, then one could argue that one was using the frequencies legally. (IANAL; don't do this and say I said it was OK. The usual case is something like using your amateur radio to contact the coast guard if your ship is sinking.)
Yes, but that river does not sell software to run an online store. That's about as close to Amazon.com as AWS Lambda is to a Lambda function.

If you tried to sell ecommerce software under the name Amazon, you would get a cease-and-desist very quickly.
That's the API I use as well. The DELETEs are free, but GETs, PUTs, POSTs, and LISTs are not [1].

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
> he went to all his friends and family and told them his plan. Every single person told him he was nuts and it would never work.

> the fact it had never been attempted before only made him more certain it was going to work.

Those are interesting reasons for being certain it will work. The combination of all the people you cherish the most telling you it's a bad idea and the fact that no one had tried it before. I mean, sure, I understand the romance of it and these reasons giving someone the drive to try it and succeed. But making you certain it's going to work? That I don't understand.
I'd really like to see a much smaller, simpler, non-POSIX OS for running server apps.

The POSIX system interfaces (read, write, open, close, etc.) are OK. It's the Commands and Utilities that are the problem. Do you really need Bash available? How much of the 50,000,000 lines of Linux need to be inside your VM running your one web application? How much attack service is provided by the presence of all that stuff?

There's a project which has taken the C runtime library and made it run on a bare VM, so you don't need an OS instance at all. If you're just running one program, that makes a lot of sense.
At this point why doesn't everyone assume DoJ/law enforcement is misleading in Court? That should be the default, and their statements should always be thoroughly checked.
Not to be flippant, but if you are not going to use pull-requests, what is the benefit of moving to Github? Will you use the issue tracking system?

If not then it just seems like switching to git using the present google code host would suffice from a technical viewpoint.
If an ex-employee of yours was spreading morale- and image-damaging falsehoods about your company, and misrepresented the reasons for their departure, and did this on your own platform no less, how would you respond?
The permutation criterion seems kinda arbitrary. Showing equality of multisets seems good enough to me.
"You agree that this license includes the right for... Quora to make your Content available to others for the publication, distribution, syndication, or broadcast of such Content on other media and services..."

"If you operate a search engine or robot... Quora gives you a... revocable... license... You must follow robots.txt at all times"

"We use these automated technologies to collect and analyze certain types of information... Quora itself does not respond to do not track signals"

"Quora agrees, in the performance of this agreement, to keep non-public information furnished by [government users] in the strictest confidence"

Having cake and eating it too
Words. A window washer sees words.
You should check out Wealthfront. They automate your passive investing for you. No trading fees and only 0.25% fee after the first $10k free.
There was a particularly apt quote from UK's former homeland security spokesman:

> Secret court hearings will hand a major propaganda victory to terrorists, a former security adviser to David Cameron has warned. Senior Tory MP Patrick Mercer said he had ‘grave’ concerns about the Government’s plans, which he warned would erode centuries of open justice.

> The former Army officer, who served as the party’s homeland security spokesman until 2007, also claimed the measures would succeed in destroying British values – effectively doing the terrorists’ job for them

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126374/Secret-court...

It's a shame that American lawmakers did not come to a similar conclusion, that secret courts and rulings erode the values of a free and open society.
I'm still angry at Marissa Mayer for saying that if she could go to prison over something like this. That's just not something I would expect a CEO of such a major corporation to say. FFS, US is not China (yet). She shouldn't put fear into everyone's hearts with that kind of statement, especially since I believe it was mostly baseless.
I understand how they do it and I doubt they will reinvent the wheel (at least I know about Yodlee that's been around for over a decade), but it's still not worthy of exposing my financials for some questionable benefit. If they add a feature to allow automatic investment of predefined small (or big) amounts, they will have my business.
Similarly you might enjoy reconstruct cave story:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL006xsVEsbKjSKBmLu1cl...

http://www.reddit.com/r/reconstructcavestory/

Cheers
GSM contains half-baked kludge to make passive tracking of phones impractical. Phone transmits it's IMSI only when network asks it to (eg. when connecting to network) and then uses random session identifier ("TMSI") for normal traffic. So if you want to reliably identify and track particular phone or subscriber without assistance from network, you have to actively MitM the network.
Question really is will. And IA respects robots.txt. Which is very reasonable given that they operate within a quasi-legal domain in which it's best that they don't archive anything that the archive owner doesn't at least implicitly want to be archived.
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Thanks. Sounds great!
Containers are just a way to launch threads without polluting your local namespace or system. It's a way to say "hey, this stuff shouldn't interfere with anything else".
Holy S*. I was about to call BS on you because I know CloudFlare supports end-to-end TLS then I read this: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl:

> SSL can be difficult for website administrators to set up.

> For sites that require more advanced SSL configurations, CloudFlare supports custom certificates from any certificate authority, full end-to-end SSL with robust certificate checking...

Just, wow. TLS is NOT hard to setup for a website administrator. I think I just lost a ton of respect for CloudFlare. Granted, most threats would be between the client and CloudFlare anyway(that is to say, on the wrong side of the tracks), but still....
NBA Commissioner: Legalize and Regulate Sports Betting
Computer/software industrial is big and rich enough to have our own Nobel type Award for significant contributors to the Art, Design and Science of Computer/Software.

Good PR, karma, ego boost for everyone work in the fields.

Like "Academy of motion picture arts and sciences" - "Academy of Computer Sciences, Software and Design" All winners get A Golden Keyboard and $1 million real cash.

If I have choice, I would like to nominate:

"Dennis Ritchie" - inventor of C language.
"Bill Joy" inventor of gdb.
"Guido van Rossum" inventor of Python
"Brendan Eich" inventor of Javascript.
"Linux"
"AT&T System V"
"BSD"
I look at it the same way.
SNI is not supported by the schannel implementation of win XP, it is not an IE6 thing, IE8 on win XP doesn't know SNI either :(
I contributed to Ruby once by issueing a pull request to the GitHub mirror, it went fine. Is it less handy if you're a regular contributor?
I understand that you can sniff IMSI without being a recognized carrier. But to actually get a cell phone to join your tower – don't you need the carrier's keys to be able to authenticate during the tower handshake? (iOS 5+ warns about unencrypted tower connections, so presumably these have to be authenticated UMTS?)

If so, should we expect that the carriers surrendered their keys to law enforcement to allow them to run fake cell towers that authentically emulate their networks?
Tech Preview CDs or demo is not releasing. It is a totally different thing. But oh well.
"If the job had been a energizing one rather than one that had been so draining, this probably wouldn't have been an issue I resigned over."

From this sentence itself, it is a clear sign that he has reached "I am burned out" staged. Time to move on when that stage is reached.
Emacs: Autotetris Mode
You have to show me how you do that toe thing. Youtube, maybe?
WildCard – Browse the Web as Cards
Right; you have to get to at least Windows Vista to get SNI.
Ask HN: How do you format documentation?
Lately I've been making more open-source tools and always end up spending a lot of time on formatting the documentation.

Is there a standard or set of best practices?
Last year a Cessna (a Skylane or Stationair) orbited the around central SF for several hours over 3 or 4 days. The edge of the track was right over my block. It would drone by every few minutes. It did not have a removed door or anything that would indicate camera platform. The constant orbit wouldn't make sense as an photographic mapping platform.

It was not on flighttrack, no ADS-B info, and too high to see the N number.
Bezos: Here's Why Amazon Is Spending So Much Money on R&D (2010)
May he rest in peace. His honest fight against war (teaching in Hanoi while bombings were going on, leaving the IHES after learning that NATO supported it, etc.) are an example of honesty. One may disagree with his positions (as I do) but we shall always be impressed by his acts.

I am obviously leaving the maths apart: we hope to stand on his shoulders, we and many future generations.
> A Justice Department official would neither confirm nor deny the existence of such a program. The official said discussion of such matters would allow criminal suspects or foreign powers to determine U.S. surveillance capabilities.

This is the go-to defense for surveillance secrecy. However, not discussing such matters allows criminal officials to abuse these powers without repercussion.
I don't know, Jeff, I'm on the fence on that one. I've been in situations where formers just make shit up about the company and trash it in discussion threads around the Internet, and it's a pretty demoralizing experience when none of it is true. My CEO at the time said "no, just ignore it, it'll blow over," which is advice I've hated since grade school when I was told to do that with the kids teasing me (at least now I understand why I was given that advice, but it did take me longer to discover that standing up for yourself pays more dividends). I mean, the situation it creates sucks: we can't say absolutely anything about it but Dickbag McFired can call us all lazy and incompetent all over HN and Reddit? And we just have to take it ... why? Because it'd be bad for the company if we didn't?

If my team is getting shit on constantly like that and none of it is true, I can kind of get behind a leader taking a stand and calling bullshit bullshit. I can also see the other side of how some folks would consider it the low road and unprofessional, even though I don't necessarily agree.

As I said, on the fence. Part of me appreciated calling bullshit bullshit. Part of me sympathized that he should probably have spoken through a PR mouthpiece. Honestly, I probably would have done the same thing in that situation, and that might be why I'm not a CEO.

Real talk: if considering whether or not to work for Yishan, that little incident might slip to the "pro" side instead of the "con" for me. The rest of his management of Reddit, not so clear.
Interesting. Maybe it's actually around May 2012 and thus is when they public?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Face...
I went to Stanford with Munira, she was a few years older but we overlapped, and she was a CS Section Leader (CS198) which means she taught my intro CS class when I took it, and helped me (and others) when I was stuck writing my first programs.

I subsequently became friends with her, and I can personally vouch that she took all the requisite CS classes, and she was pulling all-nighters in the same lab as me, writing code for her classes.
I remember Munira being wicked smart - and an honest conscientious person.

Now, she may not have officially graduated - but keep in mind that she was finishing Stanford in the heady dot-com days, and she was likely a few units short of getting a full degree when Epiphany (a high-flying startup at the time) lured her in, and she never went back to finishing it. Similar story happened to me - i was 3 or 4 units short of required 45 units to get my CS Masters when i was graduating (I did the same co-term program where you get a BS and MS at the same time); and Stanford wanted me to pay the remaining $4k to get my degree. I paid, but quite possible that Munira was in the same boat, went to work for Epiphany and never bothered to finish her remaining units.

I don't work for Amazon, and I don't know the full details of the story - but it sounds a lot like ramblings of a disgruntled employee. I would definitely like to hear/see the Amazon side of the story before I draw any conclusions.

Keep in mind - I'm heavily biased, I was friends with Munira at Stanford and afterwards before she moved to Seattle, but i'm very skeptical to be taking all of the allegations at face value.

Official degree or not, I'd hire her to work at my startup in a heartbeat without any worries.

side note: Munira is not exUSSR from Tajikistan - good guess, but she just worked there for one summer. Nor Bangladeshi either. Either way, it's not in any way material to this conversation. I, on the other hand, am from former USSR, in case that makes any difference.
Because they're a public company and are therefore required by the SEC to provide a certain level of disclosure about the sources of their revenue.
A lot of my relatives live oversees and most of them, every time they come home, buy a lot of bread, take it back to another country and store in a freezer. Because it's nearly impossible to find a good, tasty bread in most western countries (from my personal experience: UK, Denmark, Norway; but I've heard the problem is much wider).
Here's a solver for the puzzle: http://pastebin.com/ws6wv6Ew

It's written in clingo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming)
There is no market. Two sellers and millions of buyers is not a functional market. You can't set a monopoly free and hope it becomes a thriving ecosystem of buyers and sellers. The free market libertarian ideology has been brilliantly pushed by crony capitalists and most people can't discern the difference.

Given the current situation, the simple solution for peering is to force providers to connect at cost (which is thousands of dollars... not millions like what netflix paid).
Yeesh, give it a rest already.
In the case of North Korea it is likely the raw material they lack. They are a small and insular country, and may not have any significant indigenous reserves of uranium ore.

This is a very good thing, and unfortunately one that sea-water extraction technology--which is otherwise a very good thing because it makes natural uranium a renewable resource--may eventually have an effect on.
Congratulations, but keep in mind that certifications don't matter what matters is what you do with that knowledge.

Over-glorification of certifications in Pakistan is one of my pet peeves.
TLS(The S in HTTPS) incurs at least 1 extra round trip. If the site is using crappy gear this can incur even more round trips, particularly when you're accessing the site from Windows due to TCP ack delay.

Anyway, to get to your question; it can. Normally you wouldn't notice because you're close-ish to the servers and you have stuff like keep alive and TLS session caching(tickets or ID's) to mitigate the issue.. But under other circumstances such as the server being in the US and you are not in the America's the difference can be significant, particularly if session caching isn't working(or working properly) and of course on first request. You can mitigate this with geographical distributed endpoints but most sites won't bother with this.
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He was a very abstract mathematician, he built and worked with concepts and neither used nor needed numbers much.
Come, that's just plain wrong to say that the code quality cannot be questioned because it's an optimization and because it's made by "smart people" and it "makes sense to them". No code is sacred.

It's perfectly valid to question using a macro to rename a function instead of just renaming calls, especially if the renamed function is only called twice. It also would've been more pragmatic to mention in the code that rb_obj_equal is being used due to an optimization in opt_eq_func, as it's not obvious.

There might be reasons for using a macro in this case, like wanting to underline the fact that symbols are being compared, but I strongly suspect the author was just focused on changing the implementation of sym_equal to be better, and didn't think of the option of throwing it away.
I see nothing wrong with that law.

If a company wants to say something negative about someone they better be able to prove it.
Could the new team please review and censor some of the unquestionably evil subreddits? (ie: brutalizing women, dead babies, animal sex, etc). There's just no reason whatsoever such places ought to exist.

Out of conscience, I chose to stop reading Reddit for allowing such subs to exist. I am not asking others to do the same or to adopt my beliefs, but I say this because I really enjoyed being a redditor. I'd like to return, but not if pure evil is allowed to continue there.
That's how IMSI catchers work, your phone joins their network. The network determines the level of encryption, if any. And last I remember there were basically no handsets out there that would even report missing encryption, so I'm not too sure on the iOS 5+ part, but unless you are staring at your screen all the time you would probably miss any such warning anyway.

(Not to mention that A5/1 is broken, but since Stingrays have been around forever and companies don't like investing into something thats not broken, I don't think they even do that. Certainly not at 9k bucks.)
May be this is the oldest copy of Qur'an written script
Or just because someone felt like it. It is probably not enough money to waste a lot time thinking about it.
It's so critically important, we'll commit to doing it within 14 months.
check out levered returns if you want to do it yourself
An Implementation of DeepMind's Neural Turing Machines
My bet is on YC culture via their presence on the board. My signal as evidence is the requirement that teams relocate to San Francisco as part of being funded. If I'm right -- and I'm not sure I am -- I would hope that's something that gradually changes over time.

Twitter's choice to stay in the city was a big bummer for me, but I understand why it happened. Once Caltrain electrifies and gets a bit more optimized, though, I really want to see more of this industry spread out to the peninsula so we can have a bit of a breather. East bay too. There's an ember of startup love taking root in Oakland and it'd be awesome if YC would blow on it.

San Francisco is complicated and this industry isn't helping as much as it could, is my point.
Sounds feasible, but CPU usage isn't really talked about as an advantage of containers.

I expect startup time and memory usage would be lower, but to my mind the advantages are mainly around flexibility... e.g. How long it takes to create or upload an image file. How long it takes to set up a minimal infrastructure with several components to it on a single EC2 instance. Decoupling the operating system patch cycle from the app deployment image generation cycle. etc.
Show HN: Organize GitHub Issues with GIRA
Just wanted to thank the HN team for a responsible disclosure.

It's never fun to be on the receiving end of these e-mails, but the HN leak e-mail was the most responsible data-leak notification I've received.

Thanks for being professional and responsible!
I'm a fan of Doxygen, which works on a bunch of languages.
"LuaJIT's interpreter (!) beats V8's JIT compiler in 6 out of 8 benchmarks and is not too far off in another one"

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851?a=1#comment-57761