skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I know about Spotlight. I've been using that for a long time, too. (And of course, that's a feature of Explorer and other shells, too.) This may sound strange, but sometimes I find it easier to navigate through the menu. Even stranger is that I love the Windows 8 Start Screen but detest Mission Control. I hate to admit it, but it isn't rational.
When you use the word regime you already know what actions you should take.

Leave now, while you still can, don't debate the wording of acts, especially when the regime starts to pass legislation increasing barriers to entry for leaving. Last year it was $400 to get out, now it's $2400, eventually when everyone smart wants to leave they'll put up a wall.

Get another passport before everyone else wants one and you have to wait in line.
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At one time, the "irregular" verbs were regular: English (or rather Proto-Germanic, the common ancestor language of English, German, Swedish, etc.) had two classes of regular verbs, strong and weak, and newly invented verbs could be added to either class. However, the strong class over time became somewhat obsolete and irregular, and is now relatively closed to adding new members (though not completely: sneak/snuck, dive/dove and shit/shat are relatively new additions -- certainly long post-dating the irregularization).
I'm always super skeptical about "second-hand" reimplementations of crypto protocols like these, because after working through a few of the crypto challenges around, it's pretty obvious that it is very easy to end up with vulnerable code.

Compared to a lot of other code, where you can easily tell you're "done" because "it works", with crypto code you're only halfways there. Not only does it have to work, but it has to not break and not leak secrets, too. Anything from timing attacks to bad handling of padding, bad random generators, not to speak of buffer overflows and logic errors (goto fail, anyone?)

I'm thinking it would be prudent to at least use separate keys for anything interfacing with non-default implementations. Can't remember the details but wasn't there an issue where if any (gpg? ssl?) key had been used for signing on a certain flawed implementation, its secrets were spilled?

What's the state of the Go SSH library, has it been vetted by ... veterans? :)
That's the proximate cause, but you need to go back one level to the root cause:

The environmental movement of today is a political alliance between a group of essentially science-oriented types who see a looming problem and want to solve it most efficiently, and an essentially anti-scientific group who have a philosophical objection to aspects of modernity that they see as being opposed to a desirable state of nature.

This alliance happened more than a generation ago, and like most close political alliances, it has resulted in a lot of cross-pollination of ideas from the two camps. So now you'll see people who are fundamentally anti-science use scientific arguments on, say, climate change.

But nuclear power, GMO food crops, and geoengineering are none-the-less dead issues for the modern environmental movement because about half of that movement is not interested in the science of whether or not those things are on balance good: they are ultimate expressions of the un-natural modernity that that half of the movement wants to get rid of. They aren't being irrational, and they aren't just waiting to hear the right argument for why nuclear power is less likely to provoke a catastrophe that will lead to the loss of human life than the status quo. They are opposed to nuclear power per se, for what it inherently is, not for the specific effects it will have on humans or particular animals or anything.

This isn't going to change unless the current big tent breaks up, and it's not clear that, like, scientific environmentalism has enough political clout to pass any part of its agenda if the current tent does break up.

Edit: To make it more explicit, there are people within the environmental movement who prefer solar and wind power to fossil fuels, and fossil fuels to nuclear, not because they believe that the damage to current living things goes renewable < fossil < nuclear, but rather because the sun and the wind go on around us all the time even in a state of pure nature, and we're just redirecting the energy a little with windmills and solar cells, whereas fossil fuels are in a state of nature sitting around underground and should remain there, but at least they are in and of themselves natural objects, whereas nuclear power creates isotopes and elements that simply do not exist in any measurable quantity in a state of nature. It's about being as close as possible to that state of nature, not about the harm to humans or animals that nuclear waste does versus the harm that fossil fuel waste does.
I work at Netflix and use Atlas every day. It's our go-to performance monitoring tool, and has solved countless performance and reliability issues. It's exciting to have it open source!

I summarized it in a talk recently at Surge 2014, where I showed its role for a performance investigation, and how it is central to everything:

http://youtu.be/H-E0MQTID0g?t=22m
http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/netflix-from-clouds-t...

There's more features to Atlas I didn't mention; check out the Overview on github linked in the blog post.
Good luck. I really loved the experience as well, it's just that the project got canceled when my management sponsor moved to a different department and his replacement was like "No more one-off projects." The funny thing is - I'd been warned by some very senior and very accomplished (outside of Google) people that independent projects basically never launch, but since my manager was very supportive, I'd discounted the warnings.
> Voting has been useless in the many elections I have participated in. When will people wake up and demand change?

If voting is "useless" it makes it impossible to demand change since voting is how we enact change in a democracy.
Nice cynicism, but this is about companies and the effect piracy has on them... not about whether or not web apps are useful for people without internet.
Actually #2 isn't quite true. The benefit the recruiter gets from his candidate getting a higher salary is not as compelling as getting them hired period.
The scatter plots don't show that strong a correlation.

From the test questions, this isn't an "algebra test". It's a word problem decoding test. That's appropriate to programming, where you have to go from an informal specification of the problem to a formal one.
That definitely sounds encouraging! Looking forward to this.
> Open hardware like the Raspberry Pi

You mean "like Olimex A20 Olinuxino which has the same form factor of the Raspberry Pi but unlike the latter is open hardware and runs on open source software only", right?

https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A20-OLinuXino-MICRO
I work in A.I., on a different area of search. This paper made no sense to me either. I have a sneaky feeling the authors might be trying to fancy up something very simple (that accusation is based on nothing more than reading many accademic papers and finding this one particularly unreadable, when I feel this paper should lend itself to a particular easy outline of their technique at least).
Ways startups can work with brands to deliver
I do high performance systems software research and development. I mainly code in C++, and spent quite a bit of time in pure C.

I think Rust is awesome.
Google slams Russia engineering office doors shut
Yes there was, but by that time piracy happened mostly be people carrying floppies around.
wait, you're saying that inventing D-Bus rather than using existing IPC systems would have been better than inventing yet another IPC system?
If your company is having that discussion in the context of full time employment, the indirect costs (i.e. non-salary things like health insurance, 401(k) matching, etc) are a significant factor in the equation. As salary drops, these (relatively fixed) indirect costs become a larger percentage of the cost of retaining someone.

If you measure the value of the employee by the salary you pay him or her, the ratio of total costs incurred by the company to value derived by the company for this one employee increases as that employee's salary drops. This is one of the major reasons that temporary jobs and part time work have become popular solutions to this problem: the indirect costs associated with these types of hires are lower.

What we really need, in an ideal world, is a set of personal benefit programs (health & life insurance are the big ones) which are completely uncorrelated with your employment status or location. Forcing employers to shoulder the burden for personal benefits leads down a dark and dysfunctional path where the programs are not controlled and managed by those who have an interest in them for what they provide, but by those who have an interest in minimizing the costs of such programs.
I tag directories, not files. Way more sustainable over time, because there is no way I'm going to tag every single file.

Files tend to be better at describing themselves. To take an example from the TMSU docs, why would I ever need to tag an .mp3 file as music? If it's an MP3, and it's under my music directory, it's pretty clear what it is.
Someone's never written very many sql queries.

I'm pointing at you, tempestn.
«Вот дерьмо» sounds right.
Don't they say the same thing about China and it's rule of law, or lack of? Yet Western businesses flock there.

If I were an investor and an entrepreneur gave me all these reasons for not entering the Russian or Chinese market, as well as refusing to do business with companies from these countries, I would quickly show them the door.
I think that people have been looking for alternatives to Hobbes for a long time. Unfortunately unless we vastly improve our education systems or fundamentally change certain aspects of human nature most of his observations about leviathans vs the state of nature (revolution) tend to coincide with the principle of least harm when considered over slightly longer timescales.

With respect to societal goals I think it is also important to realize that we often want conflicting things and that in the US we struggle with societal goal setting (just look at the absurdity of the debates over healthcare because we essentially refuse to articulate and decide on societal goals around health).
Fun game, and clean code.

Good job!
I got to use it a bit in a Real-Time Systems course I took recently. I wasn't too excited about it starting out, it didn't initially feel like much more than a different C. As I've been spending some time with Clojure's core.async, I was really pleasantly surprised when I came to realize that it offered a really nice CSP implementation! Didn't go much further than that, but seems like a nice language that I wouldn't mind using more.
If you want an assination (or an assignation), you should use Tinder, not Silk Road.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Assination&de...
Is that expected to ever change and/or does Rust expect to work with other libcs (bionic? musl-libc?) Being able to build completely self-contained static binaries can be very nice at times, and for embedded use, glibc is pretty large...

I thought Rust used llvm for compilation? That makes the libgcc dependency seem a bit odd. Maybe I misunderstood?
Sorry if the answer is obvious to someone more experienced, but what software/tools do you use?
I happen to have both editions handy. Some sub-sections seem to be 30%-50% rewritten. A big change is there are lots of graphics. 2e seems to be improved, but it's hard for me to estimate how much of an improvement it really is.
Yes but what does that 82% actually know? When there is no freedom of the press, when the government controls practically all news outlets, it's difficult to judge what people think.

This even without considering that those Russians who think Putin is evil will think twice before telling so to a random pollster.
It is just ignorant to compare US police brutality to, say, Holodomor, and not see connections between Putin and Stalin.
That is so subjective that it should be ignored. I've interviewed people who interviewed very well but in practice they failed at basic computer programming concepts and implementations.
I take it you weren't around for the Dot Com Bubble? I can't tell you how many times I heard this repeated -- and used to justify lofty valuations for infrastructure companies. CSCO, JNPR, ORCL, INTC, EMC, NTAP were all "selling pickaxes" -- none of those valuations ever recovered. And those are the companies that survived; many companies "selling pickaxes" perished through either bankruptcy or (more frequently) fire sale acquisition. There is emphatically a valuation bubble; it will burst; when it bursts, essentially all will suffer -- and life will go on.

Disclaimer: I worked for SUNW "selling pickaxes" before, during and after the Dot Com Bubble, I told myself this lie -- and vowed to never tell it to myself again.
It's definitely clunky, but you might like to know that you can tag more than one thing at once:

Select more than one book, right click -> Edit metadata -> Edit metadata in bulk
Agreed that an objective measurement would be ideal and this is second best.

However, we've had a hard time creating or locating an objective measurement of general programming skill. As demonstrated by the industry's non-use of standardized tests for programming, I don't think anyone else has either.

If you have a lead on something, would love to see it.
It's slightly more convenient to use www for the reasons luaks points out, but it's more about what you prefer.

For SEO just ensure you do 301 redirects from your non-preferred one to your preferred one (same goes with HTTP and HTTPS if that is a factor for you).
A lot of things "correlate with IQ" to varying degrees. Education level, length of sleep, size of vocabulary, etc. I don't understand why the relationships you suggested would be socially unacceptable.

But just because those two things correlate with IQ (which is probably true, so let's just grant them as true even without evidence for the sake of argument), that does not imply that they are sufficiently strongly correlated with each other to be interesting for hiring purposes.

To see my point, consider that being red is correlated with being purple, and being blue is correlated with being purple, but being red is not correlated with being blue. (at least not without evidence).
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That's the easiest way to get big raises, but you should expect at least a few percent raise every year without switching jobs. Otherwise you are taking an effective pay cut after inflation.
"Programming"?

What kind of "programming"?

What "ability"?

Ability to write space-O(my_god * n) sorting algorithms? Ability to duct-tape queries to an ill-documented SOAP webservice and upsert the return into a Your-Boss-Normal-Form database schema? Ability to brutally optimize the runtime of a really hairy numerical analysis algorithm? Ability to design a centralized data pipeline architecture and lead 12 hackers during the implementation and migration? Ability to find the off-the-shelf OSS project that solves the first 50% of the problem instead?

I was watching the news the other day on TV, which is something I almost never do, and there was a segment about the educative value of tablets, smartphones and laptops for teenagers and children. The value of the freely available information on the internet was discussed, along with the quality of free and... not free educative and scientific applications, and the ill effects of such devices on people's attention span, and... That's it.

Example devices included many, many Apple products, a few off-the-shelf Android devices. A Windows machine running MS Word.

Same ideology regarding technology in education: locked-down workstations with user-friendly applications, internet access which blocks every port except for 80 and 443.

A relentless and sustained effort to erase everything but the topmost layer of the IT stack. Locked-down devices. People come to me asking me to remove viruses, to speed up their old XP machines fraught with annoyware. No Windows license, don't want to pay for one, don't want Linux. Computers run on magic, right? How can you know that programming stuff and not be able to remove all that bad magic from my computer. Computer Science students who can't find the slash on their keyboards. People who see computers as a monolithic entity rather than a brittle but transparent stack of conceptually distinct layers. The new generation of systems administrators, can't scp a tar at the other end of the lab.

A teacher spending three hours explaining red-black trees to a class scrolling down 9gag; students, diploma in hand, who aren't entirely sure what's the difference between an array and a hash, who are not sure of what happens when one puts an array in another array, in PHP, after 120 hours spent theoretically writing PHP.

Computer Science students convinced that Linux is 100% not worth learning, in any way, because nobody uses it.

This is how the knowledge economy dies.
Ask HN: Internet Radio Station Options
A friend of mine use to own a very prominent record store back east and wants to setup an internet radio station; googling doesn't really yield anything that looks that great. Wondering if there are any new options, new startups, etc, out there that offer a service or even software that you setup/host yourself. Paying a month host fee or service fee is fine, like to keep that as low as possible since this is an experiment for him.

Thanks!
Rather than misplaced appeals to authority (Coates is an opinion writer that has his own agenda, and definitely benefits from the narrative he and his publication loves to push), it would behoove us to approach this with a holistic understanding of the causes. There have been ample studies[0] done that show the lack of a father (therefore a single parent household) leads to increased delinquency in youths.

[0] http://melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_series...
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It's interesting to note that that the Eurovision song contest includes Russia, Israel and central Asian states, including even Azerbaijan. Perhaps this is an example of soft power projection from the EU "project" of a political union and the creation of a supra-national state...
Merely being within an easy drive of Manhattan has proven quite profitable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohegan_Indian_Tribe
I don't think "proof of work" works here because upvoting/downvoting content needs to be cheap... how do you make it expensive for a dedicated malicious force but cheap for legitimate ratings? Proof-of-work as a sort of "sign-on" to enable propagating a new "account"? That is, you need to have 1 Ghz-hour of wasted computation in order to introduce a new cryptographic hash into the network as a sort of "payment to create an account"? Again, a dedicated spammer could have a machine farming accounts 24/7 while this "payment" to create an account would be frustratingly expensive to a new user.
Google left china way before they left Russia. Plenty of western companies have trouble working in China, especially since the market has closed up a bit since the Olympics.

After Google left China, their stock went up over time, still much larger than Baidu whose protected market is limited to the mainland.
Kaspersky proposed to government to implement a kind of internet-passport, and to allow internet usage only for people verified by government.

I wouldn't trust such a person with anything.
Easter is tied to the days of the week, it's always on a Sunday. So it's going to be week-aligned.

This calendar aligns months with weeks. Months are always exactly 4 weeks.
It is so common there is even a term for it, 'Disruptive Innovation' [1].

The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
The point about only being able to skip some ads was (and the linked article should have made this clear) that while there are ads that are separate in time from the main content so that they can be skipped, there is also paid advertising included in the main narrative content, which cannot be skipped if you are watching the show.
How do you know they didn't correlate with performance as well as algebra if they were too difficult to implement?
These instructors are spending all day, every day with the students as teachers lecturing and helping them through exercises. They're not interviewing them.
Not all of them, just a random sample of the population which includes some of them:
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/
Well if, like you say, all koreans believe that a fan "chops up" air molecules (maybe they all believe the blades of fans chop up CO2 into CO) then they really need to be criticized. I agree with you that its an absolute shock that they believe this. It is definitely one of the crazier beliefs a modernized population can have, and I admit that I believe a staff can be turned into a snake.
Maybe, but most of those people aren't voluntarily doing that, are underpaid, and don't have any chance of making it big with what they're doing. Basically, all of the hardship of being independent without the rewards. (think of freelance journalists working for peanuts, or often putting stuff out for free for "exposure," for instance)
> Care to divulge

Even better, you can just look at it: https://github.com/steveklabnik/rustmvc

I haven't had the time to make it great, just hacking away.

> Just saw your rustforrubyists...

I appreciate the sentiment, but you probably shouldn't bother. Once I started working on the Guide, I stopped doing more than minimal upkeep on R4R. I consider it deprecated at this point. :)
People with Dvorak keyboards aren't allowed to play this game.
Use email address as primary key?
I don't really understand the comments here, and especially on the article itself, deriding this research because "people should just get off their butts and exercise" or similar.

The problem is, from a libertarian/rugged individualism point of view, failure to lose weight is a simple failure of self control. Calories out have to be greater than calories in, after all. Also, I'm willing to bet more than a few people here have heard the fatlogic of "it's my genetics" or "it's the drugs I'm on". While there are some conditions and drugs that can contribute to weight gain, it's not nearly as common as most people using the excuse would like to think, and it usually doesn't work that way (most drugs that "cause" weight gain do it by intensifying hunger signals, not modifying metabolism, which is fairly difficult to do to any great degree via drugs - otherwise this article wouldn't be noteworthy!).

In the end, this most likely won't help the majority of the obese, who do have a medical condition (try being obese for any amount of time and tell me it's not having a negative impact on your joints, at a minimum; there is no good health above or below certain sizes). If anything, this will just make the problem worse by enabling people to consume even more food, and probably end up putting on more weight, especially since it seems that most causes of obesity are psychological (unconscious eating, eating past satiety, bad food choices, etc). Also, if some of the comments here are to be believed, this drug will just treat the symptom of obesity and not the cause (eg, processed food, BPA, etc).

I do think this research could have great applications into life extension, or helping people feel younger, but my money is on this drug not having any noticeable effect on the obese population.
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