skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been gradually moving back to native apps: hexchat for IRC, pidgin for gtalk+fb messenger, thunderbird for email (heavy, but can't find something better for me).

With this setup I can boot to a system that uses about 1.5GB of RAM occupied with Firefox with a couple of tabs open.

Some stuff that I'm trying to eliminate that's a big memory hog: dropbox (150MB), skype (150MB).
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Isn't google doing that because it detected the semantic information was on the page, even if the exact term wasn't? Is your issue with the fact that they're doing more than just a keyword retrieval, or is your issue with the fact that they're doing it poorly?
Hah. The constitution. Laws. Get outta here.

It's funny, right now there's a big debate on the use of torture in the united states and the priority in terms of the issues surrounding it tend to go like this:

1. whether it's effective in producing valuable intelligence

2. whether it's moral

somewhere way down the list:

n. whether it's legal (it's not)

We live in a crazy world right now.
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Many gun control laws came about to keep guns out of the hands of black people.[1]

[1]http://reason.com/archives/2005/02/15/the-klans-favorite-law
Looks interesting. Why do you require Google login?
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It's possible to run a query to modify the contents of a database without changing the schema. You may already be familiar with the UPDATE statement, for instance.

And not every database in existence is part of a larger stack. I don't care much about automating a task I'll only do once in a throwaway DB that exists only on my computer.
I started the story after a friend, who is a social worker and civil rights activist, told me that he knew several kids from a large Crew Cut raid in Brooklyn, and that they were good kids who had left the city for college, but been dragged back by a conspiracy indictment relating to a crew they left years earlier. Very similar to Asheem's situation.

As I worked on the story for two years I became pretty depressed at times. I mostly write about technology - new gadgets and startups - which keep me feeling generally excited and optimistic about the future. With this story i really came to grips with the way the deck is stacked against poor people, doubly do for poor people of color growing up in high crime areas.

I didn't come away from this thinking anyone was 100% guilty or innocent. But I certainly know, based on what I was like in high school, that I would have made the same or worse choices as these two boys if my teenage reality had been like theirs.
Ask HN: What do you carry with you to your YC (or other incubator) interview?
Do you carry a laptop? pitch deck? hand outs? business cards? if you've interviewed in the past, what do you wish you had brought along?
There does seem to be a movement to purge anyone with unpopular opinions from the public sphere, regardless of the context in which they developed their beliefs and how irrelevant their beliefs are to the work for which they earned fame. That it's now largely coming from the left wing, which suffered great marginalization during the Red Scare and McCarthyism, is ironic (and depressing as someone who used to identify as a liberal)
Of course, it's not useful as an objective tool until the source can be audited....
Put in a different, less unreachable comparison, the yield strength of kevlar is 3.6 GPa (tension) and diamond forms between 4.5 and 6 GPa, w (compression)

It's been 60 years since we first synthesized diamonds, and back then they were capable of generating 10 GPa, that's only a factor of 15.
Why not? This is Apple we're talking about, they're famous for getting rid of older stuff.

A lot of experienced Apple developers do not expect Apple to support two languages for a long time. With all the noise Apple made about Swift, it will be getting more TLC than Obj-C and eventually, Obj-C will not be supported anymore.

We're not talking about a few years, we're talking maybe Carbon>Cocoa style, 5 years before Apple starts warning devs that Obj-C would be phased out in several years.
BuildZoom (YC W13) is looking for a lead data engineer
BuildZoom is a marketplace for remodeling services that takes a data-centric approach to help solve a $600 billion market problem.

Imagine you're hiring a contractor to remodel your home: the legacy directory will send you to a list of contractors, paying for inclusion on their site. We start by considering everyone - 3.5 million licensed contractors in the US. We then drill down, using 15-years of historical permitting data (more than 50 million total) to find the best candidates for your exact requirements. We then streamline the hiring process to make things as simple as possible.

Using this approach, we are currently supporting over 600,000 monthly visitors and growing.

We're looking for a supremely talented engineer with expertise, dealing with large data sets, for a leadership role at our company.

Here are some of the problems we're working on right now:

1. Allowing users to visualize current remodeling activity in their neighborhood so they can find and hire a contractor with local expertise. Challenges include accurately geo mapping remodeling permit data to specific property coordinates and ensuring low page load times as users navigate around a map (using the Google Maps API).

2. Developing a heuristic to quantify the relative price range of a contractor that takes into account their historical pricing as well as economic data about the neighborhoods where they typically work. Current challenges include reconciling our remodeling data with US census data; developing a process to consistently account for monthly fluctuations in pricing data.

Requirements:

1. Expertise in structuring and managing large data sets
2. Ability to balance immediate productivity and long-term goals
3. Relevant academic/professional experience
4. Experience with probabilistic classifiers (e.g. Naive Bayes) and statistical analysis is a plus
5. Passion for using data to empower consumers and improving the status quo

Perks

1. Opportunity to be the lead data engineer at a start-up solving a big, real world problem
2. Competitive equity, salary & benefits
3. Great HQ located near Caltran and Bart
4. Talented, diverse co-workers that put the team first
5. Flexible, family-friendly culture

If you're interested in having a conversation with one of the founders to learn more, e-mail us at founders@buildzoom.com
I don't agree that it's "much more expensive" - and I've been developing applications with UIs in Win32 for a long time.

Also, even if native apps were "more expensive", that's only from the developers' perspective -- and for a good app, the number of users far outnumbers its developers, so any "increased resource consumption" gets foisted on and effectively multplied by all the users. Only the developers get any benefit from this; but even then, since developers are themselves users, if they use apps that others have similarly developed with this culture of "selfishness", they get to experience the "increased resource consumption" too. In the end, I don't think this vicious cycle of waste benefits anyone except the hardware manufacturers.

In general, I think treating resources like they're infinite and "there will always be more" is almost certainly guaranteed to make it so there won't ever be enough.

This Firefox.html is a fun experiment to push boundaries, like WebKit.js and all the other interesting things you can do with JS and an HTML rendering engine (e.g. see Fabrice Bellard's complete PC emulator in a browser), and somewhat reminds me of other tricks like nesting VMs.
The DA needs to present enough evidence at a grand jury to get an indictment. After that, at least in NY, much of the evidence does not have to be shared until trial. Plea deals in these big crew conspiracy cases often occur without the defendant seeing much of the evidence against them.
That's exactly what it was IMO
Interesting coincidence - I bumped into a game design article earlier today about balancing luck and skill in games. http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/when-i-win-its-...

The article discusses how different players prefer different ratios of luck vs skill, so making the most "fun" game in this regard really depends on who your target audience is. Similar to your thoughts on randomness. :)
Matematicas Visuales
> I've often wondered why OS's just don't host browser render engines internally and draw their UI with that.

CSS is, by far, not a good way to try and do UIs. It sort of works, and it is getting better, but it started out with lots of legacy cruft and things have only gotten worse.

One can make any sort of layout imaginable in any of the modern UI frameworks within a few hours.

Want 3 columns boxes at a precise position in CSS? Well thankfully the latest version of the spec has support for that, but up until very recently....

But for code running on the platform, you can take any 1st year CS student who has passed a class or two and have them put that sort of app together in Swing. WPF is a bit more work due to the data binding magic, ignoring that the layout stuff is also incredibly easy!

On the web, getting data is the easy part, making the UI is the hard part. On the PC, getting the data is the hard part, putting the UI together is easy!

Compare the richness of apps even on mobile phones to what you get in the browser. Sure if you hire top notch web developers who have been studying web development for 3+ years you can get something that is just like an app, but holy crap.

tl;dr HTML+CSS is the Win32 of layout engines.
A couple thoughts:

1) I like the idea of human curation, but in combination with some sort of automated crawler (or other tool) that helps in the browser.

2) Why can't we also distribute the act of crawling, the maintenance of the index and the map-reduce (or other algorithm) that produces the data.

I've been thinking about architectures that would allow (in essence) a P2P search system. Would anyone be interested in talking about architectures to make this work? There are millions of computers on the web at any given time ... if it's built into the browser (or plugs in), you could have human input at the same time.
I think the reason you see people criticizing psychotropic drugs is that they don't work. Ok, you'll probably say the drugs are saving lives, and how can you criticize that? But if you look at any of the studies, you'll see that the drugs are not any better than placebo, plus the drugs have terrible side effects. And nobody understands why the drugs work, or don't work, about as well as placebo. And if the drugs are only as good as placebo, or worse, and are addictive and in some cases even CAUSE depression, why are the drug companies selling them? Because money. That's why people criticize the drugs, with good reason.
Can these things really be safe?
So? Power goes out in your data center, all the data is lost.

Nothing stops you from replicating memcached.
Too Slow for Production _for now_.

Swift hasn't even been out for a year. Look at the progress it made since summer, it sped up a lot in certain parts.

Just file a radar on what's slow and they'll fix it.

Apple intentionally is shipping Swift as is to get devs ready and start planning for the next five years.
I'd argue against it saving dev time. See my above comment, HTML+CSS is not the fastest way to design an app. If it is all you know then yes, it is faster, but inherently it is not a /good/ system. It gets worse even faster if you add JS to the mix!
You just reminded me -- I once wrote a script that decoded and then eval'd a hidden command encoded within the whitespace of the script file itself. My goal was to create an entirely benign looking script that would hold up to visual scrutiny, but still be possibly malicious - in the final variant, it downloaded an additional remote script. Not that I ever used it for anything, but it did temper my natural trust in cursory inspection of benign-seeming open source code.
Sublime Text 2 and 3 have many bugs, including ones that only affect specific platforms. If you're on OS X, `import ssl` works in the Sublime console, but it throws an exception on Linux and Windows.[1] This can have far-reaching effects, like fetching of HTTPS URLs breaking.

These sorts of issues make it really hard to write stable plugins, since the only way to ensure stuff works everywhere is to manually test all six combinations: Sublime Text 2 and 3 on OS X, Linux, and Windows.

1. https://github.com/SublimeText/Issues/issues/177
In Boston $3k/month will get you into a triplex
in Somerville with no T access.

$3k/month will get you a 2BR anywhere in Somerville or Cambridge, including within 5min of Davis or Harvard: http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices/
> He chose to sell it because he wanted to buy an expensive piece of art.

So? Usmanov decided he would rather make a charitable contribution to Watson in a symbolic manner. Does not change the fact that i was an admirable thing to do (it was, after all, $4.7 million of his own money)
Or for suggesting that capitalism isn't all the bee's knees in 1950s America. How quickly we forget.
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Removing token attribute from Authorizations API responses
A massively emasculated version of Roko's Basilisk.
Yes, you can post your own stuff here. I have done so, with mixed results. It might help if you participate in the community a bit first. I don't mean you have to in order to be allowed to post, I am just saying that participation can help you get a better feel for what flies here.

Even if you do get that feel, there is a lot of random chance involved in what does well. I have written some on my blog about that if you care to read it.

Best of luck.
In addition to things mentioned by other users, a browser also enforces a security model and (nowadays) provides a Javascript engine and the browser object model, and handles HTTP and session state,
Why does it take getting pregnant before a CEO decides "Gee, maybe some flexibility at work would be useful?"
Firefox OS on the otherhand is HTML.
This is quite depressing.

There isn't anything special about Watson. Like all scientific discoveries, he was in the right place at the right time, and depending on how you look at it was sufficiently ruthless/ambitious to claim his place in history. But so what? If not him, someone else would have worked it out, just like the people that almost discovered calculus or the Higgs boson. If you want to honour science, then give 5 million dollars to someone who is actually still interested in doing research. He's had his day, and has received all the accolades he deserves, if not more.
I know Tom, and I can personally attest to his smarts, passion, and personal warmth. Really excited and proud to see this on the frontpage.
> a team that cares about it's customers

*its

http://grammarist.com/spelling/its-its/
I think it's a very complicated issue and does not have an easy answer but consider recent African immigrants to the US and US-born and raised people of African descent. I'd love to see a study to see if their experiences are any different. I suspect, but am not sure, that 'culture' has some influence.

I think Americans (black Americans in this case) have all kinds of baked in things which can be either positive or negative in their daily life interaction with others. So someone straight from Africa, let's say, has no preconceived notions of how one is expected to act in a given community in order to fit in. An immigrant is for some purposes a blank slate (they bring their own tendencies from home, of course) but not having baked in American tendencies to interact with (part of society) might afford them a different experience, for the most part.

If there were differences in experiences, it'd be interesting if there was something to learn from that. For example, we have relatively recent Somali and Eritrean communities --normalizing their experience (ie take out the difficulties being a refugee, etc. might impose) what has their experience been in relation to the larger community?
Without more information it is hard to suggest anything.

If your hosting service is like most others out there ($100-$300 p.a) then it might far less aggravation to simply cancel them and refund the year's pre-paid amount than to waste time bickering.

Unreasonable people tend to start out being difficult and then dig in. Have you seen: http://www.boston.com/food-dining/restaurants/2014/12/09/har...
reading this I feel like it would totally be possible to use CRM software like Salesforce to manage investigating a story. Leads and the like, it's almost like the workflow is the same.
Parallax image scrolling trick using background-position
A fascinating controversy in all respects. I find it difficult to argue with the conclusions in this article as an empiricist, but it does provoke some very troubling considerations about our future as a global species:

http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconven...
This underscores the fact that the word "privacy" is generally used as a euphemism for power. Knowing this, you can safely substitute the word "power" for "privacy" nearly everywhere it appeares.

The first thing you'll notice is that the vast majority of knotty questions or issues in doubt clear themselves up quite quickly once you start discussing the problem in honest, accurate terms.
I live on Virginia Park St., just a couple blocks north of the Fisher building, between Second and Woodward (New Center). I grew up in Troy, MI - went to school at UofM. Hometown guy, I've seen a good portion of the metropolitan area.

You are spot-on; until it's safe to raise a family in Detroit (which, based on the lead and heavy metals residing in the soil from the torn down structures, this may never happen) I can't see myself raising a family in the city. I'll be moving to the suburbs, if I'm still living Detroit.

D3 and Loveland are doing a great job documenting the upcoming housing apocalypse - and I don't care how geneous the city gets with payment terms to the debtors, if there is no present or future income to service the debt, it's game over.

For as much building as going on in Midtown/Downtown along with the new entertainment megaplex that Illitch is constructing, there is a two factorial amount that's decaying in concrete/wood/basic raw building materials, because there is zero disposable resident income to upkeep the property.

The city will have to decompose fully to thrive. I've sometimes played with with the idea in my head to split Detroit into three or four separate cities (to help certain portions thrive), but this of course would be politically untenable.

ps - See the 'Detroit by Air' article from a few days ago.
Agree that the read was horrifying based on my family's experience, but we should try to reserve judgement because as males we won't ever have to make quite the same decision that the author made. I doubt the author "feels her company is more valuable than her child". I think more likely she just wound up in an impossible situation. Also, keep in mind that people can't always perfectly time when a pregnancy will begin/end.
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Let's be sure to point out some terrible journalism, reading the following makes me completely disinterested in finishing the article and have considerably less respect for Wired.

> Have you ever questioned the claims that scientists make? For example, last year’s discovery of the so-called “God particle,”

Using the nickname for the Higgs in the context of questioning science claim is nothing but bait for the foolish and misinformed, and in this way anyone scientifically literate should seriously question any claims or opinions in this publication.
America is currently in a state of war, declared by congress.

There is nothing in the constitution which requires the use of the word "war" in a declaration of such. In a practical sense "authorization of use of military force" is a declaration of war.
> As for his brother Jelani, it wasn't Facebook that landed him in Rikers, it was a witness identification.

That's not what I get from the article. It was a witness that got him accused it was facebook likes that lead to him being denied bail on the grounds of being "gang affiliated"/"part of a conspiracy".

His story wouldn't have been half as bad, if he'd just been falsely accused, and then had the case dismissed. That's how a working justice system should work: some innocents will be caught up in it -- but they shouldn't suffer any more for it than strictly necessary.

On another note, with such strong conspiracy laws in NY, maybe there's still hope to get some convictions down on Wall Street?
> But you don't have to watch the dregs - you only have to watch the best of the best

This is my tactic. I have a television, but it's not actually connected to an aerial or a cable box, just my Apple TV. I only watch television shows when it's clear they're excellent and exactly to my tastes, and it's brilliant :)
It's a month-to-month service, so they're asking for a refund on 12 billing cycles. The TOS is clear that there are no refunds for services rendered. I try to be as accommodating as possible, but this just seems absurd.
Why doesn’t elm provide text content separately in a machine-readable format, for example in a set of hidden HTML elements?
It's weirder than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect
Really cool, surprised there isn't more discussion about this. Postmates seems like a great service to exist as an API - I predict many hackathon projects using this in the future.
i don't think being a private alpha is representative at all of the long-term direction of the project.
Another comparison: the highest pressure we can create without shock waves is 300-400 GPa with a diamond anvil cell [1]. With shock waves we can create momentary bursts of up to 100 TPa

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell
For anyone who isn't familiar with the backstory, Watson didn't become an unperson for believing in IQ, he claimed in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine that testing proved that black Africans aren’t as smart as white people, then followed it up with the sentiment that ideally one should think that all people are equal, but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1673952,0...

http://www.wired.com/2007/10/more-on-james-b/
I'm willing to give Yahoo! the benefit of the doubt that they're working on that general class of issues, but it needs to be a priority to fix the underlying cause of this exploit. That it took 8 months for this guys report to get taken seriously is silly.
log* doesn't beat Knuth arrows. See that

log*(e ↑↑ n) = (n-1) log*(e)
= n

So log* is just the inverse of e ↑↑ n.

That makes sense. Logarithm is the inverse of exponentiation. log* is iterated logartithm-ing, and (↑↑) is iterated exponentiation (aka tetration). (↑↑) builds up a stack of powers, and log* tells you how tall that stack is.
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You don't need to. I remember when I was a child, our family have this tradition of walking around the park after dinner. My parents would talk about work and ask about my day. And sometimes my father would throw questions like "why do you think there are 60 minutes in an hour instead of say 57" "why is 1/3 = 0.33333... is there a possibility there's a digit of 4 down the road?". I'm not sure if he come up with these question randomly or he has a system, but I still remembers a lot of them today.
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