skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see how he squares this with bolstering cybersecurity

With a lie to placate the people, if he tries at all. Government (like the snooping corporations before them) only want "nobody but us" levels of security. Some countries have already manged to get it from some services (off the top of my head BBM and India).
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I was once told that when mastering for vinyl you have to be careful with extremes because it can cause the needle to jump off the record.
“Limits”, Jorge Luis Borges
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Is this in models -- molten salt? -- where the fuel circulates in liquid form?
Ah yes the C interface would be a problem.
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The truth is probably somewhere in between. Obama can't be maneuvering for re-election, of course, but can try to set things up for the 2016 elections.

But good legislation does not just magically appear in Congress. Many government programs got a big boost from the President "calling for them"--national parks, for example, or the moon landings. These were not new ideas when Roosevelt or Kennedy spoke about them, but speaking about them helped generate the public momentum for Congress to act.

The U.S. was the first nation in the world to provide free, publicly funded education through high school. It was implemented locally, but it was an idea that was discussed and promoted nationally. The idea of free education is a powerful one in the U.S. culture.

And many community colleges are already heavily funded by state and local governments; making them totally free might not be as big a step as it seems on paper.
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Some companies also call this role "Business Development" or "Biz Dev"
I guess your prophesies seem groundless to some people here.

For example, I have not idea why future you are describing is going happen. There are many other alternatives.

What if future will be all about cloud computing provided by gargantuan sized companies? What if only a few hosting companies will remain and personal owning of computing device would be economically inefficient?
Duke really hasn't covered itself in glory in recent years.
Nobody's going to throw out even a ballpark without due diligence, and that's the distraction factor. You really don't want to be roped into that unless you're serious.
That pretty much defines "awkward" right there.
"...they built to their own networking designs. Special routers were built."

What an audacious call by Amazon
Remember a VC doesn't want a company to have a 10% chance at a million dollars, they want a 1% chance of a billion, because that's how it works.

But if you are a founder, a million dollars is probably the best deal for you, and your people, and you should grab it with both hands. Numbers made up but you get the idea.
You need to define a DOM interface to do anything useful, which is a fair amount of work.
Can someone explain to me why case insensitivity is a bad thing? Clearly Linus believes so but didn't explain why he believes so.

Most UNIX and Linux systems seem to have an "all lowercase" or "all uppercase" convention, so the fact that they have case sensitivity is often not utilised.

In fact the biggest reason you'd want case sensitivity off the top of my head is legacy support but that's just a circular argument (since you never really reach WHY it was that way originally, just that it was).

I guess based on what he talks about next he is worried about how case insensitivity interacts with other character sets (i.e. does it correctly change their case), but for most sets isn't the lower and upper case defined in the UNICODE language spec itself?
My first post on HN :)
I'm not sure the situation is a simple as the author implies.
It is true that when the French left Guinea in 1958 they took everything with them. Eventually Guinea turned to communist Russia with even greater consequences.

The author claims "Right for France to pre-deploy troops and intervene military in the country to defend its interests". This is not true as it's a defence agreement against external aggression, not internal civil war. For example they did not intervene for any side during the 2002-2004 civil war in the Ivory Coast.

The usage of Franc CFA is actually beneficial to those using the currency as it's value is pegged to the Euro, hence helping to control inflation.

I do not dispute the facts that Africans countries ought to be more autonomous (after all that's what independence is), but this stems more from a failure from Africans politicians than anyone else.
"...heralding a new era of nanoelectronic devices..."

Did I just miss the previous nano-electronic era?! Where can I get my artificial nano-robotic ever-rejuvenating immune system injection?
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Thorough refactoring solution for renaming rails models?
Of course your VCs don't want you talking to Corp Dev types. Their interests in this matter are not aligned with yours. They want you focused on turning your startup into one of those Big Companies yourself, because that is the outcome that would maximize their return on their investment.

The flip side of that is that the odds of you actually pulling that off are pretty slim, historically speaking; and if you try it and fail you walk away from the table with nothing. Whereas if you get acquired, you walk away with money in your pocket. Maybe not as much as theoretically would have been there if you had persisted, but real money in your pocket beats theoretical money any day.

So the logical role model for a founder looking out for her own self-interest is Kenny Rogers: "You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them; know when to walk away, and know when to run." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4)

To your VCs, a modest exit is not really that much better than a complete loss; all that really matters is how many home runs they can put on the board. If you happen to swing and miss, that's no great tragedy for them. But it could be a tragedy for you, since you'll only get a few times at bat in your life, and if you whiff them all you could be worse off at the end of your career than you were at the beginning.
> “It makes no sense! It’s like, they’re measuring how many commodities are bought and sold in a year, but the point isn’t the commodities, you know? It’s the hours of labor.”

This is a flawed, Marxist labor theory of value that can't explain why an artisanally-made handbag that takes 120 man-hours to produce still is valued less than a Coach/Prada/LV handbag that was machine-manufactured with no human labor. I really don't understand these people -- but then again, theory not matching up with reality has never been a problem for Marxism's adherents, has it?
I'd love to hear PG and other knowledgable folks around here talk a bit about partnerships: when, whether, why?

My experience too is that most partnerships are only valuable for social proof. Often nothing much else happens, maybe one or two customer connections. At the same time with some partnerships there is a risk of brand dilution. If you are letting someone re-sell or bundle, there's a risk that they might downplay your brand in favor of theirs and sort of appropriate your brand equity.

These sorts of things do sometimes make me feel out of my depth as I try to put on biz-dev shoes as someone who's primarily technical.
Plenty of markets have a similar effect. If you only take a shallow look into the market you will find the junk that is heavily advertised, but there are always experts/aficionados deeply involved in the craft. And this is true in music as well, I don't see why a "movement" is needed.

millercoors : craft beer

Beats by Dre : Beyer Dynamic

Lipton Tea : loose leaf

top 40 : jazz/metal/classical/progressive rock/...
I think if anyone pulls the "my boss won't do the deal for the price we've already agreed on" I'd just tell them to politely fuck off. If they really want to buy you, they'll pay the agreed price. Or you might decide you don't want to do business with immoral fuckers :)

Although given that this was google, I would probably just contact one of the higher-ups and tell them "I'm still interested in discussion the acquisition, but I was screwed around by your corp dev guy".
Maybe it's a fine line between praising how useful the new acquire is and how much value they can add. The opposite would be stating that they paid too much, which may imply the company will underperform. Finally, if they paid the exact value of the new company, including it's future uses and newly imparted abilities, that doesn't really imply anything useful was done besides keeping the status quo.

Obviously I wasn't there to interpret the remark, but maybe it was intended as a compliment as to how useful the new company and it's employees were, and how much they can now do without breaking the bank to do it?
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I would assume they mean on era containing nano-electronic devices where the previous era did not contain nano-electronic devices.
Main difference as far as I can see is the NYC structure is made up of pre-assembled room-size room-size units, whereas the Chinese hotel is more conventional beams, panels and cladding but pre-cut to specific sizes (and presumably also for the interior finish)

The Chinese seem to be trying to prove a point with their speed, though they do have a considerable advantage when it comes to costs and lack of regulations to adhere too though, probably aren't building to the [unusual] level of tolerances specified for the US project.

(my dad was doing this back in the days when 9 storeys was "possibly the tallest of its type in the world", and under a year for a building that size was really fast. Which really wasn't all that long ago.)
Worked at 4 startups, 1 got sued, 2 went down, 1 chugging along barely breaking even, stock worthless.

Should have taken the salary.
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What's criminal is that this impacted cancer trials. Yes, mistakes were made, and yes, people should go to jail for this.
> Can someone piece this together?

I think he means this:

If you're talking to someone [from another company] from corp dev, [they want to acquire you], whether you realize it yet or not.
In Australia they have another saying. "It's never too hot, you're just too far away from the ocean" ;)

I've actually been in Sydney when it was like 46 degrees (record year or something). People just started walking into the Ocean
TeX is weird. Really weird, if one expects it to work like a modern programming language.

The crux of it is that it's a macro-expansion language, which means that you pretty much need to do the kind of stream-processing approach TeX uses, since you don't know the expansion of a macro up-front, which in turn can very well change the meaning of tokens downstream of that again. For an (admittedly extreme) example of this, consider TikZ; it's basically an entire new programming language, implemented purely by TeX macros.

I sometimes compare it to programming in Common Lisp, but you all you have available are the primitives (except lambda, I supppose) and defmacro.
I never put blind faith in technology. I just am incredibly aware of how terrible human drivers are and how much car accidents kill. I guess you've never seen someone who absolutely shouldn't drive? I have a few family members with cognitive impairments who terrorize the road everyday and yet still are legal to drive, it isn't easy to lose your licence and traffic enforcement is minimal. How many people do you know who go out drinking and drive home drunk on a regular basis? I know quite a few, there's nothing I can do to stop them!!! They all say "oh, well I can drive drunk fine." There will be a time when computers out preform humans. Technology isn't ready for prime time yet, but we will get there sometime. We do not need perfection to deploy robotic cars, we need them to SIGNIFICANTLY outperform humans.

I also personally know quite a few young people who have died. Teenagers-early 20s. All in car accidents. I know two people who have lost (teenage) children in car accidents.

We need something better.
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Oh boy, people protesting a science.

I'm the first guy in line to cut into economics. To me it's just astrology for people who know calculus. Or, as one wag put it, How many economists does it take to reach a conclusion?

But having said that, the practitioners themselves are just as aware of the problems of the "science" as anybody else. I'm also not crazy about Jungian psychotherapy, but you don't see me protesting outside the psychiatrist conventions.

While I may disagree with methodology, and I may even argue politically about policy implications based on conclusions various sciences reach, I remain convinced by the Charity Principle that these folks are working in good faith. What I'm seeing here are people who don't want other people in positions of authority because they disagree with their conclusions. This looks uncomfortably like an ecclesiastical dispute.

So as bad as economics and economists look? These protesters look worse. Terrible thing.
I used to think that but I read somewhere an ex-employee said that it's all an act. If it is clearly it works because he's liked by too many people. The worry of course is that it's likely he'll end up running for Prime Minister someday soon.
I would use a bigger number -- say $250m.

Go outrageous. Honestly, it's not worth letting them see in with DD for a small enough amount.
Also a longer critique by John Siracusa here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/#hfs-p...

I wonder how this ties in with the whole Apple philosophy of "Design is how it works."

Clearly the innards look nothing like the facade.
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We built http://weatherornot.io on top of the forecast.io API and these guys do awesome work.

Adam, Jay, thanks a lot for the quick support and the high quality API. You guys are doing awesome work! Keep it up.
I'm not sure why you are being down-voted, you are correct. The "Labor Theory of Value" has been discredited. This is a group of students railing against something that they don't understand.
Ask HN: Best Sites for UK Job Search
Hi all,

There's a big push in a lot of smarter job matching sites coming out. Sites like Hired & White Truffle look great for finding that next great job without having to check a list of search results on a regular basis (like on say Monster). But so many of these sites have a very heavy US focus. Does anyone know any that is more UK based? I'd like to upload my CV & talk about a salary in pounds instead of using résumé & dollars :)

As a UK resident thinking of finding myself a new job, my options seem a little limited at the moment! You have your classic job search sites like Monster & LinkedIn but nothing a little smarter. So I'd love some suggestions. I wanted to shout out a question on Twitter but knowing my development manager follows me (and tends to see all my tweets), asking around for job search advice probably will cause a bit of an interesting question the next day!

Thanks for any input,
Lee
I've been at mile20 many times and every time I think next Marathon I'm going to arrange for someone to meet me here with a picnic, and have a rest, then really cane the last 10km. Never quite gotten round to it yet!
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I can't protect my data from some random server it might run on. I happen to trust AWS with my data. AWS also scales vastly quicker than anything I could afford to do on my own.

There are a huge number of use cases where AWS / data center / servers are the best fit. That will remain true for the foreseeable future.
I'm not too familiar with the UK system, but it seems like in the US the people have more direct control over the identity of the president, since both parties have competitive primaries every election cycle, except for the parties of first-term incumbents, whereas the last Conservative Party leadership election was in 2005(?). Also, primary voters don't need to be paid-up members of their party.
Their boss didn't say this - it's purely a negotiating tactic.
Usually corp dev = acquisitions, biz dev = partnerships, but it varies across companies, and could be the same people in some companies.

I've been in about five of these "corp dev" conversations (low N, but nonzero), and every single one started with an entreaty of "you should partner with us", which very quickly dissolved as it became clear they were solely interested in an acquisition.
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> Obama isn't able to beef up much with Congress voting on the laws first. That might prove difficult given the current makeup of Congress.

Policy change can be sudden and radical, but durable shifts in political priorities often start with legislative proposals, which build support for the idea in the public consciousness, which translate into pressure on elected politicians, which turn into policies -- maybe not this year, and maybe not until after several election cycles.

But if you never propose anything that won't pass today, you never move things in the direction you prefer.
That's just regular sales.
Thanks, actually just purchased the app after reading the blog post, but before reading the comments. Looks like a great product, thanks to the devs.
> there is no problem

We are just beginning to investigative the post operative changes from anaesthesia in adults [1]. Can we be sure that there is no post MRI changes ?

While I'm not suggesting there is any cause for alarm I don't think we should dismiss the possibility out of hand.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-dangers-of-...
Better phrased:

>Corporate Development, aka corp dev, is the group within companies that buys other companies. If you're talking to someone from corp dev, that is likely the reason, whether you realize it yet or not.
Don't forget, somebody was possibly denied the job and his or her trajectory possibly changed because of this lying SOB.
If you take off the parameters, the images are 3000x2000.
It has been mentioned on HN before, but you might still be interested in http://allofbach.com/nl/bwv/bwv-1007/detail/

It's relevant to the discussion, since the masterful recording of these pieces is itself a work of art.
A repeat of the same idiocy; You cannot solve cultural problems with process or technical solutions.
>"For example they did not intervene for any side during the 2002-2004 civil war in the Ivory Coast."

That's no true. France supported Alassane Ouatarra, the current president who lost the election, but was backed by France which troops fired on people on the street and also bombarded with helicopters the presidential palace to force the elected president Laurent Gbagbo to give power to Alassance Ouattara supported by France.

Links are all over the net to prove that.

The fact and history behind the CFA is much more dark, than presented.

I agree with you, Africans should fight the French to become more autonomous.
Investors put money in blcokchain technology, not bitcoin.
Wonder why the "HFS+ Private Data" hack was chosen when Rhapsody existed even back in 1997.
I've run into issues with it from a programming point of view, you have to make sure to do a (slightly) more expensive case insensitive comparison when dealing with filenames.
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You missed 'rang' as well - cellphones don't have bells, they have speakers or other things which are skeuomorphs.
Speaking from imperfect knowledge, I'd guess: case insensitivity implies allowing for aliasing (case aliasing for case insensitive and god-knows-what for Unicode insensitivity.)

Which means that anywhere you handles names, you explicitly handle these aliases. Miss a spot (or an alias), and you have a security bug.
According to Snowden and subsequent whistleblowers considerable resources are tasked to obsessing over political opponents , groups such as Occupy , anti-fracking and even competing business interests are targeted.

In Britain the Security Forces have long been seen as a bit too obsessed with lefties.

There is inneffective Security Theatre at airports - a political sop. What else is inneffective? Are there innefective secret things ?

I would like to see any journalist ask : Are the security services watching radical Islam enough or wasting their resources on what the electorate would consider the wrong targets ?

Will the Security Services having decryption keys to my communications make them more insecure to non-government agents ?

Will how secure the keys are be secret ?

What other governments , agencies and contractors will the keys to our communications be shared with ?

What oversight will there be ?
Actually PG says to avoid investors unless you are in fundraising mode: http://www.paulgraham.com/fr.html
In my experience partnerships in a SaaS-like thing tend to be binary:

0) Press-release and a few links on a website: Basically worthless.

1) Sales-team integration: you train the partners sales force, they get quota retirement (somehow, this can be complicated), this has some great customer outcome -- you give them margin on re-selling/kickbacks/discounts/whatever to get access to their sales/marketing machines, making it worth their time/effort.
This is very impressive! The project doc was a great read and, while beyond my level, I appreciated the author's ability to distill the academic papers into something workable and discuss the snags encountered when trying to approximate the solutions.

For the author, if they're able to take any questions, I would like to know how much time was spent rendering that final scene (the 3840x2160 or so resolution one), and how much you were able to cut that rendering time while prototyping it with your low resolution or low sample approximations of the scene?
Thanks. Do you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_parser It seems it's something to be more used for the natural language parsing, less for the programming languages?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799088
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The software is encoding the PC screen as a video stream and streams it to a wide range of DLNA devices.

This is simlar to Chromecast's ability to mirror the desktop or a browser tab. However DLNA means a lot of different devices (game consoles, smart TVs, Roku and many more). Of-course the big downside in relying on DLNA is latency. The video player on a DLNA device buffers for a few seconds and hence there is a significant latency.

Still, for watching something on the TV it is pretty good.
Seems kind of like keying the used car you just bought. It only damages the value of something you just paid money for; even if you think you got a good deal it is still a stupid thing to do.
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> File system metadata structures in HFS+ have global locks. Only one process can update the file system at a time.

Holy heck! How does that work in practice? Do operations get queued and then a single kernel process who can take the lock do the atomic updates?

I have to imagine that is going to cause a bottleneck however, as all non-read operations need to update the metadata (e.g. timestamp, maybe size if it is stored).

That all being said I haven't noticed OS X being particularly slower to do things than e.g. Windows. So if that is the case they're hiding it well.