skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't it still illegal on the federal level?

For fuel use [0] it is not illegal at the federal level, but does require a permit.

[0] http://www.ttb.gov/industrial/distillation_of_ethanol.shtml
Links unshorten -

1DhMQT3 -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998008

1vk4lLY -> http://www.strictlyvc.com/2015/02/05/venture-database-race-k...
Nice. I've been looking for a way to turn Pandoc HTML into PDF without going the LaTeX route.
If it is illegal at the federal level, I would think it wouldn't be an enforcement priority if it was allowed by the state. On the other hand, it's probably part of the tax code and that does tend to be a powerful enforcement motivator.
I'm in the process of moving a load of ancient (Rails 1 & 2) apps to new servers. It's a nightmare because these are running on Ruby 1.8.4 and Ruby 1.8.6 which doesn't even run properly on the latest versions of Linux and OS X. There's also dependency issues, the mysql gem won't compile against recent versions of MySQL, and the same with rmagick... That combined with the not-so-strict development practices of 8 years ago has given me many headaches over the last month. Imaging the machines is an option, but we'd rather avoid having to deal with another shellshock situation so decided to put them on new VMs.

This looks very interesting... What's the support like with Rails apps? If we'd had something like this it would have been a breeze (assuming it is 100% self contained like Go applications).
The mention of buildings based on Walden 2 reminded me of one of my favorite buildings, Ricardo Bofill's Walden 7:

http://www.walden7.com/

http://www.ricardobofill.com/EN/666/PROJECTS/Walden-7-html [might be broken]

http://www.mascontext.com/issues/4-living-winter-09/case-stu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_7

The links don't really do full justice to the three-dimensional interlocking of the dwelling units. It's Corbu's Marseilles Block plus peyote.
If you haven't already, you should definitely read "How Microsoft Lost The API War" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html) by Joel Spolsky. One of my favorite articles of all time -- it speaks to some of the things you raised... specifically how Microsoft intentionally let IE6 development come to a halt because it was no longer strategically beneficial to them (not because the DoJ interference made them stop). Also hints at the idea that the stability of IE6 for a while actually created a good environment for innovation in the web app space to take place because things we're changing all the time.
The brand new xmax 2014 Samsung SmartTVs models come with a crippled firmware. Many features are disabled until you connect to the internet and "update". You cannot even use the menu bar (smart hub) and therefor cannot access USB devices. For me this was the only time I attached the TV to the internet. The two different remotes have entirely different navigation buttons and changing a sender with the "mouse remote" is a nightmare. But LG and other TV manufactures are not better. Suggestion: Remove the dozens of buttons on your remote and scrap your complicated menu structure.

I would buy an Apple TV (a television screen, not the box) in a second - at least Apple (and Google) understand how to design an user interface. A simple remote like the second generation iPod touch wheel would be enough. Or a dumb TV, but they are already hard to find - and then you have to use at least two remotes with dozens buttons as well.
SwissLeaks: the map of the globalized tax evasion
In consumer land, 1920x1080 is 2K. 4K is 3840x2160. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_televisi...
The link to GitHub is broken...
Looking at your graph, it's clear that you need to adjust for volatility. Your "Women CEO" portfolio is much more volatile during that period. Compare Sharpe ratios, not total performance.

After that, you may have to worry about dividends. I'm not sure if the platform takes them into account when you send buy sell order, but if it does, make sure you look at a portfolio that purchases SPY over that period, not merely the price, as the appreciation won't reflect the dividends paid.
Why is it a pipe dream??? Don't put yourself down. The limitation is yourself and your own prejudices.

Why not join your two passions together?

Create a blog or a book for that matter, about your triumphs and failures in creating the idea for a game, developing it, rolling it out, marketing, etc, etc.

Who do you like to write for? preteens, teenagers, young adults, older adults? Target the book to them. Who knows, you might inspire someone to create the next super dupper flappy birds.
It's easy to do interesting things in software. It's much harder to do them and get paid enough to lead a reasonable life.
Seems to be only the code samples. The code itself still lives in Subversion on webrtc.org and still uses Google's issue tracker.
We may be talking about different things but why would you need to close an fd "externally" when (at least for pipes and sockets) there is someone on the other side who can just close it regularly?
Or change targets.
Also, short-term (and even long-term) capital gains from having such a high turnover in the women CEO portfolio...
Someone at Samsung has been watching too much Black Mirror. I'm guessing Samsung has shelved the microtransactions to skip commercials...for now. This was definitely intentional and due to there being little punishment for this 
feature
 bug they likely wanted to see what they could get away with.
2 things :

- Make sure you add Racket to the Scheme total.

- Interest in Common Lisp has tended to come and go over the years.
I think OCaml is doing pretty well for itself. For example see the graph of package-growth at [1] and the recent news from people at Facebook about Hack and Flow (both in OCaml). Not all repos are on GitHub and it's not really fair to expect them to be — especially for the sake of vanity metrics, such as this visualisation.

In addition, some of the repos that have OCaml code may not be recorded as such. Repos where the 'brains' is in an expressive language might be overshadowed by boilerplate from elsewhere.

[1] http://amirchaudhry.com/towards-governance-framework-for-oca...
Snappy Ubuntu Core Is Airborne
the website doesn't appear to work on, chrome mobile, firefox desktop or chrome desktop
Punishment has a very simple pragmatic goal: to discourage this behavior from other people in the future.
It seems like the correct link would be https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/02/11/coding-in-the-cloud-wi... since there are more IDEs than just codeanywhere
I think a lot of corporate entities have seen value in having security improve for everyone -- including their downstream users or customers (who might be at risk of phishing) and their upstream suppliers or vendors, whose software they use directly or transitively trust. So I don't think they will all see reason to keep their research secret or to avoid funding things that are open.
RIP Nodejitsu
> On the Internet, did people want banner ads, DRM, and a loss of privacy?

You have to consider it in terms of tradeoffs instead of absolute "wants," but yes. We apparently want banner ads more than subscription services. DRM is apparently a cost we're willing to pay in order to enjoy entertainment, and privacy seems to be less valuable than convenience and connectedness.

Not saying I, or anyone in particular, values things that way, but I do think we've ended up with what "we" want.
The God Who Peter Molyneux Forgot
Old-growth wood would have been rare in much of medieval Europe as well.
If you're looking for systemic mispricing in the market, that shouldn't matter so much as there are enough tax free vehicles (such as IRAs) to smooth out these effects.
Show HN: Wave, a Reddit for podcasts
Calculating four factor model alphas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhart_four-factor_model) would be a good starting point.
> Compared to Haskell and Clojure, which are soaring to put it mildly.

Soaring comparatively.

I am a big fan of OCaml, but I think one thing this infographic is heavily biased by is ease of adoption for programmers of all levels. Javascript, Python and others in the top all have that. OCaml and the like are all a bit steep on that front.

However if you find OCaml in the tiny graph on the bottom you'll see that it's steadily increasing at least. Up about 50% in active repos from 2013 to 2014.
It's still surprising to me how shitty people are about this, and how people hold this attitude almost with a sort of pride. It's not a joke either, people actually give a shit about this. Incredible.
Performance is unaffected. This provides a fluent and verbose way of building a regular expression.
Users of the library then feed the built regular expression into their standard regular expression engine.
Should ownership influence the decision-making of a care robot?
I disagree with a lot of this. The guy is junior, this is stuff that can be taught on the job.
This is an incredibly pertinent point. Why is the collective data, profitable for such a small percentage. Why are those that are contributing the data not being rewarded for their contributions. If we live in the information econonomy then those that are contributing that information should be accounted. How is this not digital feudalism??
Blanket disclaimer: the opinions below are from a stranger on the internet, filter according to your own judgement

* The colored bits and the typesetting of your name are on the whimsical side of resume style. Probably okay if you're applying to tech companies, but consider a more traditional layout if you apply to a more traditional company (eg bank, consulting firm)

* In 'experience' and 'projects', take care to use active language wherever possible and highlight what you accomplished, not just what you focused on. Ingersoll and Katie School could use revision in particular, the others look pretty on-target

* What sort of CS independent study and research have you done at Illinois State? You have the page space to be more specific, and can tailor this to the job you're applying to. Similar for Bloomington Central: consider if you can make "focus on mathematics and the sciences" more specific.

* Stanford: what about Cryptography from Dan Boneh? Did you complete the course? Did you receive a certificate or ranking?

* You might consider revising "interests" and "programming" into one section "skills" or "expertise". Narrow these to match the job.

* Like others have said, I am not a big fan of the 'Student, Hacker, Adventurer' tagline.
It is great if you are a student without a dedicated machine somewhere. I can use any machine with an internet connection and work on my code projects.

I haven't used the one in the OP but I do use http://mbed.org/ for embedded development. There you can use a tickbox to import someone else's library code into your project (or you own, of course) and track/import any modifications of it.

When it launched there were fears about lock in, but you can export it to an offline GCC environment any time.
IE6 had a lot of features, many of which are obscure now, but which took a long time to be replicated by the standards. Consider "zoom" (like a subset of CSS transforms), "filter" (a combination of CSS transforms, text-shadow, box-shadow, and CSS filters), page transitions (like CSS transitions, sorta), colored scrollbars, and so on. There were also random features like smart tags that are best forgotten…
The Quantopian backtester pays dividends out in cash, and since I am rebalancing the portfolio each time I buy or sell stocks, I think that is covered.

Looking at the volatility is a good suggestion and definitely something to consider. I noticed the trend as well, but haven't dug into it yet.
Smart TVs' apps generally lag FAR behind the equivalent apps on a Playstation, Xbox, Roku box or similar anyway, so it's generally a better option to go with a regular TV. The money you save can more than pay for a Roku box. Or even an Xbox 360 depending on brand.

A TV without the annoying apps, added commercials, and privacy issues is a smarter choice. Stop calling them dumb TVs. They're "Smarter TVs".
One of the more surprising things that I found in Claude Fisher's Made in America[1] is the idea that as late as the American colonial period, chairs were a luxury item. Presumably stools and benches were available, but sitting on the ground is the default choice.

[1] https://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/
I made this jump about a year ago. I was a DoD contractor out of college for 4 years, but I knew after ~2yrs that there weren't going to be any fun challenges. The closest you'd get would be prepping for the demo days to present to the higher-ups.

I started working with the MEAN stack to offset the boredom and after about 15 months I switched to a local startup. The pay was about 30% less, but I didn't have any professional experience on my resume (just my side project) so I saw it as more of a stepping stone. After ~6 months there, I applied to remote positions and ended up finding an awesome Senior level front end gig making quite a bit more compared to my DoD job. Also, I'm way happier now that I get to work with the cool things I used on my side projects. If our situations are as similar as I think, I'd say float your resume out there and see what bites. GL!
Thanks for feed back - currently work on it
Since most separate state-run institutions for the housing and treatment of mentally ill people were defunded and dismantled, those people are now either left untreated among the public, or forcibly confined (and possibly still untreated) within the jails and prisons system.

So within a typical jail or prison, you will have mentally ill people whose illnesses have caused them to commit crimes, career criminals who have become dangerous and threatening as a competitive advantage, institutional employees who have become domineering, corrupt, and sadistic due to the need to control the previous two groups, and ordinary people who have become stressed and hyper-vigilant due to forced contact with the previous three groups.

Policy in many institutions is also to expressly reinforce racism, creedism, and other natural divisions among the prisoner population as a means of divide-and-conquer control.

As a result, any person spending a significant amount of time in jails or prisons may have problems readjusting to normal society, similar to soldiers returning from a war zone. They are not inherently violent, but the environment is designed to be hostile and stressful for them, and it does influence subsequent behavior in ways that may be unpredictable.
Completely agreed. But that's a whole other dimension of the problem. And it doesn't address liability and who pays.

A lot of what prosecutors, police, judges, and other parts of the criminal justice system do, especially in cases of wrongful prosecutions and convictions causes significant liabilities for municipalities and other levels of government. The taxpayer ends up paying, and the individual who incurred the liability gets off scot free.

With bonding, the participants in the CJ system pay up front to be bonded, which encourages them to keep their bonding costs down. And that would encourage them to throw their dirty colleagues under the bus for criminal liability.
Melanie's Marvelous Measles:
Acquihire is about getting 'some' money but its not a successful exit.
I think that these statistics are a bit under-rated and a bit misleading

-under-rated:
CSS: has 80% more pushes than C++ WOW :O
Javascript: remains to be super for small projects but man this sure brings a tear to your eye when you see 10.69 pushes per repo i think i may have misunderstood JS alot
Safe Languages: are probably not as safe as we think

-misleading: the fact that this isn't talking in anyway about the industry itself but about the LOVE given to each programming language for the following reasons:

a)Developers in general contribute to opensource programming projects with the same concept gcc devs used when saying "compiling GCC as C++, we are writing code if you want it as C do so your self" as i understood it

b)Interest and Time and Location on Github diverge from reality:
Interest: Developers are interested in doing new things when it comes to Open Source so this may affect numbers alot
Time:time changes everything
Location: i think Github is number 1 place when it comes to Front-end programmers although every one likes it but in Javascript i think Github is the super man
Hack the Law
Exactly. If it was an option to get a smart tv that was actually competent then it wouldn't be such an easy decision to avoid them like the plague.

Though even then, I'm always going to have devices plugged into my TV. A combination of my PS3 and PC can access any of the content I might want to watch.
At the bottom of the page:

~~ What is already known on this topic ~~

- It is unclear from existing evidence whether the protective effect of moderate alcohol consumption is both real and applicable to older populations

~~ What this study adds ~~

- When compared with self reported never drinkers, protective associations were largely limited to women drinkers aged 65 years or more

- Little to no protection was present in other age-sex groups

*

I'm not a woman over 65, and I doubt the majority of people on HN are either. The study is still useful, though, since it indicates what not to do for health promotion! Drink alcohol.

Edit: not much markdown works... boo.
Solar is definitely not a low cost. It's a cocktail of tax credits and subsidies that make this worthwhile. They shift costs to the state (i.e., people).
So you can run MLLib on Spark on YARN on MESOS on EC2 ;-)
Article about regaining the power that was intended for the People.
> "I was blown away by how good facebook's recommendations for friends were..."

Search online for 'Facebook shadow profiles' to get an idea of why this was so good. It's more than just your phone number.

Edit: And you also say "Use a different app for instant messaging" but (since you're going for the privacy approach) that should not be WhatsApp and photos should not be via Instagram. Most people have no idea that these are both Facebook properties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vZWm_xS9c
I just finished Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George. It focuses more on the life at sea, working conditions, regulation, changes in the industry, pirates, ransoms, and other things. Broad scope, readable, interesting, unique, recommended.
When you say finance, do you mean you want to do tech in finance, or you actually want to trade? Those are two different (though related) questions.

2 years ago I moved from the games industry into the finance industry. My role now is varied and would probably come under either quant-dev, e-trading or algo-trading, depending on how you look at it. I was hired with zero financial knowledge, on the basis of my maths and computer science skills, and it has so far gone very well.

I was lucky in that I had contacts in the industry; without that it is probably harder, but it is definitely doable. If you've got strong maths + computing skills then there are a lot of possible roles for you.

Web skills aren't terribly useful (although not worthless); a lot of things are different in the financial world where for example correctness, latency, etc. are much more important. Financial software tends to be written in either low-level languages (e.g. C++ for execution stuff), or high-level functional languages (Scala, Haskell, OCaml - see e.g. GSA, Standard Chartered, or Jane Street). Some places use Python for analysis stuff, though R/Matlab are very common too.

If you want to into an actual finance role (Trader, or to a certain extent Quant (as opposed to Quant-dev)), that's possible but you'd probably have to go via a technology role. That's your way in.
"So it goes now. Whoever wants to be clever must agree with nothing that others esteem. He must do something of his own. This is what that fellow does who wishes to turn the whole of astronomy upside down."

Fortunately, things are completely different in the modern world.
Can CyanogenMod phones challenge iPhones and Android smartphones?
An interesting read. Hopefully I'll remember to keep an eye out for symmetries between branding, culture and product in the future. It would be fun to find and document more instances of such symmetries, especially with respect to troubled products or companies. What can we learn from looking at successful (or unsuccessful) attempts to turn products/brands around from this angle?
>I definitely wouldn't lead off the resume with the word "Expert", unless you want to invite senior level engineers to try and take you down a notch with some difficult interview questions. The words "expert" and "entry-level" don't belong in the same sentence.

They can bring it on on the systems engineering side. And as for programming, I am looking for an entry level position. How would you reword this?

I'll work on the other suggestions. thank you for the detailed feedback
Ok, but you're extracting the price of SPY, so you're not counting SPY's dividend. Use a portfolio that simply buys SPY at the beginning of the period and holds it.

The volatility thing it the biggest effect though.
Don't move it across state lines. Unless feds've twisted and contorted commerce clause to cover shine like they did with drugs.
Author here. Yes, that's a fair summary of what's happening. There's more too - investing in R&D for security is risky, tedious and sometimes doesn't result in fruitful tools or findings. The companies that can afford to aren't opening up their methods, and the rest can't really afford to develop the novel approaches necessary for real progress.
Hardware combinations are mostly a terrible idea unlike software combinations that can be patched with updates. If your music player on your phone malfunctioned it shouldn't be a difficult remedy to push out an OTA update. Try that when your printer won't align thus relegating it to a bulky and expensive scanner (if that part still works).

There isn't a solution to devices becoming obsolete because manufacturers would sell less of a new product if the old one worked fine in perpetuity. Not only this but old iPhones, for example, run worse with new iOS versions because new versions are coded for new hardware. Hence the need to upgrade periodically. How many of us have a 486 that will run Dragon Age?
In Summary, you say "Expert" and then "entry level" in the same line. You don't want to do that. Take the word 'expert' out and if you indeed are an expert in something, show it to us in the experience details.

Professional skills section. This is a usual culprit for most entry level folks as we are all taught to add keywords like "great communication skills", "accomplished career history" etc which are just fluff. No need to mention these because either your Resume shows it or it does not. I would take the entire section out in my opinion.

Rest is pretty standard for entry level.

The idea of a good Resume is to demontrate what "you" accomplished in a particular position and what the "company" achieved with your help. This is easier to say and hard to put on paper. Think of real metrics even if as an entry level, you don't have much to show. Did you make your employer's life easy in any way ? Talk about it. Did you solve something that was pending for a while no matter how trivial ? Talk about it.
You also may want to try betting on the spread between male-only companies and ones with at least one woman on the board. If the investment thesis is sound (board gender diversity is beneficial), this would be a good way to test it. It would also bring you into market-neutral territory.
How much is this skewed by Alibaba and yahoo?
Are non smart TVs even available (once you get into the big 55in and above range)?

I suppose you could always buy the smart version and just don't enable/use it