skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were lucky. At my high school someone from the regular track had to jump through hoops and speak up loudly to be allowed into an honors English class. Separately, my high school guidance counselor "lost" the application of a student who wasn't doing very well in high school (it was the student's only application to college, so this may very well have messed up her life for a while), while constantly harassing me in the cafeteria to apply to more/better schools. I believe (somewhat cynically) that her motivation was to make the high school's acceptance rates look better.

But the real crime of the traditional education system, in my mind, is to condition students to be so focused on jumping for gold stars that they don't think about what they really want to accomplish and what activities (stars or no) will get them there.
if your cache line is 75% zeroes, then half of it respects the objective of "should contain 50% of each bit", and the other half is all zeroes, which is a waste (according to this objective)... in other words, only half the cache is 'correctly' used. This is just another way of saying that your D$ size is effectively halved.
> Hard work and dedication to learning is what created all those breakthroughs you mentioned

Sure, but hard work and dedication is not a sufficient condition for building a modern scientific society. What's crucial is also building the infrastructure for passing along institutional knowledge to enable incremental advances. The modern educational system is very well-designed to facilitate that.

E.g. I studied aerospace engineering in college. You spend 4 years in college + 5-6 years in grad school learning everything about the state of the art. During your PhD you push something forward a little bit. Then you go to Boeing and figure out how to make the turbine blades withstand 5% higher temperatures so you can get 3% better combustion efficiency. And at every step the system is there to keep things moving dutifully forward. Eventually, you'll see you started with a 737 and are staring at a 787.
Yes, it is.

Personally, I have no problem with the state putting a bullet in the head of a murder, but the thought of a wrong verdict and some of the batsh_t crazy things courts have done leaves me fearful of any capital punishment.

I am particularly unamused by some of the things prosecutors have done that have lead to false convictions and how few remedies and punishments for corrupt prosecutors.

Plus, in the sad cold-blooded way of limited budgets, I can find no justification for spending the extra money.

In a perfect world there would be no capital crimes committed. In a near perfect world courts would be 100% right. We live in neither and should act like it.
End to end encryption is probably one of the last big things we've yet to fully tackle, unfortunately. Though hopefully we'll fully begin to start spec'ing that sometime soon!

One of the major things we want is the ability for e2e encrypted messages to still be readable from all of your devices, which is kind of incompatible with OTR. Saying that, people have been talking about building OTR on top of Matrx; either by embedding OTR messages directly in the message JSON or using Matrix to negotiate a data channel with something like webrtc.
I had a similar experience - but never said anything about "bombs" and thus wasn't taken to jail.

I just tried to complain about one of the inspectors making a smartassed remark to me when I went through was forced to wait for an hour for enhanced interrogation while I missed my flight.
Brendan Eich made the following comment here recently:

" Indeed we had structural types in ES4
toward the end, and almost bluffed
MS into folding (I'm told by a reliable
source). But ES4 was trying for too
much too soon.
At this point we really need to see
ES6/7 and TypeScript + Flow "gene-
culture co-evolution". As I said at the
last TC39 meeting on the topic, big
de-facto standard wins trump rushed
de-jure standards any day.
/be"

and also:

" Type system implementors
and the JS stewards must
communicate well for this to
win. It's looking good so far,
on Ecma TC39: JQuery,
Facebook, Netflix, PayPal
(Ebay originally, and again),
Twitter all represented along
with Apple, Google,
Microsoft, and Mozilla. Also
academic researchers from
various universities, all of
whom love type systems and
theory :-)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8906807
Here’s a phrase you don’t read much nowadays: brown study
There are people who have preferences when it comes to bottled water, so I suspect there's a market for this sort of thing.
I look forward to a time when micro-machines (chips?) produce proteins, carbohydrates etc from raw materials (air?) Then energy, water and food become one fungible thing.

Imagine cutting out the whole supply chain for staples (farming, machinery production, transportation, middlemen, processing, distribution and sales) and turning it into a machine on your kitchen counter that emits rice. Changes the whole game.
He tried to put a hit out on somebody. (I realize that that wasn't part of the charges he was convicted on here.)
How to Handle False Positives in Visual Testing – By Dave Haeffner
Feel free to ask me (almost) anything. I'm going to leave it plugged in and will have SSH access, although I do have to get some sleep for the next few hours :)
Every single file in the source distribution has BSD license attached. License.pdf clearly differentiate what is the licenses, and then tries to explain what that means, but that explanation does not put any restriction on the license, and you don't even have to read or agree with them in order to use it.
You can also just buy regular milk off the shelf like most people do.
> "Until then it's useful to keep flogging the essay until people accept that yeah, this problem actually exists."

I fully agree, but I'm pleased to note that this is the first such 'management is dead' story where multiple commenters have given salient counterpoints (small company, no HR/PR disasters to date, who can fire you, etc), rather than jumping on the bandwaggon.
C# for Windows device drivers? Huh? How are you even going to handle an ISR (interrupt service routine, IRQ) or a DPC with C#? Or DMA, etc.?

Disclaimer: I've worked with Windows device drivers, and there's no way I can see you could use C# there. Maybe in UMDF, but you certainly can't do anything timing sensitive in user mode. And drivers are often timing sensitive.
So the police lied about his actions and what he said in order to fabricate a crime, but forgot there was a camera rolling. And of course after having their dishonesty proven in court they keep their jobs. Business as usual, really.
The man in this case says he never said anything about "bombs" either. It appears that the TSA supervisor entirely invented that.
Cool, thanks! I have forwarded the info, it's actually been driving me slightly bonkers. The designer uses a Macintosh, but my primary development box with a 30" monitor happens to be BOTH Macintosh OR Windows (KVM switch) and when I see our blog in Windows it looks terrible.
It's good to require purity from people. It teaches them to lie to everyone so they can meet an unmeetable standard.

See also: all modern politics.
When learning Rails, I found the DB naming conventions confusing enough that I wrote a blog post summarizing how everything is supposed to be named when I figured it out, since nobody else seems to have:

https://shinynuggetsofcode.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/conventi...

Like a lot of the Rails stuff, it feels like amazing cool magic when things just work. But then when they don't work and do something weird instead of what you expected, it feels like it takes forever to figure out why, what was named wrong, and what it's supposed to be named.
For one, in the US there exist a thing called 'private prison'.

Meaning prisons are run by private companies, with the intent to make as much money as possible.

Meaning laws are influenced by the money from these companies.

It's fucking scary, really.
thanks for pointing out. i don't remember the name Kiko but the logo looked familiar somehow. 2005, wow.
The Netflix/Verizon paid peering agreement was a saturated links issue. Netflix wasn't being specifically throttled, their transit provider couldn't negotiate enough interlink capacity with last-mile providers to fulfill their obligations to Netflix.
The victim/plaintiff in this suit claims he never made any remark about bombs.

The TSA agent made an original claim about a statement mentioning "bomb". And then later changed it something more sinister, but the plaintiff denies both.
I doubt that Niger, which is projected to quadruple in population by 2050, will be able to scale their agriculture on their own. If they're even sustaining themselves at this point.

Countries like that are able to increase their populations faster than their food production because of trade, and their agricultural leaps are because of outside help as well.

If the entire world was averaging 7+ children per woman I could see us hitting a food ceiling pretty quick.
'premium' milk... in other words, more processed food. Which, of course, is generally something to avoid.

Your comment is all about asserting that unprocessed food is good for you. Where's the evidence?
If there is one company that has the pockets and audience big enough to compete it is Apple. They will have to a hire an enormous number of the best search people to do it though.
Even more concerning with supplements is what has been seen in New York. A significant percentage of herbal supplements sold contained large quantities of bulking material and in some cases that was all they contained.

Which means everyone out there taking supplements would likely be less healthy than people eating food in a balanced manner.
What about Realm (http://realm.io/)? I've only briefly touched it, but I've heard good stuff about it. I wouldn't know how easy it is to access it from Java for cross-platform development, but at least there's full iOS & Android support.
Interesting to contrast this to what OS X(certainly Mavericks, maybe others) does. If you restart and opt to re-open previously open windows, they will open with screenshots of their previous states - only when you click on one will it dim the window and admit to you that it's not loaded yet. Personally, I find this a little irritating, giving the illusion that it's ready when it isn't. I find facebooks approach a little better, it doesn't pretend to be usable, but guides your eyes to the right part of the screen.
That actually was a fast/slow lane issue, and you may remember that was resolved without additional regulation or legislation.
> "Personally, I think that structurelessness is much more possible in 'our industry' because it's so culturally, racially, sexually, and class homogeneous ..."

Do you think this is a good thing? It is not.
I'm confused as to how it's similar to Tox. Matrix seems to be a server with an API that allows you to send and subscribe to messages. This would be useful for a software engineer working with M2M communication. Unless I'm looking at the wrong `Tox`, it seems to be a P2P IM client. These seem like completely separate domains, right?
When I first saw these cameras appear at JFK I was alarmed:
http://i.imgur.com/AA8mzMt.jpg

Then I thought about it and felt safer.

Now it seems even with the cameras, the TSA does what they please and aren't held to account.
But you know, this is how the recent work on deep networks for translating work and why they deliver such nice results: you have two recurrent neural networks, joined together in the middle.
There's a fine line between acknowledging that persecution is sometimes a requirement of successful disobedience, but you should not expect it as a requirement. That'd be like saying being surprised that people are mad when protesters get beaten, saying "that's the price for civil disobedience".
If it's free from lactose, then has it 30% less sugar than what?
> We're also the only animals that [...] get to eat fresh strawberries in the winter.

My cat would disagree with that.

> I always find it odd when people consider drinking milk to be unnatural, somehow -- as though it's any more unnatural than the other 99% of our modern diet.

Well, the fact that most non-Northern European adults are lactose intolerant is a better basis for concluding that drinking milk is, for most people, "unnatural" than is available for most other foodstuffs.
Doesn't tastes like milk: it tastes like something labeled "milk" in supermarkets.
Not that many people anymore know the taste of a real fresh milk that just came out of an animal.

edit: if you never did, go on a farm and try, you'll see, it's very different
There is a link to that Wikipedia article/animation at the linked site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Constructing_...
Interesting article. However, this early sentence did set off my detectors:

Mental and physical performance are strongly correlated, meaning maintaining your body will help maintain your mind.

Of course, the conclusion is not supported by (only) the correlation.
The alpha image I downloaded lacked apt-get (given it was snappy). Anyone know of a "normal" one?

(oh, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9000584 - I just got a board)
There is a difference between knowing how to write code and being a "software developer". I think a lot of people confuse the two. I am an Engineer (not the software kind) I write code almost every day in my job but I do not identify myself as a programmer. For me code is a tool to be used to solve a problem, like Calculus or Linear Algebra.

When I was at Uni we were required to take two subjects through the computer science faculty, "Intro to algorithms and data structures" and "Fundamentals of Software Engineering". The first subject was hugely interesting and I "Got it" right away. It was basically teaching you how to represent a problem computationally, we learnt about Binary and floating point representaion, what a stack was that sort of thing. This is heap sort, this is bubble sort, this is O(N) this is O(Log N) it clicked for me.

The second subject not so much. It was all about Unit tests, object oriented programming, the waterfall model. We had to write an essay about Ariane V failure. The lecturer was really big on a guy called Bertrand Meyer and his ideas about design by contract. The subject was really hard to engage with and almost caused me to lose interest completely. It was probably a good subject to learn if you were planning a career in software development but for a first year engineer not so much.

As cruel as it sounds I think the best way to teach someone to code is to explain algorithms and data to them. "Here's a Ruby tutorial try to follow along and you to can be a programmer" is dishonest and in my opinion not learning the fundamentals up front is what causes that "chasm of dispair" the article aludes to.
I think people disagree with that. At least some of the point for punishing people for crimes is to serve as a deterrent.
How are you going to learn calculus or differential equations without a text book and homework assignments? And how are you going to do anything in science without calculus or differential equations?
I'm having a really hard time trying to talk myself out of the case that this was not only perjury and false imprisonment, but kidnapping.

http://kidnapping.uslegal.com/kidnapping-v-false-imprisonmen...

Kidnapping occurs when a person, without lawful authority, physically moves another person without that other person’s consent, with the intent to use the abduction in connection with some other nefarious objective....

False imprisonment, on the other hand, gives rise to a civil claim for damages. False imprisonment means the illegal confinement of one individual without his or her consent by another individual in such a manner as to violate the confined individual’s right to be free from restraint of movement.

dragonwriter below brings up 18 USC 242, "Deprivation of rights under color of law"

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights ... and ... if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.﻿

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9000692
So, will this make it illegal for GoGo to block streaming video sites on airplanes during domestic flights?

200 people trying to stream Netflix over a satellite downlink? That should be a riot.
I'm surprised there isn't more discussion of the article's actual content.

Other than makeing me crave cheese omelets, this reminded me of Google's flu trend service - http://www.google.org/flutrends/ .

It also reminds me of "Ambient Findablity" by Peter Morville - http://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Findability-What-Changes-Becom... .
It may be the late hour here (CET), but I only kinda understood your question. What do you mean by "I can't replicate my model logic in my node services" ?
Is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5KaaFzn-Y
I'd like to refer this back to a response I gave before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441139.

Basically USA claimed to be using the CoE Convention on Cybercrime in order to have the server raid performed. But that convention requires that USA's government bodies extend the same legal protections to those in other countries as if they were USA citizens within their own jurisdiction (and the other country has to provide the safeguards of their own law too). That is, if the Fourth protects Ulbricht if he was in USA then the same protections must be applied.

This is very sensible. It means that parties can't go off on hunting expeditions and treat the citizens/subjects of other countries in the [convention's] union worse than they treat their own citizens.

Now the testimony I linked to in that prior post at once claimed that the CoE Convention was being used and claimed they weren't certain. To me that strongly suggests the USA government agent(s) was attempting to deceive whilst under oath, perhaps not strictly lying but certainly not being helpfully informative - perhaps they realised after the fact that they'd failed to abide by the convention and so claimed it was maybe "comity" in order to have a get out clause when the issue of safeguards was raised?

> ">In any event, even if the FBI had somehow “hacked” into the SR Server" //

So, such an unauthorised intrusion may not have run afoul of the Fourth, perhaps, but it would either have broken the domestic law or breached obligations under international conventions depending on if they sort permissions from Sweden first or not. [and possibly neither if they established a protocol that bypassed international agreement].

From where I'm viewing it seems USA don't really care about the application of the rule of law neither in USA nor in other countries when it comes to USA government agents.
Yes it probably did, that's why $213 million by the prosecution sounds plausible, - but considering bitcoin did not break $100 till April 2013 and their estimate spans 2.5 years through July it 1.2 billion sounds highly implausible.
Or a better search tool through all itunes content ( apps, books, courses, etc).
The IoT Singularity – Docker for Internet of Things Devices
So apparently Keiser was caught committing perjury and walked away scott free? Forget about keeping his job, how is he not going to prison?
Milk is low on calories, especially in proportion to the volume. A 500 ml portion of skim milk is a little more than 150 calories, which is a "bargain", for how filling it is.

Protein content is arguably insufficient. For people in need (real or imaginary), the amount is too little per portion - for the rest of the masses, a balanced diet will give enough proteins (especially considering the average meat intake in western countries).

Reasoned approaches to balanced nutrition look elsewhere for "slashing calories".
For other readers who do not know about Goose Island Brewery either, it is a fully-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch. Anheuser-Busch is the world's largest brewer and has a 25% world-wide market share.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_Island_Brewery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev
Why programming is hard is why everything is hard.

You’re not going to get good at anything unless you work hard at it.

All these hand holding sites are worthless because all the stuff on them is so easy. But they are popular because people are always looking for the easy option.

Want to be a good programmer. Buy a well-recommended book and spend 3 hours a day, 7 days a week trying to write code. Start with hello world and then build from there.

After three 3 months of that hard grind you'll either have some idea on how to write code or you will find you don't have the aptitude to be a programmer.

The bad news is even if you do find you can write code, the hard grind has just started.

You'll have to repeat the process for other programming topics like data structures, programming patterns, testing strategies, understanding database design etc etc.

Move forward five years and you're well on the way to being a well rounded developer.
Windows has the 7zip program which handles lzma just fine - it's overall a better program than zip anyway.
It kills me PMTU still can bite us. I remember when working at an ISP ~15 years ago and fighting PMTU issues all the time because we first tried to roll out ADSL service with PPP and later bridging and there was a bit of overhead we didn't account for. Match that up with my bosses conviction that all ICMP should be blocked, led to fun times (he was also a big proponent of disabling STP -- because you know it could cause whacky loops..).
I'd be thrilled if they took on Google.

But just be totally happy if app discovery and search was even slightly less atrocious.
We've also been looking at Axolotl as a better-than-OTR for the E2E crypto. But nothing is set in stone yet.
That may be in spite of their internal arrangement rather than because of it. It's not something we can ever know.
> convict the guy who becomes morbidly obese or extremely anorexic

Show me a "moridly obese"/anorexic who committed violent crime for his/her habit.
Management of work, not management of people, that's the key thing. Yes there's a hierarchy of responsibilities, but individual people live many places in that hierarchy which is what makes it different.
There is literally nothing unusual about "conveniently avoiding specifics" in a tech recruiting post. It's not even a tiny bit suspicious.

He may or may not have been the first to post about Silk Road on Bitcointalk, or anywhere for that matter, but that seems awfully thin ground for getting a warrant.

I'm surprised HN seems to be in favor of such action.
It'll be interesting to see if medical marijuana lobbyists are the ones that keep legalization from passing
I haven't used SWIG in 15 years, but having it emit a cffi shim would be a great way to get existing projects ported over to a more portable interface without requiring them to change anything.
the police lied about his actions

That Kieser guy is just a TSA employee, not a police officer.
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> "scientists in China, Japan, etc. would have to learn four languages to keep up with their field instead of just English."

Absolutely; the combinatorics here are huge. The UN has 6 official languages [0], the EU has 24 [1]. There are ~25 languages in the world with more than 50 million native speakers [2]. Does anyone think that science would be more efficient (or effective) if it had to be continually translated between a similar number of languages?

[0] http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/languages.shtml

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/languages/policy/linguistic-diversity/of...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_numb...