skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hopefully you agree that a thriving ecosystem of independent developers is an important competitive advantage for Apple."

If Apple cared about a thriving ecosystem of independent developers, they would make it easy for developers on non-Apple hardware to build and test iOS apps. For the Windows/Linux-based developer who is just interested in kicking the tires on iOS development, the walled Apple ecosystem is very unfriendly to experimentation. I know I focused early on Android development for mobile apps because of the lower barrier to entry.
I think your big issue is the amount of mobile traffic you get. As an ad buyer mobile traffic is completely worthless. I would literally rather set my money on fire just to watch it burn than to spend it on mobile ads.

That said you might have some luck via a promotion partnership where you get paid to directly promote an item.
Can you toss out a few use cases where I'd kill to have you guys over a traditional bank?

I'm curious how you pitched yourself to YC. Did you say you were going to be a sort of venue for people looking to build custom financial services on top of your API?
You need a degree to get better jobs.

Without a degree means that you were poor and think nearsighted.

That was me.

I have learned all the college lessons in high school and think that I could skip college.

Maybe you could get some good paying jobs now. But that's not sustainable. There is no career path.

You could out performance but still underachieve.

However, I suggest that you learn something else in college rather than computer.
"Am I using dpkg here? What about aptitude? Or should I just roll w/ apt-get?"

Just use "apt". It's new to Jessie, though.
In practice genetic algorithms don't do much better than hill climbing with random restarts.

You can do random restarts, stochasticism, or population based stuff on gradient methods too.

Yes it does require at least an estimate of the gradient, but that's not too hard to get and it converges much faster. Meta-heuristics are only a last resort when you can't get a gradient.

Although they are a bit simpler so there is nothing wrong with using them if the search space isn't too big.
[placeholder for long-winded brogrammer mansplaining the need to implement TCP over TCP instead of expending even the slightest effort in retaining the features that made the protocol popular in the first place]
This for example happened in the HTTP working group earlier today, the whole thing was rushed and the known flaws just keep adding up. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2015JanMar...
Git won, but Mercurial seems to have found a niche in organisations with huge repositories. https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
You're not wrong, but it is quite possible that you might accidentally end up with page-alignment without realising it, such as if your `malloc()` is backed by `mmap()`.
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I know I'm apparently not meant to be, but I'm genuinely keen to start using HTTP/2. If you've been following some of the things being done in HTML recently (rel=subresource, rel=dns-prefetch), I think it's starting to become a little obvious that for most people HTTP is the bottleneck. HTTP/2 seems to be a good, solid step forwards. If it's not perfect, well, it doesn't have to be; 2 isn't the last number.
Same deal with the "Scotch" and "Cognac" appellations. They're protected by law.

The thing to remember is, there's plenty of completely crappy Scotch and, presumably, Cognac. It's not mixed from pure ethanol - the countries who control the use of the appellations have laws about how the stuff can be made - but every drink industry has its bottom of the barrel stuff that it needs to get rid of somehow...
Admittedly, Apple probably has an excellent rate negotiated with the Credit Card Processors. But if you were to sell something for $0.99 yourself, it'd be hard to beat what Apple offers.

Taking Stripe as an example, you'd be charged 2.9% of 99¢ PLUS a fixed 30¢ per transaction. That's about 32.9% you lose to the payment processor.
It's time to begin the long process of unwinding all the hacks that we've built to make HTTP/1.1 fast. No more concatenation of static assets, no more domain sharding.

The future looks more like this, as the default, with no special effort required: https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles

May nobody else have to suffer through writing an interoperable HTTP/1.1 parser!
I agree with your sentiment.

Do we judge an "expert" on their ranking or on their knowledge and ability? If 50,000 people excelled to the level of the current #250, would only that best player be an expert, or could all 50,000 be considered to have excellent domain knowledge and ability? I'd call all of them experts.

Expert and "highly ranked" or "best" don't necessarily need to be the same thing.

Many of us get termed software experts or design experts or IT experts without any ranking systems.
What are the current rates for international payments. I'm very interested in the pricing structure here since it's an area that could certainly use some disruption!
"..representations of abstract concepts, capacities for learning and reasoning... consciousness is some sort of sophisticated, elegant computation ..." -- But would it love?
My company uses SAS fairly heavily for data analysis and bussiness reporting. It's also our go to tool for ad-hoc querries of production databases (essentialy a SQL gui).

Excel (and other spreadsheet packages like Calc) are good for non technical users it's useful for rapidly prototyping stuff but it is absolutely a pain for automation and any type of statistical heavy lifting. Once a spreadsheet reaches a certain level of complexity it becomes a pain to support and maintain much better to have a real database driving things.

I've heard a lot about R which is kind of an open-source version of SAS (at least the statistical parts) not sure what its automation and reporting support is like my limited understanding is it doesn't have the BI parts.
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Philosophy of science is something you might be familiar with. It takes a tangential approach to science and it is highly frowned upon in the philosophy community to make judgements about science directly. Instead the idea is to reason about the scientific process intead of trying actively to define it. Let the scientists do their job, then as a philosopher you try to construct an intellectual framework to make sense of what they are doing. The realism-antirealism debate is an example of that today. People argue about whether the science being done at CERN, and the models they produce to explain the observed phenomena, are explaining the "real" world as it is, or if they are simply convenient mathematical theories that attempt to explain empirical phenomena. There is no debate over wether or not they are doing valid science, the debate is over what the process they engage in and the conclusions they draw imply for our understanding of reality, our experience, and what it means to attain knowledge. The people debating these issues are by no means removed from the scientific community either. Most professors who write these papers either are physicists themselves or work closely alongside them and have intimate understandings of the science and math before they start to write. The papers are themselves targeted at other physicists and philosophers with understandings of these topics far more advanced than my own.

I find it unfortunate when people like the commentator above make the claims that they do because it detracts from the respect that the field of philosophy deserves. It may not have the most obvious practical applications but it deserves attention and some of it is really mind-bending stuff. When people like Steven Hawking shit on the subject it's really a shame. They are causing themselves to miss out and they are driving potential great thinkers away.
Availability bias? A major story about a chain of suicides of entrepreneurs on a Las Vegas tech hub was moved below the fold in spite of deserving the top position. And it quickly went to page 2 after that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8404207

There were many HN stories promoting that place for a good while. But when things go sour HN looks the other way.

Dropbox problem story first moved below the fold, then deleted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7568267

Those are just 2 examples. I'm not all day on the site, so I very likely miss most of these cases. This is just a tip of an iceberg.
How does this compare to Standard Treasury? It looks like maybe Seed is more on the consumer/business side and ST would be seen as a wholesale banking provider (one level up in the bank chain)?
Update HN: GOLO, Added “Descriptions” Feature to Tasks, Comments?
Hello Guys

Its about Golo (http://getgolo.com), a simple project management app. If not interested in yet another project management app, you can stop reading here.

Why am I posting updates?

This is a way for me to keep myself motivated. I am trying to keep the app extremely minimal and hence I try to say to NO to most of the features coming to my mind unless its extremely critical and hence these posts will be less (if they annoy you ;)

So, I am trying to build this app while trying to manage 3 different teams (max team size is 3, total members across all teams is 6 excluding me). I am adding in GOLO what I am finding extremely necessary for me to manage these completely different teams.

But first let me talk about features I have excluded:

1) Assignment: In such a small co-located team, its hardly a question of knowing who is working on what. Hence no assignment of tasks to anyone and hence one less item on your screen.

2) Time: Assuming product companies only, when you know everyone is working to their potential, there is no point on keeping tabs on who is working on what & for how long. Hence another thing out the window.

3) associating comments to individual names, almost the same logic (although people may differ on this one)

One thing which I added recently was to attach bits of information to a task. I call it description(s). Multiple of them. It can be ideas, discussion outcomes or anything text. It has been extremely helpful to me so I thought will share it with you guys. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Links to older posts:
=====================

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8986355

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9010978

PS: If you want to try it, I have created a project shared with the world: http://getgolo.com/projects/d52182ec195ee772a6ef1692f2ee5445 (obviously you will have to register to try it, sorry about that!)
Slack isn't interested in remote workers
In other words comparing apples with oranges.
> I guess if I truly cared about my TLS keys

Or a tested, non-alpha, security team verified edition of FreeBSD?

I mean come on, We are not saying that you should only generate keys from cosmic rays and personal messages from $DEITY. Only that you do it on a production ready OS, is that really too much to expect?

On a side-note. Unless your devs are involved in the development of FreeBSD, why are they on -CURRENT?
http://getgolo.com

http://getgolo.com/projects/d52182ec195ee772a6ef1692f2ee5445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8986355

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9010978
Maybe it's driven by the UK's libel laws, and lack of a First Amendment?

In the US, the media can report on powerful people, then claim protection from the US constitution.

In the UK, there is no such protection, so reporting facts about powerful people is a dangerous business. Instead, the strategy is to turn the events into a satire. One has to walk a fine line with the satire. It has to be realistic enough that the audience can have an inkling about who is being referred to. At the same time, it has to ridiculous enough that no powerful person will be prepared to turn themselves into a laughing stock by claiming that the satire is actually refers to themselves, which would be the implication of a claim of libel.
I'm not talking about repetitive insignificant content. I'm talking about original and relevant content that is censored or allowed to be censored by small groups of users with financial/personal stakes.
I have no idea how to use any of this. Fortunately, there's even more files in the directory, one level up!

http://www.pement.org/awk/

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

AWK was preceded by sed (1974). Both were designed
for text processing. They share the line-oriented,
data-driven paradigm, and are particularly suited to
writing one-liner programs, due to the implicit main
loop and current line variables.

I feel like line-oriented programming tools are a silly idea, limiting activities to plain text ASCII. More file formats don't involve new line characters than do, no?

Also, is there any reason to prefer sed over awk, when awk is available? Is awk ever not available?
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http://myrontanenbaummd.com/blog/what-expect-during-your-eyelid-surgery-consultation/ The best plastic surgeons in Miami are going to take the time to learn about you before putting you under the knife, and that includes filling out sheets of paperwork and talking with you during and after a consultation. Plastic surgery in Miami should be taken seriously, which means you need to be of sound mind, body, and spirit. So what information do you need to provide during your initial appointment? When getting plastic surgery in Miami, you're going to need to disclose what you're allergic to, especially medications. This is to ensure you won't be allergic to the anesthesia or any prescriptions provided afterward. Finally, before getting Miami plastic surgery, it's also vital that you disclose what medications you're on to the doctor up until the day of the procedure.
Spy (1986-1998) was loosely based on Private Eye.
I agree with what aaronchall said. I'll add that you should consider the cost of college. If you're going to take out burdensome student loans and/or put your parents in debt (that they can't handle), it might make more sense to skip college, or to consider community college (it's cheap), state schools (if yours is cheap), or scholarships.

Finances aside... I don't see employers hiring a high school grad who also has no experience. During high school, start freelancing on projects that can be listed in a portfolio (not backend/proprietary apps), or convince someone to give you a part-time job (even if it's just installing printers), or do projects for charities.

Also there's nothing wrong with taking a year off after high school and seeing how things pan out.

Importantly, once you have a few good years of professional programming experience, the difference in not having a degree is a lot less. But some companies will still not hire you because of red tape, and some mega corps will put you in a lower pay bracket.

Keep in mind that hiring patterns vary by geography. Take a look at degree requirements in job ads where you want to work and note the in-demand skills. Also remember that many jobs are not posted on job boards. Start networking too (find a local hackerspace or look around on meetup.com).

> I know that if I went to college, a lot of what I know would be repeated

Probably just the first year material. If you want to avoid this then take the AP comp sci exams. Or opt for the easy A's.
>> we have to use Wayland instead of X11, because X11 is impossible to secure.

Yet X11 was designed in the prime example world of a mult-user OS, UNIX. Hmm.

>> We also need to use kdbus to allow desktop integration that is properly filtered at the kernel level.

Didn't I read an article on HN recently talking about a vulnerability in Windows and the subject of too close a relationship between the kernel and the end user graphics came up?
This is correct: the posts above referring to "page swaps" are a little misleading. The only reason I can think of to keep things within one page is to reduce the load on the TLB, which caches logical-to-physical addresses and which has the granularity of a page.

That being said if you're really looking to optimize for TLB misses you should be using huge pages if your OS and processor support them.
In the hypothetical scenario the attacker doesn't have the client's private key so it can't authenticate to the server. It can pass along the session key from the server but then it won't be able to read the data.
Does your side project really require you to run your own node server and mysql server? Do the cost benefit on running those things yourself vs paying more for something like Heroku etc or other services with higher level abstractions.

I think automation is really important at the business process level but at this stage you should probably give yourself a budget to buy vs build in most all but your really core areas. Lay the foundation but defer where you can.

Things I would do right away is:

- Have a credit card just for the business

- Automate your accounting (push orders to accounting system)

- Automate your inventory management (at least have a system)

- Figure out shipping well and automate that.

I leverage Shopify and Xero for these and it works OK for now.

Feel free to email me if you want to compare notes in detail.
It's actually surprisingly awkward to figure out if a system is affected; the best I can come up with is

SVNVER=`uname -v | cut -f 4 -d ' ' | cut -c 2-7`
if [ $SVNVER -ge 273872 ] && [ $SVNVER -lt 278907 ]; then
echo buggy RNG
fi

But even that doesn't answer the important question -- what matters is not whether you are on a buggy system but rather whether your keys were generated on a buggy system. And there's no practical way to figure that out programmatically.

I'd also probably mention that this affects very few Tarsnap users earlier. First sentence early.

Fair enough. I'm good at memory dumps, not so good at figuring out which bits are most important.
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tashfeens, I'm always skeptical about healthcare startups. A few questions: How accurate are your predictions, and how do you assess accuracy? (Do you have any prospective studies?) How is this better than the nanny reminders in current EMRs such as Epic? How does your platform deal with missing data when a chunk of a patient's visits are not transmitted to your platform?

Does the software parse free text, depend on someone taking the time to curate a list of "problems" or "diagnoses", or just look at lab values? What is the explanation given by the software when it makes a recommendation, other than deference to a statistical model?

Why would I, a physician, want to spend time or money on this rather than depend on my own sensibilities and training? (I am not going to watch the demo video on your website because I will not agree to an NDA.)
These are getting funnier. Now back to actually trying to better myself instead of blaming "unconscious" biases for all of my problems.
It's always interesting to me how simplistic significant changes to a product seem to outsiders. "Overnight" was the key word here. What most people don't consider is that the UI may need to undergo a serious revamp (with nearly unlimited possibilities to evaluate in order to find what Apple's design team believes best), the testing that QA has to perform to catch edge case bugs from the revision, not to mention that these changes may only be deliverable through an update to iOS itself (something that is already considered to be an unwelcome burden by some users).

If you don't think that Apple and its competitors genuinely want to deliver the best experience that they can within the time and cost budgets that they have to adhere to if they want to remain competitive then you severely underestimate the people who put in the long hours required to get these products into your hands.
interactive PID controller widget
So you are unwilling to intellectually evaluate certain positions and want to lower the status of people ("creep", "nerd") who do. How is that not anti-intellectual? What, if anything, would qualify as anti intellectual in your view?

If you scroll up you'll see that I dont share tomp's skepticism. Stuff like this happens all the time, in and out of tech.
Glad someone here has critical thinking skills.
This isn't about isolating users from each other, but isolating different applications running as the same user from each other. X11 (and Unix itself) was not designed to do this.

Also, kdbus has nothing to do with graphics.
Is one of /the main prng on FreeBSD actually arc4random? I.e. RC4?
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The conversation is they're right and your sexist!
That comment was atrocious, but this one breaks the HN guidelines too.

Please don't respond to bad comments with personal attacks. Instead, flag the comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking "flag".
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So, GP suggested that the behavior of people in the chats was to basically rally to close questions, and likened it to voting rings on HN (which are, I believe, algorithmically regulated or at least are supposed to be).

My issue is that SO is a dominating first-hit for lots of technical questions, and that by setting themselves into that position they kind of owe it to the community to make sure they don't have jerks (via voting rings or any such analogue) screwing up the quality of their results.

For example, I've searched for "what is the best x for y?" or "what are the tradeoffs for x vs y", and had even (a long time ago) contributed answers to similar questions in their game development exchange--however, they (or their users) have decided that there is no value whatsoever in fielding questions of that variety.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=16...

"STANDARD DEFINITIONS OF OBESITY, which are based on height and weight, may not apply to former National Football League players and other groups with greater muscle mass, according to a new study"

Emphasis mine.

From your own quotation, "typically indicated by a body mass index of 30 or greater"

Body mass index. BMI. BMI being height and weight. A la http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmic...

Ergo, a standard definition of obesity is calculated by height and weight, deemed 'BMI', which does not take muscle mass into account. Which is what my post states. BMI would state they're obese, and that says little about their actual health.
If I spend an hour or two a week driving for Uber it seems pretty fair to consider me a contractor.

What if I spend 15 hours a week? Am I a contractor or a part time worker? What about 40 hours? Am I an employee yet?

Now let's make it worse. I drive 60 hours a week, but I drive for Uber, Lift, and a hypothetical third rid share company. Am I an Uber employee? 'No because you drive for three services.' But what if 90% of my 'gigs' come from Uber?

It can get really hard to draw that line.

And that's ignoring thins like companies paying 'temps' or 'contractors ' for years to work one hour less than full time.
Heh. I'm not sure space shuttles is the right unit of measurement. Five space shuttles doesn't sound like much at all.

But you could build about 25 Hoover Dams for 19 billion dollars...
Our iOS game has been featured a couple of times under "Best New Games" when it's been out for a year and was actually an update. Could be Best Games, Best New Games, and Best Updates to keep things more accurate.

Not going to gripe about any feature too much, but I wonder how many App Store visitors find that sort of thing annoying?
"Looking at the numbers reported by independent developers, I think it’s safe to say that Apple’s 30% cut of App Store revenues can have a big impact on their success or failure."

But what if, Apple hugely improve App Store's app discoverability, searching, tagging and sharing? Therefore opening up a bigger potential market? ( And hence making more money )