skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Thiel isn't the first big investor to enter marijuana. This has been a heavily watched market ever since marijuana started becoming decriminalized/legal with a doctor's prescription.
It's a classic chicken and egg question. In software development, do you need the engineer first, to build the product, that can then be sold even further.
I played with Legos a ton as a kid, and I have a completely different view on what made Legos good. Building Legos with only basic bricks can be fun, but there's only so much depth to it. It was actually the special pieces that enabled you to make really interesting things, and I didn't feel like they stifled creativity at all. Not having the special pieces would be like cooking with only flour, butter, salt, and water. You can probably make a few tasty things, but I don't think you would want to eat that every day.
Github is a website, it's it's job to make the browser handle it well.
Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test
Apparently, it varies from state to state which isn't a surprise.

http://engineerboards.com/index.php?showtopic=4328
I definitely wouldn't consider that to be a "melt-down"
did you just wake up from a coma? did you miss the whole discussion that has been going on for the last couple of years?
From that forum thread:

> The California Board does regulate certain engineering titles, but not all. For example, they don't regulate the plain-vanilla title of "engineer". They also don't regulate titles like "aerospace engineer" or "project engineer".

> The law only gives them authority over certain specific titles, as per Section 6732 of the Professional Engineer's Act:

>QUOTE

>It is unlawful for anyone other than a professional engineer licensed under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal or stamp of a professional engineer, or in any manner, use the title “professional engineer,” “licensed engineer,” “registered engineer,” or “consulting engineer,” or any of the following branch titles: “agricultural engineer,” “chemical engineer,” “civil engineer,” “control system engineer,” “electrical engineer,” “fire protection engineer,” “industrial engineer,” “mechanical engineer,” “metallurgical engineer,” “nuclear engineer,” “petroleum engineer,” or “traffic engineer,” or any combination of these words and phrases or abbreviations thereof unless licensed under this chapter.

So, it wouldn't apply to simply a generic "Engineer" or a "Software Engineer"
I started reading this and then I thought of Occam's Razor. This theory is appears way too complex to be true, something much simpler likely happened.
You gave examples of assets that did not turn out to have positive value in the future. They absolutely had value at the time they were purchased.
I disagree- The value of something is "what you can get someone to pay for it." That is the only concrete, objective, and rational way to determine value.

> Ask anyone that has been in a ponzi scheme/stock that went to 0

Well, given that you're stipulating a value of zero then clearly you are unable to get someone to pay for it and it's value is zero, by definition.
Smart cards are super cool! The number of real applications is pretty limited, though, with computer authentication being almost all of them (payment cards, yes, but the fallback to 'conventional' processing negates a lot of the advantage). I think that challenge-response NFC authentication will make this kind of technique more practical for physical access control applications.
Except he did have the correct papers, including his Oscar invite, and the TSA didn't believe him.
Wasn't the central point of the article that skateboarding is a sexist non-meritocracy and that it parallels the tech industry? I could have done more but I tried to address the first two claims in the amount of time I have to spend on the HN tonight. Whether or not it parallels the tech industry is largely a moot point since the first two claims can't withstand scrutiny.
I don't know if we'll halt, but we may have a point where things stagnate for a bit. We've been increasing at breakneck speeds for a very long time.

I don't see that as a bad thing. There's plenty of optimization opportunities on the software level. Think of the difference between first-generation and last-generation console games.
Wow, thanks for typing that up. You're really knowledgeable!

I generally thought of Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Jordan sharing the same political and cultural climates. It's very interesting to hear that they're so different, I had no idea.

What do you think that America should do / shouldn't do to try to stabilize that region? How do you think America should be fighting terrorism?

More importantly, as we're on HN, how do you think that NSA data collection plays into it all?
I'm still convinced Assembly[0] is the greatest platform for budding developers to get experience, potentially earn some money, and network with other developers. Trying to commit to open source as a newbie is...well...hard. Most mature FOSS products feel like monstrosities and culturally are intimidating (omg dhh is gonna think I suck).

If you're a noob and do wanna go the FOSS route, find libraries you use and are familiar with and contribute. Contributing can be in the form of issue identification and potentially fork/PR's. OR scratch your own itch, even if it's not totally productive. I helped build a Dota2 API gem and I have yet to use it for a project. If you want to go into the actual application building mode, then do check out Assembly. Plenty of JS projects there: https://github.com/asm-products

[0] - https://assembly.com/
Seeing "Mixins are awesome" is bringing back so many code smells. : (
Whoa, really? What cable provider?
You are grossly misinformed about the dangers and benefits of marijuana.
Interesting post in that this is the first time I've seen someone from the bitcoin speculator group challenge the thesis of those in the VC/startup group.

Both groups are clearly 'talking their book', but this reads like little more than cheerleading/threatening aimed at himself and fellow speculators. For example:

If Cryptocurrency 2.0 ever replaces Bitcoin and all Bitcoins
become worthless, confidence in the category of
cryptocurrencies in general will be, I believe,
irreparably damaged. If Cryptocurrency 2.0 just replaced
Bitcoin, there's nothing stopping Cryptocurrency 3.0 from
replacing Cryptocurrency 2.0 and sending the value of its
tokens to zero. Ad infinitum.
Your economics are unique compared to typical SASS, for example. The LTV of a Youtube channel subscriber is basically $0.
It may not be the greatest, but at least it's a (pseudo)standard. Once upon a time each tool used its own language- Tcl, scheme, skill, vpx, etc.

It lacks some advanced features, but so does bash- to me, Tcl makes the most sense when you think of it as a shell.
My degree was in physics, but my thesis project was a fairly technology intensive experiment, where I was able to develop my chops in electronics, programming, etc. I intensified my focus on those things as it became clear that an academic career was not in my stars. No regrets. I know some of the qualities of successful academics, and I don't possess them. I do enjoy being involved in making things.

And it was 20+ years ago, when there was maybe a bit more migration between physics and engineering, and not so damn many specialized tools to learn.

They say "luck is the residue of design," but I sure owe a lot to pure luck. I was graduating into a rotten job market, but got my first job through a friend-of-a-friend sort of deal. It was a small company where a jack of all trades could be of value, though the pay wasn't great. When things began looking better job-market-wise, my spouse and I moved to a new town.

I actually did teach a couple of courses as an adjunct during a brief period of unemployment. It was hard work because I was doing it for the first time. Now I'm back in industry, doing a sort of systems architect thing for a company that makes measurement equipment.

As for entrepreneurship, yes, I have a very small side-business making an electronic gadget, but it is for a very specialized and mature market, so it's not start-up material. The good thing is that I've actually learned a lot about running a small business.

The biggest, and perhaps only, barrier to me starting a start-up is that I don't have a good idea. I've racked my brain, read all of PG's essays, and so forth, and a compelling idea just hasn't assembled itself in my brain yet.
You can also ponder it from the perspective of a rational hijacker. Why fake BFO when you could have just had no pings at all?
The Go team does want to innovate on the toolchain. A key factor in the design of Go is the belief that once a language is "good enough", developers are better served by a superior toolchain (and specifically faster compilation) than by a fancier language. They want to own the toolchain so they can optimize it for Go and make their own tradeoffs about speed versus features.
I really never enjoy this slippery slope argument, when arguably the most harmful drugs [1, 2] are already very much legal (sometimes the drug is controlled, but at least studies can be done, and those who can benefit have access).

[1]:http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...
[2]: note Adderall ~= meth, morphine ~= heroine, tobacco, alcohol, you get the picture
> backward Southern states that really could use the tax
> revenue

There's a lot of money to be made locking people up too...
I ran HTTP Nowhere for a while. I don't know what I was supposed to expect, but I was rather shocked by the number of expired and invalid HTTPS certificates. Akamai serving secure sites was a pretty common failure mode.
You might want to read this thread on HN before you decide:

"I am done with the freemium business model"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3416108
> There are alternate compilers for Go, in the form of gccgo and llgo. But those are both very slow to build (compared to the Go tree that takes ~30s to build the compiler, linker, assembler and standard library).

For any non-Gophers reading this: I write Go as my primary language, and have for the past two and a half years. I just timed the respective compilation speeds on a handful of my larger projects using both gc and gccgo (and tested on a separate computer as well just for kicks).

gccgo was marginally slower, though not enough to be appreciable. In the case of two projects, gccgo was actually slightly faster. The Go compiler/linker/assembler/stdlib are probably larger and more complex than the most complex project on my local machine at the moment, but I think my projects are a reasonable barometer of what a typical Go programmer might expect to work with (as opposed to someone working on the Go language itself).

The more pressing issue as far as I'm concerned is that gccgo is on a different release schedule than gc (because it ships with the rest of the gcc collection). That's not to say it's not worth optimizing either compiler further when it comes to compilation speed, but it's important for people considering the two compilers to understand the sense of scale we're talking about - literally less than a second for most of my projects. Literally, the time it takes you to type 'go build' is probably more significant.
oh, its hideous. Especially when hardware design engineers write it. No tests, no real comments, just code that didn't work commented out. For all of the flack PHP receives, TCL is a hammer with the steel claw removed and replaced with a picture of a butterfly.
Isn't font on hackernews too small?
plus text on grey gives hard time to read.
is it intentional or mean this way only?

thanks
> "the science says" card

Science has a well-known liberal bias
Oded Schramm died in 2008 on solo climb in Washington State. Really should have won a Fields medal for his work on SLE (Schramm-Loewner evolution), as his collaborator Wendelin Werner received.
Google Vietnam Domain Hacked by Lizard Squad
Following up on my own question...

Section 3 prohibits the election or appointment to any federal or state office of any person who had held any of certain offices and then engaged in insurrection, rebellion or treason.

Section 3 was used to prevent Socialist Party of America member Victor L. Berger, convicted of violating the Espionage Act for his anti-militarist views, from taking his seat in the House of Representatives in 1919 and 1920.

- source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

And as far as pardoning oneself as president, it's possible: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/19...
Ask HN: Layoffs in the Bay Area?
Are you seeing a rise in layoffs in the Bay Area as of lately? I'm aware of at least Cisco, eBay, Microsoft and NetApp. Any thoughts on how this might affect the extremely high house prices?
> it lacks OOP data structures.

Untrue. Part of the point of the referenced article is to dispel such outdated misconceptions.
But vices are usually heavily taxed. (Ok, sure, some of this is medicinal, but let's be frank) So, i don't see much of an issue with it.

Leveraging taxes makes this appealing to people for whom it might not be.

As for the prices being similar to black market, that may be so, for now, but there is one thing which should give it an advantage and that's quality control, aka, branding.

And, as others have pointed out, legalizing it, eliminates the social cost of prosecuting what were once crimes --that's a big advantage.
I'll give you defacto standard, but all of the vendors have their own flavor (Synposys, I'm looking at you). Cadence still actively develops their Skill language (Virtuoso). I just saw some VPX last week too. I see it as a very old language that hasn't evolved like almost every other decent language.
World’s Data Could Fit on a Teaspoon-Sized DNA HD and Survive 1000s of Years
Thanks. That's good data. I haven't seen any measurements for a few years. It's good to see that gccgo has caught up. Which version of gc did you test?

Yes, the release schedule is another important reason for building our own toolchain. Being in control of one's destiny is often underrated.
Which SXBlue model were you using? Any details on how you're able to get RTK corrections without a base station? Or was the SXBlue fusing together data from GPS and GLONASS to obtain centimeter level positioning?
Whoops—that was fixed but the fix wasn't deployed. Sorry about that. It should work now.
I think the photos of Archimedes and Isaac Newton are inaccurate. Edit: seems to be a bug in iPad safari causing the wrong images to display...
This is how I feel about climate change.
Yes, but then there would never be conspiracies because they are almost always more complicated than non-conspiracies.
Screening of KILLSWITCH – “The Battle to Control the Internet” on Capitol Hill
The inaccuracy can't be solely attributed to environment. Many identical twins who share identical DNA that are separated at birth still share remarkably similar facial features. If two faces generated by identical strands of DNA in the real world remain identical, despite being grown in different environments then an accurate simulation of DNA should reproduce an accurate face regardless of environment.

The inaccuracy arrives from the black box statistical process they use to generate the face. They don't know the full story behind how billions of strands of DNA can scaffold a physical face made out of billions of cells, nerves and blood vessels.

Instead they just measure a bunch of faces relate it back to certain known attributes in the DNA and then generate a face. This process will always be inaccurate. In short they treat the system like a black box and build a simulation of the black box by only establishing correlations between input and output.

Imagine if some alien race used this type of process in attempt to analyze the linux operating system running on a computer. They measure the electrical output of each pixel in the monitor and they find statistical correlations between pixel configurations in the monitor and the arrangement of bits in the cpu register. Using this process the Aliens can only gain a very flawed understanding of what's actually happening.
I stand corrected. Added in 2013! That explains why I haven't seen it. It won't see its way into the EDA tools where I use it for 10 years. :)
http://wiki.tcl.tk/21276
What we need is an app to vacuum up whatever spare change is left of retail customers at the top of a stock market, and Staygg is that app.
No, I think it is from the awful mess that was "Terminator:Salvation" based on the file name (I can't recall the screen from the film, but then again it's a film that it is best to just forget. Go watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles instead while waiting for T5):

mate_2015.02.15.051456.utc-smplayer-2009-terminator-salvation-mp4_16-9.jpg
When Rijndael was chosen as AES, it was ~3 years old and was broken for 6-7 rounds out of 10 with 128 bit keys, and 7-8 rounds out of 14 with 256 bit keys. Chacha20 is 7 years old now and is broken for 7 rounds out of 20, with the attacks on BLAKE/BLAKE2 holding up that margin. You should be very comfortable with Chacha20!
It took me about three seconds to find your city, address, consulting company -- and that you're a Pisces. Do you really live in a world where the spooks block HBO but can't figure out who you are from this post?
Possibly you have ADHD. I suggest you read Hollowell and Ratey's "Driven to Distraction". If it sounds eerily familiar, consult either a psychiatrist or neurologist.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2008, the day after I came within an hour of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, but chose to admit myself to a psychiatric hospital instead.
Would you recommend it as a learning exercise?
SmartBear had a great post on this for beginners:

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/14-ways-to-contribute-...
3-4 year limit on software patents would certainly help. It puts the incentives closer to where they should be, and is a straightforward fix too, unlike revamping / abolishing the whole patent system.

It certainly doesn't fully address the fundamental problems of the system, but it could be a reasonable first step.
I wonder how much React-style UI libraries can make up for the poor DOM access. Do all the calculation in asm.js and just dump out the diff for the plain js dom updater to deal with.
> Where is this fact documented?

http://tip.golang.org/doc/install/source#go14

> Are patches tested against 1.4 tool chain binaries?

The builders build the tool chain with Go 1.4, so the build dashboard will show failures if a patch incompatible with 1.4 is submitted. (We have pre-commit trybots that do the same.)
Gareth Williams (26 September 1978 – c. 16 August 2010) was a Welsh mathematician and employee of GCHQ seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Security Service safe house flat in Pimlico, London, on 23 August 2010. His decomposing naked remains were found in a red North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom.

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

Philip Taylor Kramer (July 12, 1952 – February 12, 1995) was a bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly during the 1970s. After this he obtained a night school degree in aerospace engineering, he worked on the MX missile guidance system for a contractor of the US Department of Defense and later in the computer industry on fractal compression, facial recognition systems, and advanced communications. His disappearance on February 12, 1995 caused a mystery lasting for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Taylor_Kramer
That's perhaps my favorite part of Bitcoin. For good or bad, it was started by people rallying against the big centralized banks, and now at every turn we are hitting reasons why centralization makes a lot of sense. I half suspect that eventually it will come to resemble the current centralized systems, whether people want it or not. For example, the number of complete blockchains is dwindling as more people individually elect to start using partial-blockchain clients because of space & traffic.

It's especially endearing to me because it's my primary objection to anarchists (of whom I have several as friends)- that the system they envision just isn't stable, and we arrived at the system we have now for that reason.
WebRTC Draft Published
On this machine, gc 1.4.1 vs. gcc 4.9.2 (with no extra flags). My other machine has gc's tip, but runs Wheezy so it's probably an older version of gcc... it wasn't much different either way. I would barely have noticed it if I hadn't been timing it.
Call me maybe: etcd and Consul (2014)
I think the main point of the story is not to convince us that he has a good proof. But rather to document how we convince ourselves, and how we latch on to small things and head down a path. Once we are on a path we become commited to it and it becomes hard to turn back.

Notice how he talks about the "crazies" on the forum. How they would use aliases, log back in and mention their stupid "lightning" theory, and he had to kick them out.

However, he then carefully proceeds to discribe how he did pretty much the same. Spent his own money and time building this complicated theory of super smart and efficient russian spies hacking into a satcom of a flying aircraft, also somehow, incapacitation everyone else on board, etc. In the meantime he is dropping clues how his own wife doesn't even believe him.

I think many people here, judging by the comments, misunderstood the goal of the article and took it too literaly.

But, there is a good lesson here. This stuff happens if you program and design software. There are lot of moving parts and lot of imperfect knowledge -- market needs, tools, langauges, platforms, APIs, architectures desicions, etc etc. Sometimes if you start to "just write code" too early. You end up committed to a bad path and it becomes hard mentally to throw it away and restart. Or, alternatively, you spend so much time picking the right combination of tools or redesigning the system that it becomes too later to do anything (someone else already built the system or there is no need for it anymore somehow).
yes indeed... this system of down-voting by HN is certainly not being used as content-control but more as a form of censor-ship and political-correctness(especially when it comes to 'women')....
> the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and unusual

No, not really. 2014 actually had less crashes of large planes (6) than any previous year on record, it's just that three of them were particularly large -- and the death toll was still less than 2005 (or 2002 or 2001 or 2000). http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
Solving the binding problem with Swift
Circuit Board New York City
its one of the two local dominant ones but I'm not sure which. I'll try to find out tomorrow. I'd say the city but this topic is already terrifying enough considering the nature of the "adversary", haha, oh man. if you email me I'll tell you city. I'm hoping to see reports from others. I find it hard
to believe it would just be one person, one device. surely whoever/whatever did this would do an entire region/provider combo, at a minimum

10pm local. checked again. still black and silent. all other channels fine still, showing shows.
Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal
haha. fair point.

EDIT: if you think you have my address please email it to me (its in my profile). my opsec is far from perfect, haha, but I doubt its bad enough for you to have found it (that quickly anyway)
What Our 3D-Printed, Biohacked Bodies Will Look Like, According to Smart People
If anything, it was a good read.

It was one of those rare stories where I was looking at my scroll position hoping I wasn't near the end. Usually it is the other way around.
Oh hey look, TrueCrypt.

Despite the more vocal members of the security industry basically hating the software, it turns out to be one of the few tools folks have successfully used to maintain their privacy.