skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't understand why anyone is surprised. Anything you load from Google's servers is used to gain more insight into your online habits.

It's their core business. To learn as much as possible about people online to be able to show them the most relevant ads.
I thought that he was being pretty clear throughout the article that this was a description of his personal journey into becoming a "believer" - despite how ludicrous what he was believing in.

I'm hoping that nobody seriously believes the NYT published this article backing the belief that MH 370 didn't crash.

I mean, it starts with the title of the story - the key line in this entire story is this:

And yet, once I started looking for evidence, I found it.

And, just in case people hadn't picked up on his actual thesis, he explicitly states it near the end:

"Still, it occurred to me that, for all the passion I had for my theory, I might be the only person in the world who felt this way. Neurobiologist Robert A. Burton points out in his book "On Being Certain" that the sensation of being sure about one’s beliefs is an emotional response separate from the processing of those beliefs."
I bet a major cause of the traffic surge are just curious people like you that aren't even interested in this service, or jealous people that are intentionally pushing the limits and trying to make them fail. In fact, the fact that you're slandering them with an HN post might suggest you are more the latter. I am not in the market at all for this so I obviously haven't used it, but hopefully for them they can identify and keep their legitimate customers (not you) happy.
I understand and I agree. My point is just that sites make money with fake claims of viruses on your computer - I think real browsing history would scare the money out of enough unsophisticated people to make it profitable.
Static binaries are bad design as soon as a library has a security flaw. Remember when there was a double free in zlib and Apple had to release a 1.3GB patch to update everything that linked it in statically - and even that only fixed the problem for Apple-official programs, not for anything the user had installed?
Trend analysis at the shallow end of the pool
I too had that impression.

I can vouch for (1) being correct since I am managing an HPC Cluster for a company right now. The way to to is modules.sf.net (or the newer and nicer Lmod which is Lua).

The usual need is for a multitude of versions being avaible and easily usable. This starts at the compiler level and goes up to stuff like I have 5 versions of Tool X. This needs Python 2.7.3 (yes exactly that version). Now make it easy for me to use it.

It has been my only touching point with TCL so far -- I. Don't. Like. It.
Ask HN: Pros/Cons of a remote-based team over setting up in Silicon Valley?
An obvious benefit is that you can avoid the ridiculously expensive cost of living in the valley and set up in one of these nice places instead: https://nomadlist.com/ . You can also benefit from a larger talent pool and provide a nice perk for your future employees.

On the other hand I cannot see how team communication/ productivity wouldn't be impacted. Buffer has done it in a nice way but can it be scaled/replicated for any startup?

What do you think? Would you like to setup your team remotely? Already made the step?
I wonder if Uber 2025 will ever be cheap enough to make not having a car in the burbs almost a mandatory requirement.

Last time I was in the area my aunt took me to the Los Gatos creek trail.

Like someone else commented, cities are not fungible. Maybe Richard Florida is right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida
And for comparison, my experience of Scottish (and possibly other UK country) universities has been:

University -> Faculty (e.g. Faculty of Technology) -> School (e.g. School of Engineering) -> Department.

But this does vary from institution to institution.
Relevant: Trend analysis at the shallow end of the pool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9099675
tl;dr

Russia hijacked the plain, spoofed the satellite data, landed it in Baikonur and then buried under the ground.
I think you're confusing those who believe in lizard-people with those that might question the government version of certain events. This is the purpose of the term consipracy theory/theorist, to group together anyone who believes in, or merely just questions, a certain accepted event or idea. It really is a great term, as it's something that negates any other possible outcome.

What really should be considered here is the fact that proof requires a scientific setting. One cannot prove anything that occurs outside of a controlled setting, simply because it's not repeatable. Theories, both those set in reality and those that exist outside it, will forever be subject to this fact, and therefore be very questionable to (ie, not accepted by) the masses.
I can empathise with these messages. We left London after two years when I moved to start a PhD. I was sad to leave the city but life is so much easier away from London. We could afford to buy a house when I was studying, and once I graduated we could afford for me to earn very little while I started a business. I love the energy of London but, now we have 2 kids, I can't imagine we could ever afford to move back.
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Oooops... It presents me with the Recaptcha image challenge but the top half of the challenge image isn't visible on the pop-up.

1800x1280 phone screen isn't sufficient it appears.
One thing I have noticed during a recent job search - I used the cost of living calculator from bankrate.com[1], relocation from city A to city B from wolframalpha [2] and the salary information available on websites like glassdoor, indeed and salary.com to get an estimate of a par salary at different locations for a particular position. In these websites, I noticed that indeed.com has extremely optimistic estimates of the salaries for most positions when compared to glassdoor or salary.com, so much so that I stopped using data from indeed.com e.g. here are the salaries for a software engineer in Chicago, IL

- glassdoor.com ( avg $74,426 ) [3]

- salary.com ( median $62,257 ) [4]

- indeed.com ( avg $114,000 ) [5]

Even when verified by converting the par salaries from 2 different locations using bankrate or wolframalpha the indeed estimates were quite high. Since, the author used data from glassdoor and indeed, I wonder how accurate the analysis is considering the underlying data from indeed isn't necessarily accurate.

[1] http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+seattle...

[3] http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/chicago-software-engineer-...

[4] http://www1.salary.com/IL/Chicago/Software-Developer-I-salar...

[5] http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-l-Chicago,-...
Tremendously is relative. Austin and SV real estate prices are not close at all. High property taxes keep home prices lower across almost all of Texas. Austin prices are limited in their 'irrational exuberance' upside since there's no way to finance a property tax bill and existing homeowners start to suffer. California is the opposite with low tax rates and proposition 13 covering existing homeowners - perfect conditions for price speculation.
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>It's amazing how some people think governments can be so precise.

>This is like "9/11 inside job" level of thinking.

precise may be not. Opportunistic - definitely. While i have no doubts about WTC, when i first time saw the released security cam video with Pentagon hit i was surprised how it looks like a hit by a cruise missile not by a huge plane - speed, approach angle and height, explosion style, etc... That immediately prompted me to really look at the damage photos and i just wasn't able to make myself to see a huge plane hit damage, instead i see a damage from a cruise missile.
Rats 'not main cause of Black Death'
Why not just rate limit responses? That ends up costing bot makers about the same amount of money as captchas (which are often solved by workers earning slave wages). This arms race will never end and if the insistence is always to prove you're human, then humans will always be exploited for this proof. Imagine one day when we've automated the world and the only reason humans have to do any work is so that robots can prove they're human. This whole thing is ridiculous.

Specifically one way to rate limit would be a cookie value that changes on each request, the previous cookie value expires, and only the site knows what the next valid cookie value is. Bots will pay for the cost of waiting in terms of computing time, and in terms of memory if they get around this by parallelization. As these costs go down due to cheaper computers, then so too will the costs of serving the site.
If you're into that sort of thing, the SPIE conference in San Jose (this week) is the place to be. And the people to follow.

http://spie.org/AL/conferencedetails/alternative-lithographi...
Sorry if it's a stupid question, but, what happens with all the people in prison for possession of marijuana? Do they still need to serve their full sentence, can they be released now that it is legal?
While the old recaptcha could run javascript to collect all sorts of data about typing and mousemovement, we expect it not to.

This new one tries to make a behavioural profile of you and use that to determine you humanness. Maybe the old one did that too. Maybe every Google service does that. I dont know. The outrage is that now we know one is doing that.

And on a personal note, yes. I do believe that Google ran recaptcha just for the free annotations of data.
Here's a simper theory: Some kind of structural failure caused a fire and possibly also a decompression - or the other way around. While following the procedure to handle the problem ( disable AP, descend, turn back, shut down the damaged avionics) the pilots lost consciousness and the plane eventually leveled out and kept flying until it run out of fuel. While it's not likely that something punches a hole in an aeroplane and simultaneously sets it on fire, either from the inside or the outside, it's more likely than any crazy conspiracy theories I've seen so far, including the article.
If you make good use of Slack or video chat, there's very little impact on communication or productivity. There's actually a lot of research showing that productivity is much better when people have privacy and quiet (the opposite of an "open office").

However, the rapport and happiness of your team might suffer if they all work remotely. It's not a good lifestyle for everyone.

Also, keep in mind that there are many large cities with a very reasonable cost of living. You can have an office (with the option to work remotely) in one such city. Houston, Atlanta, and Nashville come to mind, but I'm not an expert.

The idea that it's "Silicon Valley or bust" is totally ridiculous unless you're planning to launch a B2C product that requires lots of runway and, therefore, investment.
Unfortunately after I enter a word and press Enter I'm shown an 'Application Error' page.
Things like schools, healthcare, crimerates and public transport should be added.
"My guess is that they aren't popular at all because they have the notion of being enterprisey"

You have to wait a while before the JS community realise that enterprisey is just the inevitable end game of their wheel re-inventing.

In the same way they dismiss things they don't understand now due to complexity, they are adding more and more with all these frameworks and architectures.

Nothings new, everythings a remix. I imagine rules engines will be the next "revolution" on this already well trodden road.
Google did use reCAPTCHA to recognize Street View house numbers and street names, so I think there are (somewhat) more innocuous reasons than just wholesale data collection.
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The same thing that was gained with re-legalizing alcohol, a more civil and well functioning society that values and preserves individual liberty.

Drug prohibition and the war on drugs has had an enormously deleterious effect on our society and our criminal justice system. It has resulted in one of the highest incarceration rates of any "free" country in history, for non-violent crimes where typically the "victim" in the crime is the person being jailed themselves. It has resulted in a massive change in the criminal justice system due to so many drug cases being prosecuted, and drugs being such a prominent target of police activity. The result is massive expenditures on police, DAs, and the courts and yet a constriction in the resources being used to solve and prosecute the most serious crimes (murder, rape, etc.) or to ensure justice is carried out according to the finest principles of a free and just society.

Moreover, drug prohibition results in massive amounts of money getting funneled to hardened criminals and gangs, because when the business of procuring and transporting drugs is illegal those are the people most willing and able to undertake such activity and most desirous of "easy" money outside of the conventional labor market. That vast wealth propping up criminal enterprises then serves to corrupt the criminal justice system directly, especially the police, through direct payoffs. Just as it did when alcohol was illegal.

Even when direction corruption isn't a factor, the militarization of the police has led to a massive degradation of freedom and personal safety as well as a growing divide between the law abiding public and the police.

Meanwhile, a massive section of the population, recreational drug users, becomes outlaws. They are forced into a more tentative or even adversarial relationship with the police and the justice system in general. They are more vulnerable to other crimes and less likely to cooperate with investigations. These are not just "fringe" elements of society such as destitute meth addicts on the streets, these are people who are otherwise fine, upstanding citizens. Folks such as Carl Sagan, Bryan Cranston, Morgan Freeman, and Bill Gates. These aren't people whose lives were ruined, these are people who chose to exercise their own individual liberty to explore recreational drugs, just as people choose to use alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, etc.

Overall, the war on drugs has been incredibly corrosive for liberty, the proper functioning of the criminal justice system, social cohesion, rule of law, and safety from violence. I can think of few things developments within the last century which have been more disastrous to the stability and health of America and the developed world as a whole, I think that says a lot.
Also: why would hijackers need (and indeed rely on) auto-landing?

They would capture perfectly good pilots along with the plane.
Doing that reliably over a meaningful period of time is the problem. In my book (from the perspective of an investor) you'd need to "outperform?" the index to cover the costs of frequent trades and potential losses at no actual cost to the investor.
I like his idealism, but I just don't foresee the substantial changes that he's calling for occurring any time soon. Frankly, most people don't give a shit, and there are just too many vested interests involved...

I think the point he is making is that you can act as an individual, you do not have to, nor should you, depend on politicians or corporations to make this right for you. Even one individual like Snowden can have a significant effect on the world given the right leverage.
Hmm, that got me thinking, I think I get your point generally that bitcoin is more an investment than a value storage and that you would be a fool ( at this stage anyway ) to talk about it as if it was.

However, in general what currency has a value proportional to its benefit to mankind ? Any fiat currency are going to be out for the same reason than bitcoin is out, any traditional currency based on gold/silver/shells is out too for the same reason as Dutch Tulips: eg. value of gold is recursively determined by its own use as a currency, not by any actual industrial use for example - so its value is as much virtual as a fiat currency, with just a different behavior and control lever.

Other financial asset are more directly related to useful human activities, especially commodities, but at the end of the day they get traded and valued based on their capacity to generate one of the currency above rather than objective benefit to mankind. (eg. Amnesty International "shares" would not be based on its efficiency at improving human rights, but by its capacity to convert it into currency )

The only thing that I can think of, would the slaves as additional useful human being are objectively beneficial to mankind. I guess body part, blood, ... is a less gloomy alternative ?

I'm overthinking this :-)
Not that I fully agree with the post you're replying to, but to be fair, I think we should note that your anecdote comes from a world where drugs are often expensive due to laws, drug users don't receive a lot of medical help in safely and non-destructively administering the drug, counseling (to solve problems without drugs) is not always easy or affordable, and drug users are shamed and criminalized.

I don't know that it would magically solve your scenario, especially as he died in a detox facility (though maybe he could have been saved if he got help earlier?) There is probably just no guaranteed safe way for some bodies/personalities to take some drugs for a prolonged period. Still, I wonder if we could uplift people on balance, if all the energy we spent on current drug policy was re-focused on helping people rather than punishing them.

I am interested in that documentary, so thanks for the pointer.
There are plenty of places to relocate.
Here's a binary format that is designed for compressibility and fast code generation [1]. It's a bit of a pet of mine (I just realised one of the Wikipedia links are to my blog) - it was the PhD dissertation of now professor Michael Franz at UC Irvine, who incidentally had Andreas Gal (now of course at Mozilla...) as PhD student.

SDE effectively compresses a low level syntax tree by building a dictionary that as a sort of sliding window over the tree by adding specialised nodes as well as more general nodes, and the encoding new variations of specialised sub-trees using the new elements in the dictionary and subsequently adding more specialised "instructions".

As a result you both get compression (think a tree variation of Huffman coding) and "hints" to let you re-use partially generated code as templates (e.g. one dictionary entry maps to "assign x to y"; you also add "assign x to _", and later you find a reference to the entry for "assign x to _" + z; now you copy the code for "assign x to <something>" into place and fix it up with the address of z).

The approach has always fascinated me, but it fell in the shadow of the JVM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_dictionary_encoding
> despite decades of working solutions

Which "working" solutions? Has anyone solved creating a type system that offers OO/inheritance, generics, mutability and isn't mind-bogglingly complex?

What is your definition for a "working" solution? I don't think any of the current languages we have fit this description, since all of them are capable of producing type errors that are way too complex to comprehend.

> with a myriad of choices in tradeoffs

Yeah, but how do you decide on which tradeoff to settle for? And why is the tradeoff to not engage in this mess not a just as valid one?

> so you'll have to do the hard work of integrating a dozen different collections libraries and who knows how many different, after-the-fact, mediocre strategies to the generics issue, each slighly off, all of them conceptually incomplete somehow

You're missing the point. Solving the generics issue for a specialized case, even if just on a library-level, is much easier and has much less impact on applications than solving the general case and forcing that solution onto every bit of code in that language.

I don't think the author is advocating using a general purpose 3rd-party library for containers, but rather writing your own special-purpose ones for the few cases where the on-board tools aren't enough.

> with the slight bugs that come from not having a well-trodden path

Localized bugs are easier to solve than the type errors common to that "well-trodden path" you talk about, which may span an entire application.

..not that there is any consesus on what exactly that "well-trodden path" is, since as you mentioned there's a myriad of tradeoffs.
Many good programmers have a certain arrogance. If you must absorb a stereotype, maybe "lots of other women suck" is less likely to discourage you from pursuing a programming career than "the world won't let women be programmers regardless of their skill"?
I find this comment and the circumstances surrounding it to be problematic on multiple levels.

-You never actually refute "TheLarch"'s point. Instead you bring down the conversation with unwarranted sarcasm and seem to completely misconstrue the argument. Despite this your comment is positive while the comment that actually contributed to the conversation is downvoted. You could have easily argued their assumptions but chose not to for reasons I might guess at in my next point.

-You essentially take the position that two possibilities exist, A) Institutionalized sexism is the main cause of most gender disparities when it comes to career demographics and definitely not personal choice (even if influenced by social conditioning), or B) Women are incapable on average. Judging by the harshness of your comment I can only assume that you don't that the person you are responding to might consider more possibilities.

This type of thinking is dangerous because it leaves no room for the other side to be simply incorrect. It ceases to be a matter of facts or logic and becomes a matter of morality with anyone who disagrees with you on the wrong side of the moral spectrum. Now anyone who challenges your viewpoint can conveniently be regarded as an immoral person and have their ideas ignored, hidden, or personally mocked.
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This is depressingly true.

I just exchanged contracts on a 2 bed flat in zone 4 that will leave me and my gf with a 300k debt.

If it wasn't for her stable job in town I would think about going somewhere else.

And we know that we will probably never be able to upgrade to a bigger place if prices keep rising at this rate since our income will not increase at the same speed.

I wonder if London will become a boring rich people playground.
Yeah, I'd love to see the said for London, Paris and say Brussels and Madrid. I'm pretty sure we'd have surprises (or maybe not ...)
I'm wondering how many people in favor of legalization would actually like to see a pot shop in their own street. From my own experience in the Netherlands, these kinds of shops attract a sort of crowd that you would much rather avoid.
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Well, yes. "fast" can mean "not as slow as doing it by hand in the most naive way possible".

"Faster", now that's a more interesting title if only because it was compared to something else. (Then again, I reviewed one paper which said the algorithm was faster and more memory efficient than the previous version of itself. But with no numbers.)

"Fastest" is of course much harder to pull off. :)
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