skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that unclear on a closer look.
From the FAQ at https://privacyinternational.org/?q=node/495 :

"Why are we doing this?

Intelligence agencies' culture of secrecy have allowed them, for too long, to avoid public accountability. Whether it’s secret hearings in closed court rooms or committees equipped only with rubber stamps, intelligence agencies like GCHQ have never been forced to answer to the public for their actions.

We think you have a right to know whether you have been caught up in GCHQ and NSA's illegal intelligence sharing. If so, you have a right to demand that data be deleted. Privacy International wants to help you assert those rights."
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Scientists Design an Alien That Could Survive Without Water
That looks like some sort of bait ;)
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I see PhD Model Canvas a useful tool for PhD students so decided to share one more time this topic in hacker news. I got good feedback from my local network. I hope i can get some feedback here too.
I feel the same, which is very concerning.
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This article reads like it was written by an 11 year old. Or someone who does not speak English natively.

Either that or, knowing how these things have been rolling aroud the planning and NIMBY protest camps for years, perhaps the author gave it precisely the right amount of effort and attention to detail it deserved.
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An interactive video that simulates drowning
You may be interested in the Actor Model [1] computation style. When used for programming, it looks like a programming paradigm where functional and object-oriented styles are neatly supported and blended without any impedance mismatches. Most code is written in a functional style, but there are abstractions that encapsulate state changes and make it work together with the mostly declarative functions.

There are at least a couple of Coursera lectures teaching this style (one about programming paradigms, the other about reactive programming), it's worth giving it a look.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
Are humans getting cleverer?
Yeah, I don't really have any faith in legal redress so while I support the intent behind this, I'm wary about actually filling it in.
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> As to the need for coding so that humans could interact with machines, I think in the long run, this is also going to progress to the point where the machine would be aware of the abilities of the human it's dealing with and make it easy for the human to interact with itself.

And when is that long run going to play out, in the next 50, 100, 500 years? A lot of the learn to code movement is about economic empowerment, providing an avenue for economic advancement for children and adults, especially children and adults that wouldn't have thought coding as a career was possible for them or have had the access to resources to really pursue it.

Yes, automation is eliminating jobs, but still creating new and well paying technical ones. Whether and when we'll reach some technological singularity is all based on a lot of conjecture, and how that ultimately will pan out with how we structure our economy is impossible to predict. In the mean time we have the current reality, one that most likely will result in tech providing plenty of well paying jobs for at least a few more generations. The idea of coding as literacy, as has been stated before, isn't that everyone needs to become a software engineer. It's that as a person coming from any background you at least get the opportunity to see if it's a career you would want to pursue, and if not at least give you more insight into how technology works and make you a more well rounded citizen.
"I find it difficult to understand why these companies would go to such lengths to save at absolute most 15-20% on salary."

They're probably saving a lot more than 15-20%.

I understand this argument is often used to claim that it isn't about wages, it's about availability of someone, anyone to hire. But at what rate?

Suppose you say that you can't hire a developer with a particular in demand skill set. You've posted at what you've determined to be "market rate" for the position, or maybe a bit higher You pick up the phone and call various highly regarded developers at google, apple, and Facebook and say "what would it take to get you to quit your job, this moment, and come work for my company?"

My guess is that the difference between the "market rate" the company is offering and the rate they'd pay if they were prepared to do what it takes to get that engineer to leave google is a lot greater than 15-20%. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd have to double the offer.
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MWC2015: Jumptuit Unveils IoT Cloud Platform to Connect Incompatible Devices
This is clearly a concept and not a production product — probably more about encouraging discussion regarding privacy in public than about executing on the things it talks about.
I wish they could have done things like this when I was learning signals and transforms as an undergrad. But interactive didn't really exist in the early 90s.
It's not so much that OOP is falling out of favour, but that functional programming in particular is being rediscovered, probably because we have to multithread now, and if bugs are hard to keep out of single-threaded code, they're nigh on impossible to keep out of multi-threaded code.

In fairness, a lot of us never truly embraced OOP anyway. I've always avoided objects unless I'm managing state. Even in OOP languages, much of my code essentially repurposes objects as modules for storing functions. The fact that they are implemented as methods is incidental. This is not an uncommon pattern.
Or alternately: the best way to raise is to develop your product/business. While "if you build it they will come" does not work well for (most) products, I have seen it sort of work for investors. If you have traction and something people want, it's not hard to get a meeting. Investors are also more interested if you don't absolutely need them. "I could bootstrap but I would like to accelerate" is a much more compelling pitch than "I have nothing, give me some money please." Put yourself in the investor's shoes-- who would you rather invest in?

From what I've seen, the only people who raise money on ideas are people with a string of past successes, killer top-tier credentials, or connections not obvious to an outsider (e.g. rich family). I call people who can raise on vapor like this "juiced." For the rest of us, you must have something much more substantial or you won't get in the door.

One thing that's neat about raising with something already there is that it's actually very meritocratic. You can be an unemployed bum who hasn't showered in a week, but if your "traction" graph goes nicely upward and to the right when plotted on a log scale, you can probably get a term sheet from someone. Growth trumps credentials any day.
(US) I go by the old standard, in order:

* As much into your 401k as your employer will match (if applicable).

* Maximum federal allowance into IRA or Roth IRA (only the latter if you believe your retirement years tax rate will be higher than your current one). I go with the latter currently as having young kids means my tax rate is insanely low.

* Max out 401k.

* Tax-advantaged college savings for my kids (obviously a personal choice).

* Vanguard funds with low fees that track indices.

My reasoning is that I can spend a minimal amount of mental time thinking about my savings, and thus spend more time with my wife/kids and be more productive.
Now there's a name for that condition ? I'm surprised not everyone is annoyed at the same time :)
How Ebsta plan to make the most out of the worst period for Sales
Yeah, don't do that. Run SpigotMC under Java 8 with the following flags:

-d64 (force a 64-bit data model, although usually this isn't necessary)

-server (use the server-optimized JVM instead of the desktop-optimized one, again, may not be necessary)

-Xmx1G (start with this heap memory limit and increase if necessary)

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC (for multithreaded GC)

-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode (only use on computers that support 1 or 2 hardware threads)

-XX:+AggressiveOpts (enables additional JVM optimizations)

There's a ton of bad advice out there when it comes to JVM configuration and Minecraft. The above comes from my understanding of this somewhat dated Java GC tuning guide (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/gc-tuning-6-140523.ht...) and sk89q's excellent Minecraft server tuning guide (http://www.sk89q.com/2013/03/improving-your-minecraft-server...), coupled with small-scale server profiling on my part.
Subscription Business Models Are Startup Favorites
What I want to know is where this leaves 'Identity', which was also a part of Google+. It took over the OAUTH activities and led to the company no longer promoting OpenID.
Your call, but consider that the best time possible to push back is in coordination with others.

I have no doubt you and I both are already 'properly' spied on.
The Five Eyes agencies won't be taken to task for their transgressions by us hiding from them. At least this way we can contribute to an effort towards forcing them back under rule of law, finding out what they have collected and demand to have these records deleted.

I'm signing this with every address I have.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1qsnks/dont_lo...

https://i.imgur.com/YgEjUuI.jpg
Just checked the market capital and it's actually NXPI=2*FSL, NXP and FSL are both spin-offs, both got a lot of hedge-fund debt, but it seems NXP did better than FSL in the last few years.
What do users who don't want to sign a petition have to do to find out if we've been spied on?
Groovy Project Lead to Focus on API Dev Tools
wow, I was trying to quote the exact same sentence! It's the key of the whole article.
It makes me want to tame a crow because it's animals with these kinds of personalities I love. They make life fun.
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All fatalities, walkers accounted for 143 of them. :(
The Democratization of Cyberattack
Whatever dude, these are the best invention...

...to use with my glow sticks when I'm boogie skating..
My experience: I considered porting Ankidroid (a flashcard app) from Android to FirefoxOS (because it is a must-have for my phone). Its storage is based on SQLite, which is ported into Javascript via emscripten. Problem: it only support in-memory operations. Because my SQLite file is 70Mo+ large, it is not an option.

In SQLite you can write a abstraction layer for the I/O, but the operations are synchronous, and all the I/O operations in Firefox OS are asynchronous (so it would require modifying heavily the library). So I gave up, and maybe I will start the day FirefoxOS provides supports natively SQLite. Sad thing: Firefox addons have native support for SQLite.
Here in Brazil they are common, and I protest by not running red lights. Works every time!
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What Netflix Tells Us About Decision Paralysis
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North Carolina has company police[1] that are required to go through the same state police academy training as all other officers. This seems to be one of the fairest models amongst the states for private police.

I first found out about this at the famous Biltmore Estate where they have their own company police dept. It made sense when explained that the estate is 8000+ acres and it could take 30+ mins for the nearest deputy to respond and find where they were needed. The company police are already on site and know the estate in and out.

In almost all states there are private police statues for rail roads, universities, FedEx[2], etc. Of course every government agency or authority wants it's own police force leading to things like FBI Police[3] or Georgia World Congress Center Authority Police[4].

It seems clear to me that any time you have a large private space, be it a mall, theme park, college campus, etc., there will be need for private police. What happens when there is no company police statute is that businesses hire off-duty local police, leading to things like the NYPD Paid Detail Unit[5].

It's far more worrying to me to have public police working off duty for private interests, than having private police who's jurisdiction are limited to their private property.

[1] http://www.ncdoj.gov/getdoc/cda6467e-77ce-4f5e-bb46-502e15c7...
[2] http://www.semissourian.com/story/132255.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Police
[4] http://www.gwcc.com/about/Safety.aspx
[5] https://www.nycpba.org/archive/nydn/03/nydn-030810-ot.html
Awesome. You started out on Fiverr? What made you branch off of that platform?
I can't think of any particular reason other than that it would be "weird" because we're not used to it.

Cultural standards are products of an evolutionary process. They can seem arbitrary and contradictory because, well, they are once the evolutionary purpose is gone. The american taboos around sex are largely driven by religion. Just look at the current fights over gay marriage. As more people lose their religion (or become "just christmas" Christians), the drivers of those standards will be loosen up, but that doesn't make the taboo go away, just introduce the possibility.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the answer is Yes. For me anyway. :P
The FAQ actually has a suggestion for that as well.

Consider submitting a complaint here:
http://www.ipt-uk.com/section.aspx?pageid=16
Not actually Waze - title would be better along the lines of: "Building a Waze-like for the Boston subway"
See https://blogs.oracle.com/jonthecollector/entry/presenting_th....

How the JVM handled class metadata changed in Java 8; the MaxPermGen argument is ignored on that version (http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-8-permgen-metaspace).

P.S. According to that second link, interned strings haven't been stored in the permanent generation since Java 7.
Same here, I think people have a warped idea of what philosophy is.
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"How could we get a list of people who are afraid of being spied on, and therefore are suspicious?"

Surely you wouldn't be worried if you had nothing to hide!

/s
Exactly my first thought. I'd love to sign off on the first part of that, but "...to request my records to be deleted." Not so sure I want that (which goes to show I guess that I'm more concerned with the rule of law than the actual "privacy" of my communications).
WordPress has come a long way, I have created a lot of site with WordPress as the CMS as the page management tools are ideal for non technical users.

And consider they are focusing on blog, WordPress is ideal :)
> And when they are, you turn it into personal drama apparently so that you don't have to face dealing with what you've actually said.

That was me explaining the background behind my reasoning. Including personal anecdotes. Personal anecdotes are emotional, and you call it drama instead.

You still haven't engaged the topic, other than to say that my proposed solution is "some imaginary world."

Yes, PROPOSED solutions are "imaginary worlds" until you act on them. That's how that works.

I get that you didn't like my first comment, and I agree I didn't explain my entire world-view well in 140 characters.

When I tried to go deeper into my world-view, I was met with nothing but insults and meta-discussion. I'm not interested in either.
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It was popular in the 90s and early 00s to apply OOP techniques to everything, whether or not it made any sense. Today we use value types and higher-order functions all over the place, we customize objects with composition instead of inheritance, and we use module boundaries for encapsulation.

It doesn't help that it's easy to overdo your taxonomy, or try to model objects after the "real world" (rather than your domain model). Examples in some textbooks are pretty bad... if "dog" inherits from "animal" then you should throw the book out.
So if they count the absolute number of errors in a page, that's yet another incentive to cut content in even more pages, that drive even more ads, and even more profit for Google.

On the other hand, if they count the relative truth in a page, pages will bloat with marginal content, will get harder to read, people will scan them more shallowly, and as a result we will end up having different versions of the same content page but with marginal content tilted on one direction or another. So we will need to use more web search. So another win for Google.

Sounds fair :)
Do you have any advise for highly analytical folks that get hung up on not knowing how people read things? My biggest frustration with writing is that I don't have an interpreter I can run over my work to test that it "works" and I have a voice of anxiety in the back of my head that someone is going to misinterpret what I write I horrible[1] ways. Less dramatically, when I sit down to write documentation, I don't really know how to verify that it is understandable and get hung up on trying to figure out how to do so.

[1] Like http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/mit-professor-explains-th..., but I've long decided to avoid writing anything public about anything that could relate to social justicey or gender-related topics.
This conversation is about early stage start ups. That's pre-series A. Post-series-A salaries do go back to market rate.

If the start up you worked at was sold for 500Mil while on a seed round - that's amazing! ...but I doubt it.

Did you join before Series A? For how many years did the start up exist before you joined? And how many years did it exist before it was sold?
Reading the description I was wondering how it was working because it says during encoding it hashes the image to create a key and during decoding it hashes the image to create a key. But if it is hashing the whole image these keys cannot be the same. But when you look at the code it is not hashing the whole image. It is only hashing a subset of the bits. :)
Piggy-backing on that: "Troubleshooting" might as well just be called deductive reasoning IME.

If you approach an issue by verifying your assumptions and disregarding what you can prove isn't broken, the actual culprit tends to surface very quickly.
Google Plus might be dead, as ‘Streams’ and ‘Photos’ take its place
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Perhaps given the source (Wall Street Journal), it is no surprise that they asked a couple of economics professors for their opinions on Bitcoin's future... but, they could have thought a little more creatively about the possibilities.

Dr. Harvey (on the "Yes" side), made the typical gesture, at least part right, that the technology is the interesting part. In fact, the subheading says it all: "Valuing Bitcoin as a Technology"---but an edit would improve the matter: "Valuing Technology"; or simply "Technology".

Other than those who have skin in the Bitcoin game, there's no reason for your average person to care about Bitcoin in particular, but the idea and the technological pursuits that it embodies are worth paying attention to. In fact, I think this is the primary reason HN likes Bitcoin---nobody cares about its economic logic or valuation or whether a new block every ten minutes enables liquidity or not. The IDEA behind Bitcoin, and subsequent cryptocurrencies, is what matters. The TECHNOLOGY that permits novel arrangements of power, social interaction, and human-computer interfacing is exciting.

Personally, I'm ambivalent on whether the technology is, on its own terms, good or bad. But, what I don't doubt, is whether the idea is going to stay---we won't call it "Bitcoin" in 10 years, but we may call it "Ethereum" or "Dogecoin" or something not yet invented. In fact, we'll likely just call it by some acronym only the geeks care about (but everyone uses): like HTTP or USB. The technology will recede from its specular, media-driven attention and just become how things are done. Banks will transfer funds on a blockchain (perhaps the government forces them for transparency and verifiability), ATMs will become decentralized, you'll establish a smart contract with your Uber driver... and so on.[1]

[1] For anyone interested, I'll be giving a talk on cryptocurrencies at NYU this Wednesday (March 4, 5PM), along with Bill Maurer and Finn Brunton. Free registration here: http://events.nyu.edu/#event_id/30104/view/event
What I don't understand about the idea is this. This stretch of water has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world, but this presumably is a matter of resonance, i.e the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary just happen to be shaped in such a way that their natural resonant frequency is a close match with the driving force's twelve and a half hour odd period. But surely this means that the extra energy in the water, over and above places with lesser tides, is not something that can be tapped again and again each tide at any significant scale, it's a one time only bonus in its potential and kinetic energy which is gone after you extract its power through dampening. The ultimate non renewable energy, gone in half a day!

Anyway, I'll be giving serious consideration to dragging my family out early to see a five star Severn Bore the weekend after next, it could be the last one ever.
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San Francisco has a homeless problem because it invited such. I guess it's total coincidence that the most liberal cities in the US also have the highest incidence of homeless population. As long as it remains a profitable and easy lifestyle, homelessness persists. Change those variables however you want and the problem goes away. This is not to say there are not those who are homeless due to bum luck. In many cities, this is the majority. Not so much in San Francisco where homelessness is a true profession.
The site isn't responding but I was assuming it would just come up with a 'Yes' in a similiar way to http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ OR http://isberthastillstuck.com/
As far as the U.S. goes, around 1/3 don't go to college, and 1/3 go to community college. I doubt many of those kids are going for the MBP. I can't tell if you're using this as evidence for or against apple being a premium brand.