skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely possible.

I have some folks I'm working with right now who are not super-technical. I need to send them some bank account digits. This is surprisingly challenging. I mean all I want to do is to encrypt a set of very important numbers very securely and send them, and there is no really good user-friendly way to do that. I sometimes wonder if that's accidental.

At the same time though: IPSec is a mess. It's overly complex, hard to deploy, and generally really annoying to use at the implementation level. I suspect that had as much to do with it as any protocol committee maneuvering.

One thing I don't understand about crypto protocol design: why do they end up including every damn algorithm under the sun? I mean, pick a good one at the time of design and use that and include a facility to enable it to be superseded if problems appear. Right now that would be AES+GCM or Salsa/ChaCha+Poly1305. Nothing else is worth using so why would you include it in the spec?
The issue is that especially with metrics as flexible as "concentration" or "focus" (which in some cases can be controlled entirely by your mood, location, or your own willful intent), the placebo effect can be very powerful. Keep taking them, because it's probably not hurting, but it's difficult to know if it is empirically affecting your concentration outside of the placebo effect.
Dijkstra Prize
I just don't see the relevance of your comment. Nobody had indicated any need to use JVM, as far as I'm aware. So you seemed to be addressing "what's the best language for JVM" rather than "what's the best way to solve this problem."

This just isn't a JVM vs .NET competition. If Prolog were the best answer, you could port it to JVM or .NET to your heart's content.
Swift iOS Performance Update
I'm running into this with a client.

They want a friendly easy way to manage a complex case management system, but they don't understand how some of interconnected relationships work between the data they want.
So trying to cross that chasm, of explaining what they actually want implies for the data has been miserable.
Somethings just aren't simple :(
or just `open -n -a vlc`
Oops... I posted it because I thought it was a great idea/presso/product and the HN community would be a good place to get feedback from. Apologies if it was premature!
Ok, I can see that. Some days, I feel the same way. "Oh jeeze, not those guys again!"
Thanks, I’ll fix those.
Uhm, well, you might think so, but it does get really old.

I worked at a place that was doing important work, and when I started I had a nice office on the 5th floor. It had a beautiful view.

A couple of months later I, and the rest of the group, was moved to an underground office. Now, I don't mean basement. I mean the "company" had emptied out a huge underground oil bunker[1], built a false floor and interior walls, installed fans behind the walls to deal with fumes[2], then build a small cube farm. Radios and cell phones did not work in the new area, and the faint sound of wind behind the false walls was a bit distracting. That is a mighty big negative to balance the worth of a project.

1) it had been used by a electric plant that had been torn down

2) seems oil will "bleed" from concrete walls for some time and the air flow would get rid of the dangerous fumes, or so I was told
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
Verizon and big cable lash out at net neutrality rules – using morse code
Move to Mountain View? For the 5 years I was at Google, I never lived more than 2 miles away, my commute was 15 minutes by bicycle, and for half that, rent was only about $1400/month (it started rising rapidly in the last few years).

But wait, it's not SF? Well, neither is Kansas, and as far as urban life & young people go, Mountain View is a lot better than Kansas.
Right now it is Prawn[0]. It slowly evolved from a script a year ago, where it was fine. We are considering switching to an HTML->PDF workflow, though, since I have to render all of this stuff in the web for quicker previews anyway!

Thanks for the clean design mention, we owe it mostly to Zurb Foundation[1]. Using those modal popovers to control the user's attention has really helped me narrow the UI variables.

0: http://prawnpdf.org
1: http://foundation.zurb.com
IE6 was pretty damned awesome at release... IE5.x was a bit of a mess in that transition, but 6 was pretty damned awesome (proprietary bits included)... That said, it got stale pretty fast (by the time Phoenix was renamed Firefox) and slid even faster as others worked to make a better browser experience. The sad thing is, we're just now shedding IE8, and IE9 is still holding on... I'll be happy once I can get to an IE10+ only position...

For me, one thing I've been wanting to do is a compute heavy challenge-response for API requests.. meaning web workers, and that's only IE10+ ... will probably do a proof of concept with node (server) with scrype (client/server) against a pool of computed hashes... which could be very interesting in terms of reducing a DDOS against an API.
We wrote a tool like this in my last job to guess the width of raw images like these. First, we were dealing with iOS, and there are certain constraints on the platform which help with guessing width (bitmaps are generally 32-bit BGRA, and the rows in iOS bitmap images are aligned to 32 bytes). Because of the alignment constraint you only have to guess the width in 8-pixel increments. Then pick the width that minimizes the average pixel difference between adjacent rows in the image. This usually guessed the width of the original image (or an integer multiple of the actual width), at least when the original image was a UI element (as UI elements generally have large rectangular blocks of color in them).
It is a really interesting topic to discuss. It seems like we need to have a tool/framework on the browser side which allows advanced users to redesign the layout of a web-site. It is pretty clear right now that Twitter has different groups of users and it is clear to me that Twitter should have different designs for them. Even in that post we could see people who "consume" timeline in a different way :)

IMHO Twitter/Facebook/Google+ should have Rich API and a default client but the user should be able to select implementation from different companies.
(Similar to a search engine in the browser)
Regulation has a history of locking in incumbents, and locking out potential future competitors. It will be much harder for challengers to enter the market now because of the increased cost of compliance, something only the big incumbents can afford. What's worse is that the costs for Title II companies will be subsidized by government. So they may appear to have low prices, at least for awhile, but the real price will be hidden in a nebulous cloud of federal taxes. You won't even really know how much you're actually paying due to price distortions caused by corporate welfare. It's sad that people have such a short term memory about these corporate welfare cons, and just fall in lockstep with the propaganda. This will be very bad for consumers in the long run.
It's true. Even many of the engineering grads I know who go on to do software don't bother trying to trying to register as professional engineers. I registered after graduation, but many of my classmates didn't. Now, I keep the registration partly because my life insurance policy is a group one through the association.
Not at all and thank you so much!
Media outlets have resorted to insane headlines you won't believe are exaggerated for the same reason that record companies (and their pop stars like Lady Gaga, Nikki Minaj and Katy Perry) are constantly trying to out-costume and out-shock each other: it takes extreme measures to get anyone's attention in the age of the Internet and its vast, vast fields of entertainment.

This is why I have completely written off consumer-side entrepreneurship forever -- I can build products, but I'm utterly clueless as to how to get the general public to actually try them. How do you get anyone's attention nowadays without breaking the bank?
Not so sure doing yoga next to people eating lunch next to a bike path is ideal, but the concepts look awesome.

Also who is going to clean all those windows? New automated self cleaning window robots?
We are the elite right now, our skillset is hard and the work we do is hard and we don't want to believe everyone can do it. Definitely not "average programmers" as you mention!

And maybe we have a little while longer to be the elite, but already children can build websites and applications so our days are numbered, soon everybody can know what we know and do what we do and as you mention, tools will be better as well and that empowers them to be closer to us too.

It takes a bunch of programmers to keep a fleet of servers running, vehicles will be maintained by programmers too, but it takes less programmers and less good programmers with every advance we make.
Today, I saw the following talk by Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel-prize winning author, where he talks about the decline of culture (from his novel, The Civilization of Entertainment). English subtitles available.

19 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWDgjPjp1S8

Taken from an article on his novel...

What he sees playing out across the board, from literature to politics, from religion to eroticism, is a “ludic banalization” of the spheres of human thought and action. According to Vargas Llosa, we live in a “lite society that bestows the same supremacy on frivolity that in other times belonged to ideas and artistic production.” This frivolity “consists of an inverted or unbalanced set of values in which form is more important than content, appearance more important than substance, and where gesture and display—representation—take the place of feelings and ideas.”
It's generally not considered to be polite on a forum to tell someone you will answer them elsewhere. It takes away the benefit of the answer from everyone else.
Or, "Death of Journalism Predicted!"
Reddit /r/all shows the top 5 posts being spock is dead in 5 different subreddits. There has truly been a disturbance in the geek force /ducks .
I'm sorry but everything you wrote is wrong.

the Bitcoin hash function doesn't change, can't change

Of course it can be changed with a client update, like everything else about bitcoin.

SHA256 is getting weaker proportional to all power in the world

I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean...

the largest mining pool has been large enough to carry out 51% attacks for a while now

There is currently no pool anywhere near 51%; https://blockchain.info/pools

Battery technology hasn't gotten appreciably better in a decade

Li-Ion battery capacity has been improved by 20% last year; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#From_commer...
Huffpo does that,but the other way around,just to make you click on the article again. it made me so angry I stopped reading that crap 4 years ago. I always knew it was just a glorified blog,not real news, but they had from time to time interesting articles or op ed. Today the quality is so low it's shameful. I just don't like being tricked ,it feels so insulting.
It's a major fallacy to assume that evolution is somehow perfect. You might be right, but there could be hundreds of potential causes for the reduction in plasticity which do not actually involve protecting you from impairment.

As for your hypothesis, I think acceptance of norms and political beliefs is a process independent of neuroplasticity, which usually involves acquiring specific skills and talents; I might be wrong, but I think even a very "neuroplastic" elderly person may still have great difficulty changing political or cultural views.
I don't think it is celebrity worship. I don't know a thing about Nimoy outside his work, although other posts make it seem that he was a interesting, likable, and good man. We are affected by Nimoy's passing because we enjoyed his work, identified with his character, and because Star Trek and Spock represent ideas that we wish to hold on to.

The world of Star Trek TOS and TNG normally felt unambiguously better than ours, but it felt better in ways that were achievable. A world focused on exploration, with a society that did not shy away from conflict but worked to resolve it peacefully. It felt like what a steadfast belief in modernity could lead to. In the word's of Neal Stephenson (who I think borrowed the term from someone else) Star Trek and Spock serve as forms of cultural hieroglyphs, recognizable symbols of a great possible world developed from an unshakeable faith in modernity and progress.

I think we morn in part because we will miss our hieroglyph. While there have been a number of unamibigously pro-science/modernity movies lately, Spock stood out for generations. He stood for progress and goodness. He managed to be absolutely moral and absolutely logical. And I think it is the blow to those ideas we mourn as much as the man.
What Dreams May Come - After dying in a car crash a man searches the afterlife for his wife.

It's something I think back to when I find myself surrounded by fear of circumstance.
The area around San Antonio & El Camino looks like it may end up gentrifying into an urban center in the near future. There are mid-rise residential towers going up, and a number of shops in a walkable shopping center.

North Bayshore would obviously be better for Googlers, but there seems to be a lot more resistance to building housing there, for whatever reason.
Ah, that's a cool optimization.

But here's a microbenchmark[1]. It's still not close to non-LINQ code. A factor of 10, with a trivial body, just summing up some numbers. (I didn't used Sum() as it appears to use checked arithmetic.)

As far as the optimizations, the smart combining code (which still has to allocate a combined delegate + lambda object, that'll cost, what 2 objects at like 40 bytes each?)) only happens when Select is followed by Select, or Where by Where. Select after Where gets a new "WhereSelectEnumerableIterator" and so on.

So you're right that it does eliminate some overhead though depending on the order of your Wheres and Selects there may be more "foreach" loops in the comparable code. And it's still not even close to being free like it should be. (Like, say, Haskell can do sometimes.)

1: http://pastebin.com/7J9FErWN
In college I fell into a 26-ish hour sleep schedule for awhile (which meant skipping some classes when my schedule rotated around to sleeping in the middle of the day). I probably had diagnosable Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder at some points of my life, and used to need 9-10 hours of sleep in High School and College. Never been a morning person. Jet lag to Europe is inevitably completely brutal to my system.

Be happy that you can adapt. It isn't a choice for me. I've struggled with this for 40 years.
The concept of manual labor is not a proxy for "a person does it." The contrast to manual labor is social labor. Programming is almost entirely concerned with the mastery of language and communication.

There's almost nothing manual about it: you just dictate actions to others (people or machines.)
"Vaporwave" music and art is all about those late 90's and early 2000's graphics and sounds. If you're interested in this stuff you should check it out:
https://www.tumblr.com/search/vaporwave
http://status.linode.com/incidents/2dyvn29ds5mz
"Lash out"? They responded in Morse code. Sorry, but that's actually kind of clever and amusing.
Spock has always been an idol of mine in my sort of personal pantheon of ficional characters. Especially in childhood the line blurs between fiction, myth and reality. And that can be a powerful thing in healthy ways. Especially when helping serve as a role model. "What would Spock do?" and so on. Wanting to have people like Spock in one's life. etc

Spock was also a huge influence on me as a writer. I have a sci-fi adventure series, The Dread Space Pirate Richard, a bit like a modern faerie tale for adults. The main character is strongly influenced by Kirk. And there's a bounty hunter who starts off an enemy of Richard/Kirk, but eventually becomes an ally and, by the very end, his best friend. His name is Vega Venturion. The V is for Vulcan. And his personality is modelled after Spock in many ways, esp the Kirk-Spock dynamic. I have another character who will serve as McCoy, to complete that trinity pattern evident in the original Star Trek series. Also Vega is the very first and very last character "on stage" in my series arc -- the final pages of the last book are already written. The only two people who've read the preview draft of this last Vega/Spock scene have told me it made them cry like a baby.

At some level Spock will live forever. Vega Venturion lets me cheat and create new adventures for him, for as long as I want and can keep it going.

RIP Spock and Mr. Nimoy. You will be missed. You've inspired and effected millions for the better.
That particular feature seems sort of backwards to me; might just be me, but I think it might be more straightforward to list the places you can put things on the template and have a <select> allowing you to pick columns from your CSV for each spot (default to nothing in a spot)
The perils of partially-powerful languages
This is untrue. Apple is just publishing it in different regions at different times. I had a call with them 3 hours ago and they told me that it can take up to 12 hours (!) until all regions have it.
Argh. This is a little bit frustrating to read. Leaving the gender stuff aside, good shops recommend fluid checks and air filter replacements and battery checks and so on because it's a good idea. A bad air filter won't just hurt your gas mileage and performance, it will destroy your rings, causing your engine to wear out a lot faster and eventually start burning oil, further damaging other components down the line. And for what, to save 20 bucks now and again?

Things leak. A lot of people never realize their car is leaking. They don't get in the habit of crawling under their car and checking to see if their transmission is coated in grimy oil or if their transmission is sweating transmission fluid. They never notice the very slight groaning sound the car makes when turning the steering wheel because the power steering pump is leaky. They see a few drops under the front of their car in the parking lot and assume it's normal or runoff from their AC system when it's actually a radiator or water pump.

If you don't trust your mechanic enough to follow their recommendations, you should get a new mechanic. People -- man or woman -- coming in to a shop and ordering the shop around as if they know cars better than the shop staff are the worst sort of customers.
What you are looking for is a charity, Google is a business, not a charity.
Recommend this 30 min. documentary about about Nimoy growing up in Boston. https://vimeo.com/90940421
You had asked for data that it was a well-known phenomena. A major business publication and a well-known VC firm both referring to it by name is decent data for it being well-known, and the best you're going to get without paying me.
Not to discourage you, but in my experience building a lifestyle project that can low maintenance is just as hard as building a $100 million startup. Why not aim for the latter and have a bigger payout?
The engineering ethics classes I know about basically look at case studies. You get taught various philosophical ethics systems (e.g., utilitarianism) and then examine a situation, a proposed action and whether that action is ethical. If it isn't, suggest a new ethical action instead. You examine the action based on the different ethical systems.

Deciding actions based on consequences is utilitarianism, which is only one ethical system. There's a number of other systems. For instance, one could have a set of rules that they follow (e.g., always tell the truth), but that could result in negative consequences.
How Cards Are Quietly Transforming the Web
Disappointed only because it looks interesting. Also, I think many people have been burned by email address harvesting pages that have great ideas but never materialized.
Thoroughly recommended: Hamming's book "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn"

Slightly rambling, and diving into differential equations a bit more than I like in my bedtime reading, it reveals the mind and soul of a true engineering genius.

http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
I follow headlines from 70+ tech sites via RSS. I have no doubt in saying that Business Insider is the worst offender of all. BI is one of the few, who are consistent in their practice.
Neat concept, but I can't help finding it ironic that this would make an actual reality of the stereotype that Googlers and tech companies in general are living in a bubble cut off from the rest of society.

Also hopefully they won't throw stones after they move in to their glass house!
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I really love this concept and it looks really well executed. One thing I think would be really slick would be to live update the template as you pair columns with locations on the card, using the first row from the CSV for content in the preview
I have cherished, fun and nostalgic memories of learning HTML as a kid and building sites on GeoCities. It seemed so amazing at the time. Breaks my heart to think back on it and know that it's all been deleted.
Regulations are not the laws, they are applications of the laws, and they are made by processes laid out in the law, by persons empowered to make them under the law, and their substance is constrained by the law.
No, this is a 3.0.0 feature.
This might help you understand it: http://code.kx.com/wiki/Cookbook/InterfacingWithC

Once you understand the underlying data structure, a lot of k's design decisions make sense. I am using the k.h file from k4 as almost the sole guide to recreating a toy k5 (http://kparc.com/k.txt) interpreter in C.
Facebook's new building is a big open-plan office space, with some stuff to break up the visual sight lines. Since they're currently open-plan, that probably won't affect productivity much one way or the other.

There's the anti-edifice complex company - Intel. Intel built their own office buildings to their own design, which was to have acre-sized floors with bullpens.[1] Grey bullpens. Grey walls. Grey carpet. It's depressing just to visit. I'd hate to work there.

Apple's new mothership[2] definitely indicates an edifice complex. It could work out, though. Apple is currently spread over a large number of modest buildings separated by busy roads. The mothership is a big round building with a lot of underground parking. Just getting most of their people within walking distance will be a win. Of course, that assumes Apple allows them to talk to each other.

The city of Mountain View insisted that Google put 5,000 housing units into their plan. That should help.

The classic edifice in Silicon Valley is IBM Almaden Research, from the 1960s. You enter through a modest gate and drive through rolling hills for a mile, until you reach the big glass and steel complex atop the mountain. The cafeteria looks out on miles of unblemished parkland. A lot of good stuff came out of there, including three Nobel prizes. Today, it's a shadow of what it once was. Part of it is rented out.

Overdoing this sort of thing is rare in the US today. Moscow, Dubai, and Beijing, though...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZmos0GSCWE
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2784069
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How to find ideas people love
We hacked the linux kernel to provide better checkpointing of RAM state and then we write the state to disk. Anyone can then summon the state from disk in the time it takes to read the SSD.

It's kinda cool, or at least I think so.
Thank you!

That feature is definitely on the short list, we have lots to do in terms of surfacing the data in the designs in a more "live" fashion.
Kudos to them for including themselves.