skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the heck? Sorry, I didn't understand any of this. Are you saying that with real moral issues, it always trivially wrong to torture? This seems simply false.

If I capture person X and X's laptop Y, and X tells me under no duress that Y contains the location of a nuclear bomb that X has placed in a major city, and I have other strong evidence that this is true, but X refuses to give me the password to Y; then it is moral (but rightly illegal) for me to torture X for the password to Y.

Torture is not literally incommensurate with any other bad thing. Then the question arises, how do we, in full generality, determine which is the greater of two evils (or the better of two goods)? The torture vs. dust specks thing is supposed to disabuse people of the unhelpful notion that some things are somehow incomparable in terms of goodness and badness.
Thanks Elen!
You can cheat on exams, but you can't cheat when it comes to to produce. You either do, or you don't do it.

It's like stealing. You might get by doing it, a few people might get by, but everyone can't steal for a living. Somewhere, someone has to be making the things that are stolen. And somewhere, someone has to have ideas and knowledge and drive to implement solutions. Everyone can't simply bullshit their way through life. But some people never figure this out.
It's true that LuaJit is mostly the work of one person, as far as I understand. Maybe talent does take precedence in most cases. But the incentive for browser developers to improve and optimize JS is just vastly stronger, despite its flaws, for practical reasons. The impact of the work is just orders of magnitude larger.
In the tech industry (design, marketing, programming) we're seeing that companies don't care about credentials when they see an awesome portfolio. Google VP of People Ops said they no longer care about GPAs [1]

On the other hand, one of our students from Spain managed to convince his university to validate one of our courses as credits. So I don't know. But the trend is towards projects > diplomas.

(However, for papers, that's gonna take a while)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-ho...
Eh, "national security" was basically the rationale for replacing the Articles of Confederation, so...
I think you're quite right. I tend to feel that people want to do good, and make judgments based off that.

Since my early mistakes, I've started telling myself "You're not negotiating with the person across the table, you're negotiating with unknown parties and circumstances in the future".

That kind of removes the human element.
Google bought the company that had the archive and for a while it was searchable as part of Google Groups. Now it is gone. I hope archive.org can put it online if it isn't lost forever.
> You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that either you're in a very archaic field or institution, or that your PI is not a nice person. In the US at least, even undergraduates are routinely first authors on papers where they did the majority of work.
Do you have to pay for any of the classes? TC talks about revenue but when I logged in, it seems everything is free. Am I missing something?
I don't fully "get" this - having read through it seems like it's basically just more advanced filters for your camera roll based on the style of famous photographers. Filters applied following some automatic analysis of the image?

A nice clear concise before <> after comparison would go a long way to show what this app actually does.
> San Francisco has now banned plastic water bottles at public events and spaces,

Wait, is this a joke? SF doesn't permit me to carry a plastic water in public?

Of course it's a joke (well, bad reporting from TechCrunch - I am shocked, just shocked, to discover that) -- the actual restriction is that you can't SELL new single-use single-serving plastic water bottles (below 21oz) on city property. I wouldn't be surprised if this just 'gentrifies' bottled water sellers in food trucks into only selling the 1L bottles for $5+ instead of having more readily available smaller bottles.
> I can relate: if it became popular with the youth of tomorrow to broil rats and serve them at market price, I'd probably never get on board.

Then you will become like most old people.

New things like interracial marriage, gay marriage, trying to not use a lot of resources(baby boomers not pre war), computers etc frighten old people.

And you also will get older and die, like they will before you.

But while you are dying off the youth will embrace the new and the better.

I just feel sad you have pin holed yourself already to not even want to try.

And although I don't like boiled meats, BBQ rat tastes fine.

[Edit] broil != boil I see from Google :)
Way off topic but this is one reason I was excited about Atom the text editor. Given its running inside a browser you should, theoretically, be able to show svg inline, even allow visual editing inline.
lol... weaponizing fonts. Well played.
I'm mid-30s. Dangerously close to upper-30s. Married. Two kids. Non-elite school. No graduate degree. I was in the YC Summer 2013 batch. I wasn't an outlier.

The one thing all YC founders have in common is that we are all incredibly determined. Creating a company is easier than ever but still basically impossible.
Well option #1 and #2 are untenable and result from uninformed naivete or deliberate head-in-sandism. You could rationally go for option #3 but you'd be rooting for the dark side. Cheers.
Any idea when the rethinkdb class will be available? I was tied up last weekend when it came out and would really like to check it out.
The low end phones of today are still going to be running android 2.x until they die; and they're still going to need all the help they can get.
To clarify, you're talking about rural/farm areas, right?

Anything in Southern Ontario that resembles a suburb or urban area has coaxial plant.

The issue is more of 3rd party access to physical plant and incumbent ISP's entrenched interests in other industries (namely video).
Anyone mad enough to sell VPSes to anonymous customers must love cleaning up after spammers.
There is a small town in Alberta named Olds (not joking) that recently invested in their own fibre optic network. They have a college there and I believe they hope to build it into a superior technical school to attract students.

http://o-net.ca/
In all situations, you really have to look after yourself. If someone ever asks you to work without pay, they're asking you to up your risk. Demand more equity. The greater the risk, the greater a return you should get, otherwise you're making a bad investment.

Founders can be assholes. So can investors. Always look after yourself (and your team, if applicable). Too many assholes and horror stories not to be wary.
Relevant XKCD http://xkcd.com/1501/
Ask HN: Engineering Resident Position at Google?
Question for you all - Has anyone heard or had any experiences with Google's Engineering Resident position?

I just graduated with an electrical engineering degree and a minor in CS, and interviewed with Google. They rejected me for the standard software developer position, probably because my programming skills weren't as competitive as some of the other candidates, but I guess they saw potential by recommending me to this Engineering Resident position.

I believe that this is a fairly new program, which explains why there isn't much information about it on the internet. How is the experience/pay/benefits/etc.?
I made a mistake. I should have said "engineering" not "physics". The physics works in that a single interceptor has taken out a dummy warhead. What doesn't work is the ability to handle the scenarios in the whitepaper, where 200 missiles are coming in, with multiple reentry vehicles and decoys.

How do you test it?

The GMD has a 50% failure rate during hit-to-kill intercept tests. That's with a single target, time to prepare, and several decades of funding.

To implement the full shield the author wants systems for boost, coast, and reentry phases. This includes "hundreds of spacecraft ... to assure a handful are within range of boosting missiles at the time of launch." There's no one word of how to test system integration.

Going back to physics, one of the scenarios in the whitepaper is to defend the US against an attack with 10 nukes, designed to take down the power grid. Won't setting off our own defensive nukes give the same result? The same magazine has a article on how woefully unprepared the US is for an EMP attack, at http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2014/07/31/protect... . Frankly, it makes Forbes sound like it's still lingering in the Cold War.

And just how do you hide away enough nuclear tipped missile interceptors to be useful, for the decades until they might used, without having to ask for some pretty big permission? There's a good chance that the operators will have to practice setting off nukes over their own houses, or that of friends and family. Not good for morale.
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It carries both the streetcar and light rail. Also there is another section of bike and pedestrian lanes on the other side of the bridge.
Sense of Humor and Sensibility
JonesForth: https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth
Reminds me of a saying I like about startups: The key to success isn't having the biggest shovel or digging the most holes, it's having the discipline to just keep digging in the same place.

For whatever inaccuracies there may be, it's something I always try to keep in mind.
We started in Latinamerica and we do a subscription model. $29/month for access to everything. We have more complete courses, 2 weeks long, about design, marketing and programming. We're right now planning the first english course.

Which one would you like?
I do feel that the CRTC is making headway, if only slowly.

The CRTC operates under some rather vague law that could give it real power, but it still seems to be overly concerned with economic viability of the incumbents (which is not in its mandate).

Maybe one day this government agency will put a bad business that only exists because of its mono/duo/trio/confuso-poly position out of business, but I will not hold my breath for it.
Not everyone lives close enough to work to be able to reasonably bike there. If I biked to work it would be 30km in heavy traffic every day, rain or snow or shine. The usual response to this is to tell me to live closer to work. I would love to do that, but every km I move closer to work is a km we move further from my husband's work. If I wasn't driving or taking the bus, he would be, definitely.

In today's reality, most couples are expected/required to have both partners work, and we've yet to figure out how to solve that 2-body problem on a wide scale. More telecommuting would help, but many companies are still strongly resistant to it even when it's possible. The society that you live in needs the people living >10km from work to be able to get to work and I guarantee that if this wasn't possible anymore, you would feel the hit. If people could only get jobs at places within biking distance, unemployment would skyrocket, as would the number of unfillable job openings. The cascading effect of that would be huge. Have fun with that.
Lack of statistical power. Phase I enrol too few subjects for efficacy. The reason they do a Phase I is to determine it would be safe to do a larger trial.

Source: I used to work for the company that is most likely to have done any MRI analysis for this study. We did Phase I/II/III and they are very different beasts.
Yes. Reddit 9 years ago was different. Usenet 15-25 years ago was quite different than any significant forum today. Sometimes it feels like I grew up in a country that doesn't exist any more.
"OpenBSD's OpenBGPD responsible for 30% of worldwide BGP communication"

Ummm. Citation needed?
Needs an option for less than 1TB of bandwidth. Some of us just want to crunch data and have no need for such large bandwidth. You even have an option for 1GB disk, so what about adding an option for 100GB bandwidth?

As another commenter has said, cores mean nothing unless they're dedicated to my VM. There needs to be a better metric, but unfortunately it's very difficult to "benchmark" a VPS objectively. Any ideas?

Is that 600GB of HDD or 600GB of SSD, or 600GB of SSD-cached HDD? Those are all very different things, and the little icon to the left of the capacity is neither noticeable nor searchable.

Big countries like Canada and the United States need to be broken down into 3-4 regions for latency-sensitive customers.

Users should be able to choose the currency. Right now you're second-guessing the currency based on my location/Accept-Language/whatever and it doesn't seem to be changeable.

Having a column for the virtualization platform might be useful for some people. Is it OpenVZ, KVM, Xen-PV or Xen-HVM?

If anyone is looking for cheaper offerings, there's http://lowendstock.com/

If anyone is looking for unusual locations, there's https://www.exoticvps.com/
You know what. It is one thing to inform people of the risk of cigarettes and to encourage them never to start and to help them quit (and for God's sake make the tobacco companies publish their ingredients already!) -- but it is entirely another thing to legislate them into what is effectively prohibition. Man has been smoking tobacco for thousands of years, and along comes the modern nanny state that is going to tell you exactly what you can and cannot do in every little corner of your life. It is getting way out of control.

Note, I say this irrespective of the TTIP, which I am pretty sure I would oppose (if I knew what it entailed) for the very same reasons.
What about two or more startups that are competing with each other?
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They're merely in the early adopter phase.

The internet didn't destroy printed newspapers overnight, but one by one, they're finishing them off (in print and in organization).

The sad thing is when people don't work less when their costs go down but instead spend the freed money on something else, like higher rents or mortgage payments.
San Francisco startup attorney prepares to launch a new seed fund
I am ubuntu user, but I don't know about systemd.
Reusing objects will always going to be faster. If memory is not being allocated, GC never runs.

Look what happened to Minecraft when they stopped caring about allocations: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/optifine-modder-rips-the-minec...
It's allocating 150 MB/second.
It's now much slower than it was before.
I am the only one who had to google what IoT is?
Other monoclonal antibody therapies have had similar side effects. There is the possibility that this is a direct reaction to the removal of the plaques. Also, I wouldn't get my hopes up until there is a lot more data. See what happened with Elan's bapineuzumab.
Facebook Buyout Ended Oculus and Valve's Relationship
I can remember in the seventies you could put a small dish up on your roof and receive TV channels through microwave. It was a competitor just as our area was being wired for cable TV.

In the BBS days a few of us wondered if the then dormant network could be used for email and perhaps a nationwide BBS network.

Some of those towers are still out there in Michigan at least.
Using Haskell's QuickCheck for Python
How nice of the article to not even mention their consumer registrar brand, Hover, especially while explaining they have a backbone with respect to yanking domain names.

I have one domain registered at Hover, automatically moved when my fly-by-night registrar went bankrupt. Their phone customer service is fantastic and friendly. Email/tickets are great for simple things, but when you need to solve and odd problem a realtime conversation can be much easier.
Clojure allows mutation, but the data structures that use structural sharing aren't mutable.
Did anyone else happen to notice this article's byline is "Betty Friedan" ? Is that THE Betty Friedan?
Yes, I am user of ubuntu server.
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Docker SSL Cert Expired Today
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Spectacular lost hummingbird rediscovered after 69 years
We had to resync the videos, but Monday afternoon, they'll be ready at https://courses.platzi.com/classes/rethinkdb-databases/
Mods fix the title. OP don't post titles like this in all caps this is HN.
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Nice! There's a few things I would like to see and be able to filter by which I can't currently though:

Minimum activity billing period: minute / 15 minutes / 30 minutes / hour / day, etc.

Provisioning through API: yes / no

Number of geographic locations available (this gets tricky, depending on how you treat country. Is it locations within the selected country, or total locations?)
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Honest question: is there legitimate demand for this for legitimate reasons?

I was big into Bitcoin about four years ago and work for an ISP nowadays. We provide services as well and I've considered mail/web hosting/VPS/dedicated offerings (on a small scale) with Bitcoin as a payment option but I don't want to end up attracting the "wrong type" of people.

I realize that there are people who simply want to be anonymous and I'm totally fine with that (I do run Tor relays, for example) but my fear is that the majority of customers this would attract would be those that are "up to no good".

Thinking out loud, perhaps a mail hosting service payable with Bitcoin would be a good way to test the waters -- that is, we could take care of domain registration, DNS configuration/hosting, etc. and allow access over Tor for those looking for "anonymous e-mail" (although I'd be implementing pretty low limits on volume, at least initially).
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Same for GCE, for that matter. These should appear on the lists.
Why people hate JavaScript?
I think the reason people hate javascript and node.js is the fact many prefer python which is cool because i like python also but most people hate the syntax because they can't write code. coming from a C/C++ background one must learn how to write code clean. language like perl fall under here too with C,Lisp etc....
A micro-Learning platform, we allow people to post videos up to 4 minutes long to teach something from one of our categories. Users can follow people they think post helpful videos, they can comment on videos, bookmark them and upvote them also. We have a heavy twitter API integration that makes our app easy to use, and has a built in audience to enhance early growth.
Users can also sell videos in the app by using our Google drive and Drop box sync for easy uploads. We focus on mico sales, meaning the max price for a video you will see in our app for sale is $20. but we are encouraging a much lower price to spike volume.
it's really not an issue if you block outbound smtp

i did this and would remove the block if someone asked

nobody asked
> I was lamenting that Opam 1.1 wasn't dealing with a trivial package installation situation.

Well, it's all connected. A package will need a certain version of ocaml itself, it's standard-lib (or alternative) other libs it needs. These will all depend on various c libraries to a certain degree. So if opam started re-downloading a lot of dependencies that should be available, that sounds like either a) some part needed a newer version, or needed to recompile with different flags, or b) opam didn't find the dependencies installed by dpkg.

Python and Debian go pretty well together, probably partly because a few core utilities use python. So with some creative use of "apt-get build-dep" you can usually get the needed c libraries that things depend on, and so have a better time installing things that need c-code in virtualenvs.

I'm not sure how you think linking to (possibly rapidly moving) c-libraries from a language that runs across a wide range of operating systems and versions should work, if not with something like virtualenv (or buildout). There will, I think, always be a need for packages that are moving faster than stable distributions can/should keep up with -- and there needs to be a sane way to deal with that.

With c code, you can stuff things in /usr/local -- but keeping that in sync as you patch the main os (and do dist-upgrades) and as you need to patch the various libraries/dependencies... is challenging. And that's just for c. When you put another layer on top (ruby, python etc) -- it doesn't really get any easier.

One option is to go the way of bsd ports/gentoo -- but there are at least two issues/trade-offs with recompiling everything from source: 1) if you're mixing and matching versions and compile-options, you quickly end up with unique binaries. Which is to say, binaries that no-one else have tested before you. Granted any bugs you encounter will be in the program and/or the compiler -- but you'll have the joy of finding them. In production, most like. 2) It really doesn't make much sense to recompile "all the things" if the goal is to end up with the same binaries anyway.
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In that case, I really hope you got domain privacy in tact.
See Sandboxie
MSBuild Engine Now Open Source
> Starting to think that running apps within a container is the right way to go.

If you're talking about something like Linux containers, note that the Chrome Pwn2Own exploit involved a sandbox escape via a kernel exploit. (Though seccomp-BPF mitigates this to some extent on Linux.)
Tell HN: Use Your Hosts File to Blackhole EMail Trackers
Bananatag, Streak and Yesware each add web bugs - invisible one-pixel images - to HTML eMail so that the sender will know when you've opened their eMail. Bananatag also tracks clicks on links by using a redirect.

The following entries in your /etc/hosts file should put a lid on this gross privacy violation. Note that /etc/hosts is not accessible on iOS; I expect it can be on jailbroken phones but I don't really know. Some Android devices can be unlocked with a straightforward tool that comes with the Android source code.

Really it would be best to block these domains at your router, or with a DNS server, but that won't really work if, as I, you hang out at WiFi spots frequently.

Add the following to your existing /etc/hosts file - don't just replace it or your box won't work anymore:

# = B =

# Bananatag eMail Tracking
#
# Bananatag uses both web bugs as well as tracking redirects for links

127.0.0.1 bl-1.com
127.0.0.1 s.bl-1.com

# = S =

# Streak eMail Tracking

127.0.0.1 streak.com
127.0.0.1 www.streak.com

# = Y =

# Yesware eMail Tracking

127.0.0.1 yesware.com
127.0.0.1 app.yesware.com
127.0.0.1 www.yesware.com

Note that DNS is not an API, it is a network protocol. While the convention is for name lookups to consult the hosts file, there is no particular requirement to actually do so.
I thought that was an odd comparison too. Given it's price and size, shouldn't it be compared with the MacBook pro?
I work for an ISP and can put as many machines in our datacenters as I want (within reason, of course) so I only have a few (small) VPSes nowadays. When I used to have a bunch of them, however, I quickly learned to avoid anything OpenVZ-based like the plague.

This is anecdotal, of course, but OpenVZ "feels" very much inferior and the providers running OpenVZ (more often than not) very much seemed like fly-by-night operations simply trying to squeeze as many VMs as possible onto a physical host without any regard to performance.
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Oh, lower accidents, same speed is also good. Anything that improves on the pareto frontier!
That's true. So the sum of outcomes is worse here?