skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python has a search-engine: whoosh
How important do you think is formal college education in the life of an entrepreneur?
> Many times I want to follow up on the discussion, to recount more up-to-date experiences, or to find out what happened so I can share in any discoveries made. People so often learn things, and so rarely come back to share them.

So: Blog your new experiences, submit them to HN, and (if this link is more relevant to HN than to readers hitting your blog otherwise) make a comment noting the relation to the previous HN discussion, with an appropriate link.

You don't need personal contact details to post a followup to a discussion on an open public forum.
I hear people talk about Lean Startup methods at many established companies (where I work included). But I feel like we're deluding ourselves a bit, playing pretend startup. How applicable do you think the Lean Startup ideas are to a corporate environment? (One that purportedly wants to adopt these ideas) What features don't work at all? Who is doing good work to adapt these ideas for larger corporations?
Hmmm. Maybe I'll give it another shot. I started Anathem twice and just couldn't get into it.
"We’re ceasing to give any more fucks about your incompetently-run “Uber for cats” app or whatever the fuck your company does."

> You rule.
How important do you feel it is for a startup to move to, or at least fundraise in SV?
I'm really not sure why now is the time to solidify exactly what a single-page app is. It's a constantly moving target, so why not just stick with JS frameworks that can be a lot more flexible?
I work for a large aerospace company. How can we adopt lean startup ideas for hardware projects where the design iterations are much more expensive and lead times more severe?
> Even over TLS? Are your connections being MITMed?

Some corporate networks do MITM you and mandate HTTP only (we've seen this surprisingly often in the wild).

Now, for most apps this isn't a concern since those employees probably wouldn't be allowed to use the app, but it can be quite important for apps that specifically target large businesses.
Anathem, not Anathema.

Books I've liked recently that have done that sort of thing: Rainbows End, or if you're willing to venture a little further in genre then Stardust (by a different Neil).
I found his talk about addiction the most striking.
Your DHE key is 1024 bits. I'm not sure if that's what's causing it, but I would recommend to upgrade it to 2048 bits.
This is what happens when engineers subordinate themselves to non-technical management in a business-driven (as opposed to engineering-driven) organization.

The ironic/tragic thing is that the consultants who are brought in at much expense (and who therefore have some credibility with "the business") are often no better than--usually worse than--the in-house engineers they are supposed to help. If you ever find yourself an engineer in a dynamic like this, you should interpret it as a sign of mistrust--even outright disrespect--of you and your peers by your bosses. Imagine if you were a physician and hospital management thought it necessary to bring in outside physicians to help you with your patients. Not many doctors I know would put up with that, but engineers are culturally so submissive that they go along with it and deal with the Dilbert scenario of the $500/hour consultant giving the same recommendations the in-house engineers have been saying all along (which the consultants get credit for, of course).

If you're ever in a position of authority and feel that it's necessary to bring in consultants to "fix" your codebase, it would be worthwhile to reflect for a few moments on how this situation came to be. Either you failed your organization on the hiring front and have terrible engineers (unlikely), or your otherwise talented engineers cannot do their jobs effectively due to the environment you've created. Perhaps you've forced them to incur so much technical debt by nonstop "sprints", unrealistic deadlines and multiple pivots that any forward progress is all but impossible. Consultants probably won't fix this.
InstaMed Brings Apple Pay to Healthcare for First Time
Can we please stop saying "letsencrypt.org will solve this" until letsencrypt.org is actually solving this?
How I Changed My Mind About Apple's MacBook
This is how Cryptonomicon was for me. Anathem, I read after that, and I kinda understood what I was getting into, so I got through it much more more quickly.
As a hacker, my goal for some reason was to get enough cookies to make 3 rows of "pointers" :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z26yrpi2nokp78f/Screenshot%202015-...

Just to see what it would look like

I also looked at the source and sped up the game by running the game loop much faster with an extra setTimeout :)
Yep. Pretty much any measurement you make in the real world is actually going to be irrational. We just round them to the closest significant figure we have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swm8tTLWirU

I'm also interested in subatomic particles like quarks. They're usually represented as spheres. Are they really spherical?

Similarly, the gravity of a neutron star probably compresses its own mass pretty damn closely to a perfect sphere. Though I suppose its rotation might deform it?
Comparing AVL Tree, RB Tree, Scapegoat Tree, Splay Tree and Treap
> He said it was like a scene from one of his novels.

Incidentally, Stephen King ended up actually putting that scene into one of his novels, the seventh book of the Dark Tower. This was fitting, I thought, since the idea of the Dark Tower is that it contains all worlds, real and fictional, including our own.
Keep your lows updated!

http://web.archive.org/web/20150401223153/https://www.nebula...
“Not now, Pa, I know the moon’s pretty, I’m right in the middle of debugging this method . . .”
Nothing based on time is as simple as this article implies. When movies are ripped, they tend to have slight adjustments in playback speed as a side effect, and not necessarily at a constant rate; it can result in a total language change of a couple seconds.
Any playback type analysis needs to be based on frames.
In fact, if Joyce had written nothing at all, that might not have been a bad thing.

I was afflicted with having to read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" in high school. In it, Joyce puts forth his theory of art - that to be pure art, it should cause no response whatsoever in the viewer. Joyce is a great writer, and was able to achieve the effect he wanted - to write a book that produces no response whatsoever in the reader (other than the feeling of revulsion at being forced to waste my time reading it). But because his theory of art is rubbish, he wastes his talent producing "art" that is a complete waste, both of his talent and of the reader's time.
Perhaps because, beyond a Twitter hashtag and a fairly inexplicable emoticon, it doesn't add anything new or interesting to (what usually amounts to) a rather prickly debate.
I thought of that too, but I wonder how much energy it takes to do fusion research and get the first power-producing fission reactor built from the starting point of knowing nothing about nuclear physics.
Don't forget to up vote the poll: Just voting doesn't
...which indicates that they aren't necessarily wrong in their assessment that those things aren't important.

It makes me wish the OP had named the industry & market, though. Companies like these are ideal prey for entrepreneurs.
Do you not realize how complex the workflow pipelines are for a film or TV series of any kind? And how shows involving a lot of special effects like GoT are orders of magnitude more complex? For the publicity and marketing side of things we like to send actors out on talk shows to talk about character and costumes and drama and so on, and maybe show a few shots of a giant camera on a greenscreen stage to talk about how innovative things are, but there's a vast amount of painstaking digital troubleshooting and assembly work by hundreds of people involved in the manufacture of the product. I think you underestimate the degree of engineering knowledge that obtains in the entertainment industry, and at how many different levels that engineering knowledge is applied.
Whoosh sounds pretty much what i'm looking for. Thanks!
Just like UML and Prolog.
Thanks! Just the answer i was looking for!!!
Megacode ransom paid to decrypt server shared by 5 law enforcement departments
> * Report sensor data from small embedded devices with extremely limited CPU

This proposal is specifically about web browsing.

> * Your JS can talk to APIs that don't yet support HTTPS (e.g. NextBus). If your serve your JS over HTTPS, your browser will complain if you try to access a HTTP-only API.

I believe that is the point of this proposal. NextBus will probably never switch to HTTPS without external pressure to do so.
Loved that book, and I'm not even remotely interested in writing.

Funny thing is, the two elements I remember the most from what I learned inside are at what could be considered both extreme of the "importance spectrum": double the s (the kids's toys) and don't write adjectives to give feelings and emotions when your task is to create them (if something is awesome, don't write "it's awesome", make it read/feel/look awesome).
Not his best novel, but it was a lot of fun and was well paced. It had a lot more action than most of his larger novels, which was kind of a nice departure.
How to Be Taken More Seriously as a Programmer
Perfect timing. I'm bootstrapping my own startup (http://moonlighter.io) at the moment and had a couple questions about the MVP.

1) How can you quickly validate a business with very little immediately visible value to the user? Direct user interviews won't work here because the service is very data-driven (collecting filesystem events), so it'll require a decent amount of data collection from the user (I'll offer something like a 14-30 day trial to allow this). Since it has to be done over a longer period of time, and it includes collecting information that might be sensitive to some people, it's not very easy to fully validate the business. I've had a few friends using it, and I'll be sharing with a small beta user list soon, but otherwise I was wondering if you had any other ideas.

2) I've put off writing the payment processing code, focusing on the product itself. Especially considering the "trial" period necessary to see value, are there any downsides to releasing the MVP without allowing payments and then adding them in after release? (Other than no cashflow of course...)

Thanks! I'm actually reading through the lean startup now (after reading way too much of it's principles on the internet first). So it's neat to be able to communicate with the author directly like this.
Tesco Mobile and Giff Gaff top the UK's best liked network apps
Yeah I'm with you, tho only people who seemed interested in the leaked episodes were big fans.
This helped make reading this a little easier. Copy and paste to your URL bar. You may have to retype the javascript: as it appears to get stripped for security.

javascript:$('.entry').css({ "background":"#fff","color":"#333","padding":"10px","font-family":"Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif","font-size":"14px","font-style":"normal","font-variant":"normal","font-weight":"400","line-height":"20px" })
I'm worried customer will poke around in it, and decide to steal whatever is in it.

Mind you that I am literally handing over the engine wrapped in plastic.

Last thing I want is customer becoming a competitor.
Using lines of code as a metric makes no sense at all. Bad programmers produce more lines of code. Does that make them more efficient?
Sales Readiness
If you're using PostgreSQL you can take advantage of its full text search support. When doing so, make sure to save the text search vectors in a physical column as otherwise queries will be quite slow.
14-year-old Florida Student charged with hacking school computer
For a lot of these topics, everyone good is similarly green. Most people get 0 opportunities to set up (say) a working supply chain for a hardware product they prototyped, designed, sold for money, and managed to shipped. Having the experience just once is still plenty valuable.
Ask Corey Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkdsYTlEGfQ

It all depends on what you are trying to learn. What has to be true in order for your new product or project to succeed? How can you find that out cheaply and quickly? And what if you chose tools for speed of testing rather than efficiency of production?

I've been amazed how many hardware and industrial companies have been able to adopt lean startup, even in situations I would have previously thought impossible.
Good find, thanks!

Returning false in this situation feels a bit hacky IMO.
The deaths due to the Arab-Israeli conflict have nothing to do with the potential consequences of Israel's nuclear weapons. Likewise, the small population and small landmass doesn't reduce the threat. If anything, it increases the threat, because Israel has a much smaller capability to withstand conventional war than any other nuclear-armed country.

Consider that Israel's stockpile, while unknown, is estimated to be larger than Pakistan's and India's combined, and that it is surrounded by enemies rather than merely being bordered by some as is India and Pakistan. Those two are a major threat to world stability and a likely source of a near to medium term nuclear war. We're really lucky that Israel's enemies have not managed to get their shit together since 1973 on the wiping-out-the-Jews front, because if they did or do, it could easily turn into a seriously devastating conflict.
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This charity-as-part-of-consumerism is the topic of Zizek's talk First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; well worth a watch (10 minutes) and approachable by those without philosophical backgrounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g
Weirdly, the author even acknowledges this:

> It's pedantic, sure. Isn't 1.16180 close enough? Yes, it probably would be...

For some reason he didn't see fit to delete that section of the article after realizing it was pointless. Which is too bad, because the rest of it is pretty solid.
"pkgsrc should still work on Solaris 10"

I guess I wasn't clear...I need it for current Solaris 11.x. Which the pkgsrc docs don't seem to match.

But, I'll have a look at it. pkgsrc does seem promising, and something I've looked into in the past (particularly for systems that have poor package management).
Agreed. Somebody's mad, perhaps justifiably so, but there's no clear plan of action here. I'm not saying it's a bad plan. I'm saying it's no plan, and thus nothing to discuss. Maybe when more details come out about what the tableflippers are actually going to do, that will be newsworthy.
Haven't tried it myself, but I know for a fact that you can discharge student loans in bankruptcy in Canada. It is also pretty easy for an American to go to Canada, and there's minimal cultural difference.
Yeah, I probably average 1000 pages per month on Kindle for iPhone. My usual purchase flow is: I see a book that interests me, I get the sample sent to my phone. When I feel like reading, I read some samples and If I like one I can order from my phone and start reading.

With this particular book it would be a safe bet, I've read all his books, even REAMDE twice, which others didn't appear to find as compelling. But I don't like even the concept of pre-orders on general principles, although fiction publishers don't abuse them as badly as other i.e. game publishers (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2s6zgz/stop_preorder...) I still prefer not to participate.
SpaceX CRS-6 Launch Webcast
A good programmer that writes less lines of code is more efficient than a bad programmer that writes more to do the same work, because you pay each per line of code. A library that allows both to write less lines of code will increase efficiency for everyone.
From TFA:
"gave the staff at Ctrip’s call center the opportunity to volunteer to work from home for nine months."

There is zero value added to a call center employee from working in proximity to other workers. Actually, that probably has a negative value, since the insane chatter just makes it harder to hear whoever is on the phone. The same isn't necessarily valid for other jobs.

Making a generic conclusion (such as the clickbaity title) from such a limited category of workers is just shitty journalism. Apparently, not even HBR is beyond that...
One of the 2 intermediate CA on your cert path is signed with SHA-1:

VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5

In addition, in my Chrome for Linux browser (Version 41.0.2272.101 (64-bit)), that cert's parent cert is:

Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority

And that's a 1024 bit RSA key.

So my chrome's validation path includes a signature by a 1024 bits RSA key using SHA-1 as a trust step. No EV for you. Had the G5 cert been in my trust store (might be on your platform) then all the signatures would have been from 2048-bits RSA keys with SHA-256 and all A-OK.
At the risk of asking a stupid question...why can't you?!?

If it's kids who are the problem, just lock the door.
I had the same gut feeling. TCP already seems like a fine enough abstraction (especially in comparison to UDP), and it is actually literally _everywhere_.

Maybe someone should write a TCP socket implementation for the browser instead of trying to re-implement the transport layer on top of the application layer.
#AskMark: Why do you wear the same shirt every day? [video]
The top was, "choose your own adventure" advice, the bottom was, "here's some clickable immediate gratification" advice. But point well taken, haha.
Spotify Said to Seek Financing to Value Music Site at $8 Bn
GoDaddy is pathetic most service i have ever used?
GoDaddy is pathetic most service i have ever used, trying to reload a page for more than 5 min ... shittt
I don't think the gravitational lensing would obscure the event horizon, but if there were objects far enough in front, those would. We see things based on where it appears light has come from if it were traveling in a straight line, not just on where it hits our retinas. You can think of lenses as changing the direction of where light goes, but you can also thing of them as changing the apparent direction of where light has come from.

In order for light from the gravitational lensing to obscure the object causing the lensing, it would need to appear to be traveling in a straight line away from it. I don't think this is possible, I drew up a little sketch to try and illustrate this: https://sketch.io/render/sketch552c20b7b0f9f.png.

If the object itself is emitting light, then you will see it, but if it is a black hole, it would appear to a black circle
Do people think it would be helpful if YC gave a rating to rejected startups?
It's very understandable that YC can't give individualized feedback for people who are rejected, that would be an incredibly expensive job; however, I'm sure that YC has an internal rating system of some sort for the applications, people need to communicate, right? I was just thinking that I would really appreciate something simple like a 1-10 rating (or an estimated 0-1 probability of success?) of what they thought of the idea. It's really hard to get an honest and experienced opinion on how likely your startup is to be successful, and if I knew I was scoring straight 1s-3s on my applications, I'd stop applying until I had more experience/traction/etc..., it could even reduce the load of applications that YC has to process.

Obviously there are a lot of complications that I'm not addressing, and that could totally derail this whole idea if not properly addressed, but I figure that's why it's worth bringing up for discussion.

Also, please don't take this as me telling what YC should do with their business, they can do whatever (reasonable/legal/etc...) thing they like with it. It just seems like an open culture, so I thought I'd bring this question to the table.
Is competition really for losers?
There's plenty of "leanwashing" going on, that's for sure.

The key is to move from "pretend startup" to "real startup" - which is 100% possible inside an established company if the leadership wants it to happen. But it is not easy; it requires significant changes to many of the company's systems, including HR and Finance.

To know if it's likely to work ask yourself:
1. does the startup have the authority to operate autonomously or does it need endless approvals and permissions?
2. does the startup have a clear board that it is accountable to for both funding and pivot decisions?
3. is the statup cross-functional across all the functions required to build the product?
4. are the members of the startup full-time on just that one thing?
5. is the budgeting process metered (ie fixed rounds of funding) or entitlement based (ie annual appropriates with quarterly adjustments)?

If you don't have good answers to all five of these questions, you're probably playing startup more than real startup.
19th May will not get here soon enough. Always good sometime challenging but I never get sick of reading his books!!
Which I believe is originally a quote from Brian Kernighan:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing
a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as
you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

The quote attribution I found indicated that it was from "The Elements of Programming Style", 2nd edition, Chapter 2.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
There just aren't that many available water sources to draw large amounts of water from, and El Paso is going to be pretty much at the bottom of the list when it comes to irrigation supply. The Colorado is already oversubscribed, and tapping new water sources creates political backlash from locals who don't want to see their water going to other counties or states. Finally, pipelines are expensive beasts in a time when the federal government isn't interested in eating the costs and state governments can't easily wait for counties to pay back out of water sales.

Water is a bit odd in that it's ridiculously cheap even where it's scarce, so the financial incentive to build massive water-diversion projects isn't all that great absent a specific political or governmental imperative. It's also dubious that it's worth diverting water to places that are naturally scarce (or where wasteful policies have drawn down aquifers and other groundwater sources). Pushing the carrying capacity of a region well beyond its natural levels is a fraught enterprise, especially if the regions haven't shown themselves to be particularly good at managing their current water stocks.

Personally, I'm betting that in 20 years the Great Lakes rust belt is going to be enjoying a hell of a resurgence.
Google sucks at productizing their infrastructure expertise. The underlying tech at Google is indeed better than CloudFlare, but CloudFlare understands marketing, ease-of-use, product simplicity, all those stuff that are necessary to get people to actually use your offering.
I don't see why one would follow from the other.
In the "Scenes Length" section - Should it not be n = k^s and not n = s^k?