skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wired is very vague and doesnt link any sources. This is the actual filing: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/0001047469150... (
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/0001047469150... for all documents )

Edit: From what I understand they basically want to launch a proprietary crypto-currency as a mean to raise money. I don't think they even specify whether this is supposed to be debt or equity.
That's close. It's meant to be more like dysfunctional queue.

From the README:

DIStributed QUEue but is also a joke with "dis" as negation (like in disorder) of the strict concept of queue, since Disque is not able to guarantee the strict ordering you expect from something called queue. And because of this tradeof it gains many other interesting things.
The fact that you managed to learn Swift while developing a new game just by yourself it's a great accomplishment already.
Hope you'll manage to increase the revenue on your game - it looks like a really nice game.

Keep up the good work.
Also the name of an actual company that provides phone cards/numbers for international calling: http://www.pingo.com/
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> So either the article is poorly written

The headline is (extra apostrophe), so I'd assume the article is too. :)
Thanks! I really want to get back to recording those sessions but it's so hard to get up and running.
Dogs don't have periods; they have estrous, commonly called "heat".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrous_cycle - note specifically #Differences_from_the_menstrual_cycle
Which site are you referring to? If it is www.letshush.com, it is in English and Burmese.
Search for the title on Google. You'll often be able to read the full article without hitting the paywall if the referring URL comes from a search engine.
As far as I know mongo think they have solved this by providing dricers under a different licence.

Again, AFAIK, this licencing (AGPL + MIT/BSD or Apache) has not been tested in court.
The article's headline doesn't have the apostrophe.
its strange to me that a place full of developers and this is a question? is installing, managing and securing a basic wordpress site really that much of a hassle or headache, or even a stretch of basic web dev skills? If you cant stand up, install and manage wordpress, at the very least, maybe you are on the wrong forum?

you have to watch for security updates and changes for almost every other thing you use in your work life(from OS to JS libs), why not just add wordpress and the few plugins you use to that list?
Oh Drudge... never change, quite literally
> Without Microsoft, we'd be in an industry ruled by hardware makers, each a mini-Apple, with their own walled-garden ecosystems that would not interoperate with any others

Yes, IBM, the incumbent company with the largest market share, definitely tried to start a walled garden. /sarcasm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
Haha! I remember using Beej's guide to get me through networking and distributed computing back in college. The courses weren't terribly useful, but Beej covered the practical side of it quite nicely.
Trusty old pen and paper.

When you type your notes most people tend to take notes that are too in-depth with unnecessary details or get distracted by other things.

When you use pen and paper you are forced to only jot down the important bits. You can't write fast enough to write down too much. Chances are you'll learn to take better notes.

I then type my notes up later to ensure future legibility (no smears from paper rubbing together) as well as being able to organize them to easily reference sections later.

I'm not saying its impossible to take good notes if you type them to begin with; but there is a strong correlation between typing notes and taking poor notes.
I'd like to start a new saying "I quantum state care".
Nope. And no, semi-legal ROMs aren't authoritative on that.
i worked a company that had great referral program, i referred two employees. when the topic came up of how i go about getting my fees, i was basically laughed at and told to leave HR's area.

has anyone ever actually been paid out for a referral?
Motorola slashes prices
Thanks, search engine link (non-paywall)

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=In+Battle+Against+Alzhe...
No I'm not. I've been reading Watts for a long time. His original hypothesis in reviewing weather stations (starting with his "how not to measure temperature" series of blog posts) was that poor siting was allowing urban heat island effects to create a false impression of warming.

Well, as the paper explicitly states, it does not. Mean warming trend at the stations they reviewed is the same as for the national network overall. They found differences in volatility (min/max extremes), which is interesting, but does not disprove the overall warming trend--which was Watt's expectation from the beginning.
Another big thing that I ought to have mentioned in my overall survey of the changes is that most, if not the vast majority of states enacted gun control preemption laws after the Supremes denied cert in 1981 in the lawsuit appealing the outright ban of handgun ownership in Morton Grove, Illinois. Almost needless to say, those didn't include Illinois, which per lawyer David Hardy (http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/11/winnetka_il_rep.ph...) included 6 municipalities with handgun bans. 4 surrendered, to my memory Oak Park with Chicago covering their legal bills and Chicago fought and lost in McDonald (resulting in multiple high six figure checks paid by Chicago to the plaintiffs).

I honestly cannot recall another municipality that reversed, although I wouldn't be surprised a few others did. Given how few major ones have/had handgun bans, just Chicago, D.C. and NYC (outside of a very few politically connected), and what a big deal it was nationwide when Morton Grove pulled their stunt, I'd be disappointed with my news sources if I'd missed any.
Several popular Firefox privacy/security add-ons have become much worse in the last year. BlockSite added ads and full tracking of user browsing. (That one is really bad.) AdBlock Plus added a "whitelist" of ads they let through. (The advertisers pay AdBlock)

Firefox itself reports installed add-ons to Mozilla AMO each day for tracking and update purposes. Add-ons don't need to check for updates themselves.
Some ideas from my experiences.

1. Take a deep breath.

2. Take a walk and regain some perspective.

3. Do something that makes you feel successful.

4. Tackle one of the biggest concerns of your product head on.
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Weird thing for hacker news
> Amazon and Google's hiring processes appear designed to bring in large numbers of very clever undergraduates finishing their bachelor's degree and looking for a first job -- and little else.

Yeah, that makes sense and its a perfectly valid explanation.

I don't get why they'd have recruiters who contact people that don't fit their mold on a regular basis if that was the case. It seems like a complete waste of resources.

That is why I think they have some other objective.

> these companies believe that the ability to answer undergrad exam questions about general algoriths-and-data-structures can act as a kind of intelligence quotient for programmers,

I'm pretty sure that is what they think they are doing. I just don't see it as successful because while its easy to remember the names/purposes of algorithms it is difficult to remember all of them at an implementation level because I implement them once and rarely every again. So I'd need to go look something up that I last implemented 5 years ago or Google it.

However, I'm not going to waste my time to "prep" to waste my PTO for maybe getting a job. Its a completely unproductive activity when 90% of other interviews don't involve me expending more than a day of PTO.
Try mindfulness or yoga. Headspace and Calm.com helped me a lot to get started, and there is a 30-day-yoga-challenge series on Youtube.
This Tiny Robot Can Pull Weights 2,000 Times Heavier Than It
"get out" is just an expression. Short for "get out of here", meaning "that's ridiculous". I regret using it.

I'll happily acknowledge where words come from. No one is denying the origin of these words. I just don't see how it matters. It's okay for something to have a different word in another language.

I object to your use of the phrase "it is really 'vipAsanA'". "It is really" implies there must be one true name for a thing, which isn't true. It can have different names to different people. That's fine. I mean - Certainly we do not use the Chinese word for "firework" just because they invented fireworks first. There is no moral obligation to pay homage to the inventor of something in its name.
The idea of a EU BSD fork sounds terrible. What needs to happen is government funding for key open source infrastructure projects that require it like OpenSSL, OpenBSD, GnuPG, etc.
This is rad! Yeah I've used http://archive.org/web/ few times for recovering epic embarrassing ol' landing pages haha :)!
Gotcha. In this particular case though, it does feel like every few months someone will remind us there is this great tool some of us have been already using for 2 years now:)
He isn't saying their isn't a solution... he's saying that you don't have to offer a problem AND a solution at the same time.

He's right: There shouldn't be an "All or Nothing" mentality.

There are times and places where a problem shouldn't be mentioned without a solution...

There are also times and places where bring up a problem is itself important enough to warrant a talk WITHOUT a solution.

Ignoring the fact that both extremes exist is a larger part of problem in having any kind of constructive conversation these days. "If you don't agree with me 100%, you're an idiot, a troll and your mom should be shot" type of attitude is a troll in of itself and a major problem blocking any kind of conversation on a multitude of topics.

Why can't the problem be discussed without forcing the conversation down the "this is the solution..." path?
Chrome as a platform, yes. Web as a platform, no. The come from the latter and are going to the former.
Technical interview advice for new and aspiring engineers
To counter obvious retorts:

What if the science of physics started with the Grand Unified Theory, knowing what the fundamental properties & rules of the universe were? would it still be science as we then worked from both ends of knowledge (basics up and complexity down)? how then would it be different from "computer science", where we start both with the basics (0, 1, NOR) and from the complexity of the behavior we see & desire, working both toward the middle for it all to come together and function?
This is Galmor Tree Planter with load of 10000 saplings -http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/ODW1002.pdf/$FILE/ODW1002.pdf
It is not so portable comparing to its Soviet competitor.
I love the liberal arts, but the idea that everyone needs to study them in order to be a good citizen is overstated at best. It's like saying everyone needs to learn to code to be a good citizen: a pretty thing to say, easy to find people who agree, but it doesn't actually make sense.

Whether we like it or not, college really is career training for most people. And it's ridiculously expensive. College would be a lot less expensive for most people without these arbitrary requirements that serve no real purpose.
I'm discerning that there's a lot of anger about western appropriation of Indian culture, which is, well, fine, and I definitely didn't really know about it before this. But...

"First of all, why do u use YOGA in ur name??????????????? This belongs 2 us Indians"

This is kinda infuriating.
There's some factors aren't numerically quantifiable: Respect for elders? How does one metric that? Time donated to charitable services for the elders?

What this will create is real life level grinding, and a glut of half-assing a lot of socially desirable "traits". This could get very ugly, very fast if this article is accurate, creating a society where corners are cut in the interest of upping their score. It's like profit motive but for every day interactions.
Mods - please merge the two posts currently top trending on the front page on an identical topic with the one that makes sense
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The stuff with Pebble does seem obviously anticompetitive.

Besides that here's the difference:

Apple's hardware and software are exclusive to each other.

Google is being accused of interacting with hardware manufacturers in an anticompetitive way, in nearly an identical fashion to how Microsoft interacted with hardware manufacturers leading to their anti-trust loss.

The GMail app is the new Internet Explorer. You can't get the GMail app through proper channels unless your phone manufacturer play's Googles game to their liking. Likewise phone manufacturers aren't free to sell the phones as they want, they either lose out on market-dominating Google applications or lose on their freedom of choice.

The difference between this and Apple is that there are huge complicated business deals between Google and hardware manufacturers. Apple app store kicking out or modifying the behavior of apps can be seen as anticompetitive, but it is fundamentally different.

Apple is deciding what to sell in their store in an anticompetitive way, Google is controlling it's buyers in an anticompetitive way.

The second is seen as generally worse.

Microsoft, by the way, has a big hand in pushing this.
So, informing the uniformed public is a bad thing? Or is it the manner in which the informing is being done is the problem you see?
How can the source be checked if it is really anon?
Any functional advantage to using this instead of something like rabbitmq?
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Or any of Stanislaw Lem's books of "fables for robots" like "The Cyberiad".
The other thing that people often overlook, is that "could care less" and "couldn't care less" mean exactly the same thing IF the person saying "could care less" was intending to be sarcastic.

As in:

"I couldn't care less about this test." (literal)

"I could care less about this test." (sarcastic)

Yes, the actual expression is "couldn't care less" but I can easily see how people think it is "could care less" (in a sarcastic tone).

Same as "by the waist side" instead of "by the wayside." The term "wayside" is so rarely used now that people mishear it and rationalise the alternative definition that does make sense.

There are other examples too (correct on the right):

- Nip it in the butt vs. Nip it in the bud

- One in the same vs. One and the same

- You’ve got another thing coming vs. You’ve got another think coming

- Each one worse than the next vs. Each one worse than the last

- On accident vs. By accident

- For all intensive purposes vs. For all intents and purposes

- Extract revenge vs. Exact revenge

- etc
It's definitely a divisive technique.

I found myself trying to scroll down as well, and when I realized I couldn't, the second wave of animations snapped my attention back to the top, and I said "well, let's see what this is about".

I think walkthroughs like that one rely on the "aha" moment. Once they had my attention, it was an impressive, easy to follow, informative mini-tour. It's getting that buy-in that's tough.

While I imagine it turns many people off, I also assume that those people have low interest in what the page is about.

So in that way, there's a sort of upfront filtration, where the people who aren't very interested get turned off, but the people who are watching intently get a better-than-usual payoff.

I'd really like to see the research that went into the page. Stripe's design team is on point, so my guess is that they did their homework.
Countries such as the US and Australia already implement much of what the article describes: credit rating, criminal record, financial assets, standarized test scores, educational and employment records, residential history, searchable online presence, with the greatest weighting given to financial assets of course because how much money someone has trumps all.

The main differences with the announced Chinese plan are:

* it will aggregate many various ratings and makes them available publicly on all citizens, something that's done only privately for some residents in the US

* it extends the system to social criteria, something only done privately through sports clubs, religious groups, etc in the US, and dilutes the importance of a person's financial assets in calculating a person's "worth"

* it's using technology from the ground up, intead of slowly automating a paper-based system that's already been developed over the years

So the main differences are those of degree.
See also the related document the study's author submitted to the FCC:

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520940937
Would love to see multi-threaded workers. That's one of the pros of using sidekiq + redis today (it uses celluloid under the hood).
Addition: It sounds like I came down hard on the pro-college side. I actually do think colleges can do more, faster and cheaper. But, I also don't think we have a plug and play alternative for the average 18 year old and average parents.

OTOH, if you want to roll your own and you are willing to spend college levels of time and money, it's fertile ground for a motivated eccentric. Get a private tutor. Many awesome PHD students will happily teach you one-on-one for <$50 ph. Find 5 friends and buy 15 hours per week for $150. That's $2k-$3k per semester. Follow a curriculum. elearning tools. Roll your own hazing. It could end up cheaper/faster/better than college.

If you say no to college, what's your alternative. "Learn yourself to X" just isn't enough.
Please see my comment below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9447938). There is no risk to Rust's basic safety guarantees here, and there are several ways forward (including introducing things like `Leak` backwards-compatibly later on).
"And therein lies the paradox. Yes, students are paying, often handsomely, for their degree. But they're not exactly customers, either. They're participants in an experience — one that is meant to be challenging, even grueling."

If that's "not exactly" the definition of a customer, I'm not sure what is. The students are customers. The real paradox is if they vote for easier teachers, the product they are buying loses its value.
If you changed the defaults, it was kept. If you never set a search engine, the shipped default was changed (and clearly mentioned as such in the release notes not to mention all over the press, so saying "behind my back" is quite funny).
Hi, great point. Currently, users have to use their phone numbers to login. However, user's phone number is encrypted in the db.

To ensure that everyone's comfortable with it, we're adding a new feature which doesn't require the user to login.
If it's twice as effective, it may still be better. It's actually an interesting question.

What if instead of college, we had elearning and a college dorm/village/den of college debauchery.. the stuff 19 year olds like. Instead of paying teachers and tutors and such, pay students to do the elearning. They can use the money to purchase wet t shirt related things or whatever.

I wonder if that would actually produce more learnings.
It's easy to see that the second method can be applied so it works independently of the position and size of the circle. Let's start by reformulating it slightly: instead of a "random radius" we will use a "random diameter".

> Choose a diameter of the circle, choose a point on the diameter and construct the chord through this point and perpendicular to the diameter.

In the general case, choose a line going through the origin.

=> In the circle, there is a diameter parallel to this line.

Then choose a point on the line, and construct the perpendicular line at that point. (To be able to choose a point uniformly, you have to consider a finite segment but this is not a problem as long as the location/size of the circle is bounded).

=> This perpendicular line might not intersect the circle, but when it does it determines a chord that goes through a point chosen uniformly on the diameter.

This generalized method can be used to cover uniformly multiple circles at the same time, but obviously not every line will intersect every circle.
Please see my comment below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9447938). If this were a problem for Rust's basic memory safety guarantees, we'd certainly consider delaying release. There are also ways to pursue the `Leak` approach in the future backwards-compatibly.
I don't think so. The higher tier of lawyers is making 2-3x what the lower tier of lawyers is making. I think top end engineers are making 50-100% more than lower tier engineers, but not 200-300% more.
But at that point, what exactly is it phoning home about? If it's still sharing the data you explicitly refused to share, then that's one thing. If it's simply asking home if there's an update, then that's something totally different.
You're probably not wrong, but to put my earlier comments into light, Morton Grove was one of the ones who reversed their position legislatively as a result of the Heller decision.

I think it's fair to categorize Morton Grove either way, but perhaps it is errant of me to imply close correlation.

Edit: Actually, I recant. Many cities have overturned legislation as a result of suit, but looking at the context, we aren't talking about cities, we're talking about states.

As to the discussion on how states go from rights-restrictive to rights-permissive, I agree that it has predominately been done legislatively.
It's being replaced this year by a D version.
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You missed the point entirely. Just because I can't think of, or simply I am not providing a solution does not mean I cannot point out a problem.

Really, your post is the kind of thing that must sit framed on every wishful-thinking, fallacy-screaming neckbeard wall.