skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think part of the reason base jumping is banned in Yosemite has to do with the spectacle of it.

From the fine article:

" “The reason we would like to discourage it is not so much because of the danger of it, but the spectacle of it,” O’Neal said during an interview at the park’s Emergency Operations Centre."
MongoDB 3 is slower than MongoDB 2
To be fair it says "this tribe" which can be read "the collective" and for the collective to survive it is only required that enough members survive. It doesn't specify any particular individuals.

Of course this is a fairly nuanced reading of the title and I initially thought the same as you.

It's kind-of the same as saying "lions keep the antelope herds healthy" which is technically true, but only because they are the mechanism by which the less healthy antelopes stop being a part of the herd.
One thing to note is that the testing was done by people with detailed knowledge of operational procedures, therefore they knew the weaknesses and took advantage of that. In other words, if you got 100 semi random travelers and tried to have them sneak things thru fewer than 95 would succeed.

Now, that's not to say the TSA isn't incompetent and shouldn't improve its procedures and policies, but rather the 95% is an exaggerated value.

One other observation to make. When driving down the highway over the speed limit and a patrol car becomes visible, it's quite clear the car would not catch every infringer, yet, nearly everyone slows to comply with speed limits. In other words, as Bruce says, you don't need 100% effectiveness for the system to be effective.
(Disclosure, Trine author here, and also admittedly very inspired by Ramda.)

I actually used Ramda quite extensively a while back, because I was convinced it was the right way. However, a while after looking at stack traces that lead to Ramda and not even myself understanding my where each parameter in my own code goes, I decided to stop using it and also dropped these features from Trine. Trine has partial, and that's as far as magic goes, in fact I wanted to make it as far from magical as possible. I think plain old functions are the best form of function composition, albeit I'd love for the syntax to be terser. They're easy to read and easy to reason about, also easy to reorder, no need for higher order functions that go in the middle.
The TSA Precheck program, you mean?

At $80-100 a throw, I'm not sure it's a very good money-making scheme. For starters, when someone enrols in the precheck program, they must undergo both a background check and an in-person interview... how much of the $80 fee do you suppose that leaves?

And even once approved, you're still subject to metal-detector scans upon boarding, you just get to skip the whole shoes-belt-laptop game. Oh and they can still "randomly" subject you to those checks if they want to. So I don't really agree that it's some crude "anyone can just pay and receive carte blanche access at the airport" scheme.

Here's another good one: for nationals of APEC member countries, there's the APEC Travel Card[2]. Frequent travellers can pay for one of these cards, and they gain access to dedicated expedited immigration queues (or, in the absence of a dedicated APEC queue at your airport, you get to use the pilot/aircrew lane). The card costs $150 and is good for 3 years.

For business travellers making multiple flights per week, access to programs like these is a godsend (I used to fly internationally at least once per week for work).

I do agree with you that all the "security theatre" stuff is a transparent sham, but the existence of programs like precheck isn't proof of that.

[1] http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2012/02/29/tsa-pre-check-T...

[2] http://travel.apec.org/abtc-summary.html
I just bought "Hatching Twitter" yesterday, so I guess this might be a spoiler, but why did they fire Ev?
You're right, security is a feeling as well as a reality and humans are not rational. I didn't mean to discount your feelings, only add some perspective.

I, for example, am scared of stranger violence. I know logically that if I were to be murdered/assaulted it would be much more likely to be someone I know who did it - but I still fear stranger violence more than what is rational.

Bruce Schneier (the author of this article) writes a lot about this:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychol...
21 Jane Street
The Zenefits CEO said ADP was like Dirty Harry. He should say that, because Clint Eastwood was dirty, but he only killed the "punks." I came up with a better movie analogy: Paddington Bear: https://www.blogmutt.com/blog/zenefits-adp
1080p that fills a 90* angle of view would be like looking at a 40" 1080p TV from ~28 inches away. Certainly not the same experience that you're used to with a retina display, unfortunately.
Maybe, but the horse riders have boatloads of money (In my experience), attend meetings, and have historical precedent on their side. Mountain biking is still new.

Horse riders can always look back to a time when what they now do for sport used to be the only form of transit.

I come from a family of horse riders, and am a mountain biker. Really, it is completely possible to get along and share the trails. Obviously, some trails are only going to work for mountain bikes, and some are much nicer for horses (and boring for bikers).

I'd love to see horse riders required to clean up after their horses, just like dog owners clean up after their dogs. It's your pet, clean up.
The writing was on the wall the moment Chris Sacca penned that long letter http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2... - if not before.

Twitter really needs a strong product person running it.
> Take Square for example, it had a huge head start, but no business other than small coffee shops and food trucks can use it.

Uniqlo? Whole Foods?
> Vine lost to IG video because you couldn't follow Vine accounts via the Twitter website at the beginning

Also their app was one of the worse I had the displeasure of using on a mobile phone. Really.

Instagram did the concept much, much better.
Wow, I didn't know that in particular. I hiked the John Muir Trail last summer and often looked into the distance at some crazy steep peak and wondered how the hell John Muir nabbed the first ascent with nothing more than a knapsack and a pair of old boots.

Maybe he would have been a BASE jumper. I don't know. What's clear is he loved nature more than anything, and I don't think he'd be too happy at the sight of Curry Village today.
This is correct. It's called listening fatigue.
Never Mind the NSA, What About Google and Facebook?
I recently interviewed at a company where I did the onsite tech interview one day, was then told I passed that and had to do a culture fit interview the next week. I did that, mainly with non-technical folk, and then got a standard rejection email the next day. I still find it a bit baffling - at the very least, they could've given me an idea of their culture (didn't seem very different from any standard issue tech company, IMO) and what exactly I was lacking.
Generating Magic cards using neural networks
VRsehole.
> one of the fun things about it was that I kept the ability to intersperse assembler instructions everywhere - they were treated as normal statements. And the M68k registers were first class variables in the language that could occur in any expression.

That sounds like so much horror and so much fun at the same time.
Society gives you a ton of validation, support, and encouragement to pursue having/raising children well. I'm not saying usefulness is only measured in money, but money is definitely one of many barometers to gauge if you're doing something useful. Seeing as this article specifically discussed his career, I think that money is a pertinent measure of what society would like you to do/you should do to fulfill your obligations.
Genomic analysis relies heavily on probabilistic approaches anyways, it's less likely to matter than with an airport routing system
I guess I never thought about how Twitter hasn't exactly grown or had anything worth noting to offer every since I first found out about it.

Let's see what happens now.
Do what, leave them? Or return to them after this?
Also, there was a point where the Earth existed but humans didn't exist. So yes, appeals to nature are always weak.
There's basically nothing more frustrating than being told you were passed over because you weren't a good "culture fit." The reason it's frustrating is that it gives you no information you can use to improve yourself. The basic take-away is that you should go away and become cooler somehow.
Thanks, but it's still not obvious to me what to do. Looking at this: https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit, git-buildpackage documentation seems to suggest either creating a separate branch, or packaging tarballs, both of which seem different to what you're suggesting where I just create a debian directory.

Do you have a different document or an example repo with the debian/ directory? This is why I've resorted to FPM in the past - the deb tools seem so simple, and I'm sure they are simple for people that have done it before, but the documentation for FPM is much more direct and thus people (such as myself) use it, even though we know it's not "right".
Besides resolution, you also have to deal with the fact that the oculus rift really only works well with a dedicated GPU. It's going to be a while before it's a legitimate "mobile" solution.

I got a DK2 and have barely touched it because my Macbook Pro 13" just wasn't adequate enough.
What he should do:
1: reopen the API up to everyone, guaranteeing access for 10 years. Let's the clients bloom.
2: reduce rhose costs. Insane.
3: That's it.
It's not totally clear. The book kind of portrayed it as a coup staged by Jack, but at the end of the day the board fired him. Ev was surprised, and a few people said they'd quit if Ev was ousted (including, initially, Dick).

Dick was definitely thrown into the role - it wasn't something he fought for.
The article fails to realize that "cultural fit" is an ineffable, inherently implicit judgment. You can't reasonably make a checklist of "cultural fit" items for this reason.

More importantly, "cultural fit" is a good catchall for probably the most important aspect of hiring someone: Your instinctual, gut feeling about the person. Do they seem like someone you want to work with 8 hours a day? Is there something "off" about them?

These are incredibly important subconscious criteria that can't be explicitly codified, and the term "cultural fit" is a good umbrella term for them.
That's an extremely weird video.

First, the guy making robo-concubines is just strange, in a scientific sort of way.

Second, a friend of mine calls the hypothetical owners of robot sex dolls, "Robosexuals".

Third, what was with the artificial theremin music in the background? Was it to convey that these robo-concubines are "in the future" or "some time in the future"? Because all it did for me was point out how un-easy the filmaker was with the subject matter.
Just by way of information for Colin (though I'm not sure how much information it really gives): this comment is currently on +25, which to my mind suggests that there are a reasonable number of others who would also like this feature.

I think the ability to do a dry-run upload without prepaying (which Colin has already said is on the way) will be pretty much a complete solution.
NYC and its suburbs fork over about $12 billion a year more in taxes to the state than gets spent in that region on services. That's not including the massive urban/rural cross-subsidies built in to everything from electricity to water to telecommunications.
Do you know any programmer who wouldn't want more screen space?

What if you had FullHD resolution pixels, much less Retina pixels anywhere you looked?

Maybe you're not imagining hard enough? The possibilities, to me, are rather mind-bogglingly awesome.
Because it exist , sonar doesnt...
Calling someone a "career criminal" is not a sufficient criticism.
"We call that the 'O' face. You know, for 'Oculus.'"
That's part of the problem. How can you pin down what the person was lacking in that situation? Were they lacking "friendliness", "suaveness?" Were they not attractive enough? How many shortcomings which could be attributed to "culture fit" are actually things you could change?
He's split his time between these two companies before. "... after 8 hours at Twitter, he literally walks 2 blocks to put in another 8 hour shift at Square."

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/14/jack-dorsey-do...
I think the GameCube had the best controller ever.
Love seeing embedded stuff on HN!
Ask HN: How secure should my site/server be?
I'm not new to security, and that's why I ask. I have created a "payment portal" integrated with Stripe for my [few] customers. I have gone through various guides for securing debian, apache/node, mysql on dedicated instance, etc., using https only, ssl certs, passed Qualys HTTPS/SSL scan with a 90%/A Rating, performed qualys and other vulnerability scans...but have I done enough? I'm not storing credit card info, but am storing username, passwords, and basic stats. I also developed the portal with security in mind taking CORS, SQL-Injection, and other tactics into account.

I know security is and should be considered at every layer, but when is there a reasonable amount of security when security is not my primary focus?
The US works pretty similar to how you indicate Europe works:

1-6 (or 7 in some places) is taught single teacher who probably majored in education with the whole class (with maybe a once a week art or muisc class taught by a specialist if the school is well funded).

7 or 8 through 12th is taught with 6-8 subjects a day (or in some places 3-4 subjects with alternating days having different subjects) with teachers who teach a smaller number of subjects. At HS level, in many places in the US it is expected that the teacher will have a Bachelors related to the subject they are teaching.
Rails API is now part of Rails 5, check out how to use it
If you did want to build a gaming computer again, probably the easiest thing is to find a build guide on one of the popular PC sites like Tom's Hardware. They often come out with several different builds in different price ranges. Theoretically, if you just order the same components, it should work with little trouble.
there's also the fact that it's easier to blow up a plane. you need a big bomb to destroy a bus but only a small bomb to make a hole in the plane and kill everyone. and the plane has way more people on it than a bus.
Sounds right. Makes even more sense how you worded it.
I just re-entered the US via JFK last night. There was an employee going up and down the line promoting "Global Entry" (skip the line). All I could think was how utterly farcical the whole thing came across.
Jerry Yang's investment in Alibaba turned out to be worth over $42 billion dollars which accounts for most of the value of Yahoo today...
Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software
Open Source Is the Best Code Review
But do companies explicitly say that, though? From my experience working at a YC startup, the company just used to send out a canned rejection email, irrespective of whether the candidate was rejected because of a bad interview or because someone thought they'd be a pain to work with. The startup I work at once had a staff/lead engineer from twitter interview, and while some loved him, some didn't and he was rejected.
Gopherfest 2015
Actually, we're only about 200 feet building-to-building. Just across 10th street with an apartment/condo building in between.
SubTranslate – Translate srt files quick and easy
Should your job make you immune from some of the prescribed legal degradations that go along with being in jail? I mean, I'm sure the corrections officers make sure that some of the inmates know exactly what new inmates are in there for. Why isn't turnabout fair play here? I can see "corrections officer" mugshot not shown for the "safety thing", but why "fireman"?
I see a lot of usecases,you have no imagination ?
It's mentioned all over TFA.
In may be purely aesthetic, with no basis, but as a hiker I hate sharing a trail with cyclists. In a weird unsubstantiated way, I feel like horses are like other hikers. I've never had a horse like, gallop by me on a trial.
Spend any real significant time with split duties. Most of his investors would say "We didn't put $x in this with the understanding that you were going to be a 50% CEO/leader"
SubTranslate is a simple tool for automatically translating "srt" subtitles for your movies using the google translate service.

This is a command line tool written in Python 3 to translate your subtitles for your series or movies.
He has ran both companies simultaneously in the past via 16 hour work days: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/14/jack-dorsey-do...
I thought of this too and I think it's true. That should be an indicator that it's not a good idea. The reason laws are in place to prevent discrimination of that kind is that people have come to the consensus that it's bad for society.
Every graphics card has been PCI-E for a decade. If it fits and has power, any card will work in any motherboard.

You do want to pay attention to the mobo choice if the card itself requires PCI-E v3.0. There are still a lot of v2.0 mobos for sale. Most mobos have at least one 16x slot, which is the one you'll want to use. Things get a little more complicated with multi-GPU card builds.
Business cards just killing trees........
Which is really great. I hate looking for some obscure problem, find where someone posted a fix online, then discover the account of the fixer was deleted and the fix is gone now. Even worse when it's a program or file or something...
Square just moved offices to be right next to Twitter, so it shouldn't be too hard for him to go back and forth
Thought this was Hearthstone related and I got really excited for a moment there.
Explosives. It would be hard to empty a contact lens bottle and fill it with, say, C4, without leaving any traces on the outside.
"X509_cmp_time does not properly check the length of the ASN1_TIME string and can read a few bytes out of bounds."

OpenSSL in C has had range errors discovered for over a decade now. Short of going to a safe language or full machine proofs of correctness, it's never going to be fixed. "Many eyes" don't help.

(Of course, one wonders how many OpenSSL security holes are deliberate backdoors.)
Off topic, but this brought to mind an amusing anecdote about Hunter S. Thompson. When he ran for Sheriff's office of Aspen, CO, he shaved his head bald and referred to the (ex-army, Republican) incumbent he was running against as "my long-haired opponent".
Hyperloop Tech Careers
Yep, I checked the chrome react dev tools :-)

Great work, btw.
Microsoft announced a wireless adapter for PC a couple of days ago http://www.anandtech.com/show/9358/microsoft-launches-update...
from the description of "a grid ... flooding diagonally" I think it's not comparing two 1gb strings it is comparing every substring of those strings

for i := 1..bob'length loop
for j := i..mary'length loop
editdistance(substring(bob,1,i), substring(mary,i,j));
end loop
end loop
A reasonably professional person will follow up with rejection emails in order to determine what was lacking so they can work on it. Companies who reject people should be ready to give useful feedback that people can use to improve their chances moving forward.
It's a good time to revisit those leaked internal strategy documents from 2009.

Interesting to see what played out and what didn't.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-...
I've tried Equilibrium, the Probiotic With The Least Searchable Name Possible.

http://www.generalbiotics.com/

It didn't seem to do anything at all for me, but I'm already fairly healthy.
There isn't a limitation on the number of tags per data point. Although I assume at some point it'll become a performance bottleneck.

The limitation you're thinking of is the number of fields. Currently, you can only have up to 255 fields defined in a measurement.
Celine Dion would be booed out of my local dive's karaoke night.
The technical terms are supra-aural (on-ear) and circum-aural (around the ears). Both can be sound-wise excellent, but circum-aural is definitely more comfortable.

I used to own a pair of Joe Grado HP-1 HP-1000 supra-aural headphones and they were excellent and did a great job with binaural recordings. Since selling those, I moved on to the Denon D7000 circum-aural headphones. Far more comfortable. Bar none the best audio experience I have had was with AKG K-1000s hooked up to 75-watt tubes monoblocks. However, that wouldn't have worked for VR presence because of the latency from the tubes. With solid state speaker amps to keep the audio in sync, the presence would probably be unreal, assuming the K-1000s do well with binaural recordings, but that is something I'm uncertain of.
I don't know how to feel about this. I feel bad because they died but then again they were both illegally basejumping
Show HN: Our new free trial flow
I used to do some assembly on 68000, 6502 and some Z80. It's nice to have those simpler CPUs and the simpler hardware to learn an assembly language on.
Twitter Boss Resigns as Founder Returns to Helm
Jihadist US teen faces prison for blog, tweets about encryption and Bitcoin
> I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility

Twitter is a business, how were you expecting this to work? For the USG to aqui-hire them?
programming wasn't really possible until HD came around
It's not just listening fatigue from sound, but the pressure applied to the ear-lobes. I have used circum-aural headphones that I can use for hours upon hours since they were very comfortable (no pressure) and were not too bright or forward that they caused listening fatigue.
Fair enough but I don't think a display is the place to start when trying to change something like this.

I am sure the Vive will be great, but let's face it the vast majority of titles on Steam are Windows only. Valve may like the idea of Linux gaming, but they push a lot of Windows games...
I'm surprised you didn't link to the classic Slashdot post on the iPod!
Interesting! What this basically boils down to is 'handling instinctively the right way'. It's hard to grasp for me, because there are so many factors in play and by watching LoL recordings it's sometimes impossible to tell what makes someone gaining an upper hand. Is it communication with the team, doing the right skill at the right moment, being at the right place or just pure luck?

Probably all of this together, which makes this even more intriguing. But I guess this comes natural after playing hundreds of hours?
Glassdoor: 88% CEO approval rating from 220 ratings.

It's interesting that there is such a disconnect between employees and stakeholders.

On a related note Chris Sacca wrote this blog [0] titled "What twitter can be" last week.

[0]: http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2...
> It's no harder than getting the correct speakers for your home theatre.

I had to snicker here. Following the audiophiles is a sure-fire way to keep the PC gaming industry on the fringes.
Thanks!
I've seen loads of people espouse this belief though, and the current top comment [0] here links to a thread [1] that runs with the premise. A quick search of the site reveals that there are many more.

I understand that point of view and agree with the need for those kinds of arenas.
But even the article you link to state that doxxing and harassment goes against the TOS, which seems to be precisely what started this whole mess, from what I've gathered.
Or at least that's what the official announcement [2] and /r/OutOfTheLoop [3] threads state.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9697285

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/39c58h/could_so...

[2]: http://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removin...

[3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/39bzdf/why_was...