skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting opposing view http://www.technologyreview.com/view/511421/the-brain-is-not...
Prison break is the ultimate hack and underdog story.

There are 800+ law enforcement officers, trained canines, and the national news media searching for 2, now 1 guy who has few resources except his brain and body. Not surprising they make great movies.

Unfortunately in real life the protagonist is almost always a bad guy.
More directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential#.22All-or-non...
A loan is still aid: much of it elsewhere is in form of loans too. Take Ukraine (broke, 45 million people and at war with Russia), who has a two year IMF lifeline amounting to $27 billion, most of it in form of loans. It takes the money and complies its economic policy with IMF advisory board.

Most of the aid to Russia was structured as loans throughout 1990s as well, but much of these were written off as it often happens.

> It's not the size of the debt that matters in absolute terms, but the ability to make payments.

Well this is what the fuss is about, isn't it? The lenders don't see Greece being able to repay unless they implement austerity measures.
Looking at GitHub's business model, it looks a lot more sustainable than SourceForge's.

My company uses GitHub Enterprise. Unless we have some sort of deal/discount above the built-in, we're paying over $30,000/year for it and we run it on our own servers. I'm guessing a lot of other companies do as well. Developers are quite used to using both git and GitHub and $30,000 is nothing if you have a hundred developers costing you $150k a piece (not just salary, but computers, benefits, desks/office space, payroll taxes, etc).

SorceForge counted on their open-source stance limiting who would use their service and, by extension, limiting the resources they would need to serve those people. GitHub works the opposite way. They want everyone to think of GitHub as "the place I put stuff". Have a code snippet? Stick it on GitHub! Want a basic wiki for something vaguely code related? Create a GitHub repo just for the wiki! Collaborating with friends on a class project? GitHub! And then, years later, GitHub feels like second-nature to you and you love it when employers are using it paying GitHub tens of thousands a year for it.

I'm not accusing GitHub of doing something nefarious to lock people into GitHub. Just noting that GitHub feels very familiar and that makes GitHub a very reasonable choice for companies who pay them money. Without that familiarity, the value of GitHub isn't the same. If you're a company spending millions per year, $30k is a drop in the bucket for software your developers are already familiar with and software that works well, is well supported, and can handle your problem.

Yes, GitLab exists and has both open-source and enterprise versions, but I'm not sure that a business feels that differently about $5,000/year for a 100 person team and $25,000. I'm glad GitLab exists, I'm glad Bitbucket exists. They'll make sure that GitHub has to continue being great and they'll provide services to people that want something a bit different. But GitHub's business model seems pretty sound. The more people use GitHub for free, the more likely high-rollers are to pay for GitHub.

I mean, the GitHub subscription per developer costs less than the additional money my company pays for Apple gear for developers. By targeting open source with a premium, free, non-ad driven product, GitHub opened the door to lucrative business sales. They seem like a sustainable business and it even seems like the free, open-source repositories are part of that business plan.

I'm not saying that Apple gear is so overpriced or that it isn't a better platform to develop on, but we don't need retina displays to do our work. And many people argue that you don't want to force devs to work on a platform they're less productive on. The same applies to GitHub. If your devs are more productive or, heck, even happier or more comfortable using it, $250/year isn't something a company is going to blink at if it's paying $150k+ per dev - just as the company won't mind paying an extra $100, $500, or $1,000 in equipment for that dev.
I see a very similar mechanism in economics.

Many fields (macroeconomics, IO, etc.) write models that end up with some type of calibration which is implemented in thousands of lines of code. Those lines are written by RAs with almost no programming experience, so what happens is this:

While (result!=expectation)
Ask assistant to look for bugs and repeat simulation

The end result is that you don't stop when there are no more bugs, you stop when you've got the coefficient signs you want, and then get published.

Only if your paper has a high impact, has the code and number open, AND was coded in a very easy language, people discover the flaws:

"the paper ... was, and is, surely the most influential economic analysis of recent years [...] First, they omitted some data; second, they used unusual and highly ques ionable statistical procedures; and finally, yes, they made an Excel coding error"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-...
The Secret Laws of Entrepreneurship
Here are is a list of the 'secret laws of entrepreneurship' https://sandtonjournal.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/the-secret-laws-of-entrepreneurship/
The OP never mentioned he was scared of dating. He may have given up trying.

There's advice in the post, BTW. Did you read it?

In any case, there are far more many spouses than there are billionaires in this world.
The vikings are back?
> Perl's critical failure is that most CPAN modules expect

> admin rights and a gcc build environment in order to

> install correctly.

> That killed it on shared hosting and for small projects

> that may not have a server admin's support.

I install Perl apps on shared hosts all the time. The great majority I work on are cPanel-powered. They have a CPAN module installer right from within the cPanel.

Compiler support is an option, and is usually enabled by default. If it's not, it's easy enough to enable that in WHM (the cPanel for cPanel accounts basically)

cPanel is available on hosts like Bluehost, Hostmonster, (dog help us) GoDaddy. Most hosts that built their own control panel for hosting accounts have thus moved to cPanel. cPanel, no surprise, is a Perl shop themselves.

So, the 800lb gorilla of shared hosting control panels presently does what you say you can't.

I also ship Perl apps that specifically do not require outside CPAN Perl modules that require compilation, but have support for features, if they're present. Throw up the .gzip distro, throw up, "install.cgi", chmod 755, and visit the thing in your browser. It wasn't impossible ;)
Ask HN: How to converse smart?
I always feel that I am missing subtle points or hints people are dropping when talking to someone.
Or sometime I go totally opposite of spectrum and start over-analyzing what they said in back of my mind while talking with them.

How do I stop over=analyzing and be present in moment, yet pick on subtle hints ?
This is entirely backwards.

Computers are designed to emulate brains. More specifically, to perform a certain category of brain activity (calculation).

To date, a brain is still needed to make a computer do anything. No brain, no software; no software, all we have is an inert lump of metals and plastics.

We should be quite wary of reversing metaphors in this fashion. 19th century psychology contained a number of metaphors derived ultimately from the steam engine, for human consciousness, and for reality. All we've done is update the machine; the comparison is still backwards.
We'll assume you will be able to find a suitable time to meet with your team.
Google’s Plan to Bring Free Superfast Wi-Fi to the World Has Begun
How to unsave stories?
Is there a way to unsave stories? I clicked upvote by accident so i want to delete it from my saved stories...
There are too many things wrong with this comment for me to address any subset of them coherently...

I'll leave it at responding to the bit I do agree with, which is that many people have had poor experiences with poor checkers for poor type systems.
The GP was not a high-quality comment, but please don't make things personal.
Dark energy is not only a stupid term, it's a stupid topic. -- Even I can write spectacular papers on "dark energy".
My main statement: -- There are two opposing assumptions concerning measured increase of distances between galaxies (redshift): a) Redshift is about velocity of masses IN space (about force, momentum, energy) or b) it is about scaling OF space itself (a factor like time is, not about force, momentum, energy).
For nearly a century physicists know the latter is true, but calculate and argue with the former assumption (called 'dark energy' later on). -- Not because they are idiots but because they think people are and will not notice Einstein was wrong. -- More:
http://ow.ly/MrQgy
http://ow.ly/LGgJo
Thank you for the link to that, it was a fantastic little story - really got my brain started today!
Yeah kind of lame. It's an article by CircleUp, which is where this yoghurt company raised their capital. Founder/funder articles are nice to read if they're insightful, but this is just marketing fluff. I mean hell it doesn't just take the story, but even the picture right from the company's marketing page.

Biggest insights are: Whole Foods essentially committed to a buy-in before they had the product, they took an Icelandic recipe, used 'mystery machines' about which they can't say anything because it's IP, and some more stuff on how Whole Foods is nicer than everyone else, that's as deep as it gets.

If this was Show HN: Contentmarketing done right, I would appreciate it more :)
I was interviewing Java developers for Booz Allen when I rant into a candidate that was super-smart but had no hobbies except for coding in his spare time.

I thought it was a negative because the hiring managers and recruiters were pressing for a well-rounded person with "hobbies" and interests outside of work. However, the team lead for Java developers considered the super-focus on coding a plus.

In retrospect, all of these different factors were just subjective and not a good way to evaluate candidates potential effectiveness on the job.
Don't be so negative... it's a first generation prototype for a university project. Let them figure out one system at a time.
Qt is much more cross-platform than GTK. GTK doesn't work that well on MacOSX and I'm not sure about mobile platforms.
It's a fun twist on that conventional bit of security technology, though* . What I'm unsure of is whether these decoy-type products really provide much value beyond alert triage. Even if we're charitable and assume they don't introduce new false positives into the system, all the old false positives remain.

* Disclaimer: I manage one of those nine-figure security products you mention.
Airbnb raises $1.5B, valuing it at $25.5B
At first glance the lower half of the P was obscured by dust on my screen. 'Understanding the Node.js Event Looo' is a much better title.
Note that tomorrow the 28th, at 14:21 UTC, SpaceX will try again! [1] [2]

[1] http://livestream.com/spacex/events/4152712

[2] http://qz.com/438866/spacex-has-two-important-missions-to-pe...
Ask HN: Will we have open-source services similar to open-source software and hw?
Open-source software and hardware have transformed the world.

As the cloud becomes more pervasive, will we ever see a similar model of open-source applied to cloud-based services (e.g., OCR, image recognition, video transcoding)?

There are several reasons why not:

1) Who pays for infrastructure and bandwidth cost?

2) How is quality of service addressed?

3) While the community could access and work on the software, how is private data (e.g., API keys, payment information from clients if service ends up being paid) stored and managed?

It's easy to see why open-source services could never happen. Curious if people can see workarounds or foresee how open-source could also come to cloud-based services.
> Young's stance is that the contract lab doing the reproduction doesn't seem competent enough to correctly reproduce the experiment.

Yeah, but the contract lab doesn't need to be filled with geniuses (like Young perhaps) just to reproduce a now-mundane result from a few years ago, right? We're not talking about coming up with cutting-edge new experiments, just reproducing an old result using lab techniques that have probably become far less "cutting edge" in the intervening years...

I am highly suspicious of a claim that some experiment from a few years ago can still only be replicated by a tiny number of the top experts.
>The media in Signapore: Zip It

Typo in title: should be Singapore.
IQ Anxieties
I will have to take a look if fponticelli: https://twitter.com/jdegoes/status/471319014614892544 , thinks it is. My app is not a pure web app, it has some client components such as excel plugins that need to talk to the server. I was therefore looking for something that I can port to other targets with some support from the language, which is where imo haxe/nekovm seem to shine. Yes, there may be some parts missing from haxe, though, it seemed to work ok for my needs and if its good for salesforce or tivo, I thought I may not be a trailblazer afterall.
Unlikely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_hormone_controversy:

In the 1990s, in the midst of the mad cow disease crisis, the European Union banned the import of meat that contained artificial beef hormones.
[…]
Until 1980, the use of growth hormones, both endogenous and exogenous, was completely prohibited in (as noted above) Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Greece.
Techies Are Trying to Get Chinese Consumers to Rack Up Debt
I'm a CompBio PhD student, and my experience is that folks in that field are much more careful with statistics than in, say, molecular biology labs, but it varies from lab to lab. My PI is exceedingly meticulous about stats -- for instance, we don't report p-values, but rather entire distributions -- but that's because our work is all in silico, so it's easy to run tons of replicate simulations. Wet lab work that's finicky should definitely be held to high statistical standards, but I don't think it's fair to presume everyone in the field guilty until proven innocent.
Thanks for your feedback!

Thats very true! It's a little annoying that you have to wait this long on every change ...
Expanding a bit on what I mean by shared experience:

There's a huge difference between active and passive experience. Listening to a lecture is a passive experience. Asking questions is an active one. Watching TV is a passive experience. Playing a board game is an active one. The exact definitions can be a bit hazy, but the major concept should be fairly clear.

This is why in longer training courses / workshops run for a bunch of people from different communities, rather than from an already established one, there's often an 'icebreaker' game which is interactive and requires active participation, rather than just watching a funny cat video, or listening to a talk straight away. Even if the game is a little bit boring, or if you don't remember anyone's name, you have now all got at least one shared active experience, and a (slight) sense of community. If there's already a sense of community, then this is less needed, obviously. This sense of community is then useful for getting people to offer assistance to each other, be more likely to ask questions, make team discussions / activities later on much more interactive, and so on.

It's why there is a sense of community on slashdot, here, github, etc. and many many communities on reddit, youtube etc. but bbc, cnn, amazon, netflicks, etc. don't (much). Even if many many people watch BBC, or the same tv series on netflicks, and spend hours watching the same content as other people there, there's very little active participation. Often any active participation is lost amongst all the other noise, rather than becoming a shared active experience with other people. 30 people watch a glove and boots video, make their own responses, and watch each others videos, and maybe make responses to those responses. They will feel like a community. 300000 people watch it and 'like' it, and then go on to watch a video about kittens, and maybe like that too. They may enjoy their time, but won't feel like a community.
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So hold on a moment. These researchers are doing experiments so badly that they can't find the actual procedures they used to get their results? And now they are tracking down old postdocs and lab technicians just to pick their Brian's as to what they actually did?!?

How the heck did this stuff get through peer review? Surely I'm missing something critical?
What are you using for developing web stuff?
Ikea's adjustable standing desk (Bekant) is back in stock in California
> emitter.emit('fire')

I think it should be this.emit('fire')
You define someone who doesn't drink beer as a religious fanatic? How about someone who doesn't eat pork? How do you not see this as wrong?

It is the attitude you claim to despise, that you are currently exhibiting.
It seems like you had a really bad experience in lab. I'm sorry for that. But it's a mistake to paint the entire field in a negative light because of this. Not all labs are bad, and some produce really outstanding work.

Sometimes the issue is the PCR machine. Sometimes it's the water (my favorite troubleshooting experience from grad school). And figuring out where the issues are (is the the protocol? the reagents? or is this real signal?) can be difficult.

Playing with systems we don't understand is kinda the point.
Mass market IT tech has been hacker heaven so far but better stuff isn't making many inroads. All these desktop, cloud, etc offerings don't have a hope of stopping determined attackers. Knowing this, industry mostly focuses on reducing risk, detection, recovery, etc. Honeynets are another great tool that's under-utilized in mainstream industry. They make the right assumption (they'll get in), the right goal (let's spot it), and add extra benefit (real damage maybe averted).

With that in mind, I'm liking what I see in the article. A true pro building on honeynet tech while maxing out ease of use and knocking out false positives. That last part is huge if he gets it right: too many just make people ignore the alarms. I look forward to seeing what it achieves in the field.

Like the names, too: Deception Stack, Maze Runner... good stuff haha.
Need something about progressive enhancement.
That actually answers my would-be-Ask-HN question: what are the good code bases to read to study JavaScript. While top projects are pretty much obvious this list may be used to answer question about more niche things: e.g. what are the most popular visualization libraries (aside of d3).
It seems like the only real survivors of that era are IBM and their big iron, particularly the POWER architecture. Pretty much everything virtualization-related can be traced back to IBM and the containers that people are swooning over today can be traced to LPARs in OS/400, though earlier examples can be found if you stretch the definition.

The Burroughs B5000 blew my mind when I read about it after Alan Kay mentioned it. To think that it used ALGOL as its machine language (among other things) in 1961 makes you want to weep when you see things like MMX and SSE instructions being the hot thing of the present.
Security and fault-tolerance are cost centers, so unless they are explicit features of a deliverable they will be ignored. Planes, cars, and banks all have anomaly detection and auditing because people demand it. They understand the risks of failure. Conversely, very few people are demanding remote loopback facilities for IP. That's not a criticism of fault-tolerance, but if it's important then we should communicate more effectively. Why is fault-tolerance important? What goes wrong without it? What catastrophes could have been averted if we had considered it?

Edit for clarity
The problem with Dropbox is that it is not locally encrypted. This means it will only ever be used for sharing excel spreadsheets at work.

Dropbox has a team of people whose only job it is to write AI software against the data being saved there. They have software agents rummaging through everything you upload (which is maybe not surprising, but also not a service I want to pay for).

I think if someone could combine the sharing aspects of DropBox with some of the more secure cloud backup products (like CrashPlan) they would have a winning business model.

The secret sauce would be figuring out how to do this without becoming a pure infrastructure provider, where the margins are a race to the bottom.
I'll be brief: marriage defined conjugally by common and higher law is not for all (pairs of) humans, and never has been. So no one individual is per-se dehumanized by not being able to marry.

What's more, as dissenting SCOTUS opinion makes clear, revising marriage without any essentialist basis for defining it means that polygamy should be legal too. Dispute or dodge that, and you are the hater:

http://adam4d.com/whos-the-bigot/

Finally, ad hominem arguments are fallacious on their face, and tiresome. I'm calling out your anonymity to level the playing field between you and me, not among us and http://discussingmarriage.org folks, because you keep trying to smear me as "anti-gay" (or now pro spousal rape, or whatever). Argue the facts, not the person.
what happened to him? Did he continue to trade?
There's a great talk from jsconfeu that describes the event loop in more detail. It helped me understand what I subconsciously had picked up about how Javascript works: http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/philip-roberts-what-the-heck-...
There's an argument to be made - and I'm going to make it - that the reason people keep building new frameworks is that existing ones don't solve their problems all that well. As a result, you can expect them to keep being made, until all their problems are solved.

Obviously, there isn't one frontend framework that is perfect right now, and we're not going to get there unless people keep building new ones that solve the problems that come up. Inevitably these will create new problems, that a new framework will solve until there are no more problems to solve!
Am I missing deliberate irony here?
If an engineer builds the worlds greatest new engine but says "unfortunately it'll only run in my lab, no one else is competent enough to run it or build a copy" then what good is it to society?

If the researchers in a lab are such geniuses that they are doing experiments almost nobody else can duplicate and it is therefore impossible to determine the veracity of their claims, how is that helping society and why should society fund them?

Isn't the onus on the researchers to focus experiments that are also reproducible by non-supergeniuses?
It's not practical, but it's a worthy goal for blockchain computing, or some descendant of it. So I am glad you brought it up.
Which is fine, but it's hardly news-worthy?
> we see PhD students and post-doc working 70h hours week on experiments with seemingly random results until the randomness goes their way.

There are known and tested protocols that can fail. Not every step can be accurately recorded. It's very common that an experiment will not work well the first time it's performed (even when supervised by someone experienced). Over time, researchers improve their skills and achieve better results following the same exact protocol. Does that mean that the science behind the experiment is bad?
I don't have a tub in front of me, but skyr.is is available in some of the Whole Foods markets in the US. I think this is made in Iceland and imported, and it tastes like I remember from visiting. Siggi's is pretty good, but I think it states made in the US (no tub of that, either, sorry).