skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boise startup offers commercially available memristors?
Can someone explain to me what systemd detractors are actually worried about? In practical, not purely philosophical terms?
Snake skin-inspired surfaces provide friction reduction
Why does the root have only two children and not d, like every other non-leaf node?
Demo - http://sassmeister.com/gist/cad7bc024664d2e4e15d

Documentation - http://skoks.github.io/sassy-validation/
Targeted Automatic Integer Overflow Discovery [pdf]
As a multi-platform Unix developer and someone often responsible for system administration, I can assure you that systemd does in fact "standardizes [sic] a lot of pain points." It being good is where we certainly disagree.

Red Hat funding the product means more than it being actively developed. It also implies control over the offering's compatibility, functionality, and direction. It means control over everything an OS using it can do as all processes will have systemd as its parent.
Great Suspender + Spaces (from the same guy) makes Chrome usable again.
And they even lie about it in congress with no consequences http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/mar/11/...
I guess Greece, and everything related to them, is all the rage at the moment!
uBlock Origin does a more thorough job at blocking network connections [1] compared to uBlock since the former disables prefetching and the latter doesn't. [2] uBlock is also missing the per-site switches and strict domain blocking features from Origin. [3]

Personally I can't see any reason to use uBlock over uBlock Origin.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.8.2

[2] https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.5.0

[3] https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/issues/1306
Scientists have built artificial neurons that fully mimic human brain cells
Is there any reason at this point to believe that FISA is less than an NSA organ? Secret courts in the USA, what has the world come to?
Rdio is the only one of these things doing it right and they seem to be doing it by accident.

The trick is to follow people you don't know on Rdio, find a weird album you like, see who listened to it and if they have good taste in music follow them. Then see who they're following, etc etc. Forget about playlists just focus on albums. Try not to follow people you know personally and be ruthless in unfollowing people because it only takes one Drake fan to pollute your Trending page.

But yes Apple Music is horrible. It's the first time I've gotten the sense that Apple really doesn't know what they're doing and that's a scary thought.
Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis (2011)
John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language
Maybe share a little more? From what I see, it's basically a YAML-formatted bash script, but I suspect there's more to it, right?
You only need to apply this "fix" if you are compiling systemd + timesyncd yourself and not using a distribution as source. Debian for example supply a different timesyncd.conf and include their own ntp servers.
I am sorry but did you just say that bureaucracy is against the will of the government? Bureaucracy is the government!
Because when you split the root, it can only have 2 children.
Olivi is a new startup that brings the best Tunisian olive oil to California
there's more of these...And I agree!

www.getshortcut.co
I'm feeling lucky:

50 Cent Talks Bitcoin: 'All Money Is Money' | | Observer
observer.com/2014/12/50-cent-talks-bitcoin-all-money-is-money/
Dec 22, 2014 - 50 Cent is happy he took Bitcoin for his album
Animal Instinct, because "all money is money."
They are.

Source: My employer (a major site with Alexa rank <100) contacted ABP asking to have our text-only, clearly-delimited sponsored search results whitelisted. They told us that it wouldn't happen unless we signed an NDA, paid them a share of the revenue difference, and installed a third-party script on our site to allow them to track our users. (We just laughed at them and changed our markup to work around the block.)
Fast Great-Circle Distance Calculation in CUDA C+
I don't believe you, sorry. You may be telling the truth but there are so many lies we've been told that I just don't.
Sorry, that's how it is and I'm sure a very large number of people would agree with that.
The FISA court /is/ a rubber stamp, how do we know? Ed Snowden told us about all the incredible amounts of overreach that the FISA court approved in secret.

We're at far more risk from public servants with delusions of grandeur and infallibility going unchecked than lunatics with bombs. Lunatics with bombs cannot destroy democracy & freedom.
The Universal B-Tree
Global Fashion Group raises €150M at a €3.1B valuation
Apparently we can't look to humans for solutions either. So now what?
Why do you think it hasn't? People who drop endless resources into that kind of thing would use it for blackmail.

Are you sure people aren't being blackmailed? How sure?
I live in a compact-width van conversion (which fits in the tightest parking garages) with absolute privacy (curtains) in Mountain View (illegal to sleep in a car on the street, so stay on private property like parking lots) & Palo Alto (where it's currently legal to sleep in a car on the street). It's very comfortable and sleeps 3 adults or 2 adults and 2 kids.

Living in a car (when it's obvioua) is unfortunately an invitation for continual police harassment. Been there, done that. Police in Mountain View bang on car windows if you were to sleep in any of the downtown municipal parking lots OR even on private property. They have zero tolerance for poor people and show no compassion whatsoever. There is even this one female officer whom enjoys Schadenfreude to such a degree that it is well past hubris; (she will tow your car even if it's on private property.)

Better to live in a car or van where it's not obvious, (tint, curtains, etc.) because the junked-up cars and people obviously sleeping draw the most attention.

Also, ask me anything.

PS: During the day, it's impossible to tell that I live in my vehicle because it's very clean and everything's put away.
Why did you exclude the comment where he said that the google servers are bad and he would accept any servers which is better?

shitty servers as default are better than none.
If you let me know a set of servers that are openly
accessible, that do not require registration as
a vendor or product and are better then the shitty
servers then let me know and we can switch over.
Colour me shocked as well...
Ask HN: Cancelling a homework code test?
I recently received a code test as part of the interview process. My impression of the assignment is that my work, verbatim or modified, could be used part of their production work. Moreover, the assignment was completely irrelevant to the role that I was applying.

I had a feeling that the company wanted me to do unpaid work; it is not clear whether the company actually wanted to hire me. I politely told the company in the middle of the assignment that I wish to stop the interview process.

The company seems to be upset. Was there something that I could have done differently?

Edit: I wanted to clarify that the company pushed for the coding work despite my previous objection that their interview questions were irrelevant to my experience and role applied (and the company seems to admit the irrelevance).
Erlang for Type Junkies
If I recall my humsex intro class, there were three main types, greco-roman, Polynesian and modern. I don't recall the differences completely, but they all differ and aren't all that alike with respect to relationship dynamics or purpose.

Anyhoo, interesting none the less.
Padmapper and 3Taps Settle Suit with Craigslist Over Use of Real Estate Facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNC5Dn0Dtnc
Very interesting. I'm not convinced this captures the core value of containers though. Or at least not the only core value. Calling containers an evolution of configuration management tools seems like an oversimplification just to make a point. This may be one aspect of building a micro-service driven architecture that containers make easier, but there are other very important ones. Portability comes to mind. It's not just that you can build your stack once and save it, but that you can then run that stack anywhere, and it becomes much easier to share/borrow bits and pieces of other people's stacks.
There was a post, a few days ago, about biological lab studies. The post had something to do with errors in biological studies, and how some researchers will redue lab results, until they get the results they want?

I can't recall the post, but in the comment section someone suggested, 'How about a Database that would include all studies/results; irrelevant of the outcome. Just how all good science results should be presented?' Could you imagine a database that researchers could go to, and find honest results for their particular area of interest? Honest data--free for all to see. Open Source?

Right now we have some data bases, but they are not easily accessed, and even though most some have a peer review process; we need a better system?

Will we ever get a better system? I don't know? Yes, studies are expensive, but why do I feel if money wasn't the number One concern; we would be so much farther along?

Growing up I viewed medical researchers with holy reverence!

Now--I picture a bunch of MBA's basically telling the employees(highly educated) what they want, or what drug/procedure/devise will make the company the most money?

I've taken so many expensive drugs that were basically pushed through the system. I had no idea about "cherry picking" the best studies, excluding early placebo responders, manipulating the data--to the point of fraud, outright double blind, placebo controlled fraud; of course hidden and presented in a way most professionals didn't even realize they were being basically lied too.

I don't know the best way to cure, or research disease, but hiding behind "well it's all we have"; I find infuriating!

So yes, I am too jaded to offer solutions. I probally threw the baby out with the bath water.(I am open to honest--agenda free advice though?). Big Data--yes! Government paid research--yes. Honest privately funded research--yes, but honest!

Big Pharma essentially lying to doctors, and patients--No.

When I was younger, I walked away from a profession that was based on placebo, and really bad science. I walked because of two reasons--one personal, and the other was I just couldn't be a hypocrite! In retrospect, it probally was not the best career move, and I don't recommend doing what I did, but integrity, and morals are all I really cared about at the time. I will die a poor loser, but I can honestly say, I never took advantage of the poor, or uninformed.
Silicon Valley is a gold rush type of town. In these environments, people are willing to live very minimally in the manner you describe. Van dwellers all around MV and PA are proof of that. There's euphoria in the air and a sense that nothing else matters. But to the rest of the world, or even here if/when the gold rush ends, people (even very poor people) settle into their normal lives and start to demand a little more comfort and convenience.
On AWS.
There's no need to fret about it, as a candidate, if you feel something's wrong, you're probably right too. Perhaps they wouldn't have used your code in production, but the fact that they sent an ambiguous signal here isn't a good sign, and you could have had other problems later.
Oracle bought Sun. So all that was Sun's, buildings, employees, servers, copyrights, and patents, now belongs to Oracle.
I assume that you could have asked how this was relevant to your position/future work, what they were evaluating with it, and if they could do something different that might not be so closely linked with the product.

However that said i have done work recently (10 hours) that was a task set out to solve an issue on the product - something that could 100% go into production but actually is very relevant to the position and skills i need to demonstrate. They are also of a size & expertise that makes me worry less about them just making me do it for un-paid work.
When I needed a Python generation, I created abstractions between Python and LaTeX. The documentation is far from finished, but it should be fairly understandable with the examples.

Docs: https://jeltef.github.io/PyLaTeX/

Code: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX
I know tons of people under 30 who have a lot of cavities.
That intrusive 15% off (what I assume is a) Facebook like thing (which I can't properly see because of μBlock) is a very bad idea, and almost caused me to close the tab because I thought the site was spam.

Your site looks very good, however increase the size of the product, brighten it and enlarge it; and with the background, brighten it a tad and scale back on the vignetting a bit.

Also, you may want to consider either adding a lot of css shadow to the H1 text, or changing to black text and brightening the background a lot.

Your pricing, also has much to be desired: 8.4 ounces of olive oil for $10? Also, you should be using ounces for the American market, we have no clue what ml are.
Leap second added on 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC
Apparently it's a 6 months exemption. I could have sworn there was no time limit on the west lothian council page, but I'm probably wrong.
Is "gerschnorvels" really a word in any language?
On a related note, systemd also hardcodes Google's DNS servers:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658
Instead of this wall of text I use Viscosity+pritunl vpn on gce. 5-clicks setup and works fine.
The settings is according to the developers only for testing purposes, like using ipsum lorem or example.com.

The choices being debated seems are to have no settings by default, require that people who want to run test suites configures the software before testing, register a "vendor pool" for this purpose, find a better ntp server than google, or do nothing.
Integration testing for Rails APIs part 2: Writing less code
Greece defaults on $1.7B IMF payment
Awesome! Is there a way of proposing packages? I for one would love to see the following be included:

- github.com/hashicorp/errwrap
- github.com/mattn/go-issatty
- a file system notification lib (fsnotify, timeglass/snow etc)
Getting rid of POSIX is the only way of achieving safer OSes. POSIX is nothing more than the C runtime vs what other languages with richer runtimes offer. They standards body just decided to split the runtime between ANSI and Open Group.

I only care about OS POSIX support every time I have to go down to C or C++. Otherwise the OS can have whatever abstraction model it feels like.
Bigger, Cheaper, Faster Data in the Cloud
He mentions typing this on his phone so it's possible it's the autocorrect (and "corrections" that kinda make sense are the worse.)
I think it's a save bet to assume that more providers will compensate the reduction in ad revenue by offering yearly subscriptions like Amazon Prime.

I don't like that, but all in all the online advertising industry isn't that much money divided by the amount of people participating in it. Maybe 20$ to 50$ a month for the whole thing.

This doesn't include the hidden costs imposed by the new gate keeper dynamics established with such a subscription model, the reduced participation abilities for poorer people, the (vague, I know) anonymity enabled by ad metrics compared to credit card credentials.

I still block ads though. Being able to block ads and free ride on ad financed content is simply not an equilibrium. Idealistic sacrifices won't change that.
No. Never. Be who you are and be extremely happy not to have to work for/with people that think it is OK to filter out candidates based on the name or gender.

Years ago, I was in the very unique situation of helping with the recruitment of my own boss. When interviewing a woman, the CTO asked if she was planning to have more kids. Her reaction was a very quick and assertive "Would you ask me the same question if I wasn't a woman?". I was embarrassed by the question and loved the answer. She was hired and we had a great working relationship for the years after.

I think it is very much OK to put people on the spot when similar questions come up.
Indeed. I politely raised an objection prior to the code test that I found work like this irrelevant. The company nevertheless told me it wants to push ahead with the homework.

I am glad that things worked out well for you.
Even if the google servers dont provide time that is correct, its good enough to run testcases again. Products however of course shouldnt use it.

the ntp pool made very clear we cannot use them. As i read what is written above google just says the servers are crap but doesnt explicitly deny us to use them. Which is why id like to leave them in place because they are at least googd enough for testing purposes.
Id be willing to take a patch that adds a big warning to configure if the default ntp server to use is not set when invoking configure. People who ignore that warning are then on their own.

sounds like a good enough reason to me

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/437#issuecomment-1...
I'm sorry but no.

https://xkcd.com/538/

You need both. By that same logic do you think the constitution and bill of rights is a pointless endeavor? Our government has violated these rights many times in our history. I could just as easily say that the constitutional amendments passed after the civil war were pointless because there was still institutionalized discrimination and racism for another hundred years.

How much did encryption help Lavabit? The court forced them to hand over the encryption keys anyway.

We need to change the laws and place proper oversight over the NSA and other intelligence agencies with real penalties for the violation of our rights. Encryption alone is not enough.
Actually I think library OS like Oberon, Singularity, MirageOS, Drawbridge are the way to go.

We are currently stuck with VMS influenced OS and UNIX clones everywhere.

This is why I follow the MacOS X, Android and WinRT changes as their stacks could completely replace the old idioms if they didn't care about backwards compatibility.
Good tongue-in-cheek. Technically, however, the hash was outdone by the Lisp CONS. CONSes could represent every conceivable data structure in 1959 and they were eaten raw by the CPUs of the time. But then, there were not so many people available for the following-blindly part.
I get that people like foods with lots of spices, etc. Sometimes I do, but in general, I like food plain or just some mild flavoring with herbs and such. The joy is in the quantity of the food than strictly its flavor.

I guess that makes me an elitist snob from the days of monarchy :)
Does anyone have any non-python alternatives to these libraries? A lot of them seem very useful to me, but I rarely work in Python.
Demand? Sounds like entitlement hate of us vs. them that don't subscribe to consumerism in order to rationalize staying on the treadmill of unnecessary ostentation because "what your friends think?" Just stop until you have something positive to say that doesn't involve sweeping bigotry.
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Sweden's MTG buys 74% share in e-sports giant ESL for €78M
I'm currently looking at different problems - and look for papers. I'm curious: Did you research the initial papers by feeding google with potential keywords for freely accessible files or did you buy a subscription/access to these things instead? I just recently found a paper on ieee.org that seems to be 4 pages, costs > 30 Dollar to access.

Is that something you did in your research?
You could tell them exactly what you wrote here and see what happens. There's a chance that your test was going to be used as work. There's also a chance that it was: (I've given people both)

- something that was already solved, so that they could compare with existing approach

- some realistic task which wasn't exactly what you're going to work on, so that you don't think they're going to use it

Ultimately it's down to the communication between you and the company. And trust.
I know it's off topic but that it's illegal to sleep in a car appears to me to impose the most cynical incentive structure I encountered in a while.

I already did that several times in the past because I was seriously drunken.

Edit: Also as a follow up question on your further writing:

How do you handle very high or low temperature in a car? First I thought it's not a problem due to ACs, but as you pointed out that you've to hide your presence I can't really see that working. Very interesting post!
CRUDSFOP support web base c#/asp.net editor
> The language and the writing system is just too difficult for foreigners to learn in any reasonable time.

um, Learning is always full of challenge.

> I wish your country would open more to people.

I am not in charge of CPP or PRC, but my country is becoming much more open just given a little patience :)
I wonder why they can't use ntp pool won't allow Systemd to use them? Maybe it's only for testing purposes that they can't be used.

If that's the case, they could maybe ship a product and a testing configuration file?
A couple of issues with your position:

> Look at this issue. He mis-presses send on a github comment and immediately you have 10 comments without even waiting for an explanation, calling the guy "absurd and stupid".

Why should people have to assume that he "mispressed" send? Isn't it more likely people would take his comment at face value and respond accordingly? If there is a problem with something he's said, that's on him for not being more concise and clear about his point.

> He's not the only one getting treated like that by the community. One day, one of those devs will kill themself, and people will rush him to talk further about them like they know them. Exactly like what happened to Aaron.

This is so overly dramatic and completely unrepresentative of what happened with Aaron Swartz. The fact you threw his name in is borderline offensive, seeing how with Aaron Swartz he was a victim of perverted justice, not abusive comments on Github. You're just trying to garner sympathy based on his name alone, shame on you.

I'm all for being reasonable and giving people the benefit of the doubt but your comment comes off as so fanboyish no wonder you're getting downvoted.
The problem isn't whether passing FISA is difficult or not. The problem is what does pass FISA.

That something is not illegal does not mean it shouldn't be illegal. The FISA process legitimises a kind of mass surveillance that shouldn't be legal to begin with.

This is why people call it a rubber stamp process. Even if they're only approving valid requests, the put problem is what is being considered valid.
> I've come to expect more from HN.

For a group of people who tend to get all stabby any time someone suggests that being nicer to people is a good idea, HN sure has sensitive feelings.
I really don't get his points.

> Even if the google servers dont provide time that
> is correct, its good enough to run testcases again.
> Products however of course shouldnt use it.

So, it seems that he wants to run out-of-the-box with some timeservers so that the developer/compile/testing machine doesn't have to specify them manually for tests. On the other hand he wants to require vendors to add a custom configuration so that they abide by the rules of, e.g. pool.ntp.org, by registering a vendor pool and configure systemd.

The only sane approach for me seems to be to discover the correct ntp-server in the scripts running the testcases, and leave the ntp-client in systemd unconfigured and untested if that's not possible.

Forcing developers to have a properly configured system is a much saner approach, because it affects way less people than potentially millions of users to whom a broken/wrong timesyncd.conf leaks caused by some snafu during configuration of the systemd timesyncd when packaging.

EDIT: Typos, wording.