skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sheer predictability. As soon as I got to the part where it was stated that banks don't like keeping certificates in their own vault, I knew what was coming next. The bank ordered the certificate, somebody noticed it in the vault, and then sent it straight back. It just add to happen. But then it didn't, or at least no mention was made. Until I got all the way to end, and there it was.
You are a blockhead.
The way I learned how to setup a server without using a control panel of some kind is by diving right in.

At first I messed around on a local virtual machine running the same distro I planned to use.

In a few hours I had NGINX, PHP-FPM and Rails apps up and running on a server.
"If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear."

I agreed. Which is why I propose that for the safety of everyone, we station a cop inside everyone's home. After all, you never know when a burglary is gonna happen. With a cop inside everyone's home, you are guarantee safe when a burglary does happen.

Also, just to make sure you don't do anything illegal in the bathroom (like doing drugs), I propose that the cop must also be present with in the bathroom anytime anyone need to use the bathroom. After all, if you got nothing to hide, and you're not doing anything illegal in the bathroom, then you should not fear the cop being in the bathroom with you.
Why is going flying to Pluto so important?
What are the random number data rates for those applications?

One of the good features of ChaCha is that it is fast. A modern CPU can churn out Gbps of data. And in HW you can do it at low clock frequencies. This is the reason we use ChaCha as the CSPRNG in the Cryptech HSM.
You can still ask "What's going on at the byte level on the wire?" or "What's going on in the GPU when it renders the page?" or "What's going on inside Django when it computes what code to invoke?" or "What's going on inside the Python interpreter when it executes it?" The beauty of the question is that it's almost infinitely deep, and there's nowhere near enough time to answer it all in an interview, and the depth to which the candidate can go tells you a lot about where their specialty lies.
Have you considered writing short science fiction? Deadly serious, here: this is very well written.
Electricity already is very cheap. But I'm happy to know that it will be even cheaper, and cleaner.
I thought about that, too. But I'm not sure whether that's not done better and cheaper by more specialised vehicles (eg trucks)?
Certainly, but in this case, I don't think HuffPo was targeting software developers...
This is a thread about how poorly Apple has managed to implement this as a feature rather than a product.

The context makes your quote sound like hubris rather than wisdom.
Uranium enrichment is actually a physical rather than nuclear process, and thus it cannot produce other elements such as Plutonium. However once you have enriched enough uranium to create an operating reactor, its spent fuel will contain a few percent Plutonium. The problem is that only a few percent of that will be Pu-238, and separating that from the other four Pu isotopes is incredibly difficult, that is to say, economically intractable.

Therefore, the Pu-238 used in RTGs is likely produced through another process, neutron capture in Np-237. Np-237 is produced in very small amounts in a uranium reactor, but as it's the only Neptunium isotope produced in any significant quantity, there's no need to do an isotope separation on it. It can be chemically separated from the other elements in the spent fuel, which is much easier, although certainly still not easy.

In any case, with the end of the Cold War there are indeed fewer facilities willing & able to produce Pu-238 in kilogram quantities. In the US, spent fuel from commercial reactors currently cannot be re-processed at all, due to proliferation concerns.
I want to implement full e2e encryption with Moxie's encryption and I can't because it is GPL( GPL is not comparable with mobile apps at all. Also I think that implementing encryption by ourselves will be mistake. May be some one can contribute?
Also the rare ability to be critical without being condescending.
What about skype?
reddit also, as far as I know, fares rather poorly on the $/view metric. (It's not quite that simple, sure.)
What's your application? When I wrote a ray tracer that did photon mapping, I needed about 300 000 000 random numbers per light to get half-decent results. Admittedly, I could have done more to optimize my use of those numbers, but the point remains that you need huge numbers of random samples.

I used mt19937 for this and it worked ok. I suspect that using pcg might have shaved a few percentage points off the total run time of the program (maybe I should do a benchmark sometime). If so, not a huge win, but noticeable. Especially if you're doing renders on a larger scale than I was. A couple percentage points could trim a few computers from a render farm.
Same here - first thing I wrote in go, just to play with the language: https://github.com/davidminor/gorand
Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong on Ellen Pao
If anyone cares there was a recorded Larry Wall Q&A session at YAPC a month ago: https://youtu.be/PK9UnAmrxsA?t=12m40s
Because, stereotypically, we do the work and they take the money and credit.

Case in point: ask the average person on the street to name a hero of computer science, odds are they'll say Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. To me, this is roughly equivalent to thinking that the greatest reporter in the world is Rupert Murdoch.
I thought they were having advertiser issues, but maybe I'm out of the loop here.
Confirmed, but the time dependent model didn't ask for long. I seem to recall switching to the current model (with slightly different constants) during the switch to python in late '05.

That said, one of the early "mistakes" we made was not noticing the obvious step of taking the log of on the exponential form formula, which ended up meaning we had only a couple hundred days before we started to run afoul of the max float size in postgresql. I also seem to recall coming up with that obvious trick with only a few days to spare.
Surfing, right, we're not talking marathon swimming or similar?

Having stuff dangle off your arm is a PITA, I'll allow. But some way for attaching _something_ buoyant to the strap (not sure what it looks like my apologies), might be possible.

The drink -- she claims many toys....
"this is pretty much exactly how it would be formatted in a magazine."

But the web isn't a magazine. It's like arguing that printing a book on five pound clay cuneiform tablets is a good idea, because that's how the Babylonians would have done it.
I'm a long time user of Visio but lately I've been using online diagram tools like Gliffy, especially for some UML.
Can you disclose how much "better" for such rewrites? And what metrics were measured? I guess there is a conflict between CTRs on organic results and ads, so one has to be picked (or maybe a combo of the two). And what the magnitudes of the improvements? a few percentage or a few bp?
That's an interesting idea. On one hand I would think that something intelligent living with that little energy available per square meter would operate very slowly, such that we could communicate with it like a correspondence chess game. However, on the other hand that it alternates between pretty different climates every 250 years suggest the type of pressures that lead to different eras in Earth's history where life was predominantly smaller or more 'simple' before becoming bigger and more complex again. Maybe at low temperatures though, 250 years is a short hibernation.
Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World
Really? Aren't you going to use the browser in about 5 seconds? I'm sure the NSA cares that I checked my mailbox yesterday as well.
Great little intro - with examples - into why functional programming is so good for correctness and testability without those nasty null pointer exceptions.
How to Get an Allocation
I'm really glad you're here, because I was about to comment that you're the only person I know who understands this stuff.

(for those that don't know keysersosa was the guy who wrote the current hot algorithm)
What is this title saying?
Not to mention Google Chrome's search suggestions?
These browsers are all constantly accessing many sites. Here's[1] a comment I posted a month ago about Firefox. The summary is here's (at minimum) what Firefox accesses when it starts up as a Guest in OS X, and this is after I unchecked a bunch of boxes:

self-repair.mozilla.org
snippets.cdn.mozilla.net
search.yahoo.com
location.services.mozilla.com
www.mozilla.org
tiles.services.mozilla.com
safebrowsing.google.com
aus4.mozilla.org

Try it yourself as Guest. But make sure that Parental Controls are on. That way OS X will popup these sites and ask permission. Firefox is unusable w/o opting in all of these.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9743799
Looking forward to the book-length version. Take my money already.
> are basically the frameworks

This is precisely it. The name "String theory" is a bit of a misnomer; it's a framework, not a scientific theory like evolution or special relativity despite the common perception. Sure, it does make predictions (like tiny bits a vibrating energy or "strings" are the most fundamental thing in the universe), but that's a lot like playing solitaire in windows and then proclaiming it a bad OS. Strings are only a tiny piece of a much larger framework.

String theory is a framework in which you build scientific theories. Where relativity or evolution might be programs on a computer, string theory is the OS. Which is why there's so much confusion.

And to say it's a dead end is incorrect; to date there have been some incredibly useful applications in unrelated fields. People are using it for all kinds of things. Even if it's not a theory of everything, it is still helping advance our knowledge and understanding of science.
When Satoru Iwata Visited GameCenter CX
I am following this series like my favorite TV show! Eagerly waiting for the next ones. If the author writes a book on it, I'll buy for sure.
Sometimes that, also sometimes school districts buy Office 365 licenses so that students have access to this software.
I thought it might be satire when I saw the picture at the top. It's like a stock photo.
Software having bugs is understandable and people live with it. But there are a few areas where such fuckups are just unacceptable. Deleting files, photos, security stuff etc fall in that category. And as more and more stuff move to the cloud, companies better understand the priority of this.
ArgoUML[1] is pretty decent, though has few updates recently.

1 - http://argouml.tigris.org
This implys that the only way that organism can obtain energy would be from the sun, and not from some internal process on Pluto.
Why Programmers work at night?
Any question about nootropics deserves at least one answer that points towards Gwern's nootropics notes[1]. Additionally, you can search (I suggest searching for both gwern and nootropics in comments to identify stories) as this topic has come up a few times before and a lot of people have chimed in with their own experiences.

1: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
"Plus the upcoming release is a "Snow Leopard" like bugfix affair too, which will help things."

It is ? You are referring to Yosemite ? Genuinely curious...
It's not like it was good before Cue either (see MobileMe) - as you said it's the general culture of Apple as a whole.

Not sure how that gets fixed.
I didn't get hired from the monthly thread, but I did get a job at a YC startup through an HN post. Since then, we've found the quality of HN candidates to be overall strong. I definitely recommend it as a way to connect with companies and possibly bypass the standard application flow.
It does, but doesn't work in mobile browsers. I ws able to navigate to the webapp despite the site being not responsive, but I could only get it working as a desktop site in Chrome(anybody know how in safari?) and couldn't download or mail the file from there without getting a bug.
> "bring your toys to work" is not

Isn't "BYOD" a growing phenomenon in the workplace? I think Microsoft chasing mobile is them trying to defend enterprise from Apple/Android handsets.
Thank you for the kind words, they make me particularly happy because I felt completely mentally shot post-burnout from an awful consulting project, I'm glad I still have it, and I think NSI definitely helped my recovery.

My original goal post-college was to write, direct and self-fund microbudget movies. I got caught up in the self-funding part.

Here is my latest attempt at solving the money problem once and for all so I could focus on writing:

I called it the Winter Startup Challenge, and my goal is to defossilize one human activity.

http://wsc.willholloway.net/index.html

Theres some more (and photos) about nootropics here:

http://wsc.willholloway.net/nootropics.html
> I don't understand why

Because I assume that Reddit management would prefer not to have a lot of their user base furious with them, and because a placatory answer (if one was available) would at least ease that a little bit.

But I do have a bad habit of expecting human beings to act like human beings even if they also happen to be corporate leaders.
What a surprise, it only works in Chrome... More specifically, in FF the menu on the left is missing, Wwich at first I though may have been a first challenge...
Thank you for your inputs. I will be providing with forests article on the same
So a while ago there was an article that someone was getting close to controlling 50% of the network, which means that they could make arbitrary changes to the blockchain. Whether true or not, if NASDAQ was using the blockchain to track stock ownership, it seems like there would be a HUGE incentive to try and control 50% so you could manipulate it. This seems bad.

EDIT: As I type this my comment sits at 0 points, as does every comment I make even remotely critical of bitcoin and the blockchain. Why does HN hate people that are critical of bitcoin?
So is the major advantage of Eddystone that Google will implement it and won't sue you for using it in ways they don't like?

Eddystone isn't alone; there's AltBeacon, which is also an 'open' alternative: http://altbeacon.org/ Though it looks like they might be 'merging' with Eddystone.

AltBeacon was born out of Apple giving Radius Networks a cease & desist about a year ago for reverse-engineering the iBeacon protocol and distributing an open-source Android toolkit (with paid enhancements) for iBeacons: http://beekn.net/2014/07/ibeacon-for-android/

The Android iBeacon code used to be on Github but is no longer there. IMO the core "infringement" (if there really is any) is about 10-20 lines of Java that unpacks an iBeacon (major, minor, uuid) from a byte buffer and another bit of Java that aims to map RSSI to Apple's simple model for estimating iBeacon distances. The library did wrap the functionality in a nice background-threaded interface, and their API is distinct from Apple's. On the iPhone, there's a BLE daemon that powers iBeacon and is rather crashy (at least as of iOS8). The Radius Networks solution was clearly distinct. The story would be a textbook example of Apple's legal department hurting open innovation except for the detail that Radius Networks was offering a paid developer product atop the open source offering. (But I doubt they were making much money from it).

There are a lot of problems with iBeacon technology:

* A lot of people have bluetooth off. The surveys out there have a lot of variance, and you typically have a 50/50 chance that a user with a very modern smartphone will have BLE enabled.

* Droid battery usage isn't too bad, but Apple's solution has a distinct advantage because the BLE daemon powering the feature can interop more closely with iOS and eat less CPU. It's really hard to get a consistent experience on both platforms.

* To do anything productive with the iBeacon (major, minor, UUID), you probably want to ping a webservice, which will be hard unless you have free wifi or you've made fancy deals with carriers (or Apple). And if there's wifi, you might as well just try to use that as a beacon (ala PayPal's product).

* You probably /dont/ want to have iBeacons trigger any sort of immediate advert or notification unless the user has previously opted in to the service. A lot of users are starting to not grant notification and other privs by default. Most users also do NOT like background location stuff. There are definitely user segments that differ, but you'll likely need to do a great deal of customer research to validate using iBeacon. If your app is payments, there's already NFC. If your app is marketing, you might get higher engagement with Augmented Reality or something tied to some other location service (ala Amex & 4sq).
1. Currently, we circumvent that by only applying through job sites/listings that do not require sensitive information such as SSN

2. links have been updated

3. That indeed is a problem. We're planning on automating as much of the process as possible and thus, bringing the price down significantly. If they userbase is large enough, we may even make it free and charge companies for job listings and preferred access to our job seekers.
They'd think of America as a far more moral country than Iran. None of the rhetoric of the most abhorrent US politician gets anywhere near that of the Iranian mullahs.
You're one of the most prolific and impressive programmers around. I'm sure you could have your choice of product manager...
The Productivity Diet – What to Eat to Get More Out of Your Day
Online retail?!? This isn't 1998, when everyone thought Microsoft was going to be the gatekeeper to ecommerce, and there was universal naivety about these things. Microsoft has absolutely no business being in online retail. They shouldn't go anywhere near retail at all.

They also shouldn't be in advertising, media distribution, or social. The only company making any money in social, is Facebook. There is very little money in that market, and it's going to remain that way; social is a horrible business.

Media distribution is also a terrible business. Just ask Netflix: ~200 PE ratio, temporarily floating extreme bubble stock, with a whopping $266 million in net income after 20 years in business. They're the king of their segment and that's all they can earn. Pandora and Spotify also have horrible businesses, that have done nothing but bleed large amounts of red ink for a decade. Media distribution primarily profits the content owners, not the distributor. Microsoft should stay very far away from it.

Since when does it make any sense, at all, to try to do everything? It's a horrible business approach, and guarantees mediocrity. Trying to do all of those things is what hurt Microsoft from ~2000-2014.
I take Adderall at work whenever I can get my hands on it, which is rarely.
Likewise. This is exactly what I need to continue with Lisp. Up until now, I have been writing 10 to 20 line programs and rosetta code copies. This really firms up my understanding on how to actually use Slime effectively and understand a bit more of what Lisp/slime has to offer.
Did you experience major depression prior to taking the drug, or have you talked to any major depressive people who also tried the drug? Have you experienced any negative side effects from the drug, or talked to anyone who experienced negative side effects? I am pretty cautious about trying new drugs, as some currently legal drugs can carry dangerous side effects (ie: viibryd causing brain shocks in active patients).
Credit / acknowledgement of related work would be nice, and not just because it's the right thing to do. It's good for readers who aren't aware of the related work. It's good for readers who are aware of it (so they can understand the differences, or so they merely know that this author is aware of that author's work). It's also very good for the project's own future maintainers to be aware of similar efforts, especially those that tend to publish what works and what doesn't.
Yes. Mac OS was initially written in a mix of Object Pascal and Assembly.

Even Photoshop 1.0 was, check the available source code.

Object Pascal was the inspiration for Turbo Pascal 5.5 OOP extensions.

After a few OS releases, UNIX was already getting user in the industry and pressure from users about C compiler availability grew.

Apple introduced a new SDK with C and C++ support, including a C++ framework. Afterwards the new OS apis were written in C.

Also by this time, Apple did their first attempt at the UNIX market with A/UX.
> If Adobe decides to deprioritise a platform that mean the users of that platform with experience less support in terms of bug fixes, performance and security.

Case in point, OSX. Wasn't until Flash v11 that OSX had hardware-assisted playback.
Well that's a separate question which I don't have a complete answer for, but I will note that the number of displaced people at the formation of Israel is not particularly notable given the sizes of population transfers that happened around that time for the formation, or reformation, of nation states.
How do you find this compares to methylphenidate or amphetamines?
In the case of Debian, it tells them you are using a specific version of iceweasel, which probably is quite deterministic in combination with the rest of the dragnet.
They wouldn't use the actual Bitcoin blockchain, I think, as they have nothing to gain from the pseudo-anonymity and have better ways to prevent bad actors than proof of work. Instead they'd use what they call a "distributed consensus ledger" which would require one to get permissions (i.e. be known and sign legally binding agreements) to be part of.
While I didn't downvote this, I can't see your comment as remotely relevant to a story about an iCloud syncing bug.
Especially Debian users ("iceweasel" in the user agent string!)...
No, they want you to stop being coy. If it's your family member, friend, dealer or whatever, nobody cares. Almost everyone using this site has a dealer of something, whether it be mundane and legal like coffee, alcohol and antidepressants, or less legal and through less reputable sources.
I'm saying that because I found pretty much nothing offensive about this layout (compared to actually offensive things like scrolljacking and whatnot), and the only difference between this and an "ideal" webpage would be to have it all on one page.

Otherwise this is just a web page with some embedded images and some larger text (which is pretty common practice on any long-form story website).
There is a way to see it as different. Ideally people like entrepreneurship because you succeed or fail because your idea and execution meet the market's needs. That's better than getting paid on the basis of your own effort or discomfort involved in doing the work necessary to complete it.

Certainly, the market is fickle, but that is different than something political that is going on where you have no influence. It is completely conceivable that you optimized such that your product generated revenue far in excess of its costs, but that it is canceled for a (good) strategic reason.

Sure the difference is probably only psycholgical, but finding out that work you cared about was only a waste of time somehow feels more just if there was no market for it than if it had traction and the was shuttered for a reason you don't know.
Note that a similar question was asked in the thread I linked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9880661

Not that it would hurt to discuss it further here.
I hate using gdb. Because their scripting API sucks so much and the user interface too (some little changes would help, but the source code is nothing I want to get in touch with). Actually I looking something like pry for native code.
Oh. Thanks for the detailed explanation and correction about the enrichment process. Do you think that once we have asteroid mining we'll be able to get Uranium (and consequently Plutonium) in higher quantities so that the economic costs will be viable again? That is assuming we can overcome the legal/security concerns by then.