skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's from the Surat Taha (found from simple Google search, but also indicated by the first two Muqattaat letters), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Ha.

BTW, the search for the meaning of these letters that appear in a small percentage of suras is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqatta%27at
There was a decent episode of RadioLab on CRISPR not too long ago. Listen here: http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/

Sadly the technology is wrapped up in many lawsuits.
This is more of an attempt to give little background on RNG problems in a security context, and a description of how MirageOS' crypto stack deals with RNG, with an emphasis on entropy harvesting.
You're perfectly free to start your own business and find out just how much ass-busting is involved in doing that.
Definitely a parody
> only good companies will be able to raise future rounds

Given the rather poor returns of the VC sector overall, I'm not sure you can make this assumption without more qualification.
JRuby is a great idea.

It has one pitfall which consistently stops me from using it though : poor support with newer releases of Rails, usually due to the Active Record stack not working well with the AR JDBC adapter.

I know some work was being done on a JRuby version of the standard pg gem (without the need for JDBC) which would be fantastic if it was completed and working.
The system is called JNR - Java Native Runtime - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jvmls2013nutter-20135.... It uses libffi, which I guess the final call is made to via JNI.
This thoughtful article deserves more interesting discussion than I fear its generic title will obtain for it, so we've changed the title to a (compressed) representative sentence. Happy to change it again if anyone suggests something better.
Go is already successful- based on its current market share and growth rate, it will easily be one of the top ten languages for the next 10 years.

So that part of your conclusion is wrong, factually.
I can't find an address anywhere. Is this publicly viewable?
> It's great that people want to try out new frameworks, as I do all the time, but it would be much better if people tried building something a bit more detailed than the standard To Do app.

And, you know, people do. A tutorial app isn't the extent of what the author tried out, its something where the author felt would provide a good basis for pedagogy on the tool it is a tutorial for.

> And if you're going to do a To Do app, or any tutorial for that matter, it should include tests as testing is a priority when building real world applications.

Plenty of tutorials include testing, but if the framework being demonstrated isn't particularly special in terms of testing given the language and other aspects of the platform, there's not necessarily a compelling reason for every tutorial to do so.

Seems to me the complaint here is "people supplying job-relevant training material to the world for free aren't always doing it exactly the way I'd prefer to have it", which is pretty entitled.
Don't they aggregate the data that a real web analytics company would track (mixpanel and kissmetrics are on their free tier). I wouldn't call Segment a 'web analytics' company but they are very useful.
If these are company sponsored events then yes it could be seen as a problem, especially if there is no diversity - going for a soccer game once it's perfectly fine, if the following event is a trivia night or attending stand up comedy or something like that.

If it's informal gatherings I don't see any problem, people are free to do what they want after work, including with people they work with if they share the same interests.

From the original post I understood the latter that's why I was surprised by your comment because such informal events are pretty common based on my experience.
This is neither science nor pseudo-science, I'm not claiming any degree of rigor. It's nothing more than my own thoughts and observations, and as mentioned downthread, I don't think the research exists to prove or disprove what I'm saying. Perhaps I should have said "IMO" and "I don't have data but..." in my comment, and I do say that a lot. On the other hand, I want to avoid turning this into a kind of tic that I'm seeing increasingly often among technically minded peers, as if we have to apologize for airing any ideas or observations that we've failed to back up with data.

And when I was writing this, what I had in mind was my parents very-much-white Russian cohort, born around WW2, whose faces IMO tend to reflect the anxiety and exhaustion that accompanied most of their lives.

As for the "white" POV, whether or not there is cultural diversity in both the expression of and interpretation of emotions, and especially basic emotions, is currently an intensely researched and AFAIK unsettled question. So when you say that it's "impossible to make broad statements like these", I think the jury is still out.
I tend to be optimistic about things YC does until proven otherwise, they've earned that. Having pro rata rights is a reasonable way for YC to deploy a lot more capital in a signaling-neutral way, with some inherent bias towards companies that are doing better.

You are right that it does substantially change things for ownership conscientious investors.

There are myriad other issues as well, perhaps the two most interesting are:

1. When I went through YC, it was emphasized that YC had the same equity situation as founders. That's certainly not the case now.

2. Pro rata is often an actively managed situation, I'm curious how YC will handle situations where founders/future investors seek to retroactively adjust pro rata
whoosh?

http://www.scala-lang.org/
The terms are usually the same: invest at the new round's valuation such that ownership percentage is maintained. They will only follow, so the valuation will be set by others.
He is circumspect in his full comments, in context the text quoted in Wikipedia is not a positive statement that it was a cyber attack.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
Richard Feynman and the tyranny of measurement
I would say that, if you're looking to try and "remote-control" your business, then it's probably a far better option for you to sell it than to keep it.
Did you just say the extrapolation of current trends into the future establish a fact about what the future will be that enables you to reject a prediction as "wrong, factually"?
In that case, aren't you, in effect, choosing for me the set of choices available to me for selection, based upon a preconceived notion of "quality"?

The Underground Man goes on to say, “I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.”

Would two times two makes five be included in a set of high-quality choices?
The issue with Product Hunt is that they don't care about voting rings. Just look at Twitter for "product hunt upvote": https://twitter.com/search?q=product%20hunt%20upvote&src=typ...

I've criticized PH for allowing voting rings and being a "black box" in general with respect to voting (see interview in Recode which had a comment from me: http://recode.net/2015/06/18/product-hunt-the-startup-kingma... ). The response to that interview is essentially "haters gonna hate," which means all attempts at offering suggestions to improve Product Hunt will be futile.

Yes, it still an echo chamber which I believe actually hurts the startup community because it incentives them to work on products which have zero value outside the echo chamber. It also incentives this bad behavior, and it has been spreading outside of Product Hunt which is why I'm upset by it.

If Product Hunt has enough community awareness such that they can tweet a GIF to every user who gets more than 100 points (seriously?!), then they have enough manpower to effectively punish and discourage vote manipulators.
Totally agree here. The only exception I have had a few times is when the statement would destroy the transaction log and make the server unresponsive. Working in SQL Server a few years back and having to run some very large deletes instead of truncates (mostly because of a poor design and less than ideal schemas), I found it was BAD to do this and so I had to change my ways.

Overall, I like to write SQL scripts that when they go to production are always rerun safe and just overall safe, e.g. Create a transaction, Run expected counts etc then Run the delete, do counts or other queries to insure what happened was what I intended and then commit or rollback. This way my scripts were basically safe in almost all circumstances. Until I hit the crazy DB with huge tables and massively wide tables where my one transaction would trash the transaction log and tempdb and cause SQL to go FU and stop. Ooops. Back to simple select testing it was. Eventually we got the schema's mostly fixed and got a DBA that fixed a lot of stupid on the setup, but still we couldn't run transactions a lot of time because of stupid design choices made way ahead of our involvement.
It's pretty interesting. We work with many of these folks, who are buying discounted gift cards to save even more on the purchasing side. Seems to be working very well for some folks.
This is part of the reason why working for a company as part of buying the company exists. In small businesses, it is possible for an interested purchaser to actually work under the existing owner for months or years to receive training and ensure the business will continue to survive. Even founders of lifestyle businesses take a lot of pride in what they've built, so there is a sentimental reason to sell this way too.
Online maze game
"Or maybe as he was in the traffic lane, and now that she was clearly irate and argumentative, he did not want to stand there waiting to be hit by a car... while trying to explain to her that he was just issuing her a warning with no fine."

That's a non sequitur. She said "I'm in my car. Why do I have to put out my cigarette". His immediate reply was "Ok, then I'm telling you to get out of the car", implying cause and effect.
Where did the first Americans come from? New clues from new studies
That, and the citizen science movement helps tremendously. It's what I love most about eBird[0]. Thousands of people collecting observations (with varying degrees of accuracy) provide a wider and more accurate picture than any number of scientists could deliver on their own.

[0] http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
It should be faster.

I haven't seen any newish real world benchmarks to that effect though.

These web benchmarks give some conflicting results between MRI and JRuby : https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=... .
Apple’s cloud woes continue with Game Center games disappearing
I am a postgresql novice, but I've used the JSON serialization and it is indeed fast. But, here's my question:

When you do a 1-to-many join and return the same fields very many times, do the binary drivers optimize that or is it return many times? With JSON serialization (or serializing to arrays), you only get the one row.
The point of capitalism is that profits go to those who work hard to earn them. Why would I bust my ass as an employee if you're just sitting on your ass, and you're still going to receive the bulk of the reward?
Even better would be to have an entirely separate section/rating for beta reviews, as having some idea what apps will break if I install the iOS beta on my main phone is useful. Still, definitely an improvement.
Exactly. I wish I could do something like...

Movies.objects.filter(tags__in=['anime', 'sci-fi', 'robots', 'cyberpunk']).exclude(tags__in=['nuns', 'schoolgirls', 'demons', 'demon-hunting-nun-schoolgirls'])

or even just see all of the tags that they tag things with, and allow searching by those.

Of course, I also would love to be able to blacklist films that I know I'm never going to watch (some horror films, some of aforementioned anime :)), and have them hidden from browsing or search results (or even just sequester them at the end of the list, or dim them out?).
I think he's just promoting BeaconReader, but I'm glad he did, because I had no idea it existed.
PolyGrant: Crowdfunding Projects with Community Benefit
AT&T will reportedly create new activation fee, raise existing ones
Agreed here. I also think that the overall vagueness of the five-star rating system makes it hard for users to express their true opinion. Algorithms are "garbage-in, garbage-out", and I think a five-star rating response represents "garbage-in". Unfortunately it would be risky and expensive for Netflix to change its rating system at this point.
It should have been clear from the article that they haven't used this technique in humans yet. What other context is needed? They can easily do these things in cell lines and mice.
Two paragraphs from TFA seem to contradict each other. The first seems normal, business-as-usual with big banks:

As a result, the state was forced to step in to bail the banks out - protecting depositors but creating a hole in the public finances equivalent to an eighth of GDP.

The second makes one wonder how the banks got paid twice for the same loans:

And in a final layer of obfuscation, they now owe all the money not to Banca Sociala, but to another UK-registered entity, Fortuna United LP, that's said to have bought the entire combined loan.
I'm currently working for a smallish family-owned company and I'm tempted to forward this to the owner.

He doesn't want to retire but also doesn't want to commit to the time requirements of the day to day operation of the company. This wouldn't be a big deal because he has set himself up with some great managers and a solid foundation.

However... about once a month he gets an itch and decides to get in the middle of the smoothly running operation he spent decades creating because he "wanted to help." It just causes chaos and anger by the people running the company for him the other 25 days each month.
> Why would I bust my ass as an employee if you're just sitting on your ass, and you're still going to receive the bulk of the reward?

Typically because you need money to feed yourself or your family. That's how this game is usually played, anyway.
The numbers are pretty small. Pro rata doesn't apply to employee option pool dilution, so it's really probably only 5% of a round. If a VC says they will do an investment if they can own 20% but not 19% of a company, I believe they are lying.
I don't know how much this really affects dilution. Without YC doing this, your shares would represent 80% of their previous value (X + .2 Z = Z). If YC adds so it maintains 7%, you would have 78%(X + .2 Z + (.07 Z - 0.07 X) = Z, .93 X = .73 Z)

So if you have 30% right now, you would have either 24% without YC taking part or 23.4% if they do.
You're describing the point of communism.
Haha, yea. From an engineering perspective... you can spend all day debating the philosophical implications of taking a derivative and have very interesting conversations, or you could just take the derivative because it's useful and go make things.
Copyright law protecting Ashley Madison?
JRuby used to be much faster than MRI (definitely so when MRI 1.8 was current), but MRI has gotten better faster than JRuby, and IIRC, its now mostly a mixed bag based on workload, particular application design choices, etc.
I'm not asking for job-relevant training material. It would just be more fun if tutorials were trying out different ideas. I relate it to if all authors wrote the same story you would be frustrated after a while that no authors were telling different stories.

For instance, whenever I find a new framework or methodology, I'll build out a replica of a whatever phone app is the du jour of the moment. Building the same app over and over again gets boring after a while and doesn't push your line of thinking. But that's just my opinion.
It is a statement that we believe investing in YC companies at post-YC valuations is still a great deal.
Actually, Torvalds couldn't relicense Linux as GPLv3 even if he wanted to, because it would require the consent of all copyright holders :)
Interesting - I'll check these out.

But again, I'm not arguing that genetics don't have any impact on behavior - I'm arguing that getting from someone else's experience of appearance to genetics to the 20% of behavior that's affected is a pretty long jump to make.
The math is off here; YC companies have raised more than double that amount.
C++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015
Fair; updated the wording. Thanks.
This isn't possible with Hacker News since the voters are not public.

I had done brief analysis that shows that the (YC X) submissions do receive more upvotes on average. Which is hard to attribute to a voting ring specifically.
As a teacher of web development for people who are 100% new to programming, every application I have class build has tests. If you're going to teach people, especially newcomers, we should stress the importance of testing what you build and show how fun and easy it is to test as you build. :)
While I agree with you in practice, I'm curious how frequently YC takes less than 7% these days? :P It's hard to predict everyone's sacred cows
He said he wanted something that's not painful on the eyes.
I'm not an expert in this subject area, but I know that I've sometimes seen the phenomena that are sometimes called "wavefunction collapse" described as non-unitary (and for good reason). Even if you buy into an interpretation of QM that doesn't include collapse as a separate process (most non-Copenhagen interpretations, in other words), measurements of the quantum state will still have to somehow look non-unitary to any given observer. (Something something projection operators, in the formulation I learned in grad school.)

There are definitely some interesting tricks you can do to exploit these behaviors. (I'm thinking for example of the "quantum Zeno effect", in which one can "find an answer without ever asking the question".[0]) But I don't know remotely enough about quantum computing to know what's actually possible in this context.

[0] A fun writeup on this idea is here (with an example involving an attempt not to wake any adorable sleeping puppies): http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2006/02/27/quantum-...
> “If you went to Boston Harbor and pulled up a cup of water and looked under a microscope, you’d see very different species later on,” Dutkiewicz says. “By 2100, you’d see ones that were living maybe closer to North Carolina now, up near Boston.”

I hope marine communities are that adaptable. What if the species in North Carolina aren't able to move up to Boston Harbor and they all just die?
I (along with many others, I would assume) would be interested in seeing data on what the usage trends are for different devops tools.
Agreed on every point, the sideways scroll is a UX disaster, I use a media PC with a cordless keyboard/integrated touchpad and it's horrible, it's not much better with a mouse.

I probably watch netflix once or twice a month, I'd cancel but I'm not the only user.
There was a significant population bottleneck after the europeans reached north/south america. Nearly all native americans died, and then their population rebounded again (but not fully).

A lot of research like this makes an assumption that the genetics of modern native americans are close to pre-columbus genetics but that is almost certainly not the case.

When I was in graduate school I got a smithsonian fellowship to study the feasibility of amplifying dna from pre-columbus incan bones (they left their dead above ground on a plateau and so no contamination from tannins from the soil). I showed the dna could successfully be amplified.

I then left science and I'm not sure where the research went after that.
I use the Rising Sun hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(novel) -
release a nearly hour long video that is for the very large part boring. Continuous audio so someone can zone out and not hear anything odd - it's a lot easier to hear abrupt audio changes with low concentration than to notice a video 'flicker'.

In Rising Sun there's a slightly different polemic. A security video from a murder is edited before being given to the police (albeit more sophisticated in editing), and the detective takes offense to the assumption that it wouldn't be noticed, because of a (stereotype) Japanese attention to detail and an American indifference.
Someone who only knows one or two languages is not worth paying.
You could have printed a quadrature pattern on the back for not much more complexity. Just one additional sensor per strip. Even that wouldn't be an absolute necessity since you know which direction the rotation is going. A single series of bars with one skipped or widened for home would suffice. Then you'd be able to compensate more readily for slippage and stretching.
Fungus shapes hair ice – Researchers identify fungus responsible
How This Female Executive Found Her Voice in a Male Dominated Industry
The link on your site to the SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics paper is
paywalled [1], but the paper is freely available from NIH [2]. You might
want to change the link on your site, or just add NIH link(s) as backups
(I also found [3] on NIH).

So far, I've only read through the abstract, but the use of Raman
spectroscopy [4] for identification looks fascinating. I had no clue
that it's possible to differentiate cancer cells with a spectrograph,
and no, I really have no idea how or why the analysis works. On the
other hand, automating test equipment in a lab is a whole lot of fun!

At the moment, the closest thing I can manage to a useful question is:
Can/Will/Does your service automate this analysis method?

[1] http://biomedicaloptics.spiedigitallibrary.org/mobile/articl...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832300/

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC141028/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_spectroscopy
> The point of capitalism is that profits go to those who work hard to earn them.

No, the point of capitalism -- and for which its critics named it "capitalism" -- is that profits go to those who own capital.

The idea that the proceeds generated by hard work should go to those working hard rather than being captured by capital was sort of the central criticism aimed at the dominant system of the developed world in the 19th century by the critics that gave that system the name "capitalism".
The pro-rata provision is only for raises of $100M or more post-money. Is YC only going to do these transactions for post-money between $100M and $250M? Or will you ask to be part of raises below $100M?
> Sure, just like joining a rock band.

What? As far as I know, most early rock bands don't pay their musicians $150k+.
Sometimes Apple tightens up their APIs, which may have been a gray area on previous versions of the OS. Being able to future-proof your app when the new OS ships is a good thing.
Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy
This is a great comment. For all the handwringing about what Ms. Bland should or should not have done, and what an officer is or is not allowed to do, we seem to forget that the officer's job is to protect and to promote public safety.

In all of the recent cases that have made the news, this question seems to go unposed, when it should be a litmus test WRT the overall approach to policing.

Instead, we have a culture that shifts the conversation to one about what the officer and victim each did as the situation escalated.
If you're making under-market at a startup, you're doing it wrong.

Equity is compensation for increased risk and work, not for a subpar salary.
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