skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You suggest that we use CLIs for pretty much every task?

I -happily- spend most of my day in one CLI or another, but there are many, many things for which interactive graphical display of information is just the best choice.

If you never have done so, find a copy of Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". You really need to find a professionally-printed dead-tree version; computer screens still can't do the book justice.

Oh:

> "koodies"

That word is spelt "cooties". ;)
I think there is a lot more to the story than just what was in the first bit. Very interesting analysis of that part though!
>-Kill Bin Laden

He didn't do this. He was just president in an ongoing operation that started a long time ago. He didn't pass any particular policies or make any changes that led to this.

>-Contain ISIS

ISIS started under him and it's not contained.

>-Get a deal on Iranian nuclear program

Also 10 years in the making and he made some significant concessions to Iran that made the deal almost useless. The US has to give nearly a months warning before it's allowed to check to see if they are breaking the rules.
If Trump gets elected, what would be the appropriate prize for whoever kicks him out of the White House? Popehood? All the Nobels of the year?
> If there are structured radio signals being emitted,

Why should there be? Earth itself is getting quieter. Our electronics are more sensitive, for the applications that still use radion. For a lot of things, we are using plain boring fiber-optic (and copper) connections.
A few points:

- Requiring people to write rulesets or explicitly list syscalls they want is complicated, so barely anyone will use it. We want it to be easy.

- tame is for OpenBSD. OpenBSD has many daemons that are already split up into sandboxes, often with common APIs (eg imsg) that use a small set of syscalls. tame will fit into and extend that. Often with relatively few source code changes so far, because we don't have to write lists of syscalls or much special processing. And if major changes are required - it is one project, we can change kernel and userland together.

- There has been no suggestion that I have heard that tame be considered a portable API, or something we would like others to adopt.

- Why not a library? Well, that was considered, but why not the kernel? There are advantages to both approaches.

- There is some talk of changing the way paths are handled, we will see where that goes. It is still early.
Most of those things Obama wasn't specifically responsible for, and many of them he had absolutely nothing to do with (eg oil/gas boom). Obama's greatest contribution overall was the lack of negatives: the US economy will self-heal so long as you stop stabbing it.

That said, here are his most important accomplishments:

- Standing down, mostly, as states begin legalizing pot and start to experiment with decriminalization of drugs

- Bringing focus to the US prison system, and obscene mandatory sentencing laws (working with the Koch brothers to boot)

- Not trying to block marriage equality

- Bringing some attention to asset seizures, removing some incentives for the police to steal

- Avoiding any further large scale wars, the US simply can't afford it; it's worth noting he wanted a much larger scale war effort against Syria, and found very little support for it, so he back-tracked

- Iran deal, avoiding the war that some would have liked to see; such a war would have been unimaginably destructive to the US economy, far worse than Iraq

- The strong dollar and oversupply of oil damaged Russia. The end of QE caused the dollar to rise. Obama's contribution was to not do anything stupid that might cause oil to soar, or the dollar to plunge

- Obamacare / ACA. His involvement was very limited, but he did champion it from the beginning. Not sure on this one though, it'll either end up being viewed as a giant debacle cost wise, or the program that marked the start of universal healthcare in the US and bending down the cost curve in healthcare via top-down government mandate.
Ebay buys Twice
Hmm. I didn't expect this announcement this soon - at least on the public mailing list, the notion of a winner still seemed very far away. Just 18 days ago: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/crypto-competitio...

Anyway, as best as I could tell, the consensus on the public mailing list was that the best case for a singular winner would be an amalgamation of four finalists: Argon2, Lyra2, Catena, and yescrypt. Each of them has some properties that are desirable. I'm curious to what extent Argon2 will be modified - and especially curious if the final spec will have tunable parameters / multiple modes or be a one-size-fits-all deal.

Edit: If you're interested in more information, a decent starting place is this paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/881.pdf If you folks want more reading material, I can pull some emails from the mailing list
This is a bad customer. I'm surprised the airlines just don't ban him.
Yet they have pretty much the worst security track record in the entire industry. They also have a history of trying to cover up issues and straight up lying to their customers.
> Having an affair actually is illegal in almost half the US, and in some states, it's even a felony.

Wow! United Saudi Arabia (USA)!
I think the problem is the randomness.

When you use your language's random function, you are getting a pseudorandom generator. As noted in the article, they were able to figure out the seed for the random function. Once you know the seed, the game is over. The adversary can now figure out the exact shuffled deck.

Also see: http://ericlippert.com/2013/05/06/producing-permutations-par...
Is the new iPod touch a harbinger of a 4-inch iPhone 6c?
Cool! And check out the app using Ionic and Couchbase on the backends: https://twitter.com/sweetiewill/status/580148597037105154
In a Bleak Ukraine City, a Duo’s Odd Experiments Win a Niche Online
Basically the person in the article uses various tricks to game the airline and accumulate as many frequent flyer miles and fly around as much as he can (accumulating even more points it seems).

He also writes a blog about it.
Adultery is illegal in many bits of the US.
bad rhetorical question, but valid point.
I suppose. I guess I just prefer the more direct, naive algorithm when the performance gain would seem to be so small. (not that I've profiled it or anything :/)
Well, there will be an autopsy to discover the cause of his death. Unattended deaths generally require them.

It appears to be Florida law, at least (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...).
Pretty sure if you make more than 1mil per year you can afford to buy VS. The community edition is intended for indies, hobbyists and small enterprises.
Let's see if we can answer your questions:

"He was democratic about his patronizing and rude comments"

"My coworkers that stood their ground and set boundaries seemed to end up on a shit list of sorts and were out of the inner circle of people that kissed the producer’s ass."

"I didn’t feel there was anyone to turn to. It was unclear who exactly I even worked for or who I should share my grievances with. I was contracted by one company, yet paid by another contracting company, and then I worked at Apple. To this day, I never once encountered anyone from HR while at Apple, as I wasn’t technically employed by them."
Are you planning on leveraging numba, or will this be a new way to generate LLVM bytecode from python?
My point was the algorithm, not the implementation, hence my disclaimer on 'good randomness'.
Do YCF teams need to apply via the usual application at that point?
Guy find ways to exploit the system - some of it is reasonable, for example taking advantage of airlines overbooking flights, but some of it is just being an ass, for example demanding a voucher if his headset is broken rather than a new headset. Plus, lots of boring multi-leg flights with no real destination just to rack up miles.

Guy should use his brains for something more useful, like solving the traveling salesman problem.
I think you mean ends like it was written by a 13 year old, which was one of many devices the author used to show the devolving intellectualism of the main character. At the start her language/grammar skills are impeccable. By the end, yes, it's typical teen speak, broken grammar, nonexistent punctuation, etc.
Ask HN: Why are dating startups so challenging?
Hi Kat.

Two questions:

1) If we are still looking for / selecting technical co-founders, can we apply?

2) Does the entire team need to dedicate itself full time to this? Alternatively, if the "paying bills" job is quite light (2-3 hours per day), and we are willing to forego some sleep, can we still apply?

Cheers
Then again the character was intended to be in high school. I think the sloppy writing was very intentional. You can see her style shifts a few times throughout the story.
I'm not sure they care. They may be accepting these users because the programs are profitable for them in how they increase normal customers spending patterns.

Tightening up the rules or banning these users might be bad PR for them they don't want to deal with.
Yes - we're happy to consider teams from anywhere in the world (as long as you have a good internet connection).
For those like me that weren't aware of this competition here's their website with more info https://password-hashing.net/
Real life is not a CSI episode, also labs have a limited processing ability

But maybe tests are done in stages? Like, if nothing obvious shows up on first tests then some other ones are done?
wait, you're saying that you accumulate FF points when you are flying on a ticket that you got by redeeming FF points?

wouldn't removing this simple feature nullify what he's doing or at least a great deal of what he's able to accomplish?
-Biden Laden was on his watch, according to various reports he asked for some changes which suggest he had some ownership of the operation

-ISIS was formed before he took over
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_...
To be clear, that isn't the final spec. AFAIK, we don't yet know the extent of changes that may be made to Argon2. The email says that Argon2 will be the "basis" for the final winner, which could have some interesting results.
Wow, that's something! First one that comes to my mind, though, is mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSjpIyMt0k
Learning the MemSQL JSON Column Type
Once upon a time a nerdy young boy in a Catholic high school was obsessed with airplanes. He started flying around the country collecting frequent flyer miles, reporting small problems with the plane, and getting lots of $200 "apology" vouchers and stuff. It was fun.

Today he has a big fan club, runs some airfare-hacker forums and gives interviews to magazines with no journalistic credibility or fact-checking whatsoever (cough cough). Airfare hacking today is harder than it used to be, and you can't even defraud the US Mint by ordering dollar coins on your credit card (with no fee / free shipping), but you can still get lucky with mistake fares and/or pay people to violate all the terms and conditions and fly in your name, if you're sneaky about it.
Laser communication seems more likely for long distance communication. Omnidirectional radio broadcasts need a comparatively huge amount of energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPALS
As a side note, your markdown parser story was an interesting read. I felt disappointed when I got to the end, I wanted to read about the rest of the implementation journey!
"In no way should this promote you killing yourself, killing others, or killing in any other fashion."

You don't see this disclaimer too often
Startups are challenging. Nearly all startups fail, and whether or not they succeed has very little to do with the quality of the idea, the work, or the people involved.
Exactly. Especially her mocking comment about how she freed herself from punctuation.

"When will I evolve to the stage in which Ill be able to omit an apostrophe without being conscious of it?"

And then you see how she wrote by the end...
Australia's war on wind farms threatens biggest renewable project
Very glad to see this, and hoping the trade embargo is ended soon. It's pretty clear, after five decades, that it has had the opposite of the intended effect -- that it has, in fact, kept the Castros in power. What's that quote about insanity being when you do the same thing over and over and expect different results?
Oh my goodness. I'll blame that one on recovering from a bad cold.
he's making a lot of money doing what he enjoys and it is legal, so what exactly is wrong with that?
From a CS theory perspective, I would say it's two implementations of the same algorithm, or two ways of phrasing the same algorithm. The most natural formulation in your eyes is probably not the same as the most natural formulation in the eyes of the article author.
If anything, Obama has been almost entirely, intentionally neutral on fracking. He knows how important it has been to delivering a massive new source of domestic energy supply, including enabling natural gas to overtake coal.

He has cleared not sicced his EPA on oil & gas companies heavily reliant on fracking, when he easily could have made their lives far more difficult.
I present to you the answer that I most prefer for that question: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
> It says there was no evidence of drugs but then goes on to say that the toxicology report would take 2-3 months.

Hard to believe it takes so long in the 21st century. Is that bureaucracy or science?
I'm glad you will be slightly more open to solo founders. I also like that you are open to a more remote experience.

I think this project could be very helpful in my situation, I have a great idea that is progressing (Deep Learning/AI Image Recognition SaaS) but would have a hard time putting together a suitable team that could survive with our current obligations in San Francisco (families, house payments, etc.) Maybe getting myself working on it full time could get it to the point where it could sustain itself enough that YC proper could work out financially for a bigger team. Very excited, I'm definitely going to apply.
Toyota Mirai (fuel-cell powered electric car)
Selling a product and not a commodity
We want teams to make as much progress as possible based on wherever they're starting at (ie for an idea-stage team, it could be building a prototype and getting it into the hands of some users, for a prototype team, launching and getting customers)

We hope we'll be able to help teams a lot -- YCF teams will be held up to the same standards as all other YC applicants though if they choose to apply. There won't be special treatment for YCF teams.

Maybe -- we at least hope they'll apply for funding from YC!
Open ftp uploads all over again...
The trouble is we now have ISIS in Libya.
As soon as I read the headline I was scared to read Josh's name in the article. I had the opportunity to interview him for a book, and I placed his interview at the very beginning of the book because I personally found it one of the most interesting. At the end of that phone call I thought to myself: if I was in Florida I would love to work with this guy. RIP Josh.
Does YC ever consider ideas that aren't designed to be billion-dollar companies? For instance, if someone was working on a next-gen diagnostics tool for VoIP, they might realistically be able to get to $10-20M, maybe 10x if things go really well. But it's hard to see that becoming a billion+ company under any circumstances.

What advice do you have for such ideas?
You're just arguing "semantics".
Did you know that even Lynx is properly considered a GUI? It's a text-mode GUI, but a GUI nonetheless.

Edit: To figure out where you're coming from: do you consider text editors like vim, nano, and pico to be GUIs or CLIs? Why do you hold this opinion?
Spoken like a true HN devoté...

In terms that you can understand:
legal != right
Having both designed pandas and suffered from some of the rough edges of pandas when used in a database-like way, I tried to be thoughtful in designing the Ibis API to be semantically complete with SQL (i.e. so you shouldn't have to write any SQL) and a great deal more productive and reusable than SQL. I suggest you give it a serious try before passing judgment!
I hope they plan to bring Visual Studio on Mac OS X
It's quite unlikely that travel insurance would cover chronic and critical illnesses like cancer though, which other forms of healthcare would cover.
> Without zooming, how do you all use things on your phones that ARENT websites? They don't zoom either...

yes they do. I have it enabled on my phone. Here' the iOS Reddit app, first[1] the way I normally use it, and second[2] they way it would look on a default phone.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/cf85gPv.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/Kjz6QD8.png
Any chance of open sourcing this?
The compiler api has gotten a lot better: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compi...

If you just want string->string compilation, there's typestring, which wraps the api: https://www.npmjs.com/package/typestring
> A butterfly’s colors come from its scales, each a single cell, pigmented a single hue.

Fascinating article but I think "pigment" is perhaps misleading. I was taught that butterfly wings are often structurally coloured, i.e. the colour is the result of the microstructure (shapes) of the cells, rather than a dye or specific molecule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration#Structur...

Also of relevance to complex patterning (though I'm not sure if this applies to butterflies, or if this is what the article was hinting at) is Turing's Morphogenesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...
ISIS started under him and it's not contained.

It switched to its current name during his terms. It started well before.
Hi, I just started filling out the form when I encountered this question - 'Will all founders commit to working exclusively on this project for the next six months?'
Isn't the point of this, that you are definitely committing 8 weeks and going from there?
Amazon takes aim at next target: Macy's
...which is why they still accept applications for solo founders, but are straightforward about it knocking you down a peg.
I'm sure that they do. They will not forget to record and track all the people using it. (Not that the US government is short of ways to get this data anyway.)
Do you think you could write a blog post about this? Finding interesting uses for Roslyn may help drive its use in the community. Plus, that just sounds interesting.
How can you know for sure? In the end all you actually have are probabilities. At the beginning of the incubator I attended, the estimated success rate of startups was less than 10%. By that rationale, I should have packed my things and gone home.

And in fact, I agree with that rationale. I still can't believe I went through with it, much less succeeded.

But without foolhardy people to take on these gigantic risks, we'd be FAR less developed than we are.
His association with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, particularly his release of purported national security to foreign persons and media.

The company is free to associate itself with him, and I'm free not to purchase their otherwise-quite-interesting product.
Uber: twice as fast, half as expensive for poor people
So, which web browsers can this be exploited through?
From the Quasar documentation:

"Runaway Fibers
A fiber that is stuck in a loop without blocking, or is blocking the thread its running on (by directly or indirectly performing a thread-blocking operation) is called a runaway fiber. It is perfectly OK for fibers to do that sporadically (as the work stealing scheduler will deal with that), but doing so frequently may severely impact system performance (as most of the scheduler’s threads might be tied up by runaway fibers). Quasar detects runaway fibers, and notifies you about which fibers are problematic, whether they’re blocking the thread or hogging the CPU, and gives you their stack trace, by printing this information to the console as well as reporting it to the runtime fiber monitor (exposed through a JMX MBean; see the previous section)."

(http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/)

that describes a classic symptom of cooperative multitasking, and that kind of broken behavior doesn't happen in a preemptively multitasked system. Certainly it violates the programmer intuition invariant that she can just write programs, if she has to occasionally check on a JMX MBean to find out if the framework has pooped on the bed.

additionally, when you say you are doing preemption without timeslicing, that doesn't really make sense, as all preemption requires slicing time: that's literally what it means.

On the kernel scheduling piece, your argument doesn't make any sense to me. Hardware support is only tangentially to do with high thread context switching costs; and it is frequently the case that many actors can fit into cache, where many threads cannot.

Fundamentally I'm sure Quasar has some great use cases, and probably shows some interesting performance gains over erlang in some of them, but this discussion has dimmed my interest significantly. Quite unfortunate.
If "pride" means doing childish things like the slowdown in New York last year, or apparently not investigating drive by shootings in Baltimore because the protesters hurt their feelings, then that pride needs to be ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed. We need cops who work for us – all of us – rather than for the FOP or PBA, and they need to understand that they have unconscious racial bias that needs to be counteracted.

If they don't believe those things, fire them and get cops who will do their jobs.
Or if you advocate more Libertarian principles/discussion, you're immediately told to "move to Somalia". Yes, I've gotten that one on HN even, IIRC.
Oh I completely agree and understand just commiserating with the previous poster as I have some of the same concerns but I don't blame YC either.
A calendar that also lets you click on the displayed date [0] in order to type in the desired date is almost never disliked.

[0] By that, I mean a string somewhere on the widget like "2015-07-20", or however dates are displayed on the system.
Microsoft Needs Wizards (1984)
1) You can apply as a solo founder, though we do think it's important that the fellowship teams we fund are able to build product themselves. Working with contractors is expensive and can slow you down considerably. If you are non-technical, try to make a strong case for why that won't be a problem.

2) We prefer that you are able to work full-time on the product for the 8 weeks of the program.
And separate from the issue of whether it's a good or bad idea, it will shortly be possible to send raw SQL queries to the backend.

https://github.com/cloudera/ibis/issues/412
That sounds super mega bad.

How heavily fuzzed are font libraries on non-Microsoft platforms?