skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the beta and a final Coin and neither one were reliable enough to to trust. You HAVE to carry backup cards which more or less defeats the purpose. Then there is the slightly embarrassing, extremely annoying "Your card didn't work/Do you have another card this one isn't swiping". I've stopped carrying my coin altogether because if you have the cards you might as well use the real ones (I tried for 7+ months to use coin first).
Yes, I know about this.

I realized after posting the comment that the way to get a fixed price index fund (where the fee is not tied to the asset size) is just to buy stocks directly. Once you pay the one time commission, you own the stock forever with no yearly management fee.

Of course, that comes with other costs (you have to adjust yourself when the index changes, commission when you sell, etc).
Honestly man, other than money that's all we can leave behind. Strive to do your best so that when you leave this world people miss you. That's how you know you did a good job.
Try being British. Things have standardised a lot in the last few years but the UK ends up all over the place on drop downs.
I was wondering this also
I will read almost anything that shows up around here on development. You never know what can end up being helpful. On the flip side I feel that if I write something it's been done before. If I Google for it it probably has. What a sad personal paradox.
Both Chrome and Firefox pass web fonts through OTS [1] before rendering them, so hopefully that mitigates the threat.

[1] https://github.com/khaledhosny/ots
NEIL ARMSTRONG DIED!?
A Chemical Attack That Killed a Countryside and Scarred a People
That's not really true (for better or worse). Radio signals attenuate with distance. In the case of omnidirectional signals expanding in a sphere, they attenuate at a rate of 1/r^3. As a result, virtually all of our radio signals intended for terrestrial consumption are basically noise before they even leave the solar system.
Another history of backdoors:
http://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/70646748808/a-brief-hist...
The Recurse Center: A Q&A for Past Me
Just because you can't conceive up voluntary methods of community-funded fire-protection services, doesn't mean the concept is "idiotic".

I'm going to pass on getting into another Freedom discussion, seeing as you're already off to referring to certain ideas as "idiocy". Hardly the platform for a decent, logical debate on the topic.
Apparently this was another find in HackingTeam's leak
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/a...
Show HN: Kaku – Next gen. music player for listening from various online sources
While I'm broad agreement with you, I think quite a few of these are checks in the mail rather than money in the bank, if you see what I mean.
Zeplin (YC S15) launches to improve designer and developer collaboration
> shit do I hate titles like this.

We all do.
> The hackers aren't a part of a social movement prepared to proudly go to jail for the case of making cheating illegal.

They also aren't guided by morals at all. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that releasing this data would have massive life-ruining repercussions for both good and bad people. Applauding the hackers is incredibly naive, unfortunately that seems to be the theme of this thread.
Are there any liability aspects if a nurse or other practitioner doesn't call 911, in favour of calling you? Or does your product also alert ambulance services, while simultaneously providing advice?
Being true for primes does not mean that it's true only for primes. With regards composites the result (as it stands) says nothing, so for a given composite it might be true or false, and you'd need to test.

That means that if a number fails this test then it's definitely not prime, but if it passes then it may or may not be prime.

However, this link (as included in another comment) gives more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstenholme%27s_theorem#Gener...
The story was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9904428.
That kind of cowardly pseudoreasoning allows those who are willing to threaten violence to get whatever they want effortlessly.
Also if you look at the TOP tech companies of the last 20 years, they were all started with a dominant founder:

Apple - Steve Jobs
Amazon - Jeff Bezos
Microsoft - Bill Gates
(Google - Larry Page)

So if you're looking for a runaway unicorn hit like that, perhaps having a very dominant founder and a founder with like 20% ain't half bad.
> ISIS started under him and it's not contained.

The seeds for ISIS were sown when Bush & Rumsfeld disbanded the Iraqi Army. What else did they think would happen? Over 300,000 trained soldiers; many of them veterans of the Iran-Iraq war; suddenly jobless and without benefits. Their only marketable skill is how to shoot!
SpaceX Failure due to helium tank strut
Jeff Foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) and Space.com (https://twitter.com/spacecom) have been livetweeting the teleconference.
This is like Narrative (looks to be formerly called Memoto), a wearable camera for capturing moments. After watching the video about how to use Beme, the fascinating thing is that if you are right-handed and you choose to create a Beme, you easily move to cover the proximity censor by taking your phone in hand to your heart. Rather than a selfie of your face, it's a symbolic selfie from your heart.

Link to Narrative: http://getnarrative.com/
Hack Brief: Attackers Spill User Data from Cheating Site Ashley Madison
A failed strut caused the SpaceX rocket explosion
> For those who don't use statistics properly, well, they aren't doing data science properly either. It's all statistics.

I agree wholeheartedly. It's not just data science, but all science that requires good statistics.

EDIT: IANADS, but data science seems tightly intertwined with statistics, to such a degree that I've had to double-check the difference multiple times. (Seems to be mostly terminology-based, tbh.)
+1

If the idea is so simple to execute that you're scared someone will steal it and screw you it's not a good idea. You can try to be secretive and they will just steal it after you release your beta. That's why I never deal with "stealth companies", because the whole premise is "we have an idea, and we don't want to share because everyone will do it". If it's that simple to copy your idea your business will crash.

Now, if by "trust" you mean someone who will provide you with honest and valuable feedback it's different.
Tech TopX: Theory of Networking with Nutanix Acropolis
I never brought up ed. You're not a good troll, you try too hard.
I took a year off college to build a startup. I went back after the year cause we got acquired. But regardless, I learnt more about building products and leading a good life in that year than rest of my 24 breathing years.

If your school policies are as flexible as mine (I was at CMU, which is awesome when it comes to leaves), definitely consider taking a semester off.

5 years down the line, it won't matter that much. So it's not the big battle you should be fighting.
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Hey folks! I'm Berk, one of the co-founders. With Zeplin, we’re actually scratching our own itch, working for a world where designers and developers can collaborate with maximum efficiency.

We've just released 1.0, with a brand new UI and the asset export feature. We'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!
Honestly, I put a good amount of effort into LinkedIn before quitting. I even subscribe to the job seeker's tier for a month before realizing what a piece of junk it was (pure vanity metrics, little substantial information of use).

My problem was actually getting too many recruiters contacting me offering me jobs out of my interest and it ultimately felt like that email inbox you check once a month to wipe only out the spam.

While I understand some developers find use in LinkedIn, I still think that this might be biased if alternative ways of job seeking weren't also simultaneously pursued. I believe that having a good GitHub, releasing products, blogging, tweeting, and attending meetups can all be affective means of network building.
After rereading the story: No, it's really not the spoiler.
Sum Types (2013)
People need to realize that intellectual-property not a right, it is an exception to the right of freedom of speech. Too many people in power seem to have forgotten/chosen to ignore that.
Cross-referencing the dump from this hack with the OPM dump containing a list of everyone with TS/SCI clearance... Now that is a very handy bit of information.
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Hm. Maybe I made myself unclear - I was meaning to be specifically in response to the parent post, who said that only knowing 10% made him feel empowered.

I was meaning, in a sense, that it's better to have a language which doesn't have such a complex history, undefined behaviour, and weird syntactic trivia.

The simpler the language, the less unexpectedness occurs, and the more you can concentrate on the actual logic and meaning.

For instance, in English, "homosexual" = attracted sexually to those who are the same ("homo") gender as yourself. But "homophobic" does not mean hating/fearing those the same gender as yourself. The rules are complex, with history, weirdness, and are confusing.

The same with programming languages, I feel. Take JS, for instance.

>>> (0 == [])
true

>>> typeof (0 + 0)
"number"

>>> typeof ([] + [])
"string"

There is no reason on earth I want to know that stuff or operator precedence rules. I can never remember those if I need to do a `x * y + 2 z --` and so always write in brackets explicitly. But the language can accept such things, and make an order from them.

Going back to C (sorry for jumping around), yes, it's simple compared to C++, or many other languages, but it does have a lot of history, undefined behaviour, and stuff you simply need to be aware of. And it's that stuff that makes life complex for C beginners (and allows bugs for C of all experience levels). There's a reason I didn't list C as a simple language. :-)

If our languages didn't have such quirks, and we didn't have to cope with working around them, a lot less mistakes would be made. http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/to-... for instance, in English.

English - the Javascript of the human languages.
The ultimate guide to designing landing pages that convert
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine, is hiring a Technical Web Designer
Philadelphia, PA - Penn Medicine | University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Technical Web Designer or Senior Web Designer

We're looking for a highly technical web designer or senior web designer who is an expert in HTML, CSS, jQuery and Javascript and modifying / using CMSs. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative team setting. Our team supports over 200 University clients in a fast pasted, agile environment. A front end web developer with design sensibilities would also be a good fit.

The job posting is here: https://goo.gl/8pnYnn and I'm happy to answer any questions or tell you more about the job and what we're looking for. Thanks!
Daedalus is not even a high level concept at the level we are talking about, it's a completely different level altogether. Project Daedalus was more like a project to establish reasonable parameters on which to base a high level concept.
I used to work at a drug testing facility. Our typical test urine and saliva took 3 major steps.

1) Negative Screening (6hrs) - Figuring out what compounds show up initially. Special dyes were use to identify potential compounds. Not conclusive but narrows down the next steps

2) Extraction (10 - 18 hrs) - Separate the target compounds from the rest of compounds/proteins in the sample fluid.

3) Postive Certification via GCMS (2hrs - 16hrs) - The extracted compounds were ionized (broken into predictable pieces) then sent through the GCMS to where a signal signature determined.

Each step included equipment expensive materials and equipment. The last step is was the most expensive and error prone. The GCMS machines need maintenance and calibration. They cost anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000.

Sometimes we lost samples because the machine would lose it's calibration and wouldn't be enough to start another set. We took in samples on a national scale, but I can see how a smaller non-commercial lab accumulate a large backlog.

This was like 10 years ago but I don't see the technology changing that much.
Nibble Sort Denouement
True, but their customer service is bar none. Worth a few extra bucks.
It actually didn't work with 1.5 beta, can't remember the exact failure. This function actually returns an object depending on the single param, an enum member. All the objects are extending a main type with a couples different properties on each, it's cleaner than having a switch everywhere i want to instantiate one ofthose
Fuuuuuuck. Sometimes I think I have a good handle on death, and what it means. Sometimes I think I understand it. Sometimes I think I don't fear it.

Then something like this happens and, just, _fuck_. I don't know how to handle it. Someone my age, doing something very similar to me, just dies. That's it. Story's over.

A few weeks ago I told my CEO that I intended to quit and pursue a dream that I've been wanting to pursue for a long time now. My boss seemed pretty surprised -- it's a really good job after all, with good pay, at a good company. I gave him an argument that began with, "I'm going to die. Not like, I'm going to die soon. I don't have a disease or anything. I don't know when it's going to happen, but it could happen soon." And then I went on to talk about pursuing said dream.

At the time it felt like a really silly argument -- like, I'm not even thirty yet and I'm thinking about how I'm going to die someday. Then something like this happens. And death feels so much closer, so much more real. Like a nightmare just waiting around the corner, ending my story before I'm done with it.
How does that work? If I sell you a gun knowing you're going to commit murder with it, am I not also morally culpable?
Could you clarify what sort of access to YC office hours fellows get? Will they be able to sign up for office hours with any of the partners, or will all contact have to go through a single dedicated partner (and if so, which partner is handling this)? The blog post implies that there's "a dedicated partner", but the FAQ implies they get normal access to "YC partners" and office hours.
That's a pretty compelling feature.
If you push it to the extreme, a language only needs 2 words: 0 and 1.

It seems to me that there is a lot more than 120 distinct concepts you need to handle the modern world, even basically - so if you are using only 120 word, you must must have to combine some in a specific fixed fashion that will always represent that concept. At that point, shouldn´t that be considered a word ?

Well, actually I should probably read the article and see what people with degree on the subject have to say.
Hey folks! I'm Berk, one of the co-founders. With Zeplin, we’re actually scratching our own itch, working for a world where designers and developers can collaborate with maximum efficiency.

We've just released 1.0, with a brand new UI and the long-awaited asset export feature. We'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!
My training was in graphic design, and the web training we got in college was behind where I was self-taught in web before getting to college, they only covered the basics.

By leaving the User Scaling on, the browser slows down all of your taps 300ms to wait and see if your single-tap is really a double-tap to scale the page. By disabling User Scaling, your interactions are read as soon as you make them, leaving you a much improved experience due to 'page reposnsiveness'. With user-scaling on, and a proper responsive design, there's no need to slow down every tap every user makes on the site 300ms just in case some users want to occasionally scale the page instead of finding another way to accomplish what they want.
what part of Louisiana are you from? I don't meet many others from my neck of the woods in tech
I do agree with you, but I have the feeling you have a narrow view of how these guys look like. Your argument was not too compelling. For all I know they could be giant gas clouds, silicon life forms, dark matter creatures, a fungi-like thing that spans the whole interior of a small planet and manages to shoot spores into space. Their motivations are not going to be in line with those of the average American. Their lives could span milliseconds, or aeons. Their brain could function at so extremely different rates than ours, that we or they wouldn't consider each other sentient. They could be highly intelligent* and/or propagate successfully without radio communication.

But I think we might be discussing semantics. When you say "intelligent", you probably have something specific in mind. Which probably boils down to "can do math". But a different intelligence could also grasp the laws of physics at an intuitive level, in the same way a dog can catch a frisbee. Perhaps they can "get" turbulence or higher dimensions,understand a trees as a whole, something we completely fail at.

So to me it's a stretch to think that we can find them by looking at error correcting codes. But then again, I have no better proposal.
When it comes to coding, there are many websites with good technical interview questions. I've cataloged some here: http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-a-large-collection-of-...

The OP is asking for SQL queries, which I'm not aware, what would be a thorough place for.
Chef is not open source
I don't know, S3 and DynamoDB are both eventual consistent. And keeping in mind the CAP-theorem it makes sense. And I for one love SimpleDB - it's just that, simple. And great for prototyping (really cheap) and small production-loads. Often you just need a place to stick your data, scalability can be achieved to adding a caching layer.
A New Blue Marble
Reminds me of this talk at SciPy 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGGGDpb04Yc
"Got an attack that only works in MS Edge but victim's in Chrome? No worries, use the microsoft-edge: protocol to jump over to that browser." https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/622157163398430720
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

>" Can I post a job ad?"

>"A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears at the beginning of every
month, and you're welcome to post there. The rest of the time, job posts
are reserved for Y Combinator-funded startups."

Please see the monthly "who is hiring?" thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Comet lander falls silent, scientists fear it has moved
Very cool! I think this could help with sudden cardiac arrest, where the heart stops pumping blood effectively and death happens within minutes--faster than an ambulance can arrive.
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/heart/disorders/arrhy...

The survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest is 8%, and it kills about 350,000-400,000 people in just the US. It's our #1 killer.

The difference between a life saved and a life lost is whether non-medical bystanders can intervene and perform CPR or use an AED within the first couple of minutes.
There's a mistake in the infographic-like table named "Big Data Quantified".

It says "72 hours of new video uploaded to YouTube every day".

Actually, "300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute".[1]

The source of the infographic got the "minute" part right. (And probably the matter of 72-->300 is growth since the original infographic was produced... Web citations are hard!)

1. http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html
s/Could Allow/Allows
Meet Maye Musk, the glamorous model mother of billionaire Elon Musk
Why not store the items in a random order? This can be achieved by performing a sort using a random key. Sorting can be done as a background job, so that the list is always "reasonably" random.
The very same guidelines also say: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link."
Heh.

'Twould be nice if we were more reasonable about the things we make crimes so the justice system had the resources needed to mete out justice in a timely fashion to real dangers to society. :)

I notice that there is a bond assessment for the kidnapping charge, but not the murder charge. Does that mean that he cannot get out on bail, or does it mean that if he posts $150k, he can get out on bail?
At best, this is a joke that is, at the current time, in very very poor taste.
True. But nearer the galactic core where stars are so much closer together? SETI might have a much higher hit rate there. We are in kind of a backwater out here. It's easy to forget about the big city when you're out in the sticks.

It's not very likely though. Occam's Razor alone suggests that the reason for loneliness is that there aren't a plethora of civilizations all talking to each other over narrowband channels. And we'd be very unlikely to pick up the omnidirectional beacon of a lonely civilization way out here anyway.
Undiagnosed conditions aside, there is also commotio cordis, which I believe has killed a number of high school sportsmen.
And yet we still have to manually query every combination of departure and return dates to find reasonable airfare.
I would suggest to use one's network to find these answers. An informational interview with current/former employees is the perfect place to ask these questions without making anyone uncomfortable.

I wouldn't rely specifically on company anecdotes found from a Google search or anonymous GlassDoor reviews. But taken together with some informational interviews, one could get a good picture.

It's also good job-hunting practice to make as exhaustive a list of questions that you mentioned -- "culture" means many things, and different things to different people.
Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Closure supports nullability (and non-nullability) annotations which TS does not. Otherwise it's fairly straightforward to do this already, with the current compiler API.
Thank you. I habitually avoid jQuery, it's almost always a lot heavier than I need it to be, and depend on libraries like yours to quickly add valuable functionality.
"The programmer doesn't need to check JMX occasionally. The behavior is immediately detected in testing and reported as a warning."

Those two sentences are directly contradictory. Either the behavior doesn't happen, or it needs to be checked (via a test suite, or programmatically, or manually). Test suites will go a certain way, but behaviors in production change with new or different data, and the last thing I want to deal with as a developer is trying to remember all the corner cases in my framework when the system is not responsive. Even erlang is difficult; I can't imagine trying to deal with an erlang-like framework with even fewer friendly invariants.

Anyway, it sounds like we inhabit completely different universes, so really there's no point in continuing. Good luck with Quasar. Again, I'm sure it has some great use cases; just not, apparently, common erlang-like ones.
Long Range RFID Card Cloner
I'm not sure why you think that counters my point.

As I said, if most advertising were about the critical evaluation of needs that would be different.

Instead, you're more likely to get boobs advertising your video game, or butts advertising your deodorant. Because sex sells, the key word being 'sells', not 'informs'.
Grooveshark Co-Founder Josh Greenberg Found Dead at 28
Don't you have to worry about radiation at some point? I mean flying 300 days out of the year has to add up.
Nuclear disarmament...

The deal with Iran isn't exactly disarmament, but it's somewhere in the same ballpark at least.
Hah, I think if you put /scot at the end of your sentence, I wouldn't have thought twice.

The internet and tone... :)