skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! That's actually how I feel all the time. Learning something new is hard. If I don't use it I start to forget it. I do have two degrees: Engineering and computer science. I always thoguht this was normal. Maybe I'm stupid and never realized it? Iwonder...
That seems a bit of a generalization. Everyone is different, and deals differently with being raped. While I've read reports like yours where rape causes significant trauma, I've heard and read about others where the people can easily deal with it and move on, even to the point where they complain about the people who get traumatized by it, thinking they shouldn't make such a big deal about it.

I wonder how much of our reaction to being raped is influenced by society's idea of how they should react to it, similar to how a toddler sometimes only starts to cry after he noticed the people around him are acting in a way as if something bad happened. Anyone knows of other cultures where rape is treated differently?
This sounds right to me — I feel like you have to sell me before you try to convert me.

But everyone puts the conversion button first...so maybe my intuition about what works for me is wrong. Or maybe I'm just weird.
I use Siri at least 30-40 times a day, mostly for responding to texts.
I hope you realize that malloc is far from free in a non-GC world right? (In a GC world allocating is just moving a pointer forward.) You pay the cost somewhere.

The CLR has also done a lot of GC work to enable concurrent GC, thread-local heaps, and "zero pause" (in reality extremely low constant time pauses).

The only way to avoid paying the cost for managing memory is to allocate everything you need once and never release it.
So it's basically an S-expression-syntax wrapper around Terra? So cool.

I really wish more languages picked up S-expressions, because they're easy to machine-generate. I can't count the number of times I've been annoyed at my otherwise favourite languages for not being able to do that.
Is there a perfect GC? Seems it would free memory as soon as it's no longer used.
>Who would co-operate?

Who can resist a sufficiently determined state that still enjoys popular support? All he has to do is engineer the support for "security" over the long term.

Don't misunderestimate your fellow voters.
What could be the grounds of taking account away from him?
This guys is not a spammer, everyone who sees photos there can figure it's not a football player, but different Andreas Iniesta. Football guy could get verified account with nickname Iniesta official or smth.
Very sad story, I feel for the poor guy :(
Not to mention the prison industry is overdue for some serious upsets.
Are you really Instagram's customer? As in, they accept money from you?
Really?

Asset class returns:
http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

Stocks: 11.53%
Ten year T's 5.28%

7% return is easily obtainable.

Not guaranteed, but very probable.

50% stocks and 50% bonds, should on average return 8.5%

[ This analysis is not inflation adjusted ; average annual inflation is about 3.2% ; subtract this number for "real" returns ]
Unfettered

Are you for real? Nearly every aspect of medicine in America is regulated: from the number of people entering training to become new doctors, to whether a procedure will be reimbursed and at what rate, to what devices and drugs will be permitted for sale, to whether or not physicians are allowed to unionize, or discuss what their procedures cost (they are not in either case).

Whatever your ideology is, it doesn't change the fact that the health care is one of the most heavily regulated industries in our economy.
Correct, but that is the only way taxpayer funded pensions can be sold. The reason that non government pensions are so expensive and are basically extinct is that there are strict laws setup to guarantee pension funds are adequately funded and the pensioners aren't left to fend for themselves.

These laws don't exist for taxpayer funded pensions, so politicians and union leaders can do what they see fit, and the best answer I've gotten for why there are no rules for government funded pensions is that governments have the power to tax.

If defined benefit pensions, aka life annuities, were handed off to an entity that didn't have the power to tax, I'd be interested to know at what cost it would have. I suspect most companies wouldn't even offer the kind of guarantees offered by government funded pensions.
Amiga 30, Influence of the first multimediacomputer (Dutch/English video)
Terra: A Multi-Stage Language for High-Performance Computing
High Memory usage and CPU spikes when using travis-ci.org
There were purpose built 5.25" diskette punches. I still have one. For those who don't know how such a contraption looks, Wikipedia has at least an image [1], but no article in English unfortunately.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Diskette#/media/File:Disk...
Ask HN: What Would You Do with 2gbps at Home?
I noticed that Comcast just last week started offering their X1 Gigabit Pro 2gbps service here in Redwood City, CA. It's crazy pricey ($299/mo!) but crazy fast at 2gbps symmetric. It's the first consumer service I've seen that requires 10gbE equipment (also pricey). While I wish Google Fiber were available here ($70/mo for 1gbps) it's not yet. But for those who have thought about it or already have such speeds at home faster than some countries, how do you make best use of it? Tor nodes? Mirrors? 4k video uploading parties for local videographers? Hackathons? Server clusters? Streaming video walls?

Disclaimer: I work for Google but not for gFiber.
It's worth mentioning that Terra (http://terralang.org/) is pretty cool on its own terms.
Public Domain Day – Frequently Asked Questions
I don't use Instagram. But in Googles case, very much yes. And I'd like to give them more money for some customer support.
How Silicon Valley is invading our democracy
Probably because the things they do aren't up to scrutiny. You don't know it's bad until someone/something comes along and tells you, or you just happen to discover a better way on your own (that someone else has probably already discovered). The computer doesn't shock you if you write terrible code, after all.
WeBothLike
My 12 Year Old's Devopsdays Ignite Talk on Using R with Sports Data
When resistance is so damn easy, and capitulation so self-destructive, who would co-operate? You could not force a Linux distro or Mozilla to distribute that cert. It could not be done.

[edit] https works based on trust. We trust the browsers and OS vendors to at least try to prevent the CAs from abusing their power. As soon as it becomes obvious that the OS and browser vendors are now letting state actors compromise all traffic, then https is dead in the water and something else will come along. Nobody is going to risk that happening. It would cost too many rich people too much money.
You rescind sympathy because someone has a erroneous thought about the legal nature of the way they were wronged?
3 Things Weekly: The Coolest, Retro Terminal, Force Awakens Comic-Con Trailer
I wonder if some of those rituals have been rendered obsolete by improvements to the quality of components and materials.

I've been building my own wheels, since I started messing around with internal-gear hubs before they became fashionable. Today I follow the method as you describe -- aim for consistent high tension first, and then true it up. The gradual improvement of my technique seems to manifest itself, not so much in the truth of the wheels, but in greatly reduced spoke breakage.
It is easy to write shitty code as a web developer and get something to work, however unmaintainably and unprofessionally. That doesn't make it any easier to write excellent, clean, and extensible code. In fact, it makes it harder because you're more likely to find yourself in an organization which has been able to survive without being able to write clean and professional code.

Branching out into other domains can give you insights if you find them interesting, but if you do in fact care about web development, focus on taking pride in what you build as a web developer.
> Now I'm out 5 years worth of emails and have no way of contacting google (Despite being a paying google apps customer and registered on their payroll system).

You do know that Google offers 24/7 phone support for paying customers, right?

https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/support/
I'm having trouble thinking of a less googleable name for a programming language.
This information is dangerous :)

A while back I published research on open, unauthenticated ICA (Citrix) instances that could be found by doing basic google queries. I was able to find a lot of interesting targets including some belonging to military and government organisations. I published my findings regarding the discovery without including any details. The blog post was very vague. Anyway, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's going on once you know the basics. Someone did exactly this and wrecked a few systems. I was contacted later by the effected organisations holding me directly responsible for the damage that was inflicted. I had no involvement whatsoever but the information that I provided was crucial for the discovery of these targets. This was when I realised that regardless how cool is to publish security research you should always take the necessary steps to ensure that no one is harmed.
Yes, but that support can only help you with business accounts. Not with personal accounts, even paid ones.
Held up their end in a blatantly and transparently corrupt bargain. I don't see why we shouldn't lay the blame at their feet.
neither, it was just a joke :) I mean that this is a great way to explain 2 kbit/s or 4 kbit/s (makes sense in context) and I was just joking that that's about as bad as Comcast's service sometimes... :) (And so with explanations that great he should be their PR guy...)

I guess it didn't go over too well, but no worries! You miss 100% of shots you don't take...
FWIW, PHP 4.x was completely awful for large and/or OOP codebases due to the totally insane copy-by-default semantics, the need to use &= perfectly at every call site that returned an instance of a class, and a handful of reference-counting bugs that caused interpreter crashes and still weren't fixed when 5.x matured.

It's definitely gotten better; I feel like a lot of people who swore off PHP forever are remembering version four.
Unfortunately, the pension payments are guaranteed, not very probable. I also think this graph is better at showing S&P 500 returns based on buy/sell dates

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...

Since these are also average returns (which don't account for private equity/hedge fund/alternative investments), there are numerous funds that won't get to the average, and end up with a shortfall. Assuming that the return on stock market is the expected return of a pension fund is guaranteed a risk free benefit with a non risk free investment.

On the other hand, the federal government requires non taxpayer funded pension plans to use government and highly rated corporated bonds to calculate their expected rate of return, which is far less than the 7% to 9% of government funded pensions.
Do you mean https? Many common websites don't use/facilitate it.
I agree. I've been trying for 6 years to form a coherent mental model of CSS that will let me look at a mockup and predict how it would be built.
Ask HN: Most hacker friendly laptop on the market?
Hi fellow Hackers!
I am a grad student/wannabe-enterprenuer/hacker and I am really looking for advice in choosing a good work machine that would suit all three roles. Your advice is most welcome. I've been using company laptops and an old Dell Studio that worked well for last 7 years. Now I need one and the market is flooded with configurations and models. Maybe this discussion can help me and others in choosing something that is our livelihood :)
Sabian is run by the same family from the look of it, albeit a different branch after a legal dispute.
This is a really neat idea. I'd love to use this but unfortunately there is no documentation and a total of 2 example programs so I have no clue how to actually use it.

My normal approach in this situation is to read the source but the source is completely unreadable since it is meta-bootstrapped with weird internal stuff partly in lua, partly in terra and largely using odd meta-macros in None itself.
I joined on April 1, apparently, so none of my rumors turned out to be true. Oh well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090401065245/http://news.ycomb...
There are a lot of them, e.g: B, C, D, E, R, Go, Io.
Depends on the circumstances. If you would free memory as soon as it's no longer used, it could lead to delays when freeing a large object graph.

Also, a lot of performance can be gained be re-using frequently-allocated short-lived objects' memory, rather than freeing them without special treatment.
Lego+blocks+and+organ+transplants
It's right in your wikipedia link "Most slot-loading CD drives are generally incompatible..."
GitHub did the same thing to me. Changed my SSH keys and renamed my account. I used to have "rbishop", now some other developer has it.

No notice, no communication, nothing.

When I contacted the person at GitHub who did it he refused to answer any questions or explain anything.

So watch out... If you have the same name as an employee's drinking buddy, prepare to have your account removed without notice or explanation.
I like how in NoneLang the file is no longer a unit of abstraction. In that test example, the entire contents of the file is wrapped in an s-expression. This most likely means that entire programs and libraries can be concatenated and still remain valid.

I absolutely love this mixture of a Lisp hosted on Terra so it can take advantage of the optional static typing.

If someone wanted to do something similar for Python they could use Hy and MyPy (would need LLVM backend).
I'm not sure why it is defined as a function when a shell script would work as well, and prevents .bashrc clutter.

Also it doesn't understand traditional tar options, i.e.
explain 'tar xf filename'
That's interesting, didn't know that. Hmm, that is definitely a weird dichotomy.
I don't see why gorgak's comment got flagged unto death. The Dulles brothers caused the term "banana republic" to be coined by O. Henry because the US government was toppling governments and killing large numbers of people on behalf of United Fruit. It is also generally accepted that the Communism scare they put up was bunk.
PC Sales Continue to Fall
The Go garbage collector is precise since Go 1.3: https://golang.org/doc/go1.3
Turns out this enduringly useful text was on the front page when I joined: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

Bonus, also interesting: http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/migration.html
Command line based personal assistant developed in python
Jango is a command line based personal assistant which helps you in your day to day tasks. Not a big shot, but yes it is something. Have a look.
Borat: Great success, yes? Very nice!
Given what a bankruptcy can do to your credit and job prospects, I might seriously consider dying instead.
Yeah, same situation here.
It’s a Bird It’s a Plane It’s a Professional Foreigner
Instagram's TOS probably gives it an explicit, perpetual license to your IP.
The cognitive consequences of formal clothing
Supernova nucleosynthesis
You are making the fundamental mistake of basing the discount rate on the assets used to fund the liability, but the correct discount rate is that of the liability. That rate is the risk free rate.

To make the intuition clear: if you were to go to the market and purchase an asset whose cash flows exactly match those of a riskless DB pension, what return would you expect on that outlay? Stock market returns? Of course not, that would represent a clear and huge arbitrage opportunity. The rate of return would be the risk-free rate for that horizon. 30 year treasury bonds earn ~3.1% today.
Thanks for this comment, this is exactly what I was wondering. It's similar to how Croatian adopted mostly English words for computer hardware, and the attempt by the government to push Slavic-rooted replacements ended up sounding silly.
So, now you can MITM anyone who doesn't carry out any nefarious communication, while anyone who do still happily encrypts their data, possibly with minimal steps taken to conceal what they're doing.
Just so I understand, are you saying it's blacks' fault that blacks are murdering other blacks?
I think the essay is meant to be taken seriously, but not literally. A reasonable parallel would be something like "don't be a hectomillionaire because you won't be able to talk to your friends and family about the difficulties you have being rich."

The thing is, it's true - a hectomillionaire can have emotional difficulties. Are their "friends" there for the friendship or for the money? When do you say no to a relative who continues to ask for a few thousand dollars? To friends who have a "great business idea and just need some seed capital"?

Similarly, being a parent, or a newlywed, or switching careers, or any of those other things can and often do come with their own emotional joy and struggles.

> "All of these quotes are so absurd that they are meant to spur on the adventurous rebel."

My complaint about the essay is that it places the personal transformation that (sometimes) come from travel as somehow different and above the transformations associated with everyone else's coming of age stories. As such, it encourages a snobbish attitude, which will worsen connection to friends and family who are sick of hearing how you met the Dalai Lama in India, or about how thing are so much better on the other side of the fence, I mean, ocean.

Instead of humblebrag, it could have given real methods for understanding the effects of culture shock, and how to cope with it "back home", without ruining one's relationship with others back home, and thus prepare the rebel instead of putting the rebel on a pedestal. (Which, admittedly, seems like what the target audience wants done to them.)

My views on the benefits of travel are much more mixed. A lot of people travel overseas, even as a 20-something, with little overall change. Friends of mine spent 6 months working for an NGO in South Africa, came back, and have no more desire for travel. I personally didn't start my travels until I was in my 30s, self-employed, and a homeowner. And all those choices are great, including the choice to not travel.

The idea that since I waited until I was 31 to really travel overseas, on my own, means I was too old to "change" is ludicrous, and meaningless. Everyone changes.

BTW, I find your use of "adventurous rebel" interesting - based one what you've written, it sounds like the world traveler who starts at 32 is more of an adventurous rebel than one who starts at 22.
By the way, your RSI org notes seem to be down? http://thespanishsite.com/public_html/org/ergo/rsi.html is a 404.
Ask HN: Is there a Houston tech scene?
Houston is America's fourth largest city, its fastest growing one, and very diverse. It's home to NASA's mission control center and lots of businesses.

Yet I can find very few software development companies, jobs, and startups based in Houston. I've looked at HN Who's Hiring, Stackoverflow Careers, and various Google searches.

Meetup.com has a bunch of tech meetups, but not all seem to be active.

Am I looking in the wrong places, or does Houston have surprisingly little in terms of tech industry?
> our commenter stands ready to psychoanalyze

No, I'm just saying shut the fuck up.
I'm pretty sure I was trying to figure something out, and searches led me to HN. I certainly don't follow anyone or anything.

Possibly intriguing backlinks from SO to HN.
> electrostatic fields transform from one reference frame to another

Is it true?
> The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (a government agency) explicitly exists to bail out private sector pensions with tax dollars.

Are you sure? From what I'm reading it draws the money it uses for payouts from premiums and the assumed assets of failed plans.

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/publications/facts/0107fact.pdf
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/66xx...
See what GitHub looked like on the day you joined
A bunch of links were posted to the Hackaday forums. I lurked for a few months before getting an account.
I agree with the VSS-hate, of course, but it's unfair to say that TFS is just as bad. TFS is annoyingly difficult to administer, but it's a zillion times more robust than VSS, and compares favorably to Subversion or Perforce (and has excellent Visual Studio integration).

Git totally kills it, of course, but as traditional old-school VCS goes, it's not bad at all.
Insured via Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, yes.
Not quite a "guarantee" of jinormous returns but a certainly a floor.

That's a great link. Thanks!
Worst case in history was break even after 22 years.
Retirement investing should start with a 50 year horizon.
Seasons change, and so did I. You need not wonder why.

Things just fell that way. I had absolutely no interest whatsoever in programming for the web or the web at all. Then I was involved in an event that had no money and needed a web site. Which led to another. Long story short, own my own web dev company for 11 years and 10 employees and making more money than ever before.
I urge you to read this article before you decide to take the entrepreneurial plunge
http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-...
That's more or less how, e.g., Chicago funds its pensions: http://www.wbez.org/news/experts-say-chicago-has-public-pens.... Every year, they put in a fixed multiple of what employees paid in two years' prior. The city skipped a number of payments in the 1990's because the funds were projected be overfunded, but I've never seen an account of these "loot the pension fund" measures you're talking about.
Can't malware/bots use these databases for communication?
Yes. The person doing the punishing is the one idiot. He's able to get away with it because the 64 million don't understand that he's an idiot. Concerted actions by a good cross-section of large tech companies would be sufficient to bring this fact to the attention of the 64 million.

Temporary, short-term downside to cure a semi-permanent problem seems reasonable.
Legal action for... refusing to serve the UK market? I don't think any corporation can be forced to provide a service in a country that they decide to withdraw from... can they?
I find that those who start out with PHP cause they have to are working for companies who presume you need PHP and a database for anything related to the web but could never explain to you a technical reason for it.
There is no "fundamental mistake".

This is the historical average returns for assets classes.

It's very imprudent to ride "risk free" for a lifetime. 50% stocks and 50% bonds is a very safe base over time.

You should take some risk.
fyi, it's "8" cause that's the number on his jersey.
They accept money from us by selling our data. There is a transaction, it just isnt conventional.
I don't understand how you reach the conclusion that people would not purchase products that they do not need to live if not for advertisements.

Would you mind explaining your reasoning for that?
IMO, this is a little bit of a false debate that's been kicked around for years. For instance, in your first paragraph, you could just as easily switch business skill and product (and many people do).

Also, business and product are intimately related. Building, say, the tech for a SaaS business doesn't mean you've built a good product. Business skill can help here. As developers who can build, I think we sometimes emphasize the tech (product) from a functional perspective vs. from a business one.

In short, it can be very difficult to create a compelling product without solid business thinking. And, even with a compelling product, it can be difficult still to gain any traction. My experience has been that both skillsets are needed equally.