skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gamblers will not come out ahead. The 7% return you mention requires buying and holding.
It depends ... In developed countries you'll generally lose at least 5%, sometimes the airport booths really rip you off for 10% or more. In less developed countries it can be much better. For instance when I was in Turkey I paid about 1% to exchange.
A slot machine based on this principle exists and was presented at ICE last year (forgot the name). However keep in mind that the stock market grows at single digit percentage points per year. Slots machines only run for a couple of seconds, so there's no real profit made in that time frame. (As far as I can recall the rational for this system was of legal nature).
I hope that plan involves fair trials for all prisoners and a lengthy investigation of all affairs by a trusted third party.

But more likely it'll involve extraditing the prisoners to a lesser known dungeon with a less buzzworthy name.
> What's with the mixed case "Crispr" acronym, but the all caps "RNA"?

"Crispr" is an acronym (in the narrow sense: an abbreviation pronounced as a word), while "RNA" is an initialism (an abbreviation formed by initial letters where each letter is pronounced independently.)

Many (esp., IIRC, British) style guides prefer treating acronyms as normal words (so, title cased in a title) and using all-caps for initialisms.

Other style guides prefer all-caps for both acronyms and initialisms.
Not his opinion but one could cite the report itself:

Diversity matters. Research shows that teams with more women members have higher collective
intelligence and achieve better business outcomes. Our survey shows that few teams are truly diverse
with regard to gender. We recommend that teams wanting to achieve high performance do their best
to recruit and retain more women, and improve diversity in other areas, too.
I Ate Soylent for a Day
I wrote Manticore (https://github.com/cheald/manticore) because of my dissatisfaction with Ruby HTTP clients under JRuby; it uses the Apache HTTPComponents (completely sidestepping Ruby's stdlib http/networking stuff) and is extremely fast. It might be worth looking into for you.
Not really an insightful comment but I first read that as Brigham Young University which makes it all that more impactful... and funny
Do you think that Python/Ruby would be as popular as they are right now if they were hard to even start to run?
I guess it depends on intent (and your perspective). I have never felt there was any malicious intent . . . they just seemed to be checking me out before going on to the next car. Maybe I am naive, but I think that assuming the cops are out to get you is a bad place to start from.
rm -rf $HOME - it's the only way to be sure.
You might like subredditsimulator: https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator
There's a bit of discussion on ksummit-discuss, too.
This is not a problem of absence of marketing (pro nuclear marketing was baroque in fact, but did not live up to their promises). The main problem with Fukushima probably is that everybody in charge where high on flippant pro-nuclear happy movies, and their emergency plan was "none, this will never happen ha-haa".

So please stop reducing this to the old: "people is just hysterical and nuclear is perfectly safe". It isn't and is getting tiresome. We have solid reasons to be upset of the blatant incompetence of the nuclear sector. No amount of propaganda will cover the reality that Prypiat is a ghost town.
In Search of General Tso.
I recall some efforts to make a social browser, where people visiting a web page could leave comments on it and read comments from others.

IIRC (and I fear I don't RC), the web industry hated this idea because they couldn't control and monetize the conversation around their content. Of course, we now do this exact thing with sites like Slash Dot, Digg, and Hacker News, only there is this step of going to the social site to see the popular links.

If you go to a page and wonder what HN has to say about it, you have to do a search for the URL by yourself. (Perhaps there is a browser add-on that does this?)

Taking comments to a place where you could annotate the document and not just discuss the page as a whole is the next step for sites like HN. Of course, there is the pesky problem of the sites hating this and using every legal tool in their arsenal to prevent you from presenting this as an interface.
The amazing thing about the Vannevar Bush's essay is that he didn't made baseless assumptions about future. He predicted thing that can be done the contemporary technologies on the scale which wasn't yet figured out in a time when everyone else was too busy expecting flying cars in future without considering their feasibility.
That isn't a question.

At least in a vehicle, the Supreme Court has ruled that the police have the authority to order you to exit the vehicle and to use force to compel your compliance.
Currently, there's $1700 in store for whoever does support it: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/5831191-tasks-to-finish-...
I don't think this is known. If all CO2 emissions stop and atmospheric levels are 450ppm but the ocean and atmosphere are at equilibrium at 350ppm then OA will continue to increase. Further, once equilibrium is achieved it is unknown how long it would take for OA to reverse.
I'm not sure how jd3 did it but I use a Chrome extension. If you just google full page screenshot Chrome you will see several options. There are also choices for Firefox as well. Here is the one I use on Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c...
Fantastic news! Very excited about seeing the Ruby ecosystem advance.
I'm not sure what 'this technique' means, but if you mean CRISPR itself, it has been used in humans: a Chinese team caused a big stink just months ago when they published their paper on using CRISPR to edit a batch of human embryos http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-scientists-genetically-mo...
If you want feedback on your project or startup, the best thing you can
do is a "Show HN" submission. It will be properly listed under the
"show" link in the top menu, and in many cases it will prevent your
submission from being mistakenly flagged as spam. The rules for doing
your own "Show HN" post are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Not sure why you think this is a no win scenario for candidates. If I asked someone this question there would definitely be positive and negative responses ...
It should also be noted that Polynesians very likely had pre-Columbian contact with South America; it's the most plausible explanation for how the sweet potato (a South American indigenous crop) became a Polynesian staple, even if there is a stunning lack of cultural or archaeological evidence for the theory.
For an organism to "evolve to survive" a lot of individual organisms have to fail to survive. The evolution of slight-acid-tolerance in plankton will come at the loss of all the slightly-acid-intolerant plankton. That reduces diversity within species, and obviously wipes out entire species that don't have a self-sustainable subpopulation of acid-tolerant individuals from which to rebuild.

If this happens fast then the die-off will be larger. The loss of diversity also makes those populations less robust to other shocks (what if the acid tolerant individuals within a species also tend to really like cold water, and then oceans warm?).

Yes, we could see evolution happen, but one of the ways evolution acts is through mass extinctions.
If you need system-level bindings: no. If you use threading: yes.
Satoru Iwata's lifetime of accomplishments
It occurred to me that this shifts YC incentives from the early-stage to the late stage. They're not as incentivized to get great valuations at demo day, but they're more incentivized to continue assisting startups throughout their lifetime.

Whether this is good or bad for a founder depends on what they're using YC for. It may remove the immediate valuation "pop" from the calculus: right now, YC is almost worth it regardless of what they do because whatever equity they take ends up coming out of future investors' shares through the the valuation pop, and that effect may disappear. OTOH, it also means that YC can be expected to help provide advice and introductions throughout later rounds as well, as they maintain their financial incentive all the way up to $250M.

It seems to fit with YC's stated mission of trying to build more sustainable, world-changing businesses, along with other actions they've taken like experimenting with late-stage funding and taking on more partners with operational experience.
Confusingly, there are three filters. The "adult material" one is optional. The torrents sites one https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Website_blocking and the IWF child porn one are not.
Total security is not having a computer, or having it off all the time. So in the limit, they must interfere. What you're saying is you refuse to believe we cannot have an acceptable compromise. That I think is reasonable.
Of course there is an upside to this question "What did you not like about your last job", if the candidate shares the same opinion about how you should work and be efficient, about the environment where you're working, about the people, etc, I will probably hire the guy who is closer to my way of thinking.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931121
Hey asanagi, if you see this, you've been shadowbanned. I feel bad since you've been posting decent comments.
Rails 4.2 was released 7 months ago.

When I last experimented with creating a standard Rails 4.2 app with the AR JDBC adapter and a database model a few weeks ago, it still didn't work. I haven't looked at things since then.

The workaround some people will suggest is "replace ActiveRecord with Sequel" but for existing projects a migration to a less standard Rails stack may not be viable.

I agree the JRuby team is doing a great job - however Rails is a big use case for any Ruby implementation, so my comment was not intended as a criticism, more in the line of a bug report and something it would be nice to have working now the new JRuby release is out the door.
Many people do not even begin to admit they are depressed, that's what I was saying: it's admitting it.
"It's great that they lavish insane attention to detail on the bezel of an iPhone or getting the color just right. They need to lavish that insane attention to detail on their services."

This comment to that article expresses my feelings exactly. It feels like physical, graphical, and some interface design issues get strong attention right at the top in Ives, but many small, but deep user issues have been cropping up surrounding iCloud and now Apple Music. It's not so much first order bugs (though those exist too), but focus on user perspective.
CCSU Professor to 18-Year-Old: Making Gun-Firing Drone a 'Terrible Idea'
They were one of the largest going into the battle, and had entrenched positions in niche industries (mostly education).
Modernizing our legal immigration system for the 21st century [pdf]
This conflates "security" in the sense of requirements and "security" in the sense of technology. Users already have security requirements; security technology ought to be enabling them.

For instance, encryption lets me back up files to cloud services that I don't trust. Without the technology of encryption, my security requirement would have me not backing up files at all. I wouldn't just decide "oh, whatever" and back up unencrypted files.

SSL lets me access my bank safely (enough) from a coffeeshop wifi connection. Without SSL, I'd walk into a physical bank or ATM. I wouldn't decide "probably nobody's trying to hack me" and connect to my bank in cleartext.

Bad technologies manifest as an obstacle to users, yes. But passwords are pretty much the epitome of bad technology in the security field. (It's a legitimately hard problem, so I'm not claiming that people should be doing other things, but we also shouldn't let ourselves think that passwords are good.)

SSL, for all that the implementation sucked and still sucks, enabled the e-commerce revolution of the mid-'90s.
"Over a period of two days, Kahneman presided over six sessions lasting about eight hours."

really? presided in parallel or doesn't pass the sniff test.
Who said it was some "small value of work"??? Starting a company is FUCKING HARD, and the founders put in simply incredible amounts of effort in the early days. I mean, sure, it's different for different companies, but I know I've routinely worked 100+ hours a week for years with no vacation, sacrificed time with friends and family, sacrificed going out, partying, socializing and doing a lot of other things I enjoy, and even (stupidly) sacrificed my health to the point of having a heart-attack and almost dying. So yeah, if my company is ever successful enough to make a continuous profit, you're damn right I feel like I've earned my share of that future profit, even if I do decide to go lie on a beach somewhere and relax. The way I'm looking at it, I'll just be making up for all the times I didn't do that earlier on.

I'm getting at, where does the passive ownership cross the line into rent-seeking?

Who cares? Let's quit using "rent seeking" as some kind of pejorative. It's not, and it's nothing to make some big deal over.
According to the article, this might be an extremely cheap way of making the problem worse:

> There are also concerns that trapping CO2 at the bottom of the ocean may increase ocean acidification

...However it certainly is interesting enough to warrant more research!
How? The whole point of deer analogy is to stop being negative. Whining and moaning instead of taking action is being negative. Being proactive and doing things is being positive.
Reflects my experience with iTunes Match. It was awful; I persevered for a year and never made it work properly. Dupes, missing songs, volatile metadata, unsynchronized syncing, the works. I removed it and little hangovers still persist, like every track on Pet Sounds being duplicated. I did get the benefit of my old Napster rips finally turning up in decent quality with a nice conscience wipe.

Apple does great hardware and good operating systems, but horrid, hateful services. Their cloudy stuff is slow, fragile, and not even all that cheap.
You'd have to run it as a sort of recurring scheme where the current players are earning an expected value based on the investments of the previous years' players - start with a negative expected value until the backing fund achieves a decent annuity, then trend it toward positive.
On the one hand, salary should be between the employer and employee; a private contract. On the other hand, there needs to be a way to protect individuals from the oversights, (intentional or otherwise) of powerful organizations.

At the moment it seems the only way to enforce that is to share this information that so many feel should be private. If there were a better way... what would it be?
Arvind-gupta-turning-trash-into-toys
Developers on Support
as already mentioned in the article[1], the velum may be much older than the text written on it since it was very valuable and regularly reused:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest

really surprised that they did not test for any previous washed text underneath since this is both common and the test quite simple and easy to perform

EDIT:
[1] my mistake, it was in the NYT article on the same topic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/world/europe/quran-fragmen...

Saud al-Sarhan, the director of research at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said he doubted that the manuscript found in Birmingham was as old as the researchers claimed, noting that its Arabic script included dots and separated chapters — features that were introduced later.

He also said that dating the skin on which the text was written did not prove when it was written. Manuscript skins were sometimes washed clean and reused later for new writings, he said.
NASA SECRET MISSION
Actually it's not uncommon...

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/search?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
One of the things I've most appreciated about the JRuby community is that bugs get fixed in a hurry. My first experience with JRuby was trying it, something not working, jumping into IRC to ask about it, and headius had it diagnosed and patched 10 minutes later. From then on I was hooked.

The other major thing I like about JRuby is that it's much easier to hack on than MRI - the Java code is extremely clean and easy to understand, and it's easy to use tools like IntelliJ's debugger to diagnose issues quickly and easily. I've contributed dozens of commits to JRuby specifically because the barrier to entry is just a lot lower than it is in MRI.

The community is really, really good, and the project is extremely hackable - it's an embodiment of the best in open source, IMO, and I'm really excited for this release in the hopes that it gets more people using it.
Apple advertised in Playboy?

Might sound odd or just plain weird, but Apple targeted the mainstream and education for name recognition. In fact, a lot of people still believe Apple invented the PC when their claim to fame was building something for the non-hobbyist / professional. This mindshare carried them through some horrific management in the 80's and 90's.

I do agree with minthd that having their own OS was a factor, but Commodore could have claimed that also along with having a much more advanced machine than Apple.

[edit]here is the ad https://www.pinterest.com/pin/406942516299771530/ [NSFW pictures greyed out around it] I do believe there was a really hokey Ben Franklin version also - to give some context that where Atari was advertising
Hacking Team Had Ability to Remotely Kill Client Installs
Netflix doesn't show user comments in the app version of its (streaming) product.

I'm sure there are reasons for this. Nonetheless, it continues to strike me that, in that context, their own, internal information on product offerings is restricted to a two sentence blurb and an unqualified single five start rating metric.
Last data update: Fri Oct 25 17:17:19 -0400 2013

I feel like two-year-old data on a relatively young language isn't very relevant.
http://venturehacks.com/ It doesn't get updated anymore, but I think it should have a lot of the basic venture concepts here.
Welcome Derrick!

> when I can't acomplish the "eternal to-do lists" that I have in my head, I feel extremely frustrated.

You are not alone in this. There are several things you can do - in my experience - to manage this.

First: scope. Drastically limit every idea to its absolute core, implement that, and then if you're still motivated (it's OK to not be) built outward from that. What really helped me personally is Ludum Dare, it's a game-making jam, and it lasts only 48 hours. If you can't get it done in that time, lay it to rest. This is immensely liberating.

Second: expectation. I already ranted about that in this thread, no need to repeat it here.

> Obviously, I have a lot of technical limitations, like everyone, and this world spins so fast.

It may seem that way if, say, you're trying to keep up with every single new JavaScript framework that comes out. But it's not the right way to look at it. We live in a world that's keeping legacy software alive indefinitely. When something new comes out, eye it critically, and acknowledge that the menu you can choose from has expanded. There is no need to consume the entire menu or even a large part of it. If you choose to perceive it as a rich, ever-expanding world that gives you more possibilities from day to day, you stop seeing it as a pressure-cooker you have to keep up with in order to stay relevant.

To keep with the game-programming examples, one of the most successful game development stories in recent history was built in Java, as a software renderer if I recall (Minecraft).
hello! I used screengrab on SeaMonkey ;)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-uS/seamonkey/addon/screengrab-...
"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."

This. I hate this. I love the idea behind Product Hunt and I was on there early on. I've discovered some great products from there but I find it increasingly becoming centered around Product Hunt itself and startups in general.

I suppose that's only natural as the community posts for the community, but I feel like there's so much more potential with a site like this.

I'm not in the valley. I'm in Chicago. And Product Hunt increasingly feels like some huddle of startup guys in the valley smiling at each other over the latest do-hickey they made.
Stop being gay?
We do have voting ring detection in place and often inform makers of our policy on Twitter when we see them asking for upvotes (often times they simply don't know it's not OK) in addition to highlighting this policy in the email that people receive when they're tagged as a maker.
100% agreed. It's bad enough dealing with cow orkers during the day, why would I want to be with them outside of work too? I have real friends for that.
It also might have to do with the time span of the data set... If they only have snapshot data, it would be hard to do anything with temporal information.
Difficult to see any good developers wanting to be on the supply side of this thing. So, you end up with a bunch of bad developers for hire.
It's good that testing is covered as part of your teaching strategy, because as you said, in any real world environment that experience will come in handy.

But the audience reading and sharing links on Hacker News are likely to have a deeper body of knowledge in this area than pure beginners. People posting tutorials (for free) may be targeting this more experienced group of people, who may take it for granted that a beginner's tutorial will not cover everything necessary to go from a prototype to production-ready software.

I also feel that as people progress through tutorials, they will organically come up with questions that the tutorial has not covered at all, like "how can I test this to make sure it's bug free and can withstand lots of concurrent logins?"
Yes, that's correct. They shouldn't be confused though, IWF has been there for much longer.
I wrote to them and asked. Their response is:

"...we only support C# and VB in a technical sense. You've picked up on one reason why[1]; we do IL scanning and rewriting and look for various patterns."

They do use the normal, unmodified csc compiler to generate the IL[2]. But it sounds like they are partially decompiling the IL to get C#-level semantics? There's also this comment[3] regarding expression trees:

"the JIT runtime does emit those as dynamic code, but .NET Native can interpret those"

So I'm guessing they have to look through your source and figure out when you exec one and then do it head of time? I'm not sure how that can be a general solution, as you can construct arbitrary expression trees at runtime, even using external input. Maybe that part doesn't work, but normal programs don't do that?

I do wish they were a bit more open and clear on all this. (And wow, the public messaging is really confusing other developers. I've had a customer come super excited because .NET Native would obviously cut his server requirements by a nice chunk... had to explain it wouldn't work at all in his scenario.)

1: I wrote asking "Are dependencies being taken on specific quirks of the C# compiler? Like, I dunno, how certain members are named, or the way C# creates Expression Trees"

2: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/05/09/the-net-na...

3: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/05/20/net-native...
> If you play nice, so will they.

Have you never met a bully? Did they play nice when you did? Not everyone is inherently as reasonable and "nice" as you think yourself to be. This may be hard to grasp if you've spent your entire life in exclusively civil company, but there are plenty of people with malicious intent in the world. And is it any surprise that they would be drawn to a profession wielding physical dominion over the common citizen?