jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Linkable Networks - http://www.linkablenetworks.com - Boston, MA (office is in Fort Point Channel neighborhood)

* Company Summary

Linkable Networks is a digital media company that bridges the gap between consumer purchases and advertising by enabling brands to link product discounts and special offers directly to consumers’ existing credit/debit cards via Linkable Networks’ gateway to financial institutions.

Off-line sales still make up over 90% of retail business in the U.S. We're using our integrations into the transaction rails of the three largest card networks to complete the chain of attribution from offer presentment to brick-and-mortar purchase.

* Technology Stack

Core Stack : { Java, Spring, Sharded mySql, Terracotta, RabbitMQ }

Mobile : { iOS, Android }

* Additional Info

We're wired into the three largest card networks: Visa, Mastercard and Amex. We have a broad range of customers from grocery giant SuperValu where we're deployed with a first of its kind card-linked SKU offer solution to FanBank where we help enable community based Loyalty programs.

We run an agile shop with 68 successful sprints under our belts. Our process has been improved over the 4 years we've been running it so that we deliver on time and without drama. Our engineers don't sit in meetings they build solutions.

We're looking for solid Java engineers to join our team and help us build out the next level of capabilties on our platform.

If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at coolgigs@linkablenetworks.com
Btw, couldn't you earn more money by lowering the price? I personally find it too high.

I'll mention something about that in part II ;)
Oh my god, thank you. Have used Vim and gdb for two years and didn't know cgdb existed.
This is not a blow to the Chrome team. Chrome came out to raise the water level and lift all boats. They're achieving that. Sure, a nice bonus is to be the fastest at all times, but leapfrogging is probably even better as it keeps everyone heads down rather than just conceeding to Chrome.
Larry, first of all don't worry about it. There is stuff that I find
interesting, but no one else around here does. Maybe it speeds past
unnoticed, or maybe it's of no interest to anyone but me. There is no
way to tell either way.

I rarely make submissions, and I rarely post, but I read, vote and flag
here constantly. It takes a lot of reading to get a feel for what others
here generally consider interesting and find the overlap with your own
interests.

I have one [dead] post and seeing it in my list still makes me laugh.
The reason why it's dead is simply my sense of humor got the better of
me, and oddly enough, it was upvoted a few times before being flagged to
death.

If HubPages is a source of spam, move your blog elsewhere.

If you're worried about the [dead] submissions in your profile, put a
link to this submission in the text of your profile so people know the
reason for the [dead] submissions. I don't know of a person who would
hold them against you, but the system running HN is a different story.

As for your questions on the effects that [dead] posts have on users of
the HN system, sadly you're asking for dangerous information. Hacker
News runs on a lot of secret sauce to prevent abuse, so PG will not
divulge how it works to prevent the rules from being gamed. Even those
with reasonably well researched theories about the secret sauce won't
talk about it if they have any respect for PG or everyone else on HN.

For this reason, I won't even speculate about what [dead] posts might or
might not mean to the system. I hope you understand why.
Background:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039
If its a remote job, I would sign on right away. But most likely its not and doesn't mention that in the job, so I don't even apply.
Motion parallax is the name for that effect. It is definitely a clue in perceiving 3 dimensions. Relative size is another clue: if you know roughly how big something is and it looks smaller, you can assume it's far away. Level of detail, interfering haze, etc all are other cues.

But the difference between what each eye sees is also an important factor in 3D vision. Movies just make it the only factor, which is probably why they can be disorienting. My guess would be that it's more important for things that are close than things that are far away; something 3 inches from your face appears to be in drastically different positions if you cover alternate eyes, but distant mountains look about the same.
I think the way the "cloud" was explained for years before it became mainstream was misleading. People would explain that if there were any failures within the cloud, data would magically shift to another part of the cloud with zero downtime. Obviously this isn't true, even Google has suffered outages in their cloud.

That's not to say the solution is to use managed data centers, but we will get better and better at improving the reliability of the cloud.

The cloud is not fail-proof.
Now who is going to mix this with DOM manipulation, so we can actually see how the end-user is effected.

If the JS engine is crazy fast and the DOM renderer blows, it won't make a bit of difference, unless it's purpose is as a server technology.
"service" definitely can be a goal just by itself - perhaps you can argue that it shouldn't be a goal by itself, but I think that it's undeniable that in certain cases it is a truthful, accurate description of a goal that some people have.

And IMHO the "should" discussion is even not that relevant there because it does not change the values that people actually have. As people say regarding decision theory, "the utility function is not up for grabs"; people's goals are what they are, and if it turns out that someone's goal actually is more about personal service than good results, well, you can't force them to change so let's just facilitate them to get good results while still achieving their core goal, to get a win-win outcome.

It's plausible that their goals might also be achieved just as well without actually productively helping someone - so you might want to nudge them away from that and towards more productive means; but these nudges won't be effective without taking into account what their actual goals are and what types of "service that actually does help" are not valid options because they don't satisfy the goals of the potential helper.
I don't know what Android devices you're talking about. Most of the ones I see when I walk into the Sprint store cost the same as an iPhone.

The bulk of the manufacturer's revenue comes from the contract premium anyway which the buyer does not see. Even a "free" Android handset might net the manufacturer $400.
Re: TBL, I totally agree with you.

Re the links: Interesting -- http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/M... has an SGML DTD for HTML, which mentions images, but that DTD is dated 1995, many years after TBL was speccing the web originally.

An interesting bit of history lost, the first DTDs for HTML, as well as some canonical first pages.
I am having some problems with different sites: outlook.com (admin for organization screens) and my bank. It manifests as blank frames or pages.
"...the company is paying upwards of $10,000 per day to maintain the various search terms."

I'm assuming this is a guess in pay-per-click numbers? I understand the PPC cost itself might be very high, but is this just (one of many) mis-descriptions by the story?

"Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal slammed BP for its PR efforts..." $50m spent on PR != $50m that would have been used for cleanup. Just like the government, a company is capable of spending its money and resources in more than one place at a time.
Not so ironic if you consider that Apple probably has a legal agreement with the NYT company to do so. Just look at how frequently the NYT is featured in Apple commercials and presentations; this doesn't happen just by accident.

The problem here is that the Pulse reader is (from the point of view of the NYT) trying to get a free ride on the NYT's brand name. This is really no different from ripping off any other brand name to advocate your product, e.g., you can't advertise your "high-performance shoe laces" by prominently featuring Nike shoes without obtaining prior approval.
i clicked on it just to cost BP more money, did not read what they are doing because all they do is LIE
This looks pretty cool. I am installing it right now to kick the tires. I use and like AppEngine, but another framework that would support migration away from AppEngine seems like a good idea to me.
I wasn't aware of anyone having emotions about any names since I heard an 18 year raging about how to pronounce "GNU" when I was in college.
The y-axis is actual_score - self_assessed_score, right?

So we are interested in whether the average of this y-axis value differs between high scoring and low scoring groups. The study that shows there is no D-K effect [1] linked by the OP article shows there isn't a difference in the average value (y-axis) between groups. In fact the mean value was 0 for all quartiles. So we can conclude that we have found no systematatic over/under reporting of actual vs percieved skill. People in the lowest quartile do not appear to position themselves higher than they should. Or at least, we can't reject the null hypothesis

1. See figure 2 on page 15, note that zero means agreement between self-assessed and actual: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
You clearly have no idea what's he is all about.

His message is very clear: Modern software is crap. It's orders of magnitude slower than it should be, it's buggy, and,yes, bloated.

And if you ever used any piece of software today I don't see how you can you not agree with it...

He is never advocating NOT using engines, but rather that one can be much better and more efficient developer with just a little bit knowledge of inner workings of an engine.

Him "spending a billion years" is nonsense. Handmade Hero is his side-side project which he does once a week for couple hours.
You can think of HH as a teaching tool (and not even a good one which he would admit himself im sure) and not 'here is definite guide on how you make an engine yourself'.
HH inspired and showed ropes to so many developers, its value is immeasurable.
Hey Dan,

Not really interested in the role but have a cool technology I'd like to discuss with you that you can probably make use of. Let me know a good way to reach you so we can discuss. Write to me at lefstathiou at gmail dot com.
Was at the NYC startup weekend and saw their pitch and it was by far the best one. Really great example of using straightforward technology to solve a huge pain point and customer problem.
Was the Camp project expected to create a non-exponential algorithm at the edges?
Impressive idea, clear messaging, and a nice solid design.
And has worked quite a bit on the revision control diff/merge problem, e.g. http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/37690.html
I feel the same way in that all of the fast pace start ups and tech industry is in the valley. If you don't live there it feels like you are missing out. On an other note, I am a college computer science major with a lot of programming experience interesting in brainstorming with others to get a start up going. Email is in profile.
That's fine. But let's assume all 81% of institutions hold "less privileged" (likely non-voting) stock, it doesn't matter if they can't vote. They can vote with their checkbooks (allocate investments to other stocks) and that is bad for Google's stock price.
"Paywalls are not the solution. Another website will appear that offers comparable content for free."

But as you've described it, that 'other website' is far inferior: it contains crap-loads of advertising that I need to take steps to remove in order to make the site usable. In such cases, I'd far rather pay a tiny amount of money to view unencumbered content.
isc.org also has the DLV registry... should users be worried?
To be clear, a basic income implies you get the stipend regardless. That doesn't mean you don't get more if you work.
To be clear, not all games are networked using the deterministic lockstep technique but most realtime games (FPS and so on) do use UDP to send time critical data, and implement some aspects of reliability, ordering and congestion avoidance within their own custom protocol.
The guy lost 100 pounds. That's impressive.

http://jamesgolick.com/2012/7/7/how-to-lose-100-pounds.html
I don't want to play a multiplayer game with hitches every few seconds. You can't fix this with "smoothing" with deterministic lockstep model but you could fix it by increasing the playout delay buffer from 100ms to 250ms, but that's adding another 150ms of latency to the player experience which is less than ideal. It's a much better option to use UDP in this case to get the best experience for most players.
One thing that the story doesn't mention is that business travelers are some of the people that suffer the most, because we are required (usually, and unless you're some sort of corporate higher-up) to book the cheapest seats that we can find. Ironic because we travel quite a lot more than "regular people". I guess this is something that could be dealt with on a corporate policy level, and isn't necessarily the problem of an airline, but it's just interesting to notice.
> Like every Google Fiber set top box being a wireless access point accessible to other Google Fiber customer...

There's a provider (Shaw) doing this part in Canada: http://www.shaw.ca/wifi/
A friend of mine ran a team at a financial institution that did stuff like this every day. For instance, looking for sequential transaction numbers on large e-commerce sites to estimate sales.

This particular bit of research sounds like it then could be used (in conjunction with some ongoing data-gathering) to predict sales / units manufactured in advance of Microsoft's quarterly reports.

That type of information is very valuable to the right parties, which is why my friend's team was quite highly paid.
This is really not a valid objection. It is fairly well studied, and it's known as an "appeal to nature." You can see some info on it at these places:

* http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnature.html
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

It's largely ignored in philosophical discussions because of the issues mentioned in these pages (and more!).
I've worked at startups, currently founding my own, and some day I aspire to running for office.

Luckily they don't overlap too much, you can't really be elected to federal offices in your 20s.

Now will an engineer beat a lawyer? (because odds are, my future campaign will be against a lawyer), who knows.
They come to accept this as a norm. Citizens become jaded and stick to the rote path that would not make them stand out from the norm. This is a large problem for Russia's economy.

Putin and Medvedev have been repeating over and over how innovation is important for Russia's future (I'm not certain how much they believe that actually); and more ironically how innovation is in Russia's blood and has defined its whole history. But I don't see many people willing to innovate. It's not even a problem of stifling bureaucracy, or corrupt officials, or some mafia extortions. Simply, majority of people are not willing to think outside the box, or to put any effort to bring their ideas to mass market.
Last time I looked, Europe had more republics than monarchies...
Salsa20 / ChaCha is pretty simple. Curve25519 is not exactly simple but it's pretty small -- small enough to put on a shirt.
The gap between getting a new phone every 18 months vs 2 years is fewer purchases over the long term. (~1 fewer phones every 8 years.)

The same thing works for durable goods not just improving goods like PC's. Consider if you wait 1 month when buying a chair it's 1 month newer so you’re likely to wait an extra month before replacing it. Multiplied by 100 million a people and even just 1 month becomes significantly lower consumption.

'This' starts a vicious cycle where fewer durable goods are produced so make fewer goods and thus have less money which reduces consumption of durable goods and non-durable goods. Using the TP example if your broke you can slightly cut back on TP use.
Thank you.

Please do the thing with the requirements.txt file.
I think what you describe only happens when there is not a good unit testing and code reviewing culture. When the mid-level developers are required to write unit tests they start to appreciate the loosely coupled architectures and Dependency Injection. This culture has to come from all the way to the top to avoid the "just get it done" pressure to cut corners, or give up and hire consultants.
Downvote and no response? What's wrong with this comment?
I would argue that it would be our duty, given that we value life and intelligence.
You can't, at least not practically. You could do debug/trace analysis and reverse engineer but that'd be a massive undertaking.

But it's also quite hard to tell if an open source application is secure. Do you have time to audit thousands of lines of impenetrable C/C++/Java/Go/etc. code? The rash of OpenSSL bugs we've had recently shows that "Linus's law" really doesn't work -- the fact that the code can be audited openly doesn't mean anyone is going to spend the time to actually do it. People are busy.

It comes down to the question of "how paranoid are you?"

If I were highly paranoid I'd take a defense in depth strategy -- layer multiple cryptosystems, possibly on multiple OSes/platforms, etc. But that level of paranoia comes at a price of course, both in setup time and overhead.

iMessage is pretty good for every day use. PGP is probably better since you have greater transparency, but is less convenient. SSH and SSL are also pretty good for every day use. But I would trust none of those things to protect me from the NSA or a very well funded criminal adversary.
The President is responsible for his words and actions, not solely his feelings and thoughts. If he can't effectively communicate his intention to the point he 'accidentally' whips is supporters into a seditious frenzy that makes him unfit for office.
Craftily specific, more like.
Yes, it's true that the margins were low, which is a strong indicator for competition. However, I think the weakness in electrification and software makes it clear that there's little true innovation. Legacy automotive turned into a stable market, and participants were happy to fight over pennies. Eventually US manufacturers realized they couldn't compete and needed to change, but even then decided to retreat into trucks and SUVs rather than truly innovate.
One of the fun things about using the Army one time pads is that depending on how much leeway one had with the words in the message, you could adjust things to spell out stuff in the encrypted string.
Yet another Bloomberg "bombshell" without a single named source?

Rumour were going on for at least 3 years, but they are rumours.

Except for the fact of Bob Swan being sighted visiting Xinzhu, there was no other facts supporting that whatsoever in a those years.
Switched to FairEmail and never looked back. Just a beautiful piece of software.
As they say: "On mange d'abord avec les yeux".
Wasn't paid at all. I just liked it, and it was good timing w/ my friend.
And that's why I never joined WhatsApp, and still use SMS.
There's a reason why kings typically had the parts of traitors nailed to the city gate, after all.
People on the right think very poorly of Che Guevara with not very strong evidence, so they make fun of people who wear shirts with his face on them
> Caveat: old person speaking.

There you have it. Class of 1950 uses letters to organize itself. Class of 2000 uses e-mail. Class of 2010 uses Facebook. Class of 2020 uses Tiktok or idk snapchat.

And this issue isn't just about your class, it also includes any peer group of any kind. For me as a 20s something, the choice is quite binary.

Nowadays you can't even participate in free software communities without using proprietary services. Many free software projects have discords instead of community run matrix or IRC instances.
Is everyone deplatformed? I know of several sub-reddits and websites where people on the left are not be allowed to post.
So no, not this century. We are talking about recent events, and the NFAC march from a few months ago.
The impedance mismatch here is that someone is talking about defending against "vulnerabilities" when what they're really defending against is "exploits". Defending against exploits is antivirus, not security. Spectre is a broad class of attacks; there are categorical defenses, but you can't verify them by running a single POC.
Ideas do not become bad because their origin story. It's common form of "magical thinking" to make things pure or dirty by association. Greenhouse gas emissions are systematic issue and solving it should happen with government actions.

Two equally bad ideas:

* Consumers voluntarily altering their behavior will save the world.

* Companies voluntarily altering their behavior will save the world. Companies follow incentives. Moral blaming outside legal means is useless.

The correct way to solve systemic problem is systemic solution that changes incentives and does not rely on actors being "good boys and girls". Carbon tax, government regulation etc. Blaming corporations or relying on individual behavior is not enough.

Real solutions don't involve companies or individuals "thinking environment" in their daily activities.

Carbon footprint is useful, but only as an illustration.
>It's not pretty, and you gotta save your "nos" for what matters.

Yes, but I'd argue that this matters.
Strange, I've never had a bad experience with Bose support. On the contrary, when my QC35ii suddenly died, they replaced them (after warranty!) without questions...
If the grid frequency is not stable enough (i.e. demand outstrips supply) any type of power plant will trip off line when the protection circuitry kicks in. Anything else risks damage to transformers and industrial machinery downstream.
You can't predict something you can't explain by just pretending there's something to average. Game theory has it's uses, but this is just absurd.
Competition = good, one music service to rule them all = bad. Good on Tailor Swift for keeping Spotify on their toes. Good on you for choosing Spotify and not Tidal.

Let a thousand musical flowers bloom, and may they forever compete for attention of the bees, giving us more colors and extravagance as time progresses.

Please keep making alternative music services and please keep giving us more choice, better quality and lower prices.
Will it? You'd still have to get around the router firewall, the host would have to have no firewall of its own and be exploitable and also you'd have to _find_ the host first.

This also needs to be balanced against the difficulty of exploiting servers that have been deliberately exposed to the internet, for example cameras or NASs. People often expose those deliberately (via port forwards on v4) so they can access them remotely.

v6 will make it harder to exploit those devices, because it makes it harder to find them in the first place. Most botnets that run on cameras etc spread via random network scanning, so making those devices harder to find makes it harder for botnets to spread. You can consider this akin to vaccination's effect on the R value for a contagious disease: vaccination can eliminate a disease even when it doesn't eliminate 100% of infections. If a botnet can't find enough vulnerable hosts to exploit, it'll die out.

NAT with port forwards makes it far easier to find devices like that, because it reduces the search space. v4 reduces the search space further still, to the point where it's quite feasible to do an exhaustive search.

On balance, I think this makes the larger address space (without NAT) less exploitable.
Next cloud has always been slow for me