skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
African Data platform challenges Global development community data accuracy
Google Minus: Google keeps backing all the wrong social products
Good to know. Sorry. I should have checked to see if they got rid of that requirement
Umm, my computer, my processor, browser does what I want, not what a site owner wants.
That's not true.
The Mac Version has a Installer which installs Java8, too.
And on Linux/Windows PyCharm uses your Java8 default, that just doesn't work on Mac, which is the reason why they bundled Java8.
Parallels for Mac is rock-solid. I've been developing professionally with VS and SQL Server Management Studio on a Mac for 1.5 years now, without a hiccup. And VS is amazing.
Am I the only person who thought, "this is the bizarre 1980s sports car built by an idiosyncratic nut -- for your startup homepage" first, and "oh they probably just mean time machine" second
> What you say may be true, but the fact remains that (regardless of the underlying reason) these other countries agreed to the terms set by the US with respect to copyright, and agreed to enforce the sanctions.

Just like people agree to pay the mob protection money.

I mean, countries could refuse to go along with things like FATCA. It would be an enconomic disaster for them when the US freezes them out, but they could do it.
>> "is it ok for those sites to block you if you are running adblock"

It's absolutely fine by me. I'll even be happy to broadcast in a request header that I'm doing so, to make it easy for you.

Then I get to decide whether your site warrants me unblocking ads or not.

Trackers, however, never.
Show HN: Pagination Gem for Rails
There's a line somewhere, but this was tasteful. I don't see what's so objectionable.
I use Parallels on my MacBook for VS and SSMS, and that is all. But it's a perfect dev setup. I adore the MS dev stack. It's insanely powerful, and quite elegant.
That's nothing. Apple Watch cured my cancer.
Electric cars have an efficiency of about 70-80%, if you count the losses of electrical transmission, charging and the engine. A car engine < 40%, in mixed use about 20%. So even if you could generate fuel from electricity at close to 100% - which you probably can't - the electrical car is way more efficient. And of course, even with synthetic fuel, you have some level of pollution, as no combustion engine is perfect.
Exponential growth does mean that there exists some interval length over which the function doubles regardless of your point in the curve.

It's certainly true that it won't be true for all interval lengths - that is obviously mathematically nonsensical.
Yahoo Ad Network Serving Malware
Web Inspector Interface Changes
I'm not sure if they have API access, but ANZ Money Manager [1] is basically the AU equivalent to Mint - consolidated reports/expense analysis/budgeting/etc across all your accounts (including non-ANZ accounts and cards).

[1] http://www.anz.com/ANZ-MoneyManager/
How do you suggest a word gain common usage without people first using the term while it is both wrong and uncommon? It requires being adopted into peoples vocabulary before it could ever become a common word.

>Beyond being very uncommon, it's also distracting even to people who do understand it. The capitalization is non-standard, and it's difficult to pronounce.

The data points from this thread paint the opposite picture. You seem to be the only person distracted by it or having difficult pronouncing it.

It always irks me that some linguists dislike the "changing" nature of living languages. Words and phrases go in and out of style, new phrases and words are invented, and some of those new words and phrases will make it into the common lexicon. Others will die out.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with them using USian other than it not being an "official" word. The intended meaning seems to be well understood by those reading it and there is no reason to assume motives, that behavior is annoying in and of itself. There is enough context clues in the message that even if the meaning isn't picked up on immediately, one can infer it.

If the crux of your argument rests on people being confused by the word - the same could be said about a plethora of words.
Cljs2go – A ClojureScript to Go compiler
Amnesty International: Rio police killed hundreds ahead of Olympic Games
I agree; this would be useful even if it only played local content. I wouldn't expect a "Firefox OS" device to play Netflix or similar.
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https://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team has a listing of positions.

We're always hiring for operations/SRE, sales, general systems engineering (mostly in Go, nginx, and network, as well as DNS at scale), and web development.

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This isn't germane to the main topic but this paper they cite about using a compiler pass to verify OS security ("Protecting Applications from Hostile Operating Systems") is pretty darn interesting: http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/pubs/VirtualGhost-ASPLOS-2014.pdf
So, in San Jose they're dumb enough not to understand the problem, and in London they're dumb enough not to correct it (they understand it, since they resend the package).
What is Simulation Testing?
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-...
Kaitlin Sherwood's Advice for Female Engineers
Handling stack overflow on custom stacks
> In other words, Square today is more of a financial services company than a consumer product company

They are becoming a B2B software company, building back-office tools. Square Capital is a financial service, but a majority of the new products they've rolled out are small business software products.

One critical question not yet addressed is how Square handles the impending (October) switch to ship and pin readers. My guess is they take a one-time charge by shipping new readers to every customer; otherwise they are open to a competitor swooping in.

> With Wallet’s demise went Square’s Starbucks partnership that allowed people to pay for their coffee using the app (though the company continues to process payments for Starbucks)

Fortune neglected to mention how disastrous that deal was for Square. They lose money on every transaction. They spent, and continue to spend, substantial money for press and acquiring a customer outside their target market (small businesses.)

Lastly, there is no criticism that they have filed for an IPO while there CEO is also the temporary CEO of another public company. That's an incredible distraction at a difficult time for any company — exactly the moment when you want your leadership focused on getting everyone on the same page.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned – The Myth of the Objective
I'll second this. Our stack is Rails on AWS backed by PostgreSQL, Redis (sidekiq) and Elasticsearch. Bonus points if you're in the Chicagoland area and think it's interesting to build the best place on the internet to buy/sell music gear.
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
This is still asking a dishonourable industry to honour a polite request, and as such I don't see that it has any value.

I'm not sure why this voluntary code of practice stuff is still under discussion. Defensive measures are the only thing that's ever going to work because advertisers are actively hostile and forever trying to push boundaries in their continuous attempts to grab your attention.

I propose a move in the other direction, I propose that tools like adblock and noscript start to broadcast their presence in request headers. I would perfectly happy to let a site owner know up-front that I will not be rendering any of their advertising content, I will not be keeping and propagating any tracking cookies (or cache entries or whatever) and they can choose whether or not they still wish to serve my request. They could even present me with the choice of disabling my blockers to see their site.

That way everyone knows what's going on, nobody feels either ripped off by blockers or under attack from advertisers, job done.
Eli the Computer Guy Says YC Needs to Teach Better Business Communication Skills
(It's called desalination) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination
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Angular, mongodb.

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Your mind share is worth more to advertisers than your wallet. The consequence of advertising isn't getting your money; it's getting your attention.
> that is obviously mathematically nonsensical.

In a finite universe, yes, it is clearly nonsense. Exponential growth cannot continue forever in a finite universe, no matter how small the growth constant.
A lot of people I've worked with at hackathons didn't have a server running so being able to use ngrok is a lot easier for them.
I would expect Netflix over time but agreeing with both of you that an open source TV stick without such a thing still has quite a bit of value.

And, really, they couldn't find someone to continue working on it with all those proceeds?
California Calls in the National Guard as Horrific Wildfire Season Looms
How has no one else called out that this campaign is a terrible attempt to copy the new relic billboard campaign and apply it to recruiting? Without even providing a call to action I might add...

If you really want to point fingers for her specific complaint, point them at the marketing team. It's 2015 and every tech creeper out there has a mobile phone to play on while bored at bart. Her first and last name and workplace are listed - why would they go to onelogin.com/careers (again, with no call to action even - what's in it for them?) when they could just as easily look her up on LinkedIn and try to find some more pics and send an inmessage. And yes, as another woman in tech, I can personally attest that there are TONS of tech creepers out there. NO, I don't think that is how it should be, but I also think that the marketing team should have tried harder to protect their own employees. They should have taken in to account that creepers are there and WILL be exposed to this bart take over campaign. Doesn't sound like a well thought out or strategic campaign.

side note on the dice campaign - big difference here. Those are models. They got paid to pose for the billboards. The Dice marketing team didn't make it easy for tech creepers to find them online to harass them (no last name, no company listed, no identifying features besides the focus of the campaign message - which, btw, actually has a call to action... just saying). Not a fair comparison.

My 2 cents on sexism in tech as a whole - I agree it is a TOTALLY unfair world right now. I battle this in all parts of my work life. Personally have experienced unfair pay, demeaning "compliments", the comments about "being too pretty to know about [fill in the tech subject]". The feeling that I have to wear a fake wedding ring at events to cut harassment down. Being talked down to because I am young and blonde, how "cute". That is a lot of bullshit to be up against! Yeah, it's terrible, and it isn't right.

But I can say that it IS IMPROVING. I see an increased amount of women when I am at industry events or visiting other offices. Could it be better? Hell yes. Keep your head up ladies and don't take the bullshit - which includes being smart about what you participate in and stand up for. When something negative (like this woman's experience being in this campaign) happens to you, LEARN from it and don't let yourself be in that position anymore. Be there for your sisters and girlfriends. Empower each other. It is terrifying, but also liberating. Find where you rock it the hardest and hustle that shit til you get what you want and nobody can deny it from you. If you find yourself in a place where you're being harassed, gtfo and go somewhere better. Be the example and support others, otherwise nothing will ever change.
Davis, California – the American city which fell in love with the bicycle
My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
> It doesn't have first-level functions, instead it has blocks

Ruby also has lambdas, which if not first-level functions, are pretty darn close.

> It doesn't have namespaced imports, instead its imports effectively behave like includes (i.e. the "dump truck" approach to imports).

I can't tell if you're talking about `require` or `include`.

`require` is strictly meant for loading source files. If you want things to be restricted to a particular namespace, you should use `include` to pull in a particular module (once the module's code has been `require`d or otherwise `eval`d or defined).

> Ruby isn't widely used in practice

What? Ruby on Rails is ridiculously popular as a web framework.

> Installing it requires some amount of care and technical knowledge

On Macs and many GNU/Linux distros, Ruby is already preinstalled.

> don't even bother installing it with a Linux package manager -- you're almost guaranteed to end up with the "wrong version" of ruby and rubygems

Um, what? The only thing I can think of is a really old packaged Ruby. Otherwise, it's actually pretty hard to go wrong, in my experience having installed Ruby on pretty much every GNU/Linux distro known to man.

> but it would be nice if there were well-written books aimed at a more general audience.

O'Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers both publish a wide variety of excellent Ruby programming books that are very much "aimed at a more general audience".

> I'm not sure what the "best" first programming language is. JS has its merits

Oh good god no.

> and all you need to try it out is a modern web browser.

If that's what matters to you, then you can do the same with Ruby. Take a look at tryruby.org, for example.
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For one, theta is parametrized on {Poirot, Marple}. According to the list on Wikipedia, only about 45 of her novels featured those two detectives.
I'd probably go with IBM Blue Mix or Heroku if digital ocean wasn't sponsoring. No reason to spend time on managing your server at this point and they provide pretty much the same capabilities for the developer deploying code
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...

Since 1980 we've gotten about 50% better mileage over all. Considering the number of cars is greater today the real effect of gas saved is even more.
I envisage much grainy audio of intellectual (or pseudo intellectual?) discussions featuring on soundcloud sad-core and post rock accounts.
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I thank you, sir, for this months reading list.
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Technical Writer (SEATTLE, BUENOS AIRES, REMOTE)
You’re a developer that is always trying to learn new things. Every time there is a new technology or framework, you always try it out and create an open source repository in Github with the code sample. If this is you, this is the job for you! We want people that will help us write amazing blogposts based on the latest technology. You’ll be able to write on techs like Angular 2 and React. If it’s going to be useful for people, you can write it!

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What we need from you:
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I always think of the somewhat recent tech development. The things are getting more advanced (worth more?) compared to before, but do not need the same increase in ressources to produce. Most of what is added is one-off research.
If you go ask scientists that work in the life sciences, most (at least the ones I know) will say that there are much more fundamental problems that we should be tackling.

Synthetic biology is super interesting, and maybe that is the right space for YC to play in, but it's not the needle mover that the tech crowd thinks it is going to be. Trying to understand the mechanisms of GNRH receptors and developing lead candidates that could be potential therapies is just not as sexy as synthetic biology. Would you fund something in that space?

But this is where my head just starts spinning

"I'm going to help our biotech startups find the partners and tools they need to make wetware at software-like speeds."

That's not going to happen. It's not how biology works in a lot of others, and you lose a lot of credibility when you say that. Unfortunately, a lot of founders say that as well. I forget the name of the company, but there was a recent algorithms startup that made it sound like they were (a) going to change pharma with their methods, and (b) what they were doing was new and unique. None of which was true.

YC (and others) can do a lot here, but I feel you go in without really understanding the space or the pitfalls. A lot of biotech fails not because of the business model, but because biology hard, the human body is unreliable and illogical, and because our understanding of the science is flawed.

I'll get off my soapbox now :-)
Fix WordPress PHP Session Problems on Pantheon with a Script
Vx32: Lightweight User-Level Sandboxing on the X86 (2008)
Whipping and Fusing rope – MeritBadgeDotOrg
One of the real benefits of wheel files is that the file format is standardised: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/.

This means the Python community can work towards standard tools and interfaces for working with Python packages rather than trying to support many different ways of installing / distributing packages.
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Here's Krugman's commentary on this discussion:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/freshwaters-wron...
VMware Fusion is also fantastic. The best way to run Windows in my opinion.
Ask HN: Are startups finding good candidates via Who Is Hiring?
Is everybody able to fill up the open positions via the monthly Who Is Hiring thread? Or do founders keep posting the same job description month over month?
Cheap public transportation sounds like it'd be more applicable to the poor than clean transportation.
I'd wager Feynman would have objected to the term 'Feynman Integrity', preferring, perhaps, 'scientific integrity'.

'For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.' - Richard P. Feynman [1]
[1] - http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...