skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laracon 2015 – Day 1
A correction around the death of the mobile web
Dude, it was a 9.0 earthquake, so yes, I think requiring that the infrastructure be designed to withstand it would have been unwarranted.

The structure was clearly adequate to withstand any earthquake that could reasonably be expected over the life of the plant, and didn't do all that bad even when a drastic, catastrophic, unprecedentedly large earthquake struck. Once again: no one died.

What do you think is going to happen if a 9.0 earthquake hits near (say) the Three Gorges Dam in China, or the Grand Coulee Dam in the United States? I guarantee you that the number of fatalities is going to be a lot higher than zero.
Monads explained (sort of) to a C# developer
> XML was pushed by SOAP and Java frameworks, while S-expressions were only used by simple software that solved small problems.

I'd argue that S-expressions are used by simple software that solves complex problems, but I'm a bit biased
I used to be a postdoc at berkeley and I've seen older professors exited from the university to make room for younger ones- even though they were extremely good teachers.

You can't make the same amount of money just teaching classes- professors have to bring in money to pay their summer salaries.

Note, also, that the general trend in universities has been to move away from full professorships- while the tenure program is great, it reduces the freedom of the administration when it comes to dealing with low performers (I'm not making a value judgement, just an observation).

It don't know what it means for biology to be less mathematically difficult (I'm a biophysicist by training and I assure you the math is pretty hard, especially when you get into grad-level quantum chemistry).
like wslh said, more can be done. I seem to recall that characters can be bounced into the tty's input.
AFAICT...lol..we definetely need to standardise..well done Josie :)
What specifically about the emails should disqualify her in your opinion? That is to say, what law did she break?
I couldn't agree more. You would think with the funding they receive they wouldn't need to raise a 100k. I like the idea and would be definitely interested in trying it out, but there are other ways to advertise your product.
https://github.com/lawl/Win10IOTRaspberryUnpacker/blob/maste...?
Can you name some of these outsiders? Most of the people I've seen involved in promoting social justice in the open source community are themselves open source contributors.
I use quicksilver and gnome do and launchy. The searches never worked the way should for me either.
Why not say that, by making a $2 payment, you will unlock all recipe images on the site for 48 hours. With $2, you are still at a very low price, where it's disposable income for most... but offering a carrot that may bring them back to interact with the site more.

You might also try a $24/year level, or something that seems relatively inexpansive as a followup.

If you do this, you may want to combine with a social network login (google, yahoo, ms, fb, etc) with a minimal access (real name and email only). So they can access from other devices.

It would then be closer to a membership model, but the cost of entry would be very low.
How to set up cron job for WP Offload S3? What cron job setting shall I use?
"by operating the largest daily newspaper"

Cough, I lived in Israel for many years... the biggest daily papers are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yedioth_Ahronoth (centralist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maariv_(newspaper) (centralist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz (Leftish)

Also the argument is kind of weird, "don't ban rape, people will still figure out a way to hurt other people, so ... no point"
For traffic that low, you could use basically anything.
I read the headline, considered it for a few moments, and the only response I could come up with was "No."

Why would I put an OS on a computationally constrained device that is essentially guaranteed to spend a portion of the CPU time doing things I likely don't want done, for someone else (Microsoft in this case)?
I think that @sago was attempting to separate "can't handle stress" from "making threats of violence" in the parent comment.
New software mimics the human perception of style
This is Wil Schroter @ Startups.co. I was a customer like many who got the same email and was disappointed. This is a great company that made some bad moves. I'm not defending that. But I will tell you - it is still a great business, although obviously with some serious challenges. Will this be an incredible uphill battle? Of course. But I believe in the company and I think it's worth it.
So, just to clarify, your first 'it' meant Nokia, and the second 'it' was the N9 phone.

That's not what I was referring to, though. You and Nokia may have seen the N9 as the successor to the N900, but I certainly didn't, and I suspect the Neo900 team didn't, either.
I feel that having a CS background has made it easier for me to pick up new skills throughout my career. I hear colleagues talk about things being challenging yet I've never struggled with them. Why? Because I can recognize the underpinnings of the whole thing
Thank you for writing this. As a startup CEO with 12 employees, I have a daily reminder of how much cash is in the bank. It is absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous for a CEO to mismanage a company and then write a blog post saying "Oops, burn!"
Not sure what is causing your bad experience. Are you using an up-to-date version? I have been deploying it across 4 different computers and it works like a charm.
Average Manager vs. Great Manager
> I use Syncthing for most of my cross-device sync'ing, but I haven't yet found a good FOSS solution for sync'ing locally (local folder to external hdd, mp3 player, another local folder, etc).

Seriously ? How about Rsync?
Here is Zirtual's founder Maren Kate post on the situation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045423
This is an incredibly naive view of how SV works. See e.g. http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/25/startups-and-the-big-lie/
Dream Force startup summit
Open source has a solution for this, fork it. Don't like the bikini guys' attitude? Git clone and now you're rid of them.

People are centralizing the philosophy behind a project more than is necessary.
You make several assumptions. "We could pay X..." but we don't.
How is it a complete societal waste? When someone purchases ad time they are essentially paying for your content. They do this in hopes of selling more product. It is essentially a win/win. You get a free product, and they get more sales. From a financial perspective the marketers aren't going to sell their product for less because they don't advertise. They are spending some money to make more money. So it makes sense for them to spend the money.
As far as "we could pay X for the content..." Well that is essentially what we do today, we just do it through ads.
Does it contribute to a "cycle of poverty" Not really. That kid will want those fancy new shoes whether he sees it in an ad, or sees it on his friends feet. And yeah, he is helping pay for your YouTube habit. But then so are you. Even if you don't watch ads, you are still purchasing the products that generate the ads.
Wow; just wow. Thank you for filling that gaping hole in my education with Dick Tuck [1] [2]! My new short duration personal savior [2].

Speaking of favorite ShorDurPerSavs: John Gage [4], who was Sun Microsystem's "Science Officer" and turned the Sun logo 45 degrees on its corner, had the honor of serving his country on Nixon's enemies list [5] -- a distinguished achievement that L. Ron Hubbard falsely claimed about himself!

"I didn't hide what I did. I never tried to be malicious. It's just the difference between altering fortune cookies to make a candidate look funny and altering State Department cables to make it look as if a former President were a murderer." --Dick Tuck on the difference between himself and Nixon's Watergate operatives.

"The people have spoken, the bastards." --Dick Tuck's concession speech following his loss in the 1966 California State Senate election.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck

[2] http://hoaxes.org/tuck.html

[3] http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/goods/shordurpersavs/X0012_...

[4] http://www.zdnet.com/article/suns-gage-looks-ahead/

[5] http://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463
I believe just about every programmer has fallen victim to this before. I have. But the fact that B does not fix the problem suggests that the programmer who wrote it didn't understand the problem. The most common, but very wrong, answer is to keep tinkering.

As Andrew Koenig says in C Traps and Pitfalls, "Fiddling with a program until it appears to work is a reliable way of obtaining a program that almost works." Campaign finance reform strikes me very much as a collection of ill-considered patches on top of other ill-considered patches.
Not as naive as yours is overly cynical.
Or some of us worked on the LHC (tier 1 data taking at Fermilab) and it was a terrible gig.
Nice. Julia version here: https://github.com/wkearn/Kalman.jl
I'm a dedicated engineering pad user myself, but I've never felt the need to scan the results, so I can't speak to that.

The reason I use it is that the grid just doesn't overwhelm the content in the way that it is with standard graph paper. Grid lines should always be muted -- the principle applies to graph paper as much as it does to charts.

Also you didn't mention it, but engineering pads also have the ten row grouping mentioned in the article.
Also considering that "burn" is one of the very few things that is wholly within your control.
Acquired all the assets?!? This seems really off, who is left holding the bag here?
Nebia, a Shower Head Startup, Receives Funding from Timothy Cook of Apple
The one he's using above in the images looks like the one from National Brand [1]. I recognize it because I use it to this day for all my work. Ever since engineering classes at RPI, it just helps organize my writing/sketching and for subsequent filing/reviewing. Highly recommend :)

1. National Brand Computation Pad, Plain and 5 X 5 Quad On Back, Green Paper, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 200 Sheets (42389) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017TMB64/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_pbRYvbT...
Product companies NEED advertising. Sure they could slice their prices (not in half) and not advertise. But then they would only grow by word of mouth. For some that is enough, but for most companies, it isn't enough.
I fucking love Hacker News. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Near death and dead are very different.
Be real, Top Secret clearance checks routinely look at finances, and employees are told to report colleagues purchases that seem out of place. Not necessarily because they are running a hedge fund, but more likely are receiving money from the "KGB" to steal secrets.
Thanks. I posted it as a Show HN back a year or two ago, would it be OK to post it again? It didn't get enough upvotes to get any visibility then.

Oh, and if this becomes a regular feature, would it be more efficient to have a single posting for the feature, and have people post their projects as top-level comments to that master post?
You're assuming that your self-driving car will not be slower than today's human-driven cars, but until all (or practically all) vehicles on the road are auto-driven, such cars are unlikely to be configured to exceed the speed limit (in addition to the intense legal pressure - internal (lawyers) and external (lawmakers) - to make sure speeding self-driving cars don't exist (I can already see that phrase "speeding self-driving cars" being used by the media to scare the unaware among the public).
"Oops, burn!" is not an excuse. Keeping silent without telling your employees is not an excuse, either.

There's a reason so many investors and employees try to promote a culture of transparency at a company... Because to do anything less is a sign of (a) gross incompetence, and (b) greed.

It is often extremely uncomfortable to stand in front of your employees and say "Hey, we've got 3 months left unless we hit this milestone. Let's work together on this and if you can't commit, we'll help you deal with it." It sucks to say and feels terrible, but better than an overnight blow-up.
I recently tried to get involved as an editor but gave up. It can take literally hours out of your day going back and forth with some other editor who decides he or she wants to debate you on the world's dumbest, most pedantic thing ever. One time it literally took 3+ hours to make a change of less than a sentence on some stupid article like a particular model of motorcycle and it required escalating it to dispute resolution. Eventually a few more people chimed in and unanimously supported my position but my several hours were lost.

Articles that are in a niche people care (politically charged subjects) about have pretty strong biases that are impossible to remove because it doesn't matter which side follows the rules or the intended spirit of Wikipedia, all that matters is which side has more people and which side is more vocal. When making community decisions, the number of people voting is all that seems to matter, even if they vote with zero explanation or with an explanation that uses the rules incorrectly.

I gave up after probably 60 hours accumulated editing time, most of it spent not editing but dealing with other users and their bullshit.
Kala – A Modern Mesos Job Scheduler
We make a contextual recommendation engine as a service for online publishers at our startup ParallelDots. We discovered the problem of tags not really working well for recommendations on our clients websites too. We ended up using unsupervised word embeddings and auto encoders on top of them to solve the problem. We dont still use it for personalization though, just contextually similar articles. Great seeing some of similar problems being solved at New York Times too. :)
The Last Kings of Donkey Kong
Yeah, really the only way to get money out of politics is to make political contributions less profitable. And, frankly, I don't see that happening.
Whoa; I literally JUST finished listening to her interview on TWiST, which aired on Friday. It sounded like a growing business even to the point that Jason claimed it could be another "unicorn". Then for it to simply implode on Monday?

Absolutely amazing in the worst way, especially with the CEO constantly talking about the need for being transparent; this obviously wasn't something that snuck up on them.

Edit: The CEO gives more information here: https://medium.com/@marenkate/zirtual-what-happened-and-what...

Waiting until the 11th hour to let people know you're out of runway? Absolutely terrible, in my opinion. Personally I think you need to give people notice 6 months out. Then constant updates thereafter with what you're doing, the risks, etc. Springing this on them like this is just incompetence.
Paywalled!
Because not everyone follows the law. And not everyone reports it when it happens. If you're trying to get home and the first cabbie says no - and you don't insist - you'll probably forget about it once you get in another cab taking you home.
Oh, hey, yep. Tripping over my own ignorance there.

I didn't realize that latest-mozilla-central-l10n/ subdirectory existed; I've always gone straight for latest-trunk/, which it turns out is a symlink to latest-mozilla-central/, which only contains the en-US builds. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll file a bug to get https://nightly.mozilla.org/ updated to point to the localized builds.
Oracle reacted:

Oracle yanks blog post critical of security vendors, customers

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2969378/security/oracle...
Thanks, this is much better/on topic. There's not much I can add in rebuttal without just re-iterating previous points.

One thing I was thinking about based on your points now and previous, is that wouldn't you want to block whole site that are ad-supported and not just the ads? You could have an ad-site-block that blacklists all sites that are ad-supported and removes links on pages to them.

This whole debate is like "I don't thinking paying movie theater tickers is a good business model, so I just bypass the pay stand. Let that business model die." It seems kinda immoral to me to gladly accept the services of a website and also hope for and contribute to its death.

I like to think programmers when they see grocery self-checkout lines just walk past them.

* They have malware that steals credit card numbers (See target)!

* There's nothing stopping them! They can chose where to walk and where to not walk.

* Grocery stores are an outdated business model and it should die. Use Amazon fresh! etc.

* They feel no shame. (Seriously. No shame here. I'll tell you to your face that I walk past self-checkout machines. If you proceed to block me from the store, that's entirely fair. At which point I can decide whether I think it's worth using the self-checkout to pay for one grocery item)
It is likely in response to this:
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/...
How to hire recruiters
I can't take an article with that title seriously.
They Did It Again – China Sinks Yuan 1.7%
I think the point is that by this ruling, it might set a precedent where any inability to cope with your job due to stress can be seen as reasonable grounds for termination. I interpreted the bit you quoted as asking, "will there be support and accommodation for stress (of any level), or will exhibiting symptoms of stress be immediate grounds for termination?"

In this particular case, the outcome was fine. In future cases, without threat of violence? Uncertain.
Thanks, same here, I needed the mirror.

Note Oracle's reaction:

"Oracle yanks blog post critical of security vendors, customers"

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2969378/security/oracle...
"As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow."
Lawrence Lessig: Hack the System
Scientists Film Entire Nervous System at Work
As far as I know there is no deep reason, but it's traditional in the signal processing community, where a filter is a function that modifies a signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(signal_processing)

Kalman trained as an electrical engineer (MIT and Columbia) so that's the lingo he was used to. There's a brief note in his Wikipedia page about having trouble publishing the technique at first. I'd like to hear the story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._Kálmán
How is this different than Tesla? http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2014/02/28/tesla-from-the-brin....

It was near death yet Musk is now a SV hero?
I need a vacuum cleaner. I know a couple of companies, I research their vacuums. Still not sure what I want, then I see an add for foobar vacuums... Never heard of them, let me go research them too.
By the way, for YOU, shopping for shoes isn't much of an issue, but that isn't true for a lot of other people.
The other thing is a lot of people don't spend their time "going to an objective site"
Tesla survived. That's the difference. If Tesla would have failed you would have seen the same amount of criticism because it's, for the lack of a better term, a dick move. Though from what I hear at least some people at Tesla knew about it.
Fedora 23 Alpha released
I was under the impression that it was because financial news is an extremely sensitive business. Twitter has the power to move the market now, and we already know the damage simple, fake websites can do[0]. There's a lot of power in publishing public financial information (as the article demonstrates) and that is why we have regulation. People need confidence in their information if they are to have confidence in their market.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/8962433/fake-bloomberg-new...
Linux distributions can and do support Secure Boot. I know Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE do. FreeBSD is planning[1].

[1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot
HR is a net loss to that company, it appears. Fire HR and just hire a consulting firm to handle the company's HR tasks.
Check this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045714
He's right though. Nearly a quarter of african americans in Florida are not allowed to vote - thanks in large part to the war on drugs, (well, and probably racism).

Meanwhile, relatively very few people go to jail for insider trading. The number of cases in the past 10 years is probably in the hundreds, possibly thousands. Compared to hundreds of thousands of drug cases (maybe millions?).
2000 miles with Apple Maps
BMW owns Alphabet.com and it's not selling it to Google
Doesn't it, though? I see reasonable but unpopular opinions blasted into background color all the time. I make it a point to upvote these posts, even if I disagree with the original opinion, because of this behavior shaping that takes place on HN these days. And if I didn't know better, I'd say it was a conspiracy. :P
Interlocking Boards of Directors (2010)
This would make more sense if there weren't career Congress-critters, though perhaps this would encourage movement in that direction...
After reading your HN post, I spotted these links and thought they might be useful. The display costs $109.95.

https://learn.adafruit.com/diy-wearable-pi-near-eye-kopin-vi...

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1452
That sounds awesome, please contact me when you see this my e-mail is -as mentioned in the post- life.will.get.better.2016@gmail.com.
> all of its rounds after seed funding were debt rounds, including one at the end of July

This surprised me. They burned through a round in just a few weeks? And looking at their funding history[1], they closed $2.6M back in June. So that's $3.25M in less than 60 days.

It looks like the July round was targeting $3M and they only got $650k[2]. Maybe an expected deal didn't go through and it was just as much a shock to the management as the employees. This could just be a case of unrealistically high fundraising expectations, with unfortunate consequences for everyone. OTOH, assuming they hit the end of their runway, they had a burn rate of at least $1.6M/month, so I don't know how that last round was supposed to help for long.

Anyway, this is all armchair speculation. I hope their CEO can take some time and then share her experiences. It would probably serve as a good lesson for others.

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zirtual/funding-roun...
[2]: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1566557/0000897069150...
I don't think the slope is so slippery given the facts of this case. We're talking about credible death threats here.
I'm glad it was explained what happened and that startup.co may be getting a lot of these jobs back but it's unacceptable for a founder to explain that they didn't tell anyone about this because they had HOPED fund raising would work.

In my opinion you should talk to your employees around 6 months left. Just an open and honest talk about 6 months left of runway, here's what I'm doing about it, etc. Then after that, until you gain more than 6 months of runway, you keep employees constantly updated. Yes you risk people jumping ship but many appreciate the honesty and it will help them face the worst case scenario versus not being prepared at all.