skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that's true, I think the discussion in that issue has gone more towards HTTPS support for custom domains.
https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/#shortfact-parent...
TrueCrypt password 'entered' by FBI
Ocean drift modeling showing potential path of MH370 debris
Mapping Yelp Reviews Across San Francisco
I can see several strategies you could use under conditions you described to maintain your monopoly if you're already big. You could, for instance, immediately buy out any serious competition before it becomes dangerous. Or, since you're a big player with deep coffers, upon seeing an upstart you could start operating at a loss an just wait until your competitor runs out of capital, and then bring the prices back up. Defeating you would require a lot of people coordinating to hit you at the same time, and we all know that people suck at coordination (and if somehow they managed to orchestrate such an operation, it wouldn't take much to bribe a participant and turn him into a defector in order to derail the whole group).

Or you could just hire a hitman. There's no concept of "fair play" in the "physical order of nature".
Indeed, that's a faux italic[1] created by the browser in the absence of a real italic font. Perhaps the author forgot to include Bembo Italic[2] in the @font-face declaration (or simply decided not to pay for it)?

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/say-no-to-faux-bold

[2] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/bembo/
ONE huge mistake we made while sending emails to our users
PBS has a good documentary called "Cracking the Maya Code", https://youtube.com/watch?v=H5ppfC6y-5s, about deciphering of Mayan glyphs, centuries after most books were burnt. Much credit goes to Linda Schele, an art teacher who made breakthroughs in decoding the glyphs, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Schele

There's a longer version of the documentary called "Breaking the Maya Code", including interview clips with Schele, http://www.nightfirefilms.org/breakingthemayacode/interviews...

"The Maya use story.. The advantage to me of stories, like what the Maya used, and the painting onto the patterns of the stars and the Milky Way of images of these great narratives, is you don’t have to be a Ph.D. to understand it. You could be a child and understand it and learn it through stories. In our world, to access that, you either have to be one of the scientists who creates the legend of the Big Bang, or you have to be one of the scientific writers who act as translators for the people in our world."
Just sell it and buy some laptop that you can use Linux on. Why "suffer"?
App Thinning in iOS and WatchOS
It's been a very long time since I read the first book, afraid I recall few details. The second book probably not as it covers the biological effects of the 'great exchange' and IIRC doesn't retread the 1491 material.

But I had those sorts of questions while reading, and generally do about books. I wish all were continually revised, or at least the articles on English Wikipedia about them would point out obsolete and incorrect claims.
Part of the confusion may come from the idea that it reduces counterparty risk. Using bitcoin to track non-bitcoin assets does not reduce counterparty risk.

A blockchain allows using digital signatures for determining ownership and solves the double spending problem without a central ledger.
> My only real gripe is that I wish the screen animation and updating was more "snappy" like in windows. It always feels like it's just making the little graphics hamsters work a little extra hard to do things like scrolling quickly.

on 10.8/9/10 You can change the mission-control animations speed with this tweak:

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1

It's still kind of crap, doesn't perform well on 3+ displays, but faster.

The 10.11 beta noticeably improves animation speed / "feel" of animations around the whole OS, even on 3+ display systems with many windows open.
That article was overwhelmingly depressing. Living in a van is a better life then remote work?
Well, this was stupidly easy to integrate into a web-app, but my first (and only) session has consistently been grouped into the 30-60 minute session length bucket, from the moment the session was born (first event logged) to ten minutes later.

(The user event stream for the individual user shows the correct session length though.)

This would make me wary of the rest of the data. Not to mention that all of the more interesting reports are in the paid plans, which makes 10M free events that you can't report on of limited value.

Edit: The first event for the first user / session in the "real-time activity details" has a usage time of "20 min", wheras the first event for the second user / session starts at 0 seconds, so the bug lies there somewhere, and seems like it shouldn't have a meaningful impact on statistics for an app in production with lots of users, but disconcerting for a first-time dev-user of Amplitude to see bogus values.
You can run those commands by cloning that repo. The issue here is that emails can still be spoofed while looking at the commit, without running the command.

Why do you think that seeing a username on Github is any different that seeing an unverified email in any other hosted Git repo? You need to git-verify in both cases. It is your own misunderstanding that seeing a username on Github implies it's verified. It's not. Just like looking at email is not on Git.
They are generated. The only web-font being loaded is the Roman style (upright), and the browser is mechanically skewing it to try to replicate the italic. This is really noticeable when it's done to serifed typefaces, because the italic forms are based on a different model of writing and change significantly.
You are the WM
Depending on the duration of the key press, you can send the machine to sleep, get the traditional shut down window, or invoke the forced power-off incantation, according to this support article [1].

The short tap-for-sleep method doesn't seem to work on the machine I'm using, either.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201150
You also need to be very sure about the timing to make the play in the options market.
A few problems with that: missing a good story costs HN far more than tolerating a bad one (kind of like startup investing that way); users with higher karma by no means reliably submit high-quality stories; by closing newcomers out, karma thresholds heighten the risk of the community becoming insular, something we definitely don't want.
> one of the heroes of the Rape of Nanking was a Nazi party member....

Now that you mention it, the story of John Rabe is fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

Of course, it should be noted that not all Nazi party members committed atrocities; many were simply opportunists who joined a political party of power.
Yes, I think many now recognize that the original idea of a stark contrast between URLs and URNs doesn't fit the fuzzy reality. (RFC3986's "URI, URL, and URN" section, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-1.1.3, acknowledges this point.) My interpretation is: there's quite a few de-facto URNs in use, just without the official label "urn:" or namespace registration, which in practice has turned out to be an unnecessary formality.

(Thanks for the note regarding memesteading.com; mapping updated to work now.)

I'm no longer regularly doing anything for the Internet Archive, but can definitely help make contact! If you're in the bay area, a good way to start learning more about its projects (or show off your own) is to attend the open-house lunches, held most Fridays. (You should just shoot them a note or call before showing up, so they know the expected attendance, or warn you if it's one of the occasional days that it's not held.)
Mr. Robot: Notre démocratie a été malheureusement piraté
It seems like we're significantly into diminishing returns with single core IPC, so AMD should largely catch up over the next decade (assuming the status quo doesn't change). In this metric, a chip 90% as fast as state of the art might be 1/10 the cost to develop by then. Or even less.

But even if Intel isn't seeing much progress in terms of single core performance, they're beating the crap out of AMD in terms of performance per watt, and by extension, absolute performance of the high end multi core parts.

Taking a look at the absolute insanity that are the 18 core Haswell-EP parts, and comparing them to the 8 module Piledriver parts, and the die size of each (i.e. the cost to make them), the gap is widening, not shrinking.

I think everyone here has known for a while that the free lunch is over with respect to writing single core programs and speeding up their execution on future hardware. That's going to take a while to filter down to building programs that take advantage of large amounts of parallelism, but it's going to happen. And when it does, consumer CPUs are going to look more like server parts.

With the programs of today, you'd rather a 4.0ghz quad core. But with the programs of tomorrow, a 2.0ghz 32 core will run circles around it. Amdahl's law is ever present, but we are very, very far from reaching the limits of what is possible.

If it gave a proportional speedup for everyday computing, I believe Intel would already have an 8 core mainstream part, and maybe even higher. Right now they can heavily price discriminate against the few that care about the bump to 6-8 slower cores.
Show HN: Json parser in 20 lines of bash
Really? Do you imagine the only thing stopping people from trying to kill random strangers is the fact they currently have to get up out of bed to do it? Because it can't be the fear of getting caught, since the perpetrators of any vehicular malware that kills people will be caught...
> It'd be relatively easy to do this and you only need 5 institutions with 20% of the pool each and SEC oversight to prevent them from colluding.

If I understand correctly, you're saying that this architecture might not only [possibly] not be cost-effective, but also effectively reintroduces centralisation and counterparty risk with the fixed miner pools as the SEC is needed to prevent AltExchanges from being manipulated or failing?

So it might not even be a solution to a problem the financial services industry (which throws millions at low latency connections for monitoring and executing trades but cares little about T+3 settlement) doesn't think it has?
Personally, I feel like the text is too big.

Medium's site is already on the upper end of what I consider to be a usable font size (22px), and this is even larger (24px). At some point, larger type makes it difficult to quickly scan the page.

For comparison, even Tufte's own site is rendered with a 16px font.
What do you find missing in the python/numpy space? Inability to handle analysis over streaming data?
Really really good article. These kind of easy to understand research results, but hard to think of yourselve are often the best. Respect
For the time being you could use Sibbell: https://sibbell.com/
Stop calling it the sharing economy that isn't what it is
Honestly, this is really rough. The impulse is admirable, but the implementation has a lot of rough edges and ugliness. A web author looking for good typography is going to be better served reading Butterick's Practical Typography (http://practicaltypography.com/).
As a self-taught developer who has had serious success without a college degree, I'm curious. But, why are there only Canadian companies?
PostGIS: PostgreSQL's spatial partner, part 1 (2014)
Will have to try it on my mobile phone together with fso-el :)
https://github.com/paulfertser/fso-el/wiki
Linux / Firefox has long been the most horrible combo for font rendering - check out Chrome on OSX http://imgur.com/jsHwIk7
counterparty risk is still there, but you have a verifiable public record of the transactions. Would take regulators and court cases to set precedence after a transaction has happened. The ability to undo a transaction would have to be there as well (fraud).

This is also something that needs to happen. "unregistered public offering in accordance with Rule 506(c) of Regulation D". Cuts out a lot of the market, as many can not trade in unregistered offerings.
Ah, yes. Rain should not cause the wings to fill up with water...
Something can be open source, yet not copy-left. For example, the MIT licence allows commercial usage and modification.
Between this and Netflix, I'm excited to see how quickly others in the industry respond to match.
great implementation of tufte's look, though i disagree with much of what tufte believes is great information design.
In Silicon Valley mythology, sleeping at the
office is second only to working out of a garage

That's a depressing thought.
These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day?

Bugfixes are not feature enhancements.

Also this makes you sound like a pleasant person to work with.....a real go getter.
Some people have concerns and it's just good to shop the ecosystem around. Competition is healthy.

For the record, I've chosen to use Go over alternatives, although Nim sings to my very soul.
If you really want this to take off as a crowd-sourced compilation of the High Crimes and Misdemeanors of America, you need to switch to a wiki format. One long list with a single organization hierarchy won't scale in terms of structure, usability or amenability to collaboration. And before you embark on that, double check whether there isn't already such a wiki out there, and contribute to that.

One of the projects on my todo list is a site that allows a group of people, especially people who aren't great writers on their own, or don't have the time to be, to "make a case", to collaboratively and systematically build that case and hone its articulation.

If successful it would be a kind of Wikipedia/GitHub of arguments. So instead of everyone trying to re-explain or re-argue a point each time there is a need, they could link to the canonical explanation. So instead of off-the-cuff and incomplete, or un-expert and flawed arguments, a point of view's "best foot" is always put forward.
I am working on a project to mathematically model the elimination of tuberculosis in California. We will need extensive use of AWS... would really appreciate any donation of time.

-Alex alexgoodell@gmail.com
Nuclear weapons have a definite "shelf life" because of the exotic materials used. But if you think about things like the screws & bolts used on them - every time a technician applies a tool to them, there's a little bit of wear and tear. Over time, these and other parts need replacing because of ongoing handling & routine maintenance.

The socio-political aspects are a much broader topic. Personally I don't like them, but I realize that once Pandora's Box Of Technology has been opened, there's no going back.
Sorry, perhaps poorly worded. Reduced by another 50%, I mean.

Clojure is quite terse, and Scala can be when you're using the right toolsets.
Its the flaw in the horizontal scaling suggestion I made.

Scaling Bitcoin requires everyone to agree on bigger machines/faster pipes and/or use the lightning option [which may or may not work]. Both of those options don't have the problem I stated.
Ahh gotcha - correlation without causation then, I suppose?
It's kind of ridiculous how there's not one iota of information at the AnyAPI web site about wtf AnyAPI even is. Am I supposed to just know what this web site/service is all about? Because I don't.
Denver man charged with felonies for handing out jury nullification fliers
Yeah, the reason everyone complains about Git is because everyone uses git. SVN was the horse to beat 10 years ago, because everyone used it.
I imagine some fascinating papers will come out soon from people who will do the math/simulations to hone in on a tighter search area than what the Inmersat data has given us.
Top company 401(k) Rankings for 2015
For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college.

I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful.

The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29.

Get it over with :)
DVD Playback was removed in Windows 8 because Microsoft said that almost exactly $15 in the cost of Windows 7 was the DVD patent/license fees. It became available as an upcharge to the "with Windows Media Center" editions of Windows.

Solitaire was also removed in Windows 8 and the new game apps were created then. I too don't like that Arkadium (developers given the license from Microsoft) have been allowed to make them increasingly naggy Adware/Freemium, but sadly that is a lot more to do with the current state of the videogame industry than the current state of Windows.

Solitaire was removed because they wanted universal apps and someone else (Arkadium) to foot the bill for development. Given that Solitaire was a hobby project thrown in for free, it's kind of amazing it was distributed in as many versions of Windows as it was (and that it survived for so long with very little needed in maintenance/bug fixes). Enterprises kept asking for it not to be included in Windows, and now it is not and an enterprise has easy ways to stop people from installing it now... Consumers "win" in that it's now a product from an actual game company with actual monetization goals in a culture that has allowed ad-ware and freemium to become atrociously obnoxious... (Just look at Windows 10 "kindly" even including a free install to consumers of modern evil Solitaire "Candy Crush Saga". Unsurprisingly, from that benchmark, Arkadium's Solitaire is actually less nagging and cheaper.)
the hype is about the trendline, not the current experiences. The DK1 was a quantum leap over previous efforts. DK2 was so far beyond DK1 it was a completely different experience. Vive is apparently as far beyond DK2 as DK2 was beyond DK1, though I haven't tried it.

Ignoring this in favor of "lol DK2 isn't that great" is shortsighted.
https://www.quora.com/Which-Googler-holds-the-record-for-liv...

Interview with guy because of above answer.
> There is of course the theory that the reason the Spaniards found it so easy to whoop dat Aztec was because of the hostility caused by so much human sacrifice.

The Aztecs weren't unique in the practice of human sacrifice. It seems a lot more likely that resent of the Aztec Empire by its peripheries in general was the reason than human sacrifice specifically, the former exacerbated by general discontent resulting from the wave of disease the region was facing -- as a result of European contact with the Caribbean islands and trade between the islands and the mainland.
http://had.co.nz/ - Hadley Wickam - creator of many R packages. Taylor is the creator of awesome Laravel PHP framework, single handedly.
it could be a nice experiment to have a basic html structure and a picture, and then attempt to generate the style until the rendered html match the image.

genetic css?
Or, it could be just a response to all the other nerds who think it is high profile. Like the poster I was replying to :).

> In reality, most work done by most people is not "high profile".

Spot on! And so you can't expect women to want to become software developers because of its high profile.
Find a task management tool that works for you and you will consistently use. It should be available to you at all times: At your desk and when you're out and about.

I recently settled on Trello after a customer showed me how he was using it. I have lists for:

- Inbox - I can put items in here easily: Trello widget on my phone, in Trello directly, or via email. Things sit here until they're moved to one of the other categories.

- Today - The things I plan to do today. I use labeling and mark things as either Work or Personal and use a priority flag for things that are very important.

- This Week - Things I want to get to this week

- Waiting On - Things I've acted on and am waiting on someone else to complete

- Later - Things I want to do but will get to later

- Done (this week) - Every week, I archive the previous weeks list and create a new one for the current week

This system works for ME, and your mileage may vary, but it's gotten me disciplined and focused on what to do every day and what to ignore.

Update: fixed formatting
Also a self-taught developer here. I'm not sure how old you are, but do you worry about how not having a degree might affect your chances of finding work later in your career?
> Discoe points at the screen. “When I read this, I was like, ‘Does he know me?’ There’s only really me who fits this description.

I thought someone who works at google should be smart enough to know that these type of personality tests are pretty vague and can be applied to many people?
Probably because this was made by Canadians in Toronto according to the page.
I would also like to see GitHub Chat. Complete Slack killer with the same heart and spirit of Atom.
We may have new grad positions in a couple months. Drop us a CV and will chat!
I think you're thinking of my.mp3.com. They bought a bunch of CDs, ripped them, customers used a desktop application to "fingerprint" a CD they had that would grant them access to the mp3s the company created. They lost in the court because by ripping the CDs they bought, they were offering a service based on copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holders. While the opportunities for abuse with the "fingerprinting" scheme are obvious, that's not what got them in trouble.

There were then and are now music "locker" systems where every track you can play is from a file you created and uploaded and only your account can access. That's what Google Music is doing (for music you add, not the subscription service or tracks you buy in their store). In so doing you may have violated some copyrights but the operators of the locker system played not part in it. And if they act upon DMCA takedown notices (assuming they operate in the U.S.), they're protected from prosecution under the Safe Harbor provisions of the law.

It's inefficient for such locker systems to have X copies of the same song, one for each person who uploaded it, but I assume more modern storage systems can use lower level deduplication to reduced the space needed while still presenting each user with their "own" copy.
As a fellow self-taught developer, I agree. We see the need for showing possibilities that exist without a degree. As for Canadian companies? We’re in Canada and started with the big guys in our own backyard. However, career search can be done on any path for users in pretty much any location. American companies will be added soon with better localization.
SanDisk, Toshiba announce the world's highest capacity 3D NAND flash chips
Nice looking site.

What did doing this in Meteor get you? Why did you go with a framework that focuses primarily on real-time interactions/data streaming?

It seems to me this could easily be a Rails app with some simple Angular components for the Filter Career Paths bit. But, perhaps this betrays my ignorance of the versatility of Meteor...