skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'm saying is that this might support the Inmarsat conclusions, but that's not the same as proving it.

If my hypothesis is that all swans are white, finding a black swan would disprove it. Instead this is another white swan. It supports the hypothesis, but it doesn't prove it.

Note by the way that I have no reason to doubt the Inmarsat analysis. I think that was truly groundbreaking use of the data. All I'm saying is that this find doesn't really prove the analysis, nor help with narrowing down the search.
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> While I think reports like individual user streams are neat, I find they're not very good at diagnosing a product and driving growth.

I was only referencing the fact that the individual user data appeared to be correct in one view, even though the session length distribution chart was way-off. Had it been off for all users, it would be a big problem, but only affects the first session (See my edit above).

I agree cohort analysis is useful, but not particularly difficult to capture and chart on the server side for web apps, or mobile apps with a server back-end. For SPAs or hybrid or mobile apps you need a facility to capture client side events, which is where something like Amplitude really adds value.

It's one less thing to build or run, but if it's hamstrung by limited reporting, free isn't really free - you have to pay to unlock the value of that event stream.
You are making this out to be an accusation, when it is, in fact, a public release of damning evidence.

There is no dispute that the cops in the video did what they were recorded in doing. The argument is literally that the prosecutors should not consider the publicly available evidence when determining whether the cops should be charged with a crime.

The union is not bound by the state's rules of evidence. It can make an independent assessment of the facts available to it and decide whether the union would be better served by keeping those guys in it and defending them to the last, or by cutting them loose and preserving its reputation for the remaining members.

It is all down to the operating principles ensconced in its own articles of organization.

What goes beyond the pale? If Joe Sixpack sat down and ate a live baby, feet first, and it was caught on video, which then went viral on YouTube, would the union still go to bat for him?
Thanks for the feedback. Background image is now at ~300kb. is it still occurring if you refresh?
I've always taken a liking to sidenotes, but the main problem with them is they are complicated by Markdown's rendering of footnotes.

It's great for many other purposes, but a lot of people will probably prefer doing things in Markdown.
You do need design patterns in Go. A prime example: the interface that Sort() requires is basically the Strategy pattern. You need it in Go because the language is missing generics. There are many other examples.

In that message, Rob Pike misunderstands what the visitor pattern is for. Go's "type switch" is just chained Java instanceof. Java still benefits from the visitor pattern for (e.g.) compiler transformations, even though it has instanceof.
I don't think Tufte ever uses top and bottom borders for tables. Also, the delimiter below the heading should not be so bold; it's usually a very thin line.
1) Go has a runtime that's included in the binary that you get when you run `go build`. It takes care of garbage collection, goroutines etc. It does not do any JIT compilation afaik.

2) Go compiles fast because it gives up a lot of modern features (namely generics).
Benefits are all well and good, I'd just prefer the large tech employers work to employ more people rather than provide more to those that already have jobs. When these people are out on mat leave are they to be replaced by perma-temps on zero-hour contracts?

There is also something to be said for pay over benefits. Pay is of equal value to all employees. Benefits like leave and 401ks are only valuable to some and can, if dominant over pay, lead to employers having undue influence over the lives of employees.
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Thanks for the tip! I actually wanted to build something in Meteor a while ago, but couldn't figure out how to set up pagination (and infinite scrolling just seemed awkward in that specific case). It's nice to see that there are ways to get it working.
I'm working on my meteor app too. Where are you hosting it? Can you provide more details on the deployment and how much monthly this costs you to keep it running?
Awesome post. thanks for sharing. We tend to forget some of these simple rules. Help each other be better and your company will thrive
Ah, didn't know it was xkcd comic he was referring to
Simple explanation by quoting Nick Szabo:

"Smart contracts go beyond the vending machine in proposing to embed contracts in all sorts of property that is valuable and controlled by digital means."

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/smart_contracts_idea.html
The font appears to scale (in a step function?) related to pixel-width of your window. Try using a narrower window. (This may or may not be related to retina resolution. I didn't read the code to find out.)
Regular California apartments don't have air conditioning anyway.
Read even further down: Exempt if furnished for your convenience as a condition of employment.

i.e. this seems to imply that optional lodging is taxable.
"Unfortunately, since the entire point of it is to protect against malicious leaks..."

That's actually not the entire point. At least in this paper, we do
not claim to address attacks that leverage covert channels. But the
attacker model assumption is weaker (i.e., the attacker is assumed to
be more powerful) than that originally assumed by the Chrome design
(e.g., that only pages are malicious and will try to exploit
extensions). And this is important. Particularly because the design
that we end up with will be more secure than the current one. So, at
worst, the new system addresses the limitations of the existing system
under their attacker model. Then, depending on how far you are willing
to hack up the browser, underlying OS, or hardware you can also try to
address the covert channel leaks.
> There's simply nothing to do with it, and what you can do is better done with a monitor screen.

What content? It's an development kit... except if you intends to develop content for it, for sure you won't find stuff to do with it. It's like saying I hate the android development kit because there's nothing to do with it.

We need content for VR, personally I believe this is why the rift is still not released. That's also why they invest that much in game development.

> I was able to get a sense of presence once or twice

You are unlucky then, the immersion I feel is crazy. Each time I remove my headset, I get the same weird feeling of not being at the right place.

> it was always just a cool 3D effect

I'm pretty sure some good old gamer said the same when they transitioned from text to graphic, and then again when they moved from 2D to 3D.

For sure it's not for everyone, the same way game console aren't for everyone. This is not the revolution that some are saying it is, it won't be the next iPhone, at least it doesn't have to be. It's a new way to play game, a new environment, that's all.
The refractive index is inversely proportional to the wavelength though. And according to the linked papers that happens to be ~25mm (11ghz) to ~50mm (6ghz). Wolfram alpha doesn't even have valid answers in that range. Only between 400 and 1200nm.
I regret every single time I try to use github search, even for the most basic "where is X defined" type queries.
> If you can't pay people what they deserve, I think you should accept death

Sorry but if they "deserve" more money they should find a job where they would be payed that. As an employee it's your own responsibility not to get screwed by your employer. If they decide not to pay you, leave.

The same goes for the employer. It's their responsibility to not "accept death". Accepting death is the mindset that will almost always lead to failure.
This is so extremely weird for me. I'm currently on parental leave in Canada, for the next 17 weeks, paid. You get 50 weeks of leave here to split between mom & dad. It seems so ridiculous these articles saying that it'll be hard for the company to deal with the loss of the employee for that long. Hire someone for a 1 year term... done. There's really no excuse when so many other countries have been doing it for so long.
Nobody cares about Android apps. And they ain't gonna make you rich. Neither will iOS apps for that matter. That's a market raced to the bottom, that only makes sense for a few top players.

The web is not going away anytime soon.
I ran into the same issue. After a restore from my time machine backup, I discovered that some files where missing (with no apparent pattern). Fortunately, I had a non time machine backup, but pheew that was a close one...
Right. I think updates are just as destructive, and oftentimes completely change the meaning on an entity. That's why I also wrote about using soft updates: http://scottsmerchek.com/2015/08/04/taking-the-d-out-of-crud...
My guess is that this happens more often than one would think. Discoe wasn't even the only campus resident within the Self-Driving Car team, let alone all of Google (there was a safety driver who lived in a van by the self-driving car garage).
Yeah the speed that Meteor is accelerating at as a framework is amazing to see, soon enough it will be playing with the big dogs no problem :)
Great to hear (I also love how transparent YCombinator is).

Off topic: My first name is Simon and I was a bit surprised seeing "Welcome Simon" with YCombinator.com as url. New personalization feature :)
AFAIK it's only in SF they don't. Everywhere else in California is properly hot.
Betahouse sounds familiar but I don't think I ever visited. Cambridge is home to a number of culture driven coworking spaces, which are excellent. Pirate ship is a good example of a tight nit group. Perhaps the biggest is Industry Lab, which I would best describe as a 20k sqft hybrid between the media lab and the east campus dorm.
How likely is Amazon going to follow this trend?
Depending on how successful you are it really can be like that. Managing a period of exponential growth is a nightmare on all fronts and I can really relate to the 'constant sprint' feeling. The good news is that usually at some point it tapers off and normality resumes but if you're hip deep in investor money they will see that as a reason to start a push to get back into another phase of hyper growth.
I think the more specialized and geeky the topic, the fewer people who can participate in the conversation about it, and therefore the less popular it will be.

Most of the popular stuff seems to be light on the technical side. More often it is business, lifestyle or a high level opinion on a technical subject, not too deep.

If it is an online hacked-up app, there has to be a wow factor, a surprise, a 'why didn't I think of that'.
I agree sometimes you need to review a piece of functionality. But I think of this more of an escalation of a change set review. As in: 'this code stinks, why is that, lets look at the bigger picture, mmmm, lets schedule a review for this'. From the article: "It’s possible that a larger piece of code needs refactoring. If this is the case, do it within the merge request or schedule the refactoring as a separate issue.".
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Part of it is most of the linux friendly laptops I don't like... There's a few points.. one, I like a larger touchpad, with whole-pad clicking... other than the chromebooks, and my logitech htpc keyboard I haven't seen this (I also don't like the region based right-click)... The touchpad is a huge issue for me.

Second, I REALLY don't like either the Fn button being in the corner (muscle memory), or anything obstructing the right shift (again muscle memory). As it is, I hate most laptop keyboards.

Third is the display, I actually really like the retina display itself, and it allows for scaling VMs very nicely. Probably the closest in terms of hardware to MBP would be some of the Asus and Acer ultrabooks, which I'm not entirely opposed to, but then it's still hit and miss on hardware support.

What I would love would be for Ubuntu, or someone much more familiar with their installers to create an installer that would just detect that it's apple hardware, and make it all just work... that would include bluetooth, wifi, proper touchpad drivers/configured in the box.

I really like my rMBP hardware wise... but going to something with different headaches won't exactly be better.
Amazingly he designed a ml/c/prolog hybrid, adequately named MCPL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/MCPL.html
It still look way better than Quake.
Thanks, glad to hear you like it!
> What about Internet access?

Probably wi-fi
Thanks for posting this - BCPL was an integral part of the Amiga, and influenced many decisions on how it was implemented.

Coming from a C background, it was sometimes confusing, but it was a fascinating look into a completely different world at the time.
Except that neutrinos are so inert that it would take light years of water and photo detectors, to convert them into reliable signals.
Beautiful design. Clean, friendly colors, easy to read. Nice job!
The rationale behind it makes perfect sense. Do you really want to give someone $2-3000 per month or $24-36k a year just to have a box around you? Especially if you don't own much stuff? How much do you actually need besides your computer, phone, clothes and toiletries? Gym for bathroom and free public wifi for internet aside from your phone and you're set.

The rental and housing market is disgusting. I wouldn't consider it except for my wife.
I think you've just described Berkshire Hathway
Concatenation of the hashes seems like an unjustified risk, that in certain circumstances will allow weaknesses from either algorithm to flow throw to the final hash. If you really want to combine the hashes, XOR seems like a safer bet to me (since the algorithms are unrelated there should be no potential cancellation of entropy).
I worked w/ Ben through our google acquisition. This is all accurate. He's a fun, talented guy. Funnily enough he was only the 4th or 5th strangest bird of the 50 or so employees at 510 systems. Good times...
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Linus is talking about C++ which no ones considers safe.
That may very well be the one. I'm a bit hazy on the details because this happened right at the moment camarades.com took off and I had a lot on my plate at the time.
By way of context, understand that cases like these are outliers from the perspective of the existing tax laws.

Athletic facilities: Many companies have a locker room, maybe a shower, maybe a treadmill or two. Is the IRS going to force employees to buy a gym membership so they can take a post lunchtime shower prior to a customer meeting?

As for meals/on-premise lodging/etc. Historically (and currently still, modulo Google-type outliers) this sort of thing typically applies to people living on a job site as I did when I was running projects on oil rigs and in shipyards. Plenty of other examples as well. Especially in a remote location, these services can be quite expensive to deliver. It would be pretty unreasonable to make employees declare them as taxable benefits.
>It's not about animal death, it's about killing an iconic animal (a lion) which we're already in danger of losing entirely.

Lions are not endangered. There are 20,000 of them in Zimbabwe alone.
Google matches the greater of something like 100% of $3000 - or - 50% of the max employee contribution.

A 100% match from Microsoft would mean an annual 2015 contribution of $36,000 ($18,000 employee + $18,000 employer match) versus $27,000 maximum ($18,000 employee + $9,000 employer match) from Google. That's a $9000 difference.

EDIT: Looks like the article is incorrect. Correct numbers are 50%, as stated in parent comment.
I am on Sky in the UK, looks like it is an ISP issue then. I'll keep an eye on you guys though, I'm a big fan of being able to just run functions on-demand like this. I used to use PiCloud extensively before it was bought out.
At least in the US, it is entirely plausible that many of the electrical engineers working in a large company on such a product are not licensed professional engineers.
I would add that the "Secret law" also encompasses the private deals struck between various organizations that have the full force and effect of law.

For instance, I am often asked about the standards for DMCA takedowns and monitoring of content. I cannot turn to laws and cases. I have to glean information from patterns of activity. Youtube does X, and the MPAA aren't screaming mad about Youtube these days, so perhaps we also need to do X. Or, megaupload was doing X Y and Z. But a dozen other website were doing X and Y without a peep from US authorities. So I guess Z is the touchstone even though Z isn't mentioned anywhere in any law or case and wasn't even around when the laws were written.
All languages need design patterns; they are about designing how to implement certain functionality.

Languages differ in which design patterns have a native expression in the language, which can be reduced to simple reusable library code, and which require type-it-in-each-time fill-in-the-blanks code recipes.

The fact that Design Patterns were popularized in software development by the GoF book which, among other things, included code recipes to illustrate its patterns, and that the patterns in it tended to be ones for which the popular languages of the day required code recipes (lacking native implementations or the ability to provide general implementations as library code), has unfortunately associated the term with the code recipes, which aren't really the central point of understanding and using patterns.
Why is it nicer to use than that of Rust?
Yep, isolated worlds is definitely what we want, and part of the inspiration for the particular (DOM modification) feature we proposed.

I think CSP helps with 1 & 2, unless I'm missing something? (Our labels map down to CSP policies pretty naturally.)

Points 3-4 and phishing, in general, are definitely a concern. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that a great solution that does not get in way exists, but we'll see how close we can get :)
You're wrong. MS does 50%.
Not having a degree does lock you out of some opportunities where HR uses it as a binary checkbox. We can go on and on here about how such policies are stupid and how you wouldn't really want to work at a place like that anyway, but the fact of the matter is not having a degree closes doors. In that sense, there is value to having one.
My bad - thanks
I second this, also I'd like to see an overview of the (files with) merge conflicts if any instead of a message saying the PR can't be merged. Fixing the merge conflicts might be another thing in the web interface would be cool but I guess I'll stick to the CLI for this.
If the fear of getting caught prevented people from committing crimes, jails would be empty.
I'm 37. At my age a degree is completely irrelevant if you have the skill set. In fact, ten years ago I was approached by a university to start my Master's degree, with the missing Bachelor's degree being credited through time spent working in my industry at the time.

The reality of education in America is that it's an expensive tickbox. It verges on being a racket. While you don't want to be the lone rebel being crushed under the wheels of the machine, if you can avoid becoming indentured to the government with a student loan then do yourself a favour and choose not to waste money on education you can just teach yourself.
One of the things I love most about Tufte is the way his text introduces every single graphic. He tells you what he's about to show you; then he shows you. This stands in stark contrast in most books where the figures are only very loosely coupled to the text. I didn't realize how jarring I found the convention until Tufte! And it makes perfect sense in hindsight: why did we think it's okay to put figures "within a page or two" of the relevant text?

This handout, by contrast, doesn't do this, and so it throws away something that, to me, is central to Tufte's appeal.
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I think you (finally!) nailed why twitter is successful. Updates are short by nature, real content requires more space and has a much longer 'best before date' and so does not fit either facebook or twitter.

That should have been the thing that google+ aimed at rather than doing the same thing all over again. The content would eventually achieve critical mass all by itself.
It's ironic to read about Granick advocating a free, open and decentralised Internet the same day we've been discussing how we're heading Straight for AOL 2.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008769

The writing's on the wall.
Even as a libertarian myself, I can't justify the virtual nepotism that is happening on Wall Street. To me, the free market is so suppose to make every company to work hard for the dollars it earns. If companies have enough cash to throw at CEOs than working towards capturing market share or wooing investors with dividends then they're just being as lazy and apathetic as governments or worse. So, I believe it's the role of the people to take companies to task whether it's through the government or through the market place when they get this way (corrupt and slothful). Otherwise, we'll wind up with a situation similar to how the USSR ended with millions starving and an economic wasteland.
"The uranium seized from the German submarine ended up in the American atom bombs"

That's what I call cruel irony. I wonder how much of a role those 1200 pounds of ready-made u235 made for the timetable/viability of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki? A few more days/weeks and Japan would most likely have capitalulated from the terrorcampaign of firebombings among other factors.
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Yeah, but not true at all. Sure, there's plenty of garage mythos (though that's decidedly old-school now). But living at your office...? It happens occasionally and it's nuts, but it's not at all part of SV culture. This is first I've heard of Elon/et al doing it.
"Do you think they would _not_ have used atomic bombs"

Given the Japanese did bomb the USA during WWII[1], I cannot see someone justifying an argument where they got the bomb and didn't try.

1) http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/01/20/3758...
I like the idea but turned away when I saw those ugly fake italic headings. Never italicize fonts that are missing italic type styles.