skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We found it hard to find reliable testers for iOS without building your own team or doing it all on your own devices. Maybe Amazon will come through, but we'll see.

I'd love to see a service where one super tech just tries to break your application on every supported device for a couple hours. A room full of toddlers might also work.
This is a good blog post about how a customer switched from Mixpanel to Amplitude!

https://medium.com/@illscience/mixpanel-vs-amplitude-6b3ba36...
Great read. Now I know not to try a manufacturing business in Egypt. Unfortunately.
Try contacting the moderator dang by email to hn@ycombinator.com . It's the preferred method and it's usually faster and more reliable because sometimes they don't find the thread. (It's midnight now, you may have to wait until USA working hours.)
The question I have is "Why limit this to High Tech"?
I think having something else to also do is critical. I'm a musician and I kept 70+ hour weeks in school, but 16 of those hours were at gigs, and Sundays were off limits for anything at all - no work at all.

It wasn't gigging but just jamming when I later was in startup land for a few years. I found the effect the same. You need something to get your mind completely off work.
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The mobile web sucks
I saw the recently "this I'd build at GitHub" post. I love being able to search with this Chrome extension.
Thanks! I saw the benchmarks compare Crystal to Python, C, Ruby and C++, but I didn't see anything about Go. Which is fine, I guess, but it makes the title feel a bit link baity.
Sadly, people will attempt to overthink that. E.g. jeffwise.net was cited earlier as a forum discussing AF447. But read this from Jeff concerning the Inmarsat data:

case 3. The plane did not go south at all.
If this is the case, then the satellite
communications system must have been compromised
by hijackers who either flew the plane north to
Kazakhstan or China (if only the BFO values were
spoofed) or somewhere else within a huge circle
encompassed by the 7th ping ring (if both BTO
and BFO values were spoofed).

Yes, it's possible that occurred. But even Inmarsat itself didn't have a good understanding of this data. It's very very farfetched to think that some sinister elements, as part of a nefarious scheme, spoofed the data being sent to the satellite. IMO the probability is less than 1 in a million. So many other scenarios make more sense.
Windows 10 updates can disable pirated games and unauthorized hardware
I realize it feels crappy when applied to your own submission, but we're just doing what we always do. Take a look at where the FAQ talks about reposts—it's not as if this one's a close call.

Actually, because it's a cool project, we've bent the rules twice for it already. The last time it was posted, it had had 65 points just a few weeks earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467935, and a major thread a few months before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658358.
Apologize like you mean it and everyone moves on.
Let me see if I understand this:

Suppose you had a single broker that held all of its customers' shares in-house (i.e. street name) and that broker represented all the owners of one particular stock. Then it could do low price, high speed settlement because it always knows where all the shares are and moving them around just requires changing a line in a database.

The idea with blockchain settlement is to simulate this in a distributed fashion by having a public auditable record of where all the shares of a security are at any moment in time.

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I don't see that either scenario would solve all delivery problems, for example it would do nothing to prevent claw backs if a legal regime demanded it, but I could see how it could speed things up and prevent some game playing.
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There are a few that accept Bitcoin.
> While that's true, I think the discussion in that issue has gone more towards HTTPS support for custom domains.

A huge number of those "+1 for HTTPS on custom domains" don't seem to understand/appreciate the difference in providing HTTPS on the *.github.io (one wildcard cert) vs. HTTPS support for custom domains.

The latter would require an interface (UX being key here) and storage for uploading your own domain certificates to GitHub, which is nothing like any other part of GitHub right now. I also presume that most of these "+1's" would want this service to remain free.
It's normal for departments to recommend other departments or job roles to try in large organizations. Maybe the job you applied for was just filled or the job no longer exists.
Overview at:

https://flux-framework.github.io/papers/Flux-SRMPDS-final.pd...
I agree. UK Netflix is pretty barren, to the point where I've only watched a couple of things on it in the past two months. There's a severe drought of new/interesting stuff. I'm now considering ditching my sub.

I have a NowTV subscription which costs roughly the same and there's loads more things to choose from. I also have Amazon Prime (which I accidentally ended up with because I forgot to cancel the trial). It's problem is that I find the UI a complete disaster (and how I wish they'd release a Roku version in the UK)
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This graph looks like they destroyed the market in 2014, though this is not my area of expertise.
What strange planet have you teleported in from? Yes, research on the subject of race is taboo in Western Civilization. Not so much in Asia.
I'm modestly productive. I know a few exceptionally productive people. They did not learn how to do what they do, they just fell into being busy and didn't stop. Some of them attempt to push things farther(e.g. taking caffeine or pharma) but that is not the essential factor. The factors are more along the lines of personality, situation, and stress level. If they keep getting asked to produce something, and they really enjoy it, and it's not leaving them worn out at the end of the week, they can hold things there indefinitely.

IMHO, don't worry about quantity. Just focus on training and process. If you arrange your environment and daily activity in a way that leads to good work, it doesn't matter whether it's operating on cycles of six weeks or ten years. You get different kinds of work done on those cycles.
Well, to be pedantic, we certainly haven't accounted for all the debris from the MH17 downing in Ukraine. Same type of aircraft, same operator.

But that's very very farfetched.
For the programmer who works with far more pedestrian hardware what does someone do with 2TB of ram that you wouldn't implement in lets say a rainbow table on a machine with lesser specs? If you are allowed to say that is.
I use Pharo as my primary personal projects development language (Racket is a close second). What slows me down is the lack of documentation. This has had the effect of making me seriously consider contributing to the project, given time and energy of course.

I am building several small web applications based on Seaside, JQuery, Bootstrap and SQLite. With very cheap hosting (e.g., Pharocloud, DigitalOcean) I am planning to throw lots of these things up and see which ones stick. I like this strategy better than the usual start-up strategy of spending lots of time and energy on one thing at a time. With Pharo, this is comparitively faster - reuse is easy, deploying an image is easy, and building apps with Pharo is easy. I love Pharo.
It means his partner has different values and needs and they are compromising as part of the relationship. That is highly rational.
OMG thank you, this was the thing that got me to finally permanently set my toolbar search in FF to Duck Duck Go...
Alerta alerta, it's censoring more than Google, try searching for a pussy!
The biggest thing I want from GitHub is the ability to search commits. GitHub are pretty good at search (their issue search is fantastic, and their code search is decent enough) - but the data I most want to search are the commit messages in my repo.

I understand this will be a huge amount of data (they must have hundreds of millions if not billions of commits by now). I'd be perfectly happy if this was only available for paid repositories.

The ability to then further facet and filter searches by author, file, directory etc would be unbelievably useful.
If I hadn't started my new job just this week, I'd ask if you were hiring.
I like Ruby, it works well for scripting, and this compiled variant of the language is very interesting. I liked its variant type (e.g. (Char|String|Int)) for instance, and in many other respects it looks great.

What puts me off somewhat is that it seems that Crystal uses the same stupid scoping rules as Ruby. I would not call them insane, but they are kinda funny (compared to normal lexical scoping like in ML or Scheme), and the new language could fix that. [The documentation does not have a section on scoping, so I'm not 100% sure about this issue]. Another strange element of the Ruby syntax that does not make a lot of sense to me is proc.call("blah"). Was that "call" bit really necessary in the new language? Probably, not really.

In any case, my complaints are quite minor, and probably the author considered all pros and contras when making these particular choices. Overall the work looks very interesting. I usually prefer OCaml for my programming, however it's not always a perfect tool and I was trying to find some other language that will work better. So far, nothing could work better, but Crystal is a step in the right direction, I think.
GIRL REUNITED WITH BESTFRIEND
Hello! My name is Isabel, and I have a story I thought you may like to feature or shoutout on your page. I've recently started up a youtube channel, and shared a video of my being reunited with my bestfriend after a few years! It's a heartwarming, and fun sort of nostalgic video!
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I would appreciate any help or input/advice you have in promoting it!

I also started a new blog, it's all new, but I'm sharing of my hope in Christ! Mistakes I've made, things I've learned.

http://isabelsyers.com/

Thank you in advance, and thank you so much for your time!!!
GIRL REUNITED WITH BESTFRIEND
For lack of a better word, this implementation is half-assed. If the whole point is typography that's both gorgeous and legible, then you had better dot your i's and cross your t's, and this doesn't. As a very simple example, look at the capital B here in the name of the font:

http://snag.gy/yup65.jpg

There's a chunk missing at the top, and it looks like crap! It should look like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/BemboMT....

Now I understand full well that it's very difficult to make something that looks good on every OS, browser, screen size, resolution, yadda yadda -- but in this case, that's the entire point!
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I lived on 24k for a whole year with no benefits of any sort. It can be done if you only have student loans and you can find a slum close to work. I don't think I could have dated or anything, though. You basically have to avoid socializing.
Never had this happen
Oh, and while we're talking pony requests... I'd dearly love to be able to use gists within the scope of an organization. It would be fantastic to be able to share code snippets that were only visible to other organization members (and searchable and so on).
Middle ground in inherently non-equal relationships (employer-employee, landlord-tenant, etc) doesn't usually work because the areas close to the line need courts to sort them out, and courts cost money, which one side of the relationship doesn't have, so what happens instead is that the line inches slowly but surely in favor of the powerful side of the relationship because no individual can afford to challenge it.

There are some ways to combat those effects - for instance, large statutory damages make the reward larger, and unionization makes the individual risk lower - but by far the simplest and most direct is to sacrifice nuance to at least avoid a worst-case option.
When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions (2010) [pdf]
This isn't a great post for explain the simple elegance of Axolotol. There probably needs to be one.

My favorite parts comes from combining of Diffie–Hellman operations on both long term and ephemeral keys to integrate identity verification and creation of deniable shared secret into one operation.

It's a really elegant extension of NaCL's secret box to include Perfect Forward Secrecy.

There are some things that are objectionable.

GPL licensing makes Open Whisper Systems a gate keeper to using the battle tested code base for most users. This is probably unnecessary. It isn't that hard to implement yourself giving a working curve library.

We need to better explain to developers with Ellitic Curve Crypto and Curve25519 aren't scary just because the math is a little unfamiliar and that RSA and integer field Diffie Hellman are code smell.
How about they sail their sub to LA, Perl Harbor, SF, or San Diego and commit and detonate the bomb in a kamikaze attack?
Fair point on the title -- perhaps I should have left it at "on to something." Will keep in mind for next time.
glad you found your friend but it all sounds a bit preachy.
OOP Alternative to Utility Classes
Another Google platform with little to no support only a year after its release? I am shocked, shocked. This has never happened before! /s

In all seriousness though, have you contacted Netflix support? They have seemed really responsive in the past.
I completely disagree. Sure there a few things I'd want to keep with me, a couple of books, a surfboard, a suitcase with clothes and shoes, my laptop, etc.

I could leave my business clothes at work, 3 pairs of pants and 5/6 business shirts. At the end of the week I dry clean it as needed. I can shower at work and I have all the entertainment I could possibly need on my laptop.

If I had a convenient and dependable car and safe overnight parking I would DEFINITELY not pay rent. Oh yeah I'd have to lose the girlfriend too of course...
> I fight this problem several ways

This is completely, totally, and nonsensically evil that I'm not sure even where to begin. Supposing your company hired me and I knew this was the opinion of anyone who worked in management I would be polishing my résumé my first day on the job. This is the best way to make sure that the only people working for you are mindless drones and your HR office is a revolving door rather than a ladder for people with an ounce of ambition.
I think this:

a) looks like a reasonable simulation of Tufte's print style

b) is missing the point Tufte tries to make

Tufte isn't saying you have to make your presentation look like his, his basic thesis is "don't add unnecessary things that take away from the clarity of your presentation" and he's made a name by critically analyzing other people's presentation and work to show where they've gone overboard and why that detracts from the message they're trying to show.

I've sat in his class, read his books and website and followed him for years. His approach and critical analysis of web sites is actually fairly different from print. He understands that the web is a different medium and should be approached differently. His critiques of ESPN and various weather websites are fascinating not because he complains they aren't using enough whitespace or don't follow his print style, but because he actually likes how they clearly and concisely present summaries of dense, compact information.

I'm afraid this comes off a little like cargo-culting Tufte, going through the ceremony without actually grokking his meaning.
Just to argue the counterpoint, I prefer my employer to be up-front about the legal side. Our relationship is adversarial - mutually beneficial, yes, but also adversarial. Except for possibly in the case of a tiny company where I'm personal friends with the management, they're not going to be loyal to me in any sort of pinch. It'd be great if we could trust each other, but that's not how business works, and if I'm not assertive about my rights, or if I take them at their word that they're not going to assert theirs, then I'm the sucker.
1) There are no 'unregulated free markets'

2) Nobody -ever- has said that an 'unregulated free market produces a level playing field and a meritocracy'

The facts are that a regulated and controlled market with freedom of economic action produces the best outcomes for a population as a whole, when measured in life expectancy, social mobility and and even environmental cleanliness. Every other system that has been tried produces far worse outcomes across all these measures.

There's a persistent adolescent thought pattern running these days which says something like 'free market? Huh? Where's my lamborghini? I got nuthin' but student debt and no job'

This kind of thinking should be avoided in order to make progress on the topic.
> minicabs are not allowed to hang around outside clubs and pubs looking for business. Therefore drunk women are less likely to just stumble into any old car outside the venue

If you're going to rape someone, do you want to wait for victims in front of security cameras, in a car with a license plate number on it? .. With plenty of people around?

That should be enough.
Take a look at Pharo. I did and Pharo is now my primary personal development tool. Another thing that convinced me were videos by Laurent Laffont. Laffont uses Pharo, IMHO, the way it is supposed to be used - he uses the debugger intensively during development to prompt him to for the next step. His development workflow is guided by a general outline in his mind, and the details are filled in by the debugger prompts. His videos can be found at Pharocasts.
Location: Midwest

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

Hardware - Mixed signal ASIC Hardware validation; High speed signal processing/communication; Photonics - optics, Imaging, and Image Processing (education only)

Software: C/C++ (firmware), Perl, TCL, Matlab, Python (minimal experience), Java (College only)

Résumé/CV: by request

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I am currently employed as a Computer Engineer at a tech company (2.5 years of experience, and a BS EE.) I primarily work on integrating hardware into a mass produced product. I enjoy programming, but have a strong hardware background and would prefer to work for a hardware startup. I am a very passionate person, and I ultimately hope to work somewhere that makes an impact in the third world.
Law banning secret filming of animal abuse on farms ruled unconstitutional
Housing is so expensive in SF the city can't hire enough teachers
I know this isn't exactly what you want, but GitHub Enterprise comes with Gist.
China seems to be moving in the right direction through self-interest, although a billion people is a lot of momentum to fight.

They still open coal plants, but they've brought more wind generation capacity online then any other country. They continue to deploy solar energy and thermal water heating across the country.

To push them harder, you'd need to engage the entire population.
One interesting aspect is that we've built our computer architecture with the assumption that storage is tiered from expensive to cheap: L1-3 CPU cache, RAM, SSD, HD, maybe Tape.

If just went L1-3 + RAM, it would greatly simplify the job of programmers and programs. (theoretically) no need for virtual memory, buffering / flushing, etc.
It's probably not rooted, but it probably also violates Apple's developer license agreement (which are needlessly restrictive) - sections 2 and 3 in this doc:
https://developer.apple.com/programs/terms/ios/standard/ios_...
Just like the Windtalkers ended up being more secure for communications than the German super-duper technological Enigma machine.
Lamp post destroyed by urine falls in street, just misses driver
Ability to generate sense out of thin air must be nightmare for anyone trying to fight spam. Will this ever make into our inboxes?
What's the difference between SDE and WDE?

I've seen this from the other side where there's a candidate we really like, but we found another that's a better fit for some reason. It may be someone they've worked with before or has a specific experience they want to take advantage of. If you read anything into this, it's that they like you so much they want to find a place for you.

The easiest action for them is to hit the reject button and move on.
I do believe that University should not be required for many fields which currently do.

I also believe University costs too much for many, and that textbooks are an outright scam.

I also believe a broad post-secondary education is a wonderful thing to have, and that if you can do undergrad full time (doing a real "job" as little as is required to supplement a beer/computer fund), you'll find that having your full time "job" being to learn new things and meet new people is an amazing gift. Throw in the opportunities of studying abroad (that I didn't take advantage of - do it in the first two years) and University is a great experience.
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Firefox packages its own copy of the libraries it uses, including the stagefright library. They patched their copy in the new release.
Sorry I'm just seeing this now -- but we actually do have a full interactive demo of the product with pre-populated data, just like you suggested! There are CTAs to try the demo all over the website if you're using it on a desktop/laptop. Were you looking at the site on mobile?
(https://amplitude.com/)
But would not like one as a gift.
Wegilant raises $500,000 in pre-series A funding
One thing that has bitten me is the code review submitting each line of feedback instantly, before you have finished reviewing the whole pull request.
EFF Guide to Street Level Surveillance
I am not the OP but it is not necessarily a contradiction.

The underlying goal in Pythonic data-science is that one pushes as much of the computation into pre-packaged loops that have already been written in a close to the metal language (C, C++, Fortran). Well, that's as far as the intent goes, practice deviates from it by degrees.

This does not work quite as well in Java (or JVM) because JNI is just supremely god-awful. JVM semantics are overly strict, this over-specification kills optimization opportunities. Is heavy on memory, I would rather use the memory for loading more data than fill it with overhead. Finally there is this OOP culture that gets in the way.

That said, JVM is one of the most mature, and well engineered VMs out there (Java is another story), but not very well suited for number crunching, because there is more to number crunching than calling BLAS APIs.
http://www.coindesk.com/double-spending-risk-bitcoin-network...

etc
Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't realized that it does this. I'm thinking of a way to fix it. I appreciate the feedback.
Basically UX doesn't have anything to do with the site's performance. Netflix have been solving great problems in development lately but they're due a good user experience uplift. No wonder people enjoy browsing their content more from other devices.