skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get the game going, I will accept all pull requests that add to the heroes id file, so anybody can become a "hero" and approve code changes.

Looking forward to hearing what people think and answering any questions.
Many times I prefer hand-writing because it's likely I need to add some kind of sketch (drawing, diagram, etc).
No. Dalvik was a new implementation and for the android standard library was used a fork of Harmony.
What are your career goals that you think an MBA from there would either accelerate or open you up for?
It is because these novels were not censored that make them the some of the best novels every written. You know the author is authentic to his works, instead of trying to suck up to others.

Alien just tore the your friend in half? Better not curse. Might offend the reader (and also, because in real life, people don't curse).

Imagine if all those authors have censored themselves for fear of offending their readers. What they would have written would be a nice story about a nice little boy who is very nice and sit around all day, making sure to not offend any one. He lives a very nice and non-offending life. And then he when he becomes nice and old, and... non-offending.

So boring.
Sure they can, hence the "mostly" part. Of course in the course of centuries they've also diverged, as the once underdeveloped (compared to China) Japan started developing its own identity and variations.

Heck, even the 20th century provided enough rapid variation between the 2 countries.

That why I was talking about the "ancient wisdom" being repackaged.
Why do you say so ?

7 figure sum acquisition by a large company like Google, Apple or Microsoft doesn't seem that surprising to me ...
I always thought HR was there to manage the resources the humans need, e.g. teabags. That and justifying their existence by making more resources for the humans. It really does strike me a non-job that requires a lot of work to keep in existence

That's about the only dealings I have with them. I guess that's a benefit of working at a small company :)

On a serious note though, you're right, HR is not your friend, it's there for the companies sack, not yours. I personally have more faith in my immediate manager that HR, at least you have contact with them, vs the nameless/faceless myth that is HR
Tuleap 8.5 released: git, kanban, scrum, mediawiki and Active Directory
Sounds like Bezos is just doing damage control. The original article is somewhat interesting but hardly novel. I've never talked to a single person who worked at Amazon who had anything positive to say. You have recruiters recruiting for Amazon who are basically saying, "Do not work there." They are being paid on commission to get you to work there and they're telling you what a horrible place to work it is, killing any chance of moving forward. I find that quite telling of what kind of place Amazon is.
One of the most important skills a web scraper can have is being able to take the easier path and use an API where it's available. APIs, after all, are just really really nicely-formatted webpages that follow an additional set of generally agreed on standards. If you were interviewing a web scraper for your company, and they didn't know how to parse JSON, you'd probably think twice about giving them an offer. I think it's entirely appropriate -- and necessary -- to include JSON parsing in the list of exercises. (Also, I recently wrote "Web Scraping with Python" (O'Reilly), and had a whole CHAPTER on APIs)
Jeff needs to read the cluetrain manifesto (again), http://cluetrain.com/index.html
Tao of Good API Design
I so totally agree.
That would require some very ugly "under the hood" modifications to clojure that are not easy.
Ask HN: What Metrics/KPIs can be taken from Uservoice, Zendesk for SaaS company?
I'm going to be incredibly unscientific here.

I think it depends on how well a person is able to translate intelligence into writing. Taking myself as an example: I am extremely bad at the written form - my intelligence significantly drops as soon as pen touches paper. However, I don't suffer this penalty with typing. It might have something to do with this:

> Some say that because we write slower than we type, it allows for deeper thinking as opposed to faster thinking

I would say that I'm a subconscious thinker, I draw conclusions and don't always know why. I would rather rephrase that to:

> Some say that because we write slower than we type, it allows for deeper thinking as opposed to fluid thinking

Handwriting is better for deep thinkers, typing is better for fluid thinkers. To each his own. Maybe where you are going with this is that people aren't handwriting when they should be: I could really agree with that.
A pencil and a blank piece of paper can do so much more than just write individual words. I can get an idea down faster with paper, and those diagrams are more descriptive (easier to pick up again in 2 weeks).
What's frustrating is that it, of course, doesn't have to be rotten. We can take one baby step by abolishing terms like "human resources" and "human capital" because labels do matter.

I also wonder if part of the problem is that HR leaders have (broadly speaking) traditionally been 'town planners' when you really need a mix of 'pioneers' and 'settlers' in there too. E.g. don't put a town planner in charge of culture & retention, and don't put a settler in charge of healthcare & benefits compliance.

(Ref: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-to...)
If only there was a structure to represent workers where we could take such issues...
> I wonder what it means, from the standpoint of using or modifying code within the copyright framework, to have this right to "fork your repository?"

It's a conflict between the hosting T&S and the copyright of a derivative work. Just because Github says you can, doesn't mean you can.
Hell yes. Except when writing long documents keyboard it is, of course.

However, I find retrieval and sketching, not to speak of mathematical formulas and diagramming, much easier from a physical notebook.

I've not yet found a digital medium superior to that of a physical notebook for doing 'notebooklike' things.
I think this is an exciting idea, so I hacked out a basic version of this over the weekend. Enjoy!

https://enomic.herokuapp.com/
https://github.com/enomic/enomic
I am completely endorsing this. This is actually really good.

I did 6 months of research, and came up with 120+ companies in the space and 20+ serious competitors, and in typing in a single, pretty poor, keyword approximation to the project, I discovered a new competitor using RivalSeek ( and all the others they listed I was aware of ( and they were in my 20 ) ). Dead set.

How do you do this?

Someone needs to back you. This works.
> Being fun and a net negative for health are not mutually exclusive.

Indeed. But you're making a point that pivots from the point the OP made and I replied to.

The OP suggested that because they witnessed people utilising these devices, that these devices inherently exist to support our (as a group) sedentary lifestyle. That argument is weak simply because it ignores any other value these devices could provide to a user (like enjoyment, faster movement, etc).

It is essentially taking a new concept and looking at it from the most negative viewpoint imaginable, while ignoring the fact that these electronic alternatives offer mountains of improvements to the user and society at large.

Plus if we want to talk about sedentary, what is more sedentary than sitting in a car or on public transport? Certainly not a device where you have to shift your weight around to maneuver it.
My thoughts exactly: which one is true? A) Amazon is a kind of narcissistic codependency/Stockholm syndrome environment; B) the "horror" stories are exaggerated; C) the job is so cool that people are willing to take some abuse; D) there is other reason as to why Amazon succeeds.
This isn't entirely true. An MBA from a lesser program still holds some value. If your goal is to get into a company like McKinsey, you're going to have to work a lot harder at selling yourself than you would at a top-tier program, but people's goals and desires vary.
That's true for our generation, but future generations might lose the hability to do both as we move to a 100% digital era.
"Soylent’s levels of heavy metals are entirely safe and sustainable, even for people using Soylent as a complete food substitute. Trace amounts of lead and cadmium are present everywhere, including drinking water, which is why the FDA and EPA set strict exposure limits. The FDA’s limits for lead in infant formula, which is especially stringent, is 0.5ug/mL.

Our testing is done by Covance, an independent third-party lab, using the ultra sensitive and precise method ICP-MS. Testing protocols are standardized by AOAC International. Lead in Soylent 1.5 is 0.009982ug/mL, less than 1/50th of the FDA requirements for infant food. See the full certificate of analysis of Soylent 1.5 for details.

The FDA does not set cadmium limits for food, but even the highest cadmium levels we have seen in testing, 21ug per serving, is thousands of times lower than the level of any observed effect in Proposition 65 toxicology data. We also test for arsenic, which at 0.7525ug per serving is well below the Proposition 65 limit.

The heavy metal levels specified by California Proposition 65, which were cited in As You Sow’s press release, are much more stringent than those set by the FDA, the EPA, and the WHO. As a result, most packaged foods sold in California, as well as restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, convenience stores, and theme parks are required to display the warning. We are not required to change the product, but we are required to display the Proposition 65 text where we sell our products, which we do.

Soylent is completely safe and 100% compliant with all national (US, Canada, and EU) and state regulations, both in labeling and in levels of heavy metals."

source: http://blog.soylent.com/post/126888496882/soylent-is-complia...
True enough, though that's hardly unique to Amazon either. Apple is likewise famous for that.

Really, I'm seeing a bunch of grousing here on HN that doesn't seem to support the NYT allegations at all, which are much more serious.
The article is nothing new. The work environment at Amazon has been a discussion for years at this point.
The interests of society do not revolve around making life as convenient as possible for business. It is the onus on business to adapt itself to new conditions.

A distributed web scheme should orient itself around giving its users freedom. All other concerns are secondary.
Potentially Habitable Planets
IBM Teams with Canonical to Put Ubuntu Linux on Mainframes
Then you're a fool. No one asked him because he saw an opportunity to raise his brand internally and he went for it.
We have abandoned facebook as well. I had become a false metric driving our ego and that is about it. No impact for returning sales and was a distraction for direct customer service.
It's probably stored in plaintext, unsecured with the user's Mozilla account (whose password is also used to unsecure his stored passwords and browser history, which means that if he hands his information to his buddy or secretary to enable him to update a page, he'll also be handing that buddy or secretary his entire online identity).

But maybe I'm wrong, and it's stored in an encrypted hash-addressed data store, where shared links include the necessary keys.

There are levels of security; it's fine for Webmaker not to be suitable for, e.g., human-rights activists in Burma. But it should not be possible for one data breach to reveal everyone's activity everywhere.
The constant need for combining text with small sketches makes pen and paper a useful tool. Less to do with handwriting, more with the flexibility pen and paper offers.

Write my diary by hand. Makes it pretty much unhackable and it's a good way to start the day. Habit I guess.
I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company.

The cynic in me would interpret this as a tacit invitation by the Bezo-man himself to unhappy employees to beat it and don't let the door hit them on their rears on their way out if they don't like working here but I could be wrong but with the likes of Bezos and Ellison, you shouldn't set the bar really high when it comes to human empathy.
when I write on paper I can instantaneously use scale, spacing, font size, font style, text orientation, illustration, flow charts and more to impart a lot more information into a space than I can do just bashing out on a keyboard, I love computers, I love paper too, I think a union is the best of both worlds but a portable paper equivalent is still a way off.
How so? Technical reasons, or because people assume you've been steeped in a toxic culture long enough that you're radioactive yourself?
Data synchronization and Memory management is a major flaw in the concept of a distributed web as described by this article. Is the author suggesting taking all application data that exists on all web servers today, and hosting it on each device connected to the network (billions of devices) ?
Going to HR is indeed the end. I had one boss suggest that some incredibly minor conflict be solved by HR. Immediately, I knew it was time to change jobs. A few weeks later, when I handed in my resignation, my boss was surprised and tried to get me to stay. I offered them about a 15% increase in pay, but left as they weren't interested. I still don't understand why he'd be surprised. I suppose some people, even after many years in the corporate world, have no idea how it works. So I've come up with something to help me remember:

"Going to HR" === "End of job"
No, I boycott Israel over their governments treatment of Palestinians.
Best Research Paper Award: “Algorithms for Public-Private Social Networks”
At the last user conference for some iSeries-based software that we run, IBM had a booth where they displayed a 2U server with dual 16-core Power7 CPUs. They bragged that it only ran Linux and would save us a ton of money. They started out at about $20,000 US.

How small is this market? You'd have to have apps that were written to take advantage of Power7. Equivalent x86 Linux servers are 1/4 the price.
How 2 Non-Technical Cofounders Grew and Sold a Startup for Millions
I still write a variety of things. I've found it improves my ability to recall the things I write

> Some say that because we write slower than we type, it allows for deeper thinking as opposed to faster thinking, which could be beneficial.
Since writing takes longer, I tend to mull over what I'm trying to communicate and condense it. This is likely why I remember it better. However ....

> because it's harder to edit one is more careful while writing
Absolutely not! Given a half pages written text I would likely have no less than a dozen clear markups where I revised or edited a thought.

I certainly don't want to write everything, or produce professional quality hand-written text, but I find benefit in actually writing things down
Ask HN: Protect yourself from majority cofounder?
Regular HN user here, posting under a throwaway account.

I'm in talks to join a small startup as a technical cofounder.

I've never had a cofounder relationship in a business before and only worked as a solo entrepreneur and a regular employee.

I really believe in this startup, and it's potential but I'm risk adverse. I will be working on the startup alongside my day job and other (mostly-passive) side projects.

In this case, the partner brings a lot more to the table than I do (including their audience and especially their customer base). The project will not be a success without them (but could be without myself). So, I'll be doing a lot of up-front pre-revenue work but taking a minority ownership.

With that said, what steps can one take to protect themselves, as a minority owner, from a majority owner? And what things should I look out for? And how have others structured similar partnerships?
> If you replace walking with one of these, your lifestylie is more sedentary than it was.

And if you replace driving or sitting on a bus with one of these then you're less sedentary/getting more exercise.

See the glass can be half full too.
They exist to protect the company, not you.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that they can't be on your side. If you report that your boss is doing something which is against company policy and hurts the company, it's quite possible for HR to be simultaneously on your side and on the company's side.
... for some definition of "easiest." Maybe I would agree if you don't need to support a custom look-and-feel (Win32-looking apps don't really fly anymore), responsive layout, high DPI, touch/pen input, system theme colors, accessibility, localization, and haven't learned XAML.

WPF and UWP apps are both far easier.
A good roadmap for a new distributed web should be broken down by OSI model layer, showing what protocols and technologies exist that need to be replaced, what levels of the OSI model they span, and identifies single points of failure lower in the stack that must be accommodated. Too few people understand how brittle the web is by its reliance on the "magical" underpinnings of the Internet continuing to "just work".

For example, let's say we want privacy, anonymity and high availability for something fundamental like name lookups. It's not enough to simply replace DNS with namecoin (L7), if there's a critical vulnerability in openssl on linux that could force a fork in the network, possibly leading to existing blocks getting orphaned (L6), if every single session that goes through AT&T gets captured, and the corresponding netflow stored in perpetuity for later analysis and deanonymization (L5), if this application's traffic could be used for reflection amplification attacks (L4) due to host address spoofing (L3). One might try to get around those issues by direct transmission of traffic between network endpoints (asynchronous peer-to-peer ad hoc wireless networks via smartphones or home radio beacons, for example), but then you not only need to deal with MAC address spoofing and VLAN circumvention, (L2) but with radio signal interference from all the noisy radios turned up to max broadcast volume, shouting over one another, trying to be heard (L1) and accomplishing little more than forcing TCP retransmissions higher up in the stack.

And really what's the point, when you can't even trust that the physical radios in your phone or modem aren't themselves vulnerable to their fundamentally insecure baseband processor and its proprietary OS? Turns out, what you were relying on to be "just a radio" has its own CPU and operating system with their own vulnerabilities.

Solving this from the top down with a "killer app" is impossible without addressing each layer of the protocol stack. Each layer in the network ecosystem is under constant attack. Every component is itself vulnerable to weaknesses in all the layers above and below it. Vulnerabilities in the top layers can be used to saturate and overwhelm the bottom layers (like when Wordpress sites are used to commit HTTP reflection and amplification attacks), and vulnerabilities in the lower layers can be used to subvert, expose, and undermine the workings of the layers above them. The stuff in the middle (switches) are under constant threat of misuse from weaknesses both above AND below.

It might be tempting for an app developer to read this blog post and think "Oh wow, what a novel idea! Why is nobody doing this?" But in reality, legions of security and network researchers, as well as system, network, and software engineers around the world toil daily to uncover and address the core vulnerabilities that hinder these sorts of efforts.
Why not use Pump.io? It's exactly as you describe.
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Sure. But - serious question - what offering from Microsoft would you replace it with?
In my opinion the closest thing is the Microsoft surface with OneNote. I thought I would use it lots. But sketch down on pen and paper and photograph it with smartphone works just as well.
One of the primary selling points of React is better performance of the virtual DOM, which apparently has no prove in benchmarks [1].

[1] https://aerotwist.com/blog/react-plus-performance-equals-wha...
The verdict is in: feel-good exercise hormone irisin is real
> This just as much applies to Mozilla as it does Chrome. Mozilla's response to why they won't implement Pepper is just as "pie in the sky, who cares what users want" as Chrome removing NPAPI is.

This seems like an unfair comparison. "Remove existing functionality that we no longer want to support" and "support a large technology with a single implementation and no specification" are not even in the same ballpark.
Secure online file shredder
A minimal browser (like surf/uzbl) with Chrome-like security sandboxing.
I'd love to see a GTK-style version, i.e. a hue wheel with a S/L triangle like this: http://i.imgur.com/yscI9Iy.png
This used to be my choice of integration. Microsoft web front end and AS/400 back end for warehouse. DB2 is a beast.
Looks really great. Why the React dependency though? Would be more flexible, faster, and avoid dependency hell if it was vanilla JS.
Keep this in mind: It's easier to find a job when you already have one. It takes the stress off the process and you automatically become more desirable for some reason.

If I were you I wouldn't cut off the opportunity immediately, but I would continue looking for another job at the same time. The world has changed in the last few decades in terms of job loyalty so there won't be any kind of stigma against you if you only stay for a short while and you can say "I was offered a better job" as the reason for leaving.
So "Haskell is poorly equipped for implementing compilers" because it doesn't fit your bizarro requirements, including "efficient embedded Prolog and Datalog"...
could be very very wrong

You are.
That's kind of the reasoning I'm rejecting. In the year 1915, Americans could on average tie 100 knots (can't cite the source, but yes it was something I once read), and I'm sure many more were a bit more seafaring and horse riding. As we developed cars and planes and clips, all those skills have receded. They aren't gone, we can all tie our shoes and swim in a pool, but these are physical actions, I doubt we'll ever lose them. And yes, kids are dumb, but eventually they become adults who understand that writing has a place in their lives.
Lucy: Intelligent Mirror, Reflects Sunlight, Solar Powered
Game Over: Common Gamification Mistakes to Avoid
> this isn't reddit

Exactly. Only reddit would draw conclusions from the metaphorical device in an analogy.
CSS Selectors Inside Selectors: Discover :matches(), :not() and :nth-child()
I don't seem to understand, is this a blogging platform? Any video that explains this?
I'm an occasional user, I've heard of the domains specific searchs but I was not aware of the ability to do the !java8 thing, that might be really convenient.
I would guess this type of stuff is done in part to counter Israel's increasing international isolation because of the occupation stuff. I'm not sure I'd want to be involved in that type of stuff and just go elsewhere if I was interested in an international MBA.

The needs of the occupation drive a lot of research at Technion, understandably so:

http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2014/11/9/the-tech...
I would buy into that argument, except that the ratifying part, at least in the USA, is already rigged. The US Congress has passed a "fast track" authorization. As I understand this, "fast track" means that a single yes/no ratification vote takes place, with limited debate, and no "line item veto" - in the USA, the TPP is all or nothing. I have no idea if the text of the trade pact will be made available, and for how long. No US Senator or Representative can be "against" "free trade", so the TPP is pretty much doomed to pass, at least in the USA. We can only hope that it gets derailed elsewhere, like ACTA got derailed in Europe two years ago.