skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to think about what that kind of money actually does for you. First and foremost, you can retire comfortably. But then, between splurging on luxuries (like an expensive home or two) and investing (particularly indulging in a personal interest, like space), it's not clear what that kind of wealth really does for you. Perhaps it is a social function of giving access to people with similar levels of wealth, and, one would hope, similar levels of talent/intelligence/wisdom. (Or maybe the world sucks and most rich people are just lucky and cunning.) Certainly it puts you in a potent position of advocacy - imagine being able to tell Glen Greenwald, "I love what you're doing so here's $5M to start a media company that supports and expands that."

Idle thoughts.
Two views, both for the full length, give or take.
So excited about this...amazing Q&A experience.
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It's an off-the-shelf RF2915 wireless module running at ~913MHz.

http://www.dbzoo.com/cybiko/functionalblockdiagram
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheet/RFMD/RF2915.pdf

It was controlled by its own little AVR microcontroller that handles the low level protocol. It wasn't fast --- 19.2 kbps.
Searching for a job completely sucks and recruiters are terrible to tech talent. I'm so glad some attention is being aimed at this.
Yes, it says somewhere on the site that it uses soundwaves to share the initial key with your device.

But that's NOT an excuse to make the device depend on the Mobile ecosystem.

If it can play a code on the speaker, it can just talk. In English. Via thirty-six audio files: a.wav, b.wav, ... 9.wav. Ok, thirty-seven recordings--can't forget welcome_to_your_new_router_your_key_is.wav. :)
Hi Ryan, can you explain a little about what makes your service different from that offered by other companies in the industry? (Dell, Cisco etc).
OnHub is made by TP-Link, it seems. I have a TP-Link and it has worked flawlessly too.
Yeah, Wave was a great tool for remote collaboration/project management. There's the Apache Wave bundle you can self-host, but it's not as simple as just linking someone to wave.google.com.
Apple CarPlay Review: Siri’s Finally on the Right Road
Any other perks like this (business owner with no employees) I can take advantage of?
Interesting read. It's about time that recruiters are put in their place, the majority are lazy/untalented yet they take 20% cut. It's not right :X (Disclaimer: I'm biased).
Ultimately, you're right. But they can slow it down, and they can make a lot of money in the years in between.

And even patents only give you 20 years. After that, it's free to anyone, world wide.
Google launches OnHub, a $200 Wi-Fi router
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Ok, maybe no air raid sirens. But you could talk over them, which is a bit more analogous to what was done here :)
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I very much like the term "fog computing" for P2P anti-cloud software. Hope it catches on.
"Please note that some features may not function with certain privacy settings turned off, and some information (such as the association of your Google Account to your OnHub) is stored by Google even if all privacy controls are turned off"

I am sticking with my Asus AC66U which has more features and is also cheaper than this Google device
http://amzn.com/B008ABOJKS
In MESOS-1806, it mentions replacing ZK with ReplicatedLog or etcd. The replicated log is a mesos native construct, that has no external dependencies.

If you can replace ZK with a native Mesos construct, seems like it allows you to remove ZK entirely. I meant to say "optionally allow removing ZK as a dependency" in the original post. You're totally correct in that regard.
As someone pointed out in a comment for a previous year's article 'The Smartest Man' is likely George Soros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
Not sure what you're talking about. The design looks completely different and they do different things. Juno seems like a code editor with fancy features. This Tonic on the other hand is a repl.
As a Brit I feel that there definitely needs to be more friendly rivalries to push this field.

The UK could definitely create some of these beautifully named Jaegers:

http://usvsth3m.com/post/56419473686/british-jaegers-what-if...
Most people I know just use Google for site search by adding the site name to the query. More sophisticated queries can use site:reddit.com syntax, but usually adding reddit to a query should have the desired effect.

If any DuckDuckGo guy around here, is there a command for reddit search, like !rd or something.
How do you redistribute?
Will it be open-sourced?
Honestly, I've had to endure countless terrible recruiters/agencies, to the point that I don't even pick up the phone unless they have been referred by word of mouth - or if I really need the cash ;) And 9/10 times, they haven't even bothered to read your profile, it's just a blind mail shot
> For multiplication, I think the math works out the same for unsigned and signed, within mod bit-size and you throw away the "overflow"?

Yeah, true. I recalled there being separate instructions and then messed up my napkin math to check if it made a difference within the relevant range.
How a project performs today tells you the zeroth derivative of its location. Looking at the commit log tells you about the first derivative. How people react to Call Me Maybe when its about their product gives you a lot of information about the second derivative.
Thanks for pointing out Juno, looks like a useful tool. I had never heard of it before, and it did not influence our work. I suspect some things might look similar to you since some of both of our websites use bootstrap, but I'd go so far as to say that I don't agree that they look very much alike or that anyone would confuse our product for Juno.
The local option is something we're definitely trying to wrap our heads around. Right now many of the features we offer are thanks to being hosted. For example, the reason you have instant access to all 175,814 node packages (and every version of those) is thanks to a pretty unique setup. On the other hand we totally understand your use case and letting us know about it certainly makes us take notice.
Oh I love zookeeper and have no issues whatsoever with it. However, it is almost universally the first thing I hear people moan about when someone suggest they use Mesos. People don't like Zookeeper.
I'd like to hear more on this, have you raised the question on Reddit too?
Great gig if you can get in.
There are some (very private, very exclusive) preschools that start teaching kids C++ at 3 years old.

I'm not sure how much success they have, or if it's just a vanity thing, but there you go.
The YC donation was more than enough to cover the cost of airfare and living in Mountain View for three months. I spent the majority of it on Zidisha rather than living expenses. Another reason we ended up staying in the Airbnb location, other than the affordability, was that Adam became good friends with one of the neighbor kids. :)
If you have their tax returns, you can mail them a letter, or often even phone or email them.
Windows Update Begins Installing Malware
This has been done for years domestically Farmers have been driven to bankruptcy by Monsanto, Pioneer etc for simply having fields where cross-contamination occurred. Now all that is happening is this idea is being enforced internationally...too bad. I had hoped people outside the US would force us to realize this error.
I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.
We've actually had way more than 100 responses so far and it's growing. Would love you to submit your info!
Use of unlicensed radio spectrum requires that you accept any interference caused by others.
How would you make it better?
I like the "for example.." present in most sentences.
You keep saying things like 'who is to decide?'. If you really believed that, you would cease posting your opinions here.

The point about people not wanting to wait for Apple is valid in that certain people can protect themselves ahead of apple distributing a fix.

However it clearly doesn't change the calculus since the number of people who can protect themselves is miniscule compared to the number of people made vulnerable. Even if it takes a month, that is going to distribute the patch far faster than this.

There is nothing controversial about this. It's a matter of statistics.
Yeah I was playing with it > 6 months ago, and Aurora was solid then as well.
Thomas Jefferson, who was the first Secretary of state (and the first patent executor) as the original congress put the PTO in the department of state was said to have very stringent reduction to practice requirements - and iirc you could count how many parents he signed off on on your fingers and toes.

I think reduction to practice is still on the books but administratively ignored.
The source code for SubredditSimulator is now available on GitHub
My experience hasn't been that bad. I don't hit all of the tech buzzwords in my titles, but still the emails are the worst.
I think BT in the UK (one of the main ISPs) do this:

>"When you buy any BT broadband package you receive unlimited FREE access to BT Wi-fi, the UK's largest wi-fi network, plus millions of Fon hotspots overseas. Simply use the BT broadband email address and password you were given when you joined us.

>"To get the FREE service you'll share a small, separate and secure portion of your home broadband connection with other members of the BT Wi-fi community. This is what creates the millions of hotspots you can use out and about." (http://www.btwifi.com/help/login-with-bt/help-broadband-cust...) //

In other words "you can't buy a BT broadband package without giving your router to be used as part of our wi-fi network". Marketing, probably most users don't realise they're part of the "wi-fi network"?
> Is that what you really want? A wifi AP that can be configured from the web?

Uh. Yes. In fact anything else is a deal-breaker to me and I regularly buy $300+ routers.

> Because THAT's how you get hacked.

If the router admin-interface is a POS written by the same rails-developers who leave delete operations on GET links, sure. I don't though, and I think the OpenWRT developers would take offence at such a blanket-statement like that.

But let's take your statement at face value: Web-based interfaces are inherently unsafe. Should we shut down all web-applications then? Should web shut the entire web down? That's the logical end of your extreme line of thought after all.
If you are taxed as an S-corp you can deduct 100% of your health insurance premiums, at least through 2015. The IRS is still trying to figure out how the ACA applies, so this may be different in 2016.

That's the only other one I can think of.
Not to mention Alphabet is a holding company and won't have any products. It will all be done through the subsidiary companies (e.g.
the new Google).
bell never had a monopoly because you could choose to run wires to all the people you want to communicate with, you merely pay them because it's worth it over the alternative.
In the two months since the article was published his predictions on Chinese equity markets, Greece in the Eurozone and Iran look broadly correct.
I read God's words all day long. Half the time, I have to talk, the other half, I get to read God. God is my favorite author.

The hardest thing in evolution was getting monkey mothers to hold babies for nursing. The average atheist nigger says, "That's not hard." What's harder, nigger? You have to make it orient the baby by making DNA randomly make neural circuits when the brain grows. You don't just make neural circuits -- you make DNA that makes neural circuits.
Smothering was sometimes a problem with nursing.

God said T-rex lugged carcases over his shoulder.

God said if a tall dinosaur stumbled, it was fatal.

God said brontosaur's feet hurt when he took steps.

God said dinos slept in water.
I think that's probably a given for most of us. I work in the financial sector and it's the same here. The longer you stay put, the more is expected of you until finally you either move or quit. Work-life balance is a buzzword most places, especially the ones that say it's "your responsibility" (as if we can somehow choose the projects assigned to us, set the deadlines, and design the workload to our choosing).

And regarding the idea that dogs were a way to mask the lack of work-life balance, it makes perfect sense. The biggest thing that throws work and life out of balance is the conflict between family and work. If you can replace family with a dog, that's a huge win for them.
Cost of not acting on climate change $44 trillion: Citi
Wow! Do you have data or a source for this?
Maybe if intent to jam wireless could be demonstrated, but there are no codes I know of that require a certain level of permittivity in a building, and indeed many buildings all but squash signals- and that is the user's problem.
We might as well say "So I created this random number generator and seeded from the Internet and allowed people to comment on the random numbers they put in! We even gave an incredibly high example that honestly won't skew the results at all."

When I read the example I immediately thought, man, I need to move to the bay area... Until I realised it was made up.
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Depends on the kid's personality (currently sub-one year old).

I don't want to force programming/engineering/etc down their throat if they aren't that way inclined. I'm going to wait and see what they're interested in and encourage that rather than trying to force my interests on them.

Sure, programming is a useful skill, but so are a lot of things. If they show an interest or just want to try what daddy does, then sure, I'll be all over that.

Ultimately it is a very thin line between pushing something on them and giving them useful life skills. But one person's opinion on what a key life skill is entirely different from another, for example some people believe a kid needs to know how to kill, gut, and cook a fish, but I don't.

I will, if given the choice, send them to a school with Computer Science-like classes in particular in their teens. Since being basically computer literate and being able to manipulate something as useful as Excel (or actually programming) might help them no matter their career.
No regrets for Harvard student who lost Facebook internship for exposing flaw
> The wireless radios in routers deteriorate

Citation needed. What exactly do you think is deteriorating here? It's not like the antenna is oxidizing from use…
I don't think it has to do with available free time, but the ability to stay in a single place and build large machines.

How exactly would a nomadic tribe be able to build the infrastructure required for space travel?
(Some?) Panasonic microwaves claim to be able to lower microwave power linearly without the on/off power cycling. I'm mildly curious if their marketing claims of superior cooking hold up.

http://www.panasonic.com/in/consumer/home-appliances-learn/t...
That's rather advanced. What hardware are you programming with the VHDL?
Talking over each other would be the same as running two or ten routers on the same channel, which is not an issue. This approach actively prevents communication.
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Mine was not watched.
That Fritz!Box 7490 is US $320 on Amazon. OnHub is $200. I doubt many the sub $100 routers most people get do that sort of thing. So maybe nothing special but that is quite a high end router you're comparing it to.
Debian and Slackware: both roughly same age (Slackware releasing first). Contrasting package management, patching policies and governance models. I find the stable releases of both to be, well, stable.
Recruiters have a place in helping find work, I wouldn't say they need to be put in their place.
My point wasn't that those aren't good but that they're hard enough to do effectively that most places won't see much benefit until they've done a bunch of other things first.

e.g. how many places use least-privilege auth credentials vs. having something like AWS keys or shared database credentials which have access to a ton of shared resources? I'd want to compartmentalize something like that well before changing the UID which code runs under since it's available without any further exploits.
I didn't make that argument. Stop shifting the burden. You're the one making fanatical claims with precisely zero evidence.

The world isn't binary. Disagreeing with you doesn't automatically mean I believe "well, in the past it happened that way so it must continue to happen that way."

My only point is that you should be applying the same litmus test to yourself that you're applying to everyone else. You're balking at the certainty of others seemingly without acknowledging that you're suffering from precisely the same flaw in your communication.
> Pocket began life as a Firefox add-on

And that's what it should have remained! Promote it all you like on your websites, but please let it, and all featurees like it, be separate from the main web browsing functionality, because far from every one of your users wants or needs this!

I, and I'm sure many other Firefox users are deeply disappointed by the Mozilla track record of including questionable features such as this. That's why, I have already started [1] figuring out how to switch to ESR channel by default on all systems that I have control over: I want the security updates, but I don't have the time and effort necessary to browse through all the crap features Mozilla introduces and figure out how to tweak and/or disable them on a six-week basis.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/q/659246/181242
To add insult to injury, they usually give me free WiFi. The bastards.
so would jamming also count as "interference caused by others"?
I'm glad that people found this to be a point of significance. I've worked in the commercial networking hardware industry for some years and shelved several consumer ideas due to a lack of interest in security/privacy.

I have watched over many years as this 'cloud' software bonanza has eclipsed the tech industry. It went away from its original intent a long time ago and now is used as the holy-grail method of :

> ensuring (rent) is always paid for service(s) people should OWN

> vacuuming up and selling people's data.

I have several projects on my plate. However, I have a solid one for securing people's data when it comes to the IoT movement (in hardware)... It revolves around the same hardware/technology that the industry uses to scrape and funnel your data except the home user will now have it at their disposal as well.

Users should have 100% control of their data. If someone wants to 'monetize' it or use it to 'improve' their platform, the user should be rightfully paid for the opportunity to do so.

Disruption? Yeah, I think it's time. The foolishness has gotten far too long in the tooth.

.. And the backwards thing about it is: there are simple and straight forward ways to secure data (in hardware). It's only because everyone in the industry wants to ship your data all over the place and data-mine the snot out of it that things are as insecure as they are.

The very (loop-hole) or (door) that is used to funnel/mine/monetize/cloudify data is the very one used as an attack vector. Complicating the crap out of things at that point defeats the whole purpose.... Get rid of the door all together and the home is the least of all places where you should be exposing yourself.
I was my son's primary caregiver for several months while my wife recovered from surgery (for 1 month she was unable to provide any care, even 'babysitting'). He was around 9-12 months. It was far more exhausting than anything else I've ever done. I went to the grocery store while he slept, laundry in the mornings. I wrote code at night or nap time, or sometimes during the day when he was content to play with toys.

You very quickly learn to drop the stuff that doesn't matter; I'm a more productive developer today because of it. I was forced to develop a critical eye and abandon designs that didn't work immediately. I also lost my taste for TV shows, movies, and most podcasts; now I'd rather build something than consume content.

Good for Julia; I have a lot of sympathy. Frankly I have a lot of sympathy for single parents as well... I used to have harsh uninformed opinions on the subject (that I see often repeated around HN and tech in general, especially by privileged young guys like myself). Then I had to live it for reasons entirely outside my control.
I thought there was a bounty for it on FreedomSponsors already, though it appears there isn't one yet ...
My entry would be awesome. $3.46 here, $822.12 there... You get the picture.
Who is stupid enough to give away all their financial information into a random web form for nothing.
C++ makes no sense to me. Considering how much underpinning you need to have to write bad C++ (C, ASM, x86 memory model, basic programming concept, OO concepts, the libraries, etc).

A language like BASIC seems much more rational, or some specific educational language (inc. visual programming language).

To be frank I'm a little skeptical any pre-school does this (C++) no matter how private or exclusive. Seems like the kids wouldn't even understand what it is they're doing in C++ without years of pre-knowledge.

Heck most adult programmers cannot really write C++...
Since Stacky.program() just makes a function(x,y) I added a palette generator. red is at y==0 green y=0.5 blue at y=1.0

so the palette program "x" generates a greyscale. "xy*" makes it orangy.
Pulling Back the Curtain on Google’s Network Infrastructure
I agree with you about the MongoDB barrier. That's the only reason I haven't already set up a Rocket.chat server myself yet.

I have worked with MongoDB on several applications in the past, and I just "don't get" why people think so highly of it.
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Ultimately depends on marketing, consumer reception, how well developed the product is and how overall user experience is. I think that's really what would either make or break it.
There's also a form in the footer now to be notified by email when we can deliver to your zip code.
Looking forward to seeing PostgreSQL support! MongoDB is the only reason I'm not using Rocket.chat at the moment.
Well, talking about optimizations and all of that, the reason to be against this is not because of big sections of code being unoptimized. It's the death by a thousand paper cuts. Every small object requires its own (extra) information besides its fields. Even if that's one double word that identifies a virtual function table, if the object is 16 bytes that's 25% more storage space required. Not that a well implemented object oriented scheme wouldn't work nicely, but given a naïve or overblown approach.

In any case, modern CPUs and compilers can use aggressive optimization, sure, and the runtime speed is only equally as important as the ease of development and concerns about reliability.

On an older system, though, using a liberal OOP design in an operating system would be akin to creating structs that have arrays of function pointers associated with them, and having every function call routed through those pointers. Looking at the machine executing this code, you would reliably see jumps to similar codepoints in-between function calls, and a lot of wasted time or space. And I'm not sure anyone has mentioned this, but exception handling especially can add a lot of overhead.

Obviously, the benefits significantly outweighed the cons, especially in this case (NeXTSTEP and Objective-C), but I think that was helped substantially by the fact that projects Steve worked on always had much better computer hardware.
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