skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been on the inside implementing some of these systems the main driver is consistently desperation to 'engage' the workforce by trying to create in-work communities.

Employee engagement is a key metric for a productive workforce but the studies that I saw all showed it declining over the past decade. Along come the 'social platform' salesmen and cleverly pitch at Business clients, who then tell Technology that they've found a solution to engagement if we'd just hurry-up and deploy $PLATFORM.

The enthusiasm usually lasts until the end of the initial support period, three years say, and then another $PLATFORM arrives which will definitely solve the problem.

Providing a social platform is fine but the employees need to have meaningful, empowered work before they'll even be motivated to look at it. In the absence of that, coercion reached the stage where employees were being forced to create their profiles on the new platform as part of annual goals.

So many profiles created and avatars loaded, never to be used...
Social Networking and Ethics
I'm not convinced the Queen is doing much oppressing these days...
This issue is of interest with respect to the Ashley Madison adult-finder hack and subsequent lawsuits.
Given a wireframe, machine writes app code by itself [video]
I'm not sure what this project does rather than advocate use of Sphinx and provide some tools to set it up, that is, what is continuous about it, I don't know. Perhaps something to work on in the README.

All being said, Sphinx is a decent tool (and I wrote WAAY too much of it in the last three years), but I have grown to strongly dislike reStructured Text -- I have to look up the URL linking syntax, for instance, almost every time I use it.

Having something like Sphinx that ate Markdown instead would make me rather happy.
I hate charts. There is no standard way to present data so you have to learn and think about how to process the data you see. Whereas a simple column of numbers in percentages or whatever is almost instant to process as it requires no more than understanding that 55% is more than 45% for example.
Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000)
W.org redirects to wordpress.org
I should've mentioned that I was still going to give the option of creating a local account. I definitely don't want to completely rely on third party login systems for my application, I just want to give the option to users. Do you mind elaborating on how LinkedIn can be overly invasive? Are Facebook and Twitter as invasive?
Bit of a click bait title. What some guy imagines a brain scan on Leonardo would have looked like seems closer.
Pros and Cons of Free VPN Services
My previous laptop was a late 2006 15" macbook pro, so I find my 12" Macbook to be fast enough.

I hope for a suitable external display some day.
Never realized that Gmail has a Storage Limit
Very similar to how slack was introduced to our organization.
User-space system emulator doesn't require the OS for which the binary was built
I could not get money to install on windows 10
I'm shocked when people complain they can't make ends meet at a $400k income. A quick google search shows that the cost of living in San Francisco may be on the high side by American standards, but would be completely unremarkable here in Western Europe, where an income that high is almost unheard of. Maybe they expect too much? Do they want a large family villa with room for two cars and a 100 year old oak in the yard in a neighborhood that's not too, uhm, 'diverse', and no more than half an hour from work and the downtown area? Yeah, your bosses want that too, so that's why it's expensive. You'll have to settle for something less perfect, or move somewhere else.
The title on this question is a bit dramatic. After all, this couple does earn more than double Cupertino's median household income of $160k. The median home price in Cupertino is $1.74M so it seems like a better response than the whiny top response on Quora is: how can this couple not afford a home there on a $400k salary when clearly so many other people can?
Money doesn't work on Windows 10. Or at least, I couldn't get it to work for me.
Specialized cranes should make this last some seconds per container.
http://www.konecranesusa.com/industries/intermodal-and-rail
Since you both speak French, Montreal could be an option.

You'll earn less, you won't have much for your tax dollars, and you'll need to get used to the weather.

However, it's safer than San Francisco, housing is cheaper, and seasons are very real.
Most of the suggestions I've seen are either Mint (another Intuit product), Personal Capital (more investing focused), Hello Wallet (a bit lacking on features, but it connects to bank accounts), and PocketSmith (a really expensive Mint on steroids).
Show HN: Strider – test deployments and bake AMIs from Python
It wouldn't be free.

Loved or hated, the VA is a large HMO set up as a benefit for veterans to help them because many of them have had to sacrifice their personal health to fulfill orders their were given.

Any healthcare system is riddle with anecdotes of failures, but if you look at it from a population health perspective, as a whole the VA has been able to care for its patients with a pretty good quality if you consider the cost constraints they are working with. I'm not aware of any private health system that's as efficient as the VA.

Also, the VA has had a fair amount of innovation that then trickles down to the rest of the healthcare systems. One example is BlueButton, a method to obtain a dump of all your healthcare records as a patient. Eventually CMS (Medicare) enhanced it and started promoting for everyone else, under the spec "BlueButton Plus".
There was a great talk on the topic of CRISPR-Cas9 at the Hacker News London meet up this month by Edward Perello. Video is here: https://vimeo.com/137001197. It's a good introduction to the topic from a hacker's perspective.
The Icon Programming Language seems pretty cool
I was reading over the SPITBOL wiki page and came across a reference to the Icon Programming Language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_%28programming_language%29

Now granted a lot of it is supported by modern languages in the form of list comprehensions and generators, but the way it's combined with the idea of 'goal directed execution' is really cool imo.

But the part that shocked me is that this language was released in 1977.

What other amazing things have I missed because I'm not old enough to remember?
> complicated taxation

Of course they do. Making something more burdensome makes it easier to attack politically. The Republican ideal tax return would be 796 pages long.

"Tax returns too long? Vote Republican! We'll cut taxes on the rich!"
Hi everyone,

I wrote a Python program to test automated deployments in VMs (like Vagrant) in order to catch up on boto, and then realized it was a very small step to teach it to bake AMIs (like Packer). The win is you have one file and program that describes your configuration rather than two, and it's all written in one language that can share code.

Strider only supports AWS and the 'shell' provisioner at this time (which is fine for running ansible and I imagine masterless Puppet/Chef as well), but I'm very open to pull requests to add new plugins.

The included "shell" provisioner example rsync's some ansible content to a remote system and then runs it. It's not abstracted in the least, it exposes every single CLI flag when invoking ansible, but that also makes it a bit easier to customize, which I like.
Show HN: Choosing colors without a color wheel
6 Ways a Prototype Will Enhance Your Startup Idea
Meh, try the Thiel vs Graeber debate: http://thebaffler.com/videos/graeber-thiel#.VdnQA7O37tQ
Predictable for a typical large corp. Not particularly predictable for companies projecting a cool hacker company persona.
North Dakota Cops Are Periscoping Traffic Stops and It's Not Going Well
I am pretty certain the median home owner in the desirable Bay area cities could not afford their homes at their income level. The rise in home prices relative to incomes is pervasive in almost every city with good jobs. We live in crazy times. You can't blame low interest rates or "foreign investors". But don't hate on the people whining because they have a valid point :)
There are some errors in the article. May two four is a distinctly Eastern Canada slang. In western Canada, it is simply May long weekend.

Two four to refer to 24 beer is also Eastern Canada. In western Canada, you call it a flat.

Finally, as a Canadian who has lived outside of Canada for a long time, Canadians really do use eh a lot. It is just that it is a subconscious element of the language that we are not aware of. For the record, Americans use huh a lot in similar contexts and I'll bet they are similarly unaware.
On iPhone I can't get focus to edit the demo. That is slightly concerning.
I thought patents only lasted 17 years. Having said that, would it be possible to publicly fund more open research? The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised $100m, for example.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/08...
I hop you realize a 2 bed 2 bath condo goes for about 1.2-2 million in SF. In San Jose it'll run you about 600k for a decent neighborhood.
Need Your Help with Our New App Release
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The main idea of the StartUp is the 60 seconds rule. So, you would snap a selfie or a pic, post it on GoWemy and get a rating on your style (clothes, bags, accessories) in 60 seconds from anonymous users all around the globe :)

For that we need a large database of pre subscribed users. Do you have any idea what should we do to increase our number of presubscribed users? We contacted Mashable and other media for Press Release but got no response.

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Living Wage Calculator by State, County, or City
You can use Webpack's profiling information with http://webpack.github.io/analyse/ to get a similar graph.
WALTER: Is My Web Content Altered?
I'm from Manitoba and we say two-four all the time…
The Problem with IRC
Part of the social contract with our (USA) soldiers is health care. Just as the treaties say the US government will provide health care to the Native American tribes. The US has done a horrible (criminal, really) job of it.

As this point the US should give the veterans the same insurance place Congress gets.
So basically continue codes from NES games.
Having a cheat sheet around, or editor support helps.

I'm not sure fragmenting doc string syntax further is a good idea for the python community. There's been efforts to support Markdown on pypi for README.md. But even that has been met with a lot of resistance.
Dropbox finally open-sources its Hackpad collaborative document editor
I agree with the bundling. It's essentially per-user pricing, but it's an easier pill to swallow. The pitch becomes something like "Simple pricing that doesn't break your budget".

My reasoning for the $15 was that that's a fully loaded hour at a bit more than minimum wage. I think it's a good reference point for thinking about how much a company might save with the tool. Though for just vacations you're maybe saving less than an hour.
Salaries in Real Time – How many work hours it takes to buy things
Oh my days, disaster. I am going back to C++
How about: I learned that responsible disclosure can both improve user privacy and prevent bad publicity for my company?
Torrent Trackers Ban Windows 10 Over Privacy Concerns
> The queen is a total irrelevance in Canada

Not to everyone:

http://www.monarchist.ca/

Although you are right that many people do not care for the Queen, there are still pockets here and there who do, and she's obviously acknowledged everywhere in government, as a tour of Parliament Hill will attest. Newspapers report the prosecution of a criminal trial as "the Crown", and land that belongs to the government is called Crown property.

I have yet to meet a Francophone who has any love for the Queen, though. Some must exist somewhere.
I've played with the new Macbook and really like it but haven't actually made the purchase. I have a 2014 rMBP, 16GB and it's a beast. I do a lot of programming and run a lot of builds/test suites and CPU/Memory intensive processes so having the horsepower available is important to me.

The 2015 Macbook pack less of a punch in the name of portability and a sleek design. I think if you are not doing anything "heavy" like running a bunch of VMs or doing heavy computation/builds you should be fine for day to day usage as an average coding folk.

It's my opinion that the new Macbook is a way to get a higher-end machine into the hands of many. It also looks like the Macbook with it's slim design and lighter weight could put some pressure on the MacBook Air line to up its game or could possibly eliminate it entirely.

The 12" Macbook is nice and if I had the money I'd probably buy one, but I'm spoiled to my rMBP 15 even though it weighs a metric ton.
Same here. I don't think I've heard anyone ever call it a flat.
How Afropunk Became a Full-Blown Movement
> This wasn’t a new concern: In 2012, CNET had brought this issue to Facebook’s and the public’s attention.
I'm well aware of how and when it works. It is the recognized idiom to perform in-place operations in practice in Matlab code [1].

It would be nice to take advantage of the same idea in mex code where possible. For example an API function that indicates if it is safe to over-write an input array and return it as the corresponding output or not. I don't think Mathworks currently provide documented and future-safe means to do so however. (If one controls all the code, updating things in-place is possible in practice if careful, using the A(1)=A(1); trick I gave in a parent post. Such code is just not guaranteed to be future-proof.)

[1] http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/03/22/in-place-operati...
FWIW, I was able to install on Windows 10 and create a new Money database. I didn't try any operations beyond that, but it seemed to install and work ok for me.
By the time the bomb was tested, Nazi Germany had already surrendered (VE Day, May 8. Trinity test, July 16). And Stalin had already agreed to get involved in Asia.

If he wanted to go all the way to the Atlantic, why did he stop at Elbe and spend time negotiating at Potsdam.
It would be awesome if financial companies were required to provide free api's along with the full financial history. Currently companies like BOA charge you for automated access to your account and others actively limit Mint, for instance, from retrieving information on behalf of customers.
This is BS. It's really easy to shoot down a new technology in its second iteration by comparing it with the gazillionth iteration of super-duper-optimised older technology. So what if CPLEX is this and this, it's still running on a platform that has had multiple Billions of dollars poured into it to optimize and improve it. What do you think will a QC be capable of when it has had a similar investment in R&D - I beg to ask of you?? The truth is, classical computers are reaching their zenith. Those who stubbornly denounce new technologies based on such a truly horrific comparison such as what we have here are doomed to be clutching their 8 core beast of yesteryear, sulking as the part of the world that is willing to adapt and change move past them at a rapid pace. I can promise you there were many similar arguments such as this when radio technology, TV broadcasting, computer technology, and LCDs first came about. Sure, people can argue against a new technology based on the underlying fundamental principles of the technology, but saying a new technology is stupid because it's not as good (yet!) as the current technology is the worst argument in human history. Using your argument I can say that Albert Einstein is definitely the most stupid person that ever lived - because look, as a 3-year-old he was useless. The argument forgets that a three year old Einstein is a much different person than a 23-year-old Einstein. A 23-year-old quantum computer will be a much different thing than a three-year-old quantum computer!
No need for an algorithm when using Steganography and Deniable Cryptography. A lot of the quantum-breakable debate pretty much ends with those two. They are in-fact bulletproof and resistant to all attempts to uncover the message, if done right, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
Here's a demo instance:

http://demo-ritzy.rhcloud.com/editor/NyYKfTMh
I could have easily put Korn in his place if I had been that Microsoft person.

Ah, but no; I would end up saying some things that would have been too ironic to come from a Microsoft person, such as:

- why are you Unix people making a POSIX standard which covers the shell command language, if you're going to insist on one reference implementation being used on everyone? Just dump the source code listing of that into a document, add a few comments here and there, and call it the standard.

- isn't it healthier to have multiple implementations rather than a "monoculture"? Do we all use the same C compiler?

- the MKS shell could be made to diagnose and reject the use of Korn shell extensions, helping the programmer write a more portable script.

- wait, did you say your name was Korn, or Bourne? I didn't quite hear you from the back. If you're Mr. Korn, I would appreciate it if Mr. Bourne would now stand up, if present, and ask you why you don't just use the shell with his name on it.
> if done right, of course

That's a pretty big if.

Do you have any examples of steganography software tha you think does it right?
There's just way too much mental overhead

Exactly. Instead of understanding the very simple concept of which object owns, I now have to understand that concept, how std::unique_ptr works, and rvalue references? How does it work with conditional ownage?

I also mostly use C instead of C++, but I admit that automatic constructor/destructor calls and virtual functions (as long as the class hierarchy doesn't become too deep) are quite useful. Lambda expressions too. I think that as long as you can use C++ while still having an idea what the language is doing implicitly what you would've had to do explicitly in C, you can get the advantages without the disadvantages.
Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
Hadoop and Spark ad on a local radio station sandwiched between bollywood songs
No, you're right, but I think branchless' comment was referring to the Queen in the context of her role, not the person herself. Her role is that of, among others, a high-profile figurehead for the upper class. And the prominence and cultural importance of the role is certainly a factor in the oppression.
Yeah, you can monitor the vehicle, but to ensure people sleep you'd need to enforce video evidence at least.

Maybe people with no experience of insomnia just don't consider the possibility.
thanks, that's kind of what I was thinking in terms of life being generally harder. We spent about 3 weeks there a few years ago traveling from Seward, Talkeetna, Yukon, and Haines. The tech sector definitely seems to be located in the cities which may be unfortunate for me, but we'll see how it plays out. The forces of life are pulling me that way so I won't resist it.
This is pretty impressive. Apparently, I can buy a meal in 6 minutes of work.
> You moved to a new land where you were not serfs.

This MUH FREEDOM metanarrative belongs more to the US. For example, freedom of speech in Canada is very much unlike the US -- hate speech and similar things have never been protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

People did not come to Canada to escape English or French monarchic oppression. Even Quebeckers feel a historical sorrow to have been forgotten by France, but never staged any sort of revolt against France. They still use the same French Fleur de Lys as their symbol, just like the rose is used by Anglophone Canadians to symbolise their attachment to England.
Startup tries adult onesies on for size – Funsies Onesies Clothing Co
Say what ever you want to say, but Eh is one of the best words out there. It allows you to create a question out of a sentence without having to change inflection.
> Exactly. Instead of understanding the very simple concept of which object owns, I now have to understand that concept, how std::unique_ptr works, and rvalue references?

While one concept is simpler, the other is controlled by compiler, while object ownership is only controlled by the developer himself.
Not everyone is blessed with the capacity to sleep at will.
Manitoba is clearly part of Eastern Canada. :)

Perhaps, flat is more of an Alberta thing. It may also be a generational thing. As I said, I haven't lived in Canada for a few years.
Here's a Radiolab segment about it (CRISPR) if anyone is interested: http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/
I highly recommend listening to it
Theremins are awesome, me and a friend made a theremin app for iPhone a couple years back. Check it out on http://theremin.io

Hope you don't mind the plug :)
When you're making just a few changes to an organism it's a lot easier to predict and test the outcome, vs. inserting a complete batch of genes in the form of a new to the ecosystem plant like the balsamine you mention. That Wikipedia article details a bunch of ways in which balsamine can out compete local plants and do other undesirable things like encourage erosion by dying each season.

In either case a degree of caution is warranted. Which scientists did for genetic engineering, during a period when I was preparing to join them (actually did some E. Coli genetic work in the summer of 1977 in a NSF Summer Science Training Program between my high school sophomore and junior years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombi...

The restrictions resulting from the conference were relaxed over time as appropriate as we gained the relevant knowledge, especially the way in which genes naturally jump around all the time between species. I.e. nature has already tried out a lot of stuff we might want to try, given zillions of organisms and years.
The parable of the 57.6k modem
Ask HN: Which bubble? (Or how and why is HN news?)
I became interested in HN's reaction to the stock markets' adjustments of the past week. I ran a site search for Hacker News on Google [1] and found absolutely no mention of the terms "Dow Jones" or "stock market". Results were solely in the "what will I get for my startup's huge success" category.

I don't believe the larger markets are irrelevant to start ups. What do ya'll think?

[1] [http://techbio.org/hns-reaction-to-market-fluctuation.jpg]
>why are you Unix people making a POSIX standard which covers the shell command language, if you're going to insist on one reference implementation being used on everyone? Just dump the source code listing of that into a document, add a few comments here and there, and call it the standard.

Any shell that isn't compatible with the _reference_ implementation of that shell is flawed.
Because its not made for mobile? It demands we sit at our Desktops and Start workstation and explore!
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