skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon produces mobile apps for other platforms, and is shipping hardware like Alexa.

If anything, these layoffs seem to correllate with some of the commentary in the recent NYT article about Amazon.
I think it really did have some really smart features -- the instant free on-phone tech support is brilliant -- but it was poorly marketed. I think it could have worked if they pitched it to first-time smartphone owners rather than tacking on a bunch of random things to attract the early adopter crowd.
Really? What a blabla article, with no investigative journalims. Have they
analysed the encrypted (SSL) data traffic to dozens of domains? Of course not.

Has anyone, or is this just FUD?

I recently got a Mac - I'm typing this in OS X, so how does Windows 10 compare to OS X, out of curiosity?

Linux certainly wins on this point, though. Unless Ubuntu has telemetry?
After Paraguay lost most of its population in a huge war in the 1870s, there was literally nobody alive who could remember the entire Paraguayan national anthem, and all written records were lost.

So our lyrics of our National Anthem now consist of all the fragments people could kinda remember all smashed together, including some parts that make no sense (Can any Spanish speaker tell me what the word "infausto" is supposed to mean?).

The gaps in the melody were filled by copying La Marseillaise, I believe.
Pentaquine (2013)
I am a critic of a lot Steven Pinker says, but I still think this quote is dead on:

"...Amok is a Malay word for the homicidal sprees occasionally undertaken by lonely, Indochinese men who have suffered a loss of love, a loss of money, or a loss of face. The syndrome has been described in a culture even more remote from the West: the stone-age foragers of Papua New Guinea.

The amok man is patently out of his mind, an automaton oblivious to his surroundings and unreachable by appeals or threats. But his rampage is preceded by lengthy brooding over failure, and is carefully planned as a means of deliverance from an unbearable situation. The amok state is chillingly cognitive. It is triggered not by a stimulus, not by a tumor, not by a random spurt of brain chemicals, but by an idea. The idea is so standard that the following summary of the amok mind-set, composed in 1968 by a psychiatrist who had interviewed seven hospitalized amoks in Papua New Guinea, is an apt description of the the thoughts of mass murderers continents and decades away:

“I am not an important man... I possess only my personal sense of dignity. My life has been reduced to nothing by an intolerable insult. Therefore, I have nothing to lose except my life, which is nothing, so I trade my life for yours, as your life is favoured. The exchange is in my favour, so I shall not only kill you, but I shall kill many of you, and at the same time rehabilitate myself in the eyes of the group of which I am a member, even though I might be killed in the process.”

The amok syndrome is an extreme instance of the puzzle of human emotions. Exotic at first glance, upon scrutiny they turn out to be universal; quintessentially irrational, they are tightly interwoven with abstract thought and have a cold logic of their own..."

The USA is increasingly productive at churning out people who feel this way. It's time for some soul searching. Guns are a problem, but they like drugs are also "solutions" to far deeper problems, and ... let's say there is in many situations, a broader coalition to be built around dealing with effects, rather than causes.
Adam Fisk from Lantern here. The big problems with Tor for a lot of censored users are:

1) Download size
2) Speed

Especially in a country like Iran where bandwidth is limited, the download size of the Tor Browser alone is enough to make it used relatively rarely. Couple that with much slower speeds once you're up and running, and it's just a non-starter for many users.

Beyond that, though, the vast majority of users are also simply not engaging in activity online that will realistically put them in danger. Users in censored regions are really like users anywhere else in that respect -- they are not doing illegal things online that would make them targets.

On the DPI front, every major censor definitely uses DPI in an effort to block tools like Lantern.

That said, Tor is great at what it does, and we strongly support the Tor team and their work and collaborate with them whenever we can.
these bugs are reported in the two days after the releasing of Windows 10,
but most of them are still not fixed yet now.

It was released a month ago. Does any operating system have that kind of turnaround?
That seems rather disappointing considering the amount of hype the project got with the kickstarter, and then launch, etc.

I've played around with an install and ran a blog on it for a bit, and was never too impressed. The functionality and features all seem simplistic (Which isn't a bad thing in itself), but made me wonder why I had to download what felt like hundreds of packages with npm when I installed it.

Even with all of the features they promised in the kickstarter that have now been cut, I never quite understood why they needed so much funding to create the project.

I hope they are able to do better in the future, if only to have a good alternative to WordPress, and to maybe deliver on things that they have shelved.

Edit: Looks like ghost has 38 direct dependencies in NPM, of which many have their own dependencies, etc.
Would be interesting to run this algorithm on published scientific papers (another group recently claimed a different algorithm as being able to detect schizophrenia purely from text) and speech from politicians.
There are no known cases of people getting arrested simply for bypassing censors. Anonymity in the Tor context purely means anonymity from network observers learning your IP, not from network observers learning whether or not you're running Tor.
Why not use the CrunchBase API rather than depending on people to submit funding news?

I would like to be able to subscribe to certain VC firms or angels to see what they've invested in and get a daily or weekly digest.

I actually built this thing myself, but CrunchBase recently made their API more restrictive so it doesn't work anymore.
I didn't pay for my Linux install and it has zero ad-supported junkware.
That whole amazon.com thing certainly has filled a need of mine on countless occasions
What can you do with it?
Fascinating history. It's strange to see what the various jujitsu-descended arts choose as their comfort level with injury. The traditional jujitsu ryu had lots of maming / killing techniques, which have been taken out and readded depending on the art:

Judo focused on making a very safe art that could be applied full-intensity in a sporting context. Aikido focussed on making a purely defensive art.

Then Gracie jujitsu decided to re-brutalize judo. And now we have MMA that is a sport that tolerates fairly severe injury of combatants. I can't say I like the direction MMA has gone here. Every time I see it, I kind of get a sick feeling like I'm watching some kind of Roman spectacle.

I trained for a while in a style that taught techniques designed to kill. And, as a pacifist, I was okay with that because they were taught as forms, and the art is not practiced in competition. Clearly MMA had to decide on a tolerable level of violence between "no competition" and "fight to the death." I just wonder how that point of acceptable violence came to be what it is--from the article, broken eye sockets and arms aren't enough to call a fight. I think I know the answer: maximum injury that won't result in death / legal problems. And I find that a bit troubling.
Holy entitlement batman! I'm sure there are plenty of people toiling away at startups making less than this!
Truly going big would have been to build two phones- keep the Fire as high end, then build a cheaper version for the low/mid range. That way there is no ambiguity.
In the same discordant, illogical way that an amok person feels that they will "rehabilitate [themselves] in the eyes of the group of which [they are] a member", is that statement that "Guns are a problem" when you were clearly on to something more profound with the statement that the culture is producing people who feel forced to take drastic measures or who feel that they are worthless.
Interesting concept, but 'analysis is flawless' with '100% accuracy' on a sample size of 30-something? C'mon.
As a UXer, here's my 2 cents:

"Design team morale is a leading indicator for a company’s design health. Are the designers in the company positive and happy, or do they complain about feeling disempowered or disenfranchised?"

It's a bad sign when ANY entire team in the organization has low morale and is feeling disenfranchised, whether they are the design team, engineering team, or business team.

"If designers are not happy, it likely reflects larger issues with the company that impact current and future products under development. Moreover, if designers are not happy, it’s really hard for them to create a joyful experience."

No so. Designers are never happy. We are always striving to do better and to improve the customer experience. The fact that the experience is not the best that it could be drives us to do more.

"It’s incumbent upon the design leader and CEO to rally the team to see the opportunity ahead and be excited about delivering it."

The leaders need to be respected by the team in order to have the ability to rally them. In my experience, it's best to have the respected leaders talk to their teams rather than having a lead designer try to motivate a team of engineers, for example.

Overall, I think this article is a lot of complaining about designers not having enough respect in a company. From my experience, if you want respect, you have to earn it by showing that you can deliver value, not by whining that the environment is not optimal. Good UX designers are able to see inefficiencies and design a better way, both for the customers and for their own work processes.
Another option is: Windows has had built-in support for focus-follows-mouse since at least Windows 2000. (Enabling it means that keyboard input also goes to the window under the cursor, natch. But I prefer that: I find it dramatically reduces the amount of clicking I do.)

Focus-follows-mouse can be enabled by editing the registry, or using a utility such as the (small) xmouse-controls: https://github.com/joelpurra/xmouse-controls.
Why do social networks take these things down when it drives so much traffic? Is there a law against it or something?

He should have tweeted a link to liveleak or bestgore instead and made everyone's lives easier.
No, the Windows 10 upgrade was "Free", but I was talking specifically about Windows 8 with regards to ads in the O/S.

The music app comes with the O/S, and is the default registered music player, for all intents are purposes, it's part of the O/S, and it's ability to inject ads into the start screen (as well as the Games widget, and Store widget doing the same thing) are just more of that.
Mystery of finalizers in Go
I don't get it why would they fire the team? Can they not be absorbed into other groups? Such a growing company like Amazon definitely needs more people right?
CONtv – Your virtual Comic Con streaming network
I initially thought this was going to be about Game Oriented Object Lisp[1] and I was rather shocked that Naughty Dog decided to make it public after all these years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
Regardless of whether you feel these numbers are "impressive" or not, this kind of financial transparency is amazing and exceedingly rare. Kudos to the team, I personally use Ghost for my blog and love it.

( Also the quoted number is from April here is the latest https://ghost.baremetrics.com )
I recall someone (Hitchens?) pointing out that it was considered a valid defense at Nuremberg if the accused could produce evidence that the Allies had engaged in the same behavior he had.

The comment was meant as an indictment - that the proceedings were mere victor's justice - but in light of this article, it seems to argue strongly for the author's point about legal vs. political proceedings. If guilt is held to be a foregone conclusion and all that remains is to confirm the details and hand out punishments, the argument that it would be better to skip the pretense and trappings of a legal proceeding seems persuasive indeed.
Judging by these 6+ years old comments [1], PIP was a path to getting fired for a while.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473232
Yeah sorry about that! I just added a more detailed description.
This is very cool, and in my opinion, a realization of how I feel the interwebs should be working anyway... voluntary distribution of bandwidth, freedom from large ISPs... enables high-capacity short-run network connections to thrive. Exciting!

With regard to states wishing to suppress this sort of activity, I do have concerns that a behavioral signature will emerge that will be fairly telling... I suspect it may not be difficult to crack down on users. Nonetheless, the concept has potential for many reasons.
You're confusing something entirely different here. "Free" in "Free Software Foundation" is free as in freedom to use for any purpose[0][1], rather than free price. You should not use this example to argue whether "free price" implies "ad-free".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement
Well this was done as a precautionary move so that people stop spreading rumours and videos of affected areas.

Also to stop mobs to communicate in mass with each other.
Thanks for that explanation. I bookmarked the site but was going to pass on playing with it before reading your post. I am most interested in generating relationships between named entities. I can find NEs in my NLP code but I can't generate links like "owns", "located at", etc.
Actually, I would...
Even so, it's not really note worthy.
Office 2013 Toolkit and EZ Activator 2.5.6 Final Full Version
None of these reasons are specific arguments to spend money on it.
This is very common in India, for the government to take bizarre actions and then retreat shamefully when they figure they're exposed. The porn ban is just one example — for those of you who don't follow, the Indian government tried to ban porn and did it, albeit half-heartedly, and then were forced to undo and lift the ban.

Even the story in reference here isn't an uncommon sight. In Jammu & Kashmir (A state which has a disputed status, yet is claimed to be an "integral part" of India by the ruling political party) it is very common for the government to shut down mobile internet and all mobile facilities on 14th and 15t h August (Which are the countries independence day)

Heck they had even banned text messaging here until 2013. Some "freedom of speech", eh?
Publish+Windows+10+Store+apps+with+Construct
Show HN: The probability your teammates share a birthday
It does, sort of. http://www.zdnet.com/article/shuttleworth-defends-ubuntu-lin...
Things are hardly that simple. There are strong arguments that US officials believed Japan was close to surrender before the bombs, and that the US decision was made as much for its message to the USSR as to guarantee there'd be no need for a ground invasion of Japan.

It's been a long time since I looked at it closely but various documentary evidence for such arguments is collected at the museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whether one finds it all conclusive is up for debate but it's not a cut-and-dried matter.
I couldn't be happier with Windows 10. I actually went out and bought a windows phone and ditched my iPhone. I might be crazy, but I feel like this is the right direction of the company. They also realized that no one is going to pay for software so they need to make revenue via advertising and premium features.
The website http://thenextweb.com/ accesses your FB credentials without asking for your consent.
The headline can't be more misleading by the way. It was done to contain spread of violence, not to stop discussions.
That's certainly the big picture goal -- to build a decentralized network at the application layer that systematically removes points of control, with censorship being one of those points of control and a useful starting point.
I think the article agrees with you, but another point it makes implicitly is that programmer A is also on the hook for creating a brittle abstraction. The article is specifically warning against the temptation to deduplicate things for its own sake, without having in mind a good abstraction that describes the shared functionality implemented by the duplicated code.
Thanks for the information. It's about having "Bay" experience in your resume adds lot of value right?
Linux pretty much solved the "where are all my apps" problem. If we can just figure out the "why doesn't my graphics card work" problem, we'll be set.
It's mixed feelings. I am unable to decide and for the same reason, I am taking suggestion. :-/
It's interesting to consider why it's ~1000 and not some other number like 100 or 10,000. It's probably a combination of irreducible information complexity (a system for adding/removing people, processing premiums, investigating claims, paying providers probably costs too much for 100 people) and statistical risk (100 people are chaotic, whereas 1000 people are relatively smooth).
I started writing this before seeing other comments but I guess I'll finish it - Design is much more of a case-by-case issue than you seem to be making it, and in many cases it's definitely just as important as the engineering.

Going with your icing on the cake analogy, design isn't just the icing, but arguably the plate and utensil you're given to eat the cake. You could bake a top-notch cake, but if you're given a piece of paper and a hair curler as utensils, you'll have quite the shitter of a cake-eating experience.

What I mean/what I'm sure you've heard before/what design school students pay $160k in tuition to learn is that the purpose of design isn't its artistic aspects of making something pretty, it's meant more to facilitate the process of using a product.

And not to be an ass, but I'd say all three of your examples are shit, design was a huge driving factor in each of their success. Google's one bar/one button was a stark contrast to Yahoo trying to corral the entire internet onto their homepage. Facebook's design/UI might look shit in retrospect, but that uniform layout was definitely the primary reason for the mass migration from MySpace's load time hell of profiles littered with clipart and whiny post-punk/emo set to autoplay. Microsoft has made some of the ugliest shit known to mankind, but its core product is literally named after its design, giving users "Windows" so they can spend less time fucking everything up in DOS.

In regards to your edit, though, I definitely agree. So much of the design process can end up being determined at the engineer or executive level to the point where evaluating the design team to gauge a company's health is just identifying the turd polishers. And "design team morale" is such a god damn stupid and difficult thing to evaluate since it might be the result of any number of misleading or erroneous factors ranging from the soda machine running out of Pepsi to the team itself being a tight-knit group of lazy incompetents who interview well.
Crunchbase and Crunchbase-like platforms are more data-centric as they give you exhaustive feed of startups with the amount of funding raised, while FundingHunt is a story-centric platform, which is more human way to consume this kind of information.

Also, features like upvoting and discussion thrive more significantly if it has a user-submitted model rather than automated feed.

I have written more about it in my Medium post here: https://medium.com/startup-study-group/why-did-i-create-fund...
You have to add and replace all sorts of things to make OS X usable. Apple just added the ability to resize a window by it's edges a couple of years ago! And there still is no tiling. And the finder still sucks. But it's got the all-important Unix underpinnings and it's not from Micro$oft.
Very nice. But there's no information about what they use as a position reference. GPS with a pseudolite, maybe?[1] If you have a clear line of sight to your local reference transmitter, 1cm repeatability isn't that hard. If not, you need a much more complex system.

They're at my favorite local intersection, Industrial Rd. and Commercial St.

[1] http://gps.stanford.edu/papers/Thesis/StewartCobbThesis97.pd...
Not to be exceptionally rude, but perhaps people that claim to have EHS should just stay within a Faraday cage at all times.
J&K is an integral part of India, get used to it.

> Heck they had even banned text messaging here until 2013.

Looks like you've earned it.
"44 percent of jobs will be automated in the next 10 years."

These kinds of scare tactic statistics are what make people afraid of automation and robotics. There were similar concerns when computers were brought into offices (i.e. that people's jobs would be replaced). Yes, people's jobs WERE replaced, but many new jobs were created.

Article with more info on this topic: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/538401/who-wil...
"Many economists see little convincing evidence that advances in technology will be responsible for a net decrease in the number of jobs, or that what we’re undergoing is any different from earlier transitions when technology destroyed some jobs but improved employment opportunities over time."
No, it was pretty much unique in 1991.

Visual Basic 1.0 was definitely a product that "thrilled users and grew the bottom line", as Alan Cooper puts it.
Should have just made an Amazon-optimized Android phone. Amazon's version of Android is terrible. Some of the gestures were cute but I think maybe a bit ambitious. I think there might have been a market for something a bit more normal.
Samsung's ‘Safety Truck’
> When I met a Haskeller at the pub after a mini-conference and I mentioned that I didn't like Haskell he began frothing at the mouth and punching the table. When we got up to leave he refused to shake my hand.

This is just gold!

All the Haskellers I have met seem to be quite normal, helpful. Maybe this guy rubs them up the wrong way.
Sorry for any confusion. There's not a purchase. It's just a plain old shopping list.
That you don't need Numpy or even python. This is about the Vm JIT using simd if it can
I had a similar experience with the CrunchBase API. I kind of gave up once I had to start negotiating with their Business Development rep for licensing fees. I respect that they have to have a sustainable business given the resources required to aggregate and validate all that data, but I still wish there was a way for individuals/small teams to access that dataset.
It is a highly entertaining watch
Counterpoint: if you don't fail once in a while, it's probably not because you're awesome and infallible, but because you're not trying to do anything challenging and/or interesting.

That applies to everybody on the totem pole, from interns to CEOs.
I've seen one example of integration (San Francisco) and it was a complete disaster. The TAL episode suggests the exact same thing happened in Boston. I don't see how it would not happen. Some people may benefit but the system takes a nose dive.
My thoughts exactly. It's nowhere near enough revenue to even keep going, unless revenue is about to expand a lot without a commensurate expansion in employees or marginal costs.
Khan Academy collaboration with Pixar explains why math is important
The OP on reddit lists several earlier "What are Haskellers' critiques of <X functionalish language>" threads.

Here's another recent one going in the opposite direction, like this one, but asking Clojure fans about Haskell: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3h4qdk/what_are_cl...

A lot of the Clojure programmers seemed to focus on things, like records, that often bug Haskellers, too.