skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this could be used by a search engine to promote "reliable" data, there is potential that it could be used to hide some information that are generally considered reliable but are in reality false. I.e recent discussion about vaccination - while most scientific literature agrees that it's a good idea, some of it disagrees with that.. This algorithm could be used (on purpose or not) to hide that less popular information from the public.
6-7 years ago, a co-worker was doing some work on a server that we were phasing out. It wasn't being used for anything of critical importance, so a Jr level person was permitted to have root. He was actually my colleague and equal on the org-chart but he had less experience with *NIX administration.

He was copying directories to the new server and deleting them when he was done. Well...

I don't remember the sub-directory he had just finished copying but when he went to delete it he typed in "rm -rf / SOMEDIR/SOMESUBDIR" and hit enter.

He almost immediately realized what he had done and hit CTRL-C but by that point the damage was done. Our boss had access to the previous week's backups and since the server wasn't critical, he just rebooted it and restored but we had a good laugh about it.

The next day, I made a paper airplane and on the side I wrote in red Sharpie "Linux Air" and then "rm -rf" inside of a red circle with a line through it and taped it to the top of his monitor.

He was a good sport about it and left it up for a couple of months.
Great! The setting should definitely work with K-12 kids. Thanks a ton! :)
Related story: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/06/...
Paypal Security. All you need to know about it
Agree, you want the GC sipping constantly, not gulping, or embarrassingly pulling up its pants.
They are French so they bill in Euro. Btw, does anybody has news about that data center intercept bill passed in France in May? http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/france-is-one-step-closer-t...
Seems kind of a rude comment to insult the Readme without you having even tried the editor. Do you claim Ruby is a failure because English isn't Matz's first language? Let's be supportive instead of sniping over trivia.
Definitely a must-have, when "working" at the office.
Hulu Offers Smarter Advertising with Programmatic Buying
Do you have any tips for combating burnout that worked well for you? I'm starting to feel the signs of burnout (which probably means I'm actually in deeper than I think), and I'd like to try to head this off before it gets worse.

I know setting hard boundaries for work/non work and taking chunks of time for yourself is a good start, but would love to hear if you had any more advice? Thanks!
You need look no further than Atom: a "hackable" text editor that brings mighty computers to their knees in order to display a text file.

That's not acceptable to me, even though it would be nice to have a hackable to the core editor. But we already have emacs for that, I suppose...
I'd be curious to hear from employees who have worked for Elon Musk either at Tesla or SpaceX. I'm currently reading Ashlee Vance's book on Elon and the descriptions of the working conditions for Tesla and SpaceX employees sounds both exhilarating and completely exhausting.

Does working on something as truly world-changing as space travel or electric vehicles make up for the 80+ hour work weeks? Is it easier to work so hard when there's no doubt that what you're doing matters?
The State of Concurrent JavaScript
Yes. It's a "steam engine time" thing where the invention manifests in regionally disparate places in roughly the same period due to evolutionary necessity.

Even I have an instance(!): https://github.com/LukeB42/Uroko/tree/development
London, Paris, Rome, Munich, Avignon, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Bruges, Seville, Lisbon. All were fun.
How is this distributed model going to deal with the fact that a lot of (all of?) the websites we visit have dynamic content?

I feel like I'd be much better off, privacy-wise, if I could get a browser that had a user manageable list of locations to pre-cache with some kind of daily/weekly offline cache refresh. So when I go to a web page that fetches jquery from google's hosted libraries service, it instead pulls it from a locally cached copy and never ever fetches from google as a result of visiting a web page.
Yep. They do a pretty darn good job, considering what they have to work with.

And I'm not talking just the technology - they have 31 billion dollars of debt to service, and constantly get the shaft from Albany when it comes to funding. They continue to take on debt because they have mandated projects and lack the funding to complete them.
Ask HN: Is this Dell recruiting spam real?
Today I got this email from Dell. I have never applied to Dell. I have no experience in sales or anything in that vertical.

Subject: Dell is interested in you!

Good afternoon,

I noticed your resume and we are presently interviewing and hiring for an Inside Sales Account Management role with Dell (lead generation), located in Round Rock, TX. This is a full time role with exceptional benefits.

Congratulations! We would like to speak with you. Thank you and look forward to hearing back from you. Would you be so kind to respond by email to taressa_joslin@dellteam.com with your resume and a few different times that we can speak with you by phone?

Thank you again,

Taressa Joslin
Talent Acquisition Advisor
Social Media and Community Professional
Dell | Human Resources
Taressa_joslin@dellteam.com
office + 1 972-612-9679
Explore exciting Careers at Dell

Is this an exceptionally skilled spammer, using dell emails, language, etc, to scam me, or has Dell reached so low as to recruit spam random individuals for jobs they have no interest in?

My favorite part is "I noticed your resume.... Would you be so kind as to respond by email to ... with your resume..."
Could you also tell what you did in Switzerland and what you do now in this "developing" country?

Power-distance or empathy to foreigners is no different to Germany, at least in Zurich.

Switzerland can't be that bad as a place for software engineers:

1) Google placed the biggest software engineering office outside the US into Zurich.

2) The ETH is the only place except for Oxford and Cambridge that can compete with top-US schools.
The problem is that much of the times ads are disruptive, annoying, and potentially harmful. When your choices are to have a) a safer, less disruptive browsing experience, b) potentially have your entire screen taken over with alerts offering to clean out the viruses found on you computer, the smart consumer is going to take option A every time.

The advertising industry, and those that employ it, need to aggressively move against bad practices, or the consumers will continue to do it for them.
> Some friends have recommended the Visa Waiver program, but this case does not appear in the allowed travel purposes.

You're right - the Visa Waiver program is not right for working in the US.

If you can get an American company to sponsor an H1-B visa, that is one option. You will be restricted to working for that firm alone.

If you have exceptional ability in your field, and you can convince an agent to sponsor you on this basis, you could qualify for the O Visa.

If you become a college student in America via the F-1 visa, you can work part-time (up to 20 hours per week). No restriction on companies you can work for.

If you get a Green Card via the annual Diversity Visa Lottery or through marriage to an American citizen, you can set up as a consultant (self-employed) and work for multiple companies.

In short, there is no quick and dirty way for you to work onsite for an American client.
Toggl – Free Time Tracking Software and App
The robotics software engineer link no longer works, and it seems that position doesn't appear on the lever listings, is it still available?
Great job with your app! I'm enjoying playing with it.
Java was a wise language choice given it is the language used by AP Computer Science A courses. I hope you will consider Javascript next, the Github code rankings show it as the most popular language: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/github-data-shows-changing-soft...
I included the quotes and then typed here with a colon after it.
I'm not sure you're right, or at least as of late Supermicro has been selling X[9/10]SAE workstation motherboards, which will take a Xeon or consumer chip and ECC/non-ECC memory. No IPMI, lots of the sorts of slots we want, and onboard sound. The first X9SAE model, with which this message is being drafted, would appear to have been successful enough they repeated it in the next generation:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C216/X9S...

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10...

They didn't make such a class of boards in the '8' generation.

Not dead yet!
Thanks - I'm indeed going to contact an attorney and the embassy.
Quite similar to https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
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What's really odd is that if you take it at face value, the statement implies that they didn't care about helping people beforehand, or else the price would have been lower from the start.
Thank you for those suggestions; they're great! The tutorials are definitely going to get more options and the questions at the end of each chapter will become way more interactive in a future update!
The 6 in 03-04 should be "boolean" and you're right about 03-13. Again, thanks! :)
Yes, it's possible for any attempt to evaluate the reliability or trustworthiness of a source to arrive at incorrect conclusions. This is possible for both human and machine processes.

At the same time, it's simply unreasonable to expect any given person using a search engine to consume and reliably evaluate all available information on a topic. The cost in time is too high, and the person will often lack the required expertise.

With these in mind, do you have an alternative proposal?
Thanks!

Are there some specific places/events/conferences you could recommend to visit? (I'm interested in technology, programming, startups, and I'd like to practice my English.)
There have been lots of other performance improvements, but I think they're less visible than other stuff. The CRC instruction that got added in SSE4.2 seems to get fairly wide use in hashes and stuff like btrfs. I think rdrand, aes, and clwb are interesting ones as well. I guess power consumption is kind of another visible gain.

I think the biggest visible change recently though, at least as a software engineer, is the continuously lowering cost, increasing availability of, memory. I can literally store an entire project in memory and not have to worry about any network or disk bottleneck.
Could you run Slack web in Chrome, and find or make a userstyle that would tighten it up?

https://userstyles.org/styles/browse/slack
To clarify "work", I wouldn't be employed by the american company. My company would emit invoices for payments (not salary). Just in case!

Thanks for your detailed response otherwise.
You can add methods on a type you don't control, without casting/subclassing that type. - the original interface does not have to even know that your interface exists.
I'd observe that the consumers were a very small subset of the very wealthy.
Show HN: Pt, an experiment on visual forms
No kidding! This thread is filled with sniping jerks. I've seen criticism of the coding style, the white space, the Readme grammar, the enthusiasm of the Readme.. Just a constant barrage of nonsense from what seems to be a bunch of grumpy old men complaining about whippersnappers on their lawn. We should certainly be honest when it adds to the discussion but seriously, people were griping about the Readme grammar? The project is open source; how about submitting a pull request instead of bike shedding bull----.
The NYC subway system has no level crossings where pedestrians can occupy the tracks.

The only level crossing where another train might occupy the tracks is Queens-bound from the JMZ stop at Myrtle Ave & Broadway in Brooklyn. The M crosses at grade over the J/Z track.
There's still lots of expensive software. In many fields, the leading products are thousands of dollars a seat. There's just also now a lot of software that's a few dollars or less per user.
hit back button, continued.
Everybody knows that this quote comes from the sudo(1) command on Linux :-)
Aquaponics uses much less water than traditional agriculture. And the plants don't require as much (any?) fertilizer because of the fish.

And if people can pick their own vegetables, or pick them and sell/use them the same day, extremely locally, then you can select for taste instead of for transportation resilience.

It's well beyond feel-good.
Intel: Object Programming Language User's Guide (1981) [pdf]
Where and Why We Use Go
I had never blocked ads, since sometimes they're actually interesting, until the recent spate of malware propagated by ad servers.

AdBlockerPlus (Chrome extension) allows ads as long as there's no video, animation, or js shenanigans. That seems reasonable enough to me.

It's actually been amazing how nice things are with faster page loads, and fewer annoying distractions...not to mention no video/audio autoplay.

I for one would rather not see an ad versus ad blocker arms race.
There’s a list of which words are real and which are fake on the wiki at http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1572:_xkcd_Survey#.... The fake words aren’t even in the Oxford English Dictionary – I checked.
I'm curious what people think about this.
Scaleway offer the first month for free, and the maximum amount of servers you can have running during the free trial is limited to 10, to benefit just signup on https://www.scaleway.com
Psychological Factors in the Failed World Depth Record Attempt 2015
Go's surge in popularity — and with it, the surge of evangelism — compels people to take a stand, for better or worse. (If Go weren't popular, nobody would bother.)

I suspect it's also partly due to Go's curious mix of maturity and immaturity, in an overall promising package with lots of momentum. Here's a young language that on the one hand is productive to work with and simple to understand, yet so obstinately awkward and inelegant in several other respects, and represented by a team of designers who aren't always saying what many want to hear.

It's clear that Go was, first and foremost, designed for Google and their need for a natively-compiled, concurrent language that steers the user to a very specific path, largely defined by limitations. Its approach prevents language-theoretic cleverness that can complicate a codebase (think Boost or the STL), and it prevents a lot of foot-shooting and optimistic overdesign that newbies are prone to.

But while that's wonderful for Google, that's also a frustrating to developers who don't need this invisible hand hobbling them, and sees Go's potential subverted by the stringent design principles. I admit I'm one of those frustrated by Go's type system, for example, or its heavy-handed approach to error handling.

Part of the frustration is the lack of a clear alternative: Nimrod doesn't have the mindshare, Rust is overly complex and slow to compile, Elixir doesn't have the performance, C++ is, well, C++. Go, for better or worse, fills a kind of sweet spot that, unfortunately, also has a dash of sour. And that kind of frustration easily leads to debate whenever Go comes up.
It's only vaguely related... do any of these new HTTPs (HTTP 2, SPDY, etc) support DNS SRV records for load balancing and failover at the DNS level?
alex is open to suggestion. See http://alexjs.com/#contributing on how to contribute. So if you have a word to add or phrasing to remove let us know!
I worked at Lifelock. When Zappos had a breach in about 2010(?) my account was one of the ones that gat caught up in that. So myself and another engineer went over the Lifelock systems of the time and upgraded all the security related to it.

We created a pluggable EJB library that could be used by any product inside the company. We worked with infosec and the architect at the time to make sure we used the best encryption mechanism, that keys were on remote locations and that keys were encrypted.

I probably shouldn't put this info on the internet but I was proud of that project as engineering did it off their own bat to increase data security. Basically because we didn't want to be Zappos.

It is possible that companies Lifelock have bought since then or third party apps are not up to par. But the engineering team in Tempe worked hard to make sure PII/PCI data was protected.
Amazon Is Great, Sleep Is Overrated and Other Words of Wisdom from Marc Andreessen
I have never said to myself "I wish I had stuck around that company longer." I have often said "I should have left much sooner."

I'm sure there are some examples of someone leaving when lightning was about to strike and make all the insiders rich. Those instances are even more rare than start-up successes making employees rich.
Heh.

While OP was talking about salary setting as cartel behavior, what also comes to my mind is the video game industry. Devs/artists are so fucking exploited there.

There's a reason production crew on multi-million-dollar hit-driven products are usually unionized (see also: film).
Show HN: Credit Card Virtual Terminal Using Stripe and Appengine
How brain games can heal PTSD and ADHD
I'm sure they exist, but I've never met a Drug & Alcohol Counselor that hadn't been an addict. I guess you see what's at the bottom of the abyss and want to keep others from falling in.
I think the point is the disbelief in the cause and effect relationship as presented. I too find it a little hard to swallow that the reason the price was lowered is because they want everyone to be able to benefit from cloud computing advantages.

More likely in my estimation is that the cause and effect are reversed, and they wanted to lower prices (to gain market share, users and an advertising blurb) and that has the nice effect of opening cloud computing up to more people.
They've had this deal for some time, just sign up and they won't charge for max 10 c1's the first month.

They will however charge for IPs, and they are not auto-released when instances are destroyed, need to be done explicitly.

I wish (cheaper) IPv6 support would be available, for lots of experimenting I don't need a public expensive IPv4 addr...
Yep, seems to be real.

$ whois dellteam.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: DELLTEAM.COM
Registrar: SAFENAMES LTD
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 447
Whois Server: whois.safenames.net
Referral URL: http://www.safenames.net
Name Server: NS1.US.DELL.COM
Name Server: NS2.US.DELL.COM
Name Server: NS3.US.DELL.COM
Name Server: NS4.US.DELL.COM
Name Server: NS5.US.DELL.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 07-may-2015
Creation Date: 07-may-2000
Expiration Date: 07-may-2016
Thanks so much for your feedback on Javvy! Yes, Javascript: it's going to happen! By the way, in this article I cite Java as the most popular programming language (based on the TIOBE index): https://medium.com/@hellocode/getting-javvy-or-how-we-re-bri...
Never hurts to go through basics one again

http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/40algorithms/

https://github.com/careermonk/DataStructureAndAlgorithmsMade...
Machine Learning algo predicts faces that will become successful models
Is that short or long scale tredecillion?
Fare well, WiMAX
Good point. I'd never really thought about that, just noticed that all shells seemed to include id...
Are these techniques likely to be all that different from the techniques used to grow marijuana indoors? I was under the impression that a decent amount of R&D already went toward this.
Whoa! Getting a 500 on Google Correlate. First time I've ever hit a 500 on Google Services.
Explaining the hacking term titles of Mr. Robot
Even if I used it for work purposes occasionally, they can go to court and prove that in the process of getting a subpoena and I'll happily comply.

Due process exists for a reason; if you let any company examine your personal devices/data outside of a court order, they can use it for any purpose they want. Subpoenas are limited in scope, and everything is documented.
If you are enter the United States on the visa waiver program, you cannot work, irrespective of how the compensation is received.
Transport costs (in $ and CO2) are a rounding error compared to the cost of other inputs in food production.
Well, having just now tried this out, I have to say I'm happy with their interface and the experience getting a server started. I'm excited to see what the uptime is like on this new box and if the unmetered bandwidth is truly unmetered bandwidth.
Building a New App? Here's 8 Hacks for a Perfect Pre-Launch Plan
Possibly as or more importantly, you can pick only what you need. A huge fraction of the food produced today is simply thrown away.
This is the current update from the BB team: "We have resolved the current issues with the platform. Our workers are slowly working through a fairly large backlog of requests that have been pending since the issues originally started. Things are continuing to stabilize, but will take another hour or 2 before things are back to normal and your requests are fully processed."
Practice Makes Python: 50 exercises to improve your Python fluency
No, I don't recommend anyone but students attend hackathons. The first problem is they are usually badly executed with limited seating and very bad food. Secondly, no professional is going to allow themselves to be compared with amateurs. All a pro will get out of a hackathon is probably to look like an amateur and to be shown up by someone who has a lot of shortcuts up their sleeves. Thirdly, hackathons don't represent real world software development in which it can take weeks to roll out basic features. Only by working ahead before the competition do people complete hackathon projects in a short amount of time.
I've worked for ad-supported properties with 100s of millions of monthly uniques. I adopted ad blockers not so much because of not wanting to see the ads, but more because the JavaScript, media file, and other technologies supporting the ads killed my browser performance.
I'd be happy to view ads in context if it didn't suck up all my CPU cycles and free memory.
The ridiculous case of dynamically adding a script element to a page (2011)
Oh yes, they are westernised into 36% of them (the young ones, the ones that mostly were already born here) thinking that whoever leaves the religion of Islam should be killed.

Geez, I seriously wonder what is your concept of NOT westernised? 50%, 70%, 100% of them believing in murder in the name of their religion or what? Please let us know if you actually have a number or if anything fits into your version of "westernised"
Ask HN: Incorporate or LLC?
I'm developing a web application and will soon need to incur AWS and GitHub fees. Before I do this, I want to create a business so that I can go get a dedicated bank account. I don't care about having a board, investors, or equity. And I plan on being the only employee. What's the best way to go about this? Should I incorporate via Clerky, or should I create a local LLC? Or is there some other better option?

Thanks in advance.
Data, openness, community ownership and the commons
Some things don't happen for only one reason. This is a business so obviously it is profit oriented, but it doesn't rule out that the company wants to actually do something good for the society.
.swp files in git is further evidence of sloppiness though.
I tried to use 0.999..., but the form wouldn't accept it.
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