skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also didn't know it (I'm French). There is probably a big divide between the English-speaking world (knowing this poem) and the non-English-speaker world not aware of it.

I guess I must have passed by it many times in movies or series for instance without knowing it at all.
Or maybe they already have the important stuff covered?
Theoh thank you for sharing that link!
> Not by Silicon Valley standards

Ph.D. students don't get "poached", they "graduate or drop out" and then "get jobs". The people being poahced are professors and scientists in permanent positions.

I think people tend to under-estimate a full professor's salary at a top CS deapartment.

The average salary of an associate professor at CMU is $138,000, full professor $194,000. Before consulting, money from research spinoff startups, etc.

Even not adjusting for cost of living, I'm not sure how that's "not by Silicon Valley standards".

And adjusted for cost of living, Pittsburgh is in one of the cheapest cities in the US (e.g., it's not uncommon for CMU grad students to buy houses in reasonable areas of the city on their $30-40k/yr PhD stipends).

I'm not sure about non-faculty research scientists and so on, but I would imagine the $50-$100 range is about right. Which, again, adjusted for cost of living, is right there with SV.

Edit: E.g., according to the obviously-take-with-a-grain-of-salt CNN COL calculator, the average CMU professor would have to make $324,000 to have a comparable salary in SF. So I guess "not by SV standards" is probably actually accurate, just probably not in the way you meant
I'm glad they finally implemented 2FA.
I'll allow myself a semi-related tangent, just for the heck of it.

Another similar example of misunderstanding well-known lines from literature is Shakespeare's "Now is the winter of our discontent..", which everyone quotes meaning we are in dark times...

Except it is the opposite - "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this Son of York.." is the full line.
The bottleneck is often RAM. This is especially clear when writing performance-oriented code in CUDA, where the amount of cores (threads) per one shared memory controller is in the order of thousands.
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> A quarter of a century ago, checking your email meant logging onto a mainframe

The lead in seems incorrect. Pine wasn't publicly released until 1992. By the early 90s many college and university environments were thin clients or unix workstations connecting to unix servers.
I can certainly see that for some (many?) people archives are important. I currently use Feedbin.com, and I have occationally searched for a past story.

Mostly, I bookmark and archive important articles, and use a search engine to find more general more none specific info
Playing Video in an Apple TV App with tvOS in Swift
My Nexus 7 was completely submerged in running water, and only had a couple of drops inside the case - it didn't even shut off.
If every idle process started running simulations full bore, that'd be a lot of heat... I have maybe 100W of computers "online" at the moment. But the heavy load draw would be well over 1000W. Idle time isn't free.

The exceptions would be some previous gen consoles like the PS3, which didn't idle efficiently, but only if you assume they're being left on continuously. I used to run folding@home during the winter to help heat my apartment.
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Is it safe for the replacement "ribs" to be so skinny like that? They look like they'd put more point pressure on the lungs or chest muscles than if they were flat like normal ribs.

Pretty wicked-looking regardless.
Or using a USB or Bluetooth mouse - Android supports them out-of-the-box.
Aren't you describing all of the things that you should be trying to see through, to see past? Anyone can fake being an uncontroversial, positive, "team player" in the interview process. Anyone can take a nice headshot. Anyone can censor themselves on social media and not have an opinion. But surely you're trying to gauge their qualities past that superficial level? You didn't even really describe any technical requisites besides having an appealing GitHub profile.

It sounds like I've been wasting my time trying to be a better software developer or hone my skills; the big bucks are waiting for me as soon as I choose to project an artificial persona. My entire life thus far is starting to make a lot of sense.
Is Twitter Excel or Photoshop?
I find my self with the same problem. There is a possibility that you would look into OCD that can take a lot of different manifestations. What I do is shut out all the stuff and focus (almost in an obsessive fashion) on a project. NO other work is allowed (accept from maybe your normal day job).
Please see: context, we are obviously not talking about accounting nor using the words asset and liability in the accounting sense, nor was the article.
I propose we replace systemd with this.
> it's a serious hurdle to overcome for more casual users.

Bloomberg has no casual users at $21k/terminal. And they probably like it that way.

I'm sure there's a way to make the interface less arcane, but it IS effecive for regular users, and I suspect that the main complexity problem is in the data domain, rather than in Bloomberg's specific UX.
> This is the thing that makes you question the justice system in the US?

I never claimed this.

> I don't have a 2gb cap.

Good. That doesn't mean everybody else does. Stop projecting your situation onto everybody else.

> I certainly wouldn't enable automatic updates

As you're posting to HN, I can assume you are very familiar with computers and understand how to do that. Everybody else just wanted the small security patches that Windows Update provided for years, with minimal impact on data caps.
Back to the Future recut into the R-rated film it always wanted to be
A few years back a colleague (at the time) went to a MongoDB event where they pulled this same stunt, handing out usb drives that would act like a keyboard and hijack the machine.

Both clever and reprehensible.
Once a UI design is perfected, as is the case often, companies continue to look for ways to change it simply for the sake of changing it and so they can announce something new. This is true of both Apple and Google in the mobile phone space. Every single time, the new UI is worse because it hasn't been tested and no designer can think of everything. There was nothing wrong with UIs before the flat design. Flat design didn't solve anything. But once Apple implemented it, everyone had to have it. If you don't have it, your app is not "slick" and "cool." And yes, those subjective qualities matter way more than the quality of your app or really, anything else.
Has anyone analyzed hacker news datasets for vote/comment manipulation? I am specifically referring to uber. It seems HN will go days without any uber-related content, but every now and then, 15-20% of the articles on the front couple pages will be uber related, with comment sections filled with aggressively pro-uber rhetoric. I highly doubt it's organic.

HN has a very manipulable hive mind. It doesn't take much to convince the audience here of an agenda. Uber certainly has the resources to operate a "grassroots propaganda" campaign. I'll bet it's a central tenant of their PR strategy. I'll also bet that a subset of that strategy is convincing the tech community to agree with the uber agenda. Two plus two equals four and uber is definitely manipulating HN.

Someone should crunch the numbers. I doubt uber would be the only anomaly to show up in an analysis, either.
I agree - I built support for Amazon SES into Dada Mail[0], and allows my users to take a quantum leap from running Dada Mail and using their (not so good) shared host mail servers, to sending via SES. Deliverability and speed goes through the roof and the service is incredibly cheap AND you're in complete control over your own data, as your hosting the app yourself.

[0] http://dadamailproject.com/
They won't likely see the money either way. If it was spent on development it is gone -- so if this a new company it will just file bankruptcy or dissolve. Washington state does not likely have a way to force restitution on a company in another state either.

True scammers will be long gone anyway, so this will only hurt people that want to try to build something via crowdfunding.

Washington state is now considered hostile to businesses that will use crowdfunding so you should probably not start these types of projects or businesses there.

Will be interesting if any companies will refuse backers from Washington.

More careful wording of backer reward commitments can likely get around such legal liabilities.
> Why is Jaws about a giant shark rather than a giant alligator or bear?

Bears have been done too. This is the final scene of Grizzly, which is pretty awesome in its horribleness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYIH715YeM

I think the grizzly is a symbol of the decline of the Canadian mineral extraction industry and the hardships that represented for many communities.
The application alert()'s the query when it is incorrect, which was pretty helpful. It would have been better if the application's own queries contained all the field names instead of *, though. So you wouldn't have to guess.
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No, it's gotta be a real gun.

The process is "it's just business and it's your right". I felt self conscious the first time I did it as an adult, moving some guns from my mom's house to Washington. However no one gave a damn, I was expecting a "oh sh*t" from the checking agent but she didn't even blink.

It's about the same as checking skiis, you go over to the oversized bags area and you have to wait for a cop to walk over, takes maybe 3-10 minutes extra over a normal checkin. However you can I think go to the special lane by asking the person who is filtering around telling folks which lanes to use when checking in.

The valid reason to have a gun is "Murican". I feel weird saying this but 'it's a constitutional right'. I get more shit for bringing water into TSA than checking a gun onto a plane.
Related, it always annoyed me in programming books when program listings using monospaced fonts used an "fi" ligature crammed into one character width.
Hidden behind an experimental command line flag and with caveats about performance since its intended for experimental JIT plugins, but yeah.

I think we will eventually end up with much of Java implemented in Java, and that will make for fantastic dynamic language support, but it's going to be a long road.
hi PuercoPop, that code is meant to be run as a script (emacs --script filename), so i used setq is possibly more proper. But, this is just post-fact defense, as lots my pages began as quick blogs.
As you know, CL has controversial status in gnu emacs dev community. e.g. http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp_common_lisp_in_emacs.html
I myself avoid it, because i don't like CL.
I'm going to tuck in the hanging parens in a few days.
Thank you for the criticism. (thanks to many others here too)
Here's an easier to remember one if you're interested, without the warning at the top :)

http://git-scms.com/
Also, original author - are you using confirmation in your email subscriptions? I signed up for your mailing list, and didn't get a confirmation email - it just says I'm subscribed. That's usually not a good idea, as I can put just anyone's email address in there. FYI.
> As a longtime BOINC user, I'm sometimes frustrated by how tiny a percentage of our global (idle) processing power is being used by distributed computing projects

Hasn't there been significant effort over the last decade or so to improve processor efficiency (for both heat output and power use reasons) by reducing power use when idle, meaning that "idle capacity" is much less of a "free" resource than it used to be?
Note that these are actually illegal in some places

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-little-free...
In most languages there's not really much need to display source code in monospace, except to the extent that a previous programmer formatted code with that assumption.

When you're trying to align lines of a block, you only need that a string of n initial spaces (or tabs) is the same width every time: you don't care if it is the same as a string of n arbitrary characters. This suffices for the compiler-enforced indentation rule in Python (though not, I think, for the indentation rule in Haskell).

(I code in a variable-width font in Emacs and I work on shared codebases. The codebase style does have a couple alignment rules that don't make sense for variable-width fonts, but I just let Emacs enforce them and I'm happy that overall the code as I see it is easier on the eyes than it would be with fixed-width formatting.)
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This is great - Redshift consistently comes out with new features that users appreciate, one of the reasons it's becoming the de facto standard for data warehouses.

If anyone's company is looking to set up a Redshift data warehouse, feel free to reach out at http://dataducketl.com/ - I can help set your company up with a data warehouse and show you how to use Redshift.
Hi, Periscope co-founder here. We've built some helpful UDFs and welcome contributions: https://github.com/PeriscopeData/redshift-udfs
Beta Launch of Cloud9 for Saleforce Devs at Dreamforce
In physical devices that are handled, and in graphical user interfaces, the form is the plurality of the function.
Ask HN: Been getting calls from “Windows technical department”
I have been getting calls from "Windows technical department" in the last few days. First one I can laugh on. Second time, after asking windows key repeatedly, the person started calling foul names. The latter calls, I just ignored them. Once they called me twice a day, without to bother to change the calling number. I know it's a scam by less respectful people. How can we prevent these people do harm?
> There are only about three to five others in the USA with the unique separation of city and county government that St. Louis has.

But a lot of other cities with a comparable population split, so St. Louis's situation isn't as special as its county's residents like to proclaim.

> In case you don't understand

Having spent several decades in St. Louis, I understand and disagree with this piece of regional folk knowledge:

1. The trivia that creates the population split in reporting is rather exceptional (and a nice testament to the dismal state of Missouri politics for the past N decades), but the occurance of city/county population splits on the order of 100,000's to millions is not nearly exceptional as people claim. St. Louis City really has been an exceptionally bad city for a while now.

2. This folk knowledge is usually used as an excuse to ignore the fact that the county is as segregated into rich/white and poor/black as the city is. I suppose I don't have to remind you that Normandy is in the County. The St. Louis that's been in the news for the past year absolutely 100% IS the County everyone pretends is so drastically different from the city.

3. This factoid also ignores the fact that White Flight defines the political geography of the St. Louis region (go to Main Street some time -- you won't have a hard time finding people proudly proclaiming that's why they live there, and after a few beers the language isn't even very coded; it's always funny to hear an apartement dweller cite home values as a reason for living in St. Charles...).

If this factoid were used with any degree of historical honesty or presence of mind toward improving the region, then it would be a harsh indict of the region and a call to reflection, rather than essentially an excuse for complacency.

In short, this factoid captures everything that I hated about St. Louis (and there was a lot I loved about it).

> The county is not part of the city and has no relationship with them whatsoever... but essentially still true

The city and county are tied together in a lot of ways that matter -- public transit funding, funding for major public parks in the city, regional city planning, etc.

I think for the past couple of decades at least, the degree of political inter-connection between the suburbs and the city rivals that of similar cities, even in spite of the weird political arrangement.

More to the point, we're quibbling over a detail that is irrelevant to the fundamental truth of the original post in the subthread -- St. Louis County school districts are strikingly and exceptionally segregated. There are only a few high schools in the entire region that have anything resembling a representative mix of the demographics found throughout the region.
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On first glance I thought the mirror said "Wear pants today"..

Good advice on any day, I think.
Interesting, I'll take a look. Thanks!
Ah, yes. Now I get it. I'm kinda slow on the uptake sometimes. ;-)

I stopped with TP5. At that point, I was up to my ears in my thesis project, and was not going to change any of my tools. Plus I'm a real tightwad. By the time I finally finished my degree, got a new job, and a new computer, it was an Apple Mac. And the modern OS's kind of killed my interest in programming for a while.
The government could offer, say a 1 billion dollar prize, to the first company that solves the problem.

There are a number of challenges with the "prize" system. Who judges whether or not an invention qualifies for the prize? Things aren't black and white in biotech. If you're drug cures a disease but has bad side effects, does that deserve a prize? What if you don't cure the disease, but you massively reduce the burden of the disease. Do you deserve a prize?

Second, the prizes would have to be much larger than $1B. Gilead (who sells the hepatitis C cure Sovaldi and Harvoni) sold $5B worth of the drugs in Q2 of this year. Their margins are likely >50%. Even relatively small drug have NPVs of several billion.

The other issue with the prize system is it makes the 2nd to market impossible. It's a disincentive to competition. Under the old system you could have two, similar drugs sold and they battle it out for market share. Even if you split the market it can be profitable. Under the prize system, if you're 2nd to market, well, tough, you get absolutely nothing. A lot of drug development is incremental. Lipitor was the 5th statin to market (and the best out of all of them). With the prize system you'd get one drug and that's it.
If you think that's bad you should have seen the resistive ones.
> Your naive double-checked locking code is almost certainly broken

Is there anywhere I can read a little more about this?
> as unthinkable as it is, some indididuals will contract you for work they never intended to oay for from the start

It happened to my company (for a work I had no involvement with).

At a certain point they explicitly said they won't pay ("I knew it was too high, but I needed to get things fast"). When threatened of legal action, they immediately had their lawyer send a letter accusing us of scam with ~40 pointless complaints and threatening legal action. At that point, they had the advantage of initiative.

Some people just don't care about fairness, they know that the big fish eats the smaller and act accordingly.

That's to say: if you think they are doing this serially as their modus operandi, act first or just leave them alone.

I still don't have any clue of the final outcome.
The proceeding is unlikely to change anything. The company will just dissolve. Most of the big scams aren't even in U.S. Jurisdictions.

Only people being less ignorant and gullible will prevent them from being scammed.

There might be a lawsuit against the crowdfunding sites, however their terms are ironclad in the way they shed liability -- this is their lifeblood. Any judgement will just result in slight rule or term changes. They are making lots of money now and can afford the lawyers to remain free of liabilities.
Well maybe that first one was. But all the others that forked from it probably had no idea what was missing.
Tangent but... that photo... Ben Horowitz next to Dr. Dre and... what dimensional vortex did we go through since the 1990s?
Don't idly dismiss emoji. They're the first thing from outside the Basic Multilingual Plane that people actually want to use, and as a result the first thing to find all the bugs and hidden assumptions going from a 16 bit wide character set to a 20 bit wide character set. This helps people who actually needed access to the various CJK Ideograph Extensions, most of which are in Plane 2.
Great idea! It's stunning how this sort of futuristic seeming technology is actually possible using $50 in consumer electronics!

But passive display of information is only part of the story. You have the hardware: a microphone and a speech recognition API. Build voice interaction with this. Even simple commands like "Show me the weather tomorrow", or "Show me my calendar" add an amazing new depth to it. I can imagine myself, shaving and idly telling my mirror to show me my appointments today. :)
Windows 8 and up can accommodate metered connections

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/metered-interne...
Why? Have you studied this? Have you read research that proves otherwise? When did I suggest form interferes with function? The idea that form and function are one says functionality and form are equally important. And there's good reason for this when humans are using your device.

I believe your bias comes from your position as someone who's work is create functionality. You see that as the complete product and by virtue of your intimacy with it, the most important. But you're missing the entire picture.

Start reading here [1] and I suggest you read the entire article.

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/indefenseofeyecandy#section3
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Depends on whether the IP claims are valid. ERNW isn't saying anything about being provided IP by FireEye, which also sounds unlikely.

And what IP could it be? Going from US law, none of trademark (they aren't pretending to be FireEye), trade secret (if FireEye revealed any without NDAs etc. they no longer are), or patents (publicly disclosed, their reason for existence in the US at least) would seem to apply. If they got source code, this would be going rather differently.

Maybe reverse engineering law is different in Germany? Or ... well, let me just say I wouldn't be inclined to buy anything from the company after looking at that picture of the CEO, I've seen and interacted with that type way too many times.
A project I work on, "ftfy", deals with various Unicode issues. On the master branch, it's recently gained a module for aligning monospaced Unicode in a terminal:

https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy/blob/master/f...

The result works pretty well in my gnome-terminal and Mac OS Terminal. You can probably see that GitHub in your web browser doesn't even come close to lining them up, though.

And the problem can't be completely solved, because the standards have gaps, and there are some scripts where monospacing just isn't a thing.
Doubtful. Their terms are explicit and iron clad. Make no mistake, they are crafted to protect themselves first.

What group of backers would have the resources and organization to win a case against the crowdfunding sites?
Three Questions -

Is there a big advantage to OpenWRT as opposed to TomatoeUSB from a couple of years ago? (3+)

Is there a way to do the same thing for cable modems? Last time I looked the outlook was pretty bleak.

Is there a good way to build a better/cheaper than stock router out of cheap ARM boards like rasberry pi 2 (or even some of the more powerful boards)