skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It sounds selfish,” Helms said of the deception, “but the way it works is, I’m working poor, and the people making the drugs are filthy rich, and I need a job.”

This guy disgusts me. He acts as though it's just some me-vs-them thing. Drugs are being tested for people that really need them. Using deceit, purposely throwing up the drugs to avoid side effects, etc, this is all shit that some real, ill person is going to have to go through one day and he's skewing the results.

I sincerely hope someone here can "disrupt" the clinical testing industry and put this guy out of business.
Laptop Disk Encryption Escrow for App Engine
The actual report (pdf) which is much better than this wordy article that only lists one data-point:

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/11297...

This study examined the hypotheses that vehicles meeting EU safety standards perform similarly to US regulated vehicles in the US driving environment, and vice versa. The analyses used three statistical approaches to “triangulate” evidence regarding differences in crash and injury risk. Separate analyses assessed crash avoidance technologies, including headlamps and mirrors. The results suggest that when controlling for differences in environment and exposure, vehicles meeting EU standards offer reduced risk of serious injury in frontal/side crashes and have driver-side mirrors that reduce risk in lane-change crashes better, while vehicles meeting US standards provide a lower risk of injury in rollovers and have headlamps that make pedestrians more conspicuous.
>but I go through life with people telling me I'm an awesome dad because I change diapers

Is this discrimination against men or discrimination against women? Imagine if some software company went out of their way to praise women working there for every minor thing. Every code commit gets cheers at surpassing expectations. Every time an informative comment is added, they send out company wide emails congratulating the woman who added it. Actually adding a feature gets a small lunch party where the woman is treated as the star. It would create a very negative environment for any women working there and be considered discrimination against women.
Yep, that was it. Man, I really misremembered that. It's an Objective-C thing, which makes sense, because it was for an iOS position. I knew the idea behind it, but I had never encountered the term. I do remember I ran into it again while preparing for interviews again a year ago. I'm deep in .NET territory for work and Python for fun right now, so my iOS knowledge has atrophied a bit.
How Apple could make a car without actually building a car
> The result of the work to create packages using the major packaging formats will produce a series of packages that combined, will arguably work better, on more distros than your home-grown installer.

Plunking a binary in /usr/bin and some configuration files in /etc will work just about anywhere.

> What makes you think creating e.g. a debian package equates to "writing a specific installer". The whole point of packages is that you don't "write an installer" you provide an existing installer (the package manager/package installer) with information about what to install where.

You will probably write a script to build your package, right? That's writing an installer. Or a builder for an installer, or however you want to call it. The point is that you now have to do work for every distro you want to support, and all users without a package manager that you support is SOL.
Google's Android operating system under U.S. antitrust scanner
First all-optical chip memory
Makes you wonder who the real terrorists are.
It took them forever, but yes, they support OpenMP 3.1 as of clang 3.7.

MSVC still only supports OpenMP 2.0.
I've worked for a company that had a handful of relatively lucrative defense contacts (not multi-million $ deals, but significant cashflows, especially considering how low-maintenance they were from a support perspective).

It was a husband-wife owned startup, but I believe actually incorporated under the wife (the CFO), which gave a leg up in certain DOD bidding processes, through various woman-owned-business grants and policies.
FYI, C99 printf including 'z' for size_t was fully implemented in VS 2015.
I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the reference
Show HN: A game about the Snowden leaks played by email
`curl | bash` makes me think that (a) your software will not play nicely with my OS and I'll have to figure out your weird locations for where you are putting your init scripts, config files, data, etc. and (b) that upgrades will be manual and painful.

Fwiw, the two programs I've used with such a script (Calibre and Youtube-dl) both update easily, and don't have problems with support.

That said, it would be nice if there was a way to update them automatically. There seems to be a way to hook commands into apt-get, maybe you can add a command to update your other programs at the same time.
Here you go (pdf): http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/11297...
If by chance it's an 840 (rather than the VNAND 850), there's been two firmware updates to improve performance over time - make sure to update the firmware.
Careful: Pluto would not look like these latest pictures to the naked eye. This image is constructed from blue, red, and near-IR color channels that have been mapped to blue, green, and red in the pictures. There's a bit more about how this image was constructed here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0924142...

(The earlier "true color" pictures shared over the summer were created indirectly: my understanding is that they fit a spectral curve to the raw blue, red, IR data and then used software to reconstruct the green channel.)
Follow the RFPs he would like to work on, see who wins them, call them, pitch product/service. Bring along certification of small business and make the small business vehicle the pitch, not the product/service.

Let's say I need data analysis. Thousands of companies can service this need. Very few have the specific certification for the fed agency/state/municipal requirements du jour. I have no solid way of searching all holders of all these certifications by service line.

So, I search online, I call peers, I dredge for vendors. Vendors who approach me and can quickly communicate their contract value with small business/minority-owned/women-owned whatever, and can demonstrate their knowledge of the particular market the RFP is for means they know and are ready to be added to a larger RFP and can document their claims.

For me, this saves me time and money, and brings value.
As far as we know, all other manufactures complied with environmental regulations. Cars will have to be recalled and it will be a huge hit for VW.
I guess one difference is the approach to concurrency. Node is still (as far as I am aware) single thread per process, and so tends to take the approach of using multiple processes (so that multiple cores are used) and some form of IPC.

Elixir (because Erlang) handles the distributing of 'processes' (not operating system processes but Erlang lightweight process) across cores for you. Erlang's been doing concurrency for a long time, it's very good at it.

The style of programming is very different in that you are encouraged to use processes in Elixir, rather than the callback style that is prevalent in Node. It feels weird at first, but pretty natural after a while.

I'm not sure there's much you can do in Node that you can't do in Elixir. But there are features in Elixir (again, because Erlang) like hot-code-reloading (update your app whilst it is running), and the way it can distribute tasks across nodes that I'm not sure are that straight-forward with Node.
If the only evidence that someone committed a crime is on their cell phone, the authorities haven't done a thorough investigation and they shouldn't be rewarded for laziness.

Let's take it one step back from electronic devices.

If a corrupt businessman kept encoded records in a notepad, the authorities could compel him to turn over that notebook but no warrant can compel him to explain its contents. That's what encryption is. They authorities can seize the device but they can not force you to explain how to interpret what's in it.

Fortunately, high profile data breaches have put the thought in the public mind that weaknesses can be exploited. We can use that concern to keep people from demanding back-doors.
Ie.to adds 200k+ requests per day
This is how a company should do things. Good on you JetBrains for listening and responding.

Can't argue now :-)
I get this when I open up on mobile chrome..
I think it's relevant just what the 'West' did to each other over the last 100 years. We killed more people in single bombing raids than entire 'modern' wars. Precision bombing used to mean little more than attacking the right city.
Economy Grew at 3.9 Percent Rate in April-June Quarter
Thanks. Another point is that in Erlang/Elixir, if you have many actors, you will have less garbage per actor. Which means faster GC overall.

The best known example for Erlang/Beam "http throughput" is WhatsApp's 3 million+ concurrent connections per host. I don't think you get anywhere close in Akka. Maybe max out at 50K per server? Is even that possible?

Also, I'm not aware of good examples that use Akka with Java. Everyone I know using Akka seems to also be using Scala (not sure if it is just some kind of self-selection). I really can't stand Scala's syntax. I tried two or three times but I find it too easy to encounter Perl like unreadable code. Just my opinion though.
Note that on mobile, it's not quite trivial to get there, especially if you don't know that's what you're supposed to be looking for.
To use a Yiddish word, this guy had real chutzpah. Then again as long as there have been suckers, there have always been people to take advantage.
Also signal input can in certain cases power devices[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/1jOJl8gRPyQ?t=502
It's not. That's an "enhanced" color picture, meaning the colors you see include information from stuff like infrared images and whatnot. Maybe the contrast has been increased, or colors added to make certain features visible. Well, certainly a lot of work has been done to that image as the article suggests. Not surprising considering the extreme conditions the photograph was taken in (the speed of New Horizons, the light available, the instruments used, the fact that the data has to be sent over such a long distance, etc).
Zero-Bullshit Method to Recruiting a Sales Force
Home office desk of a wordpress theme/plugin developer
Wow down to 7% of original capacity? I've always had battery woes but that's exceptionally bad. If you started with 6 hours now you'll get 25 minutes of battery life!

Does anyone know of any good power management software for Linux? I am about to get my first Linux laptop and this is one of my primary concerns (since the laptop is designed for Windows 10).
Not trolling. I used OCaml because it was "fun" and "highly-performant". Would I recommend it to my clients? No. Granted, this is almost entirely due to the POS stdlib - a problem Erlang and (by extension) Elixir do not share. However, the syntax and alternative MO are still a big sell. I'd argue that the majority of people out there doing web engineering (even the big ones) don't need it. Heck, look at Facebook using PHP.

I'm not sure what my point is - it's just not an easy sell?
And "flexible power strips with variations to fit every environment" could easily be an entire successful company by itself.
With Retina screens, you need _absolutely enormous_ fonts, which is trivial for a vector font, but doesn't really seem to be done with bitmap fonts.

(IMO, you're right about antialiasing, though)
Complete Guide to Deploying Phoenix Applications Using Dokku
This has been my primary annoyance working in node.js, dependencies automatically updating and breaking our code.

So far everyone has convinced me away from committing node_modules to the repo or doing an npm shrinkwrap, but I would love seeing a future with more people pinning dependencies and using this to update.
Does anyone know if this is a true or 'false' color image?
I think what it means is that as it stands now, there is no definite good/bad way to make successful software. There are just opinions.
Thanks for the information. I must be doing something wrong then as I've recently downloaded 3.7.0 for Windows and while it compiles with -fopenmp it doesn't work correctly (only one thread is launched). I guess some investigation is needed, any ideas why that could be?

The code works correctly when compiled with GCC so that can't be an issue. I am launching OpenMP threads from a Windows thread (not the main one) so maybe that's the issue (MinGW packages had problems with it forever and it's pretty tough to find one without this bug present).
I'm not sure I buy the SR&ED complaint. A friend of mine got some SRED credits refunded while he worked on a tool. It didn't seem to onerous from his perspective. Of course, that was a few years ago. Things may have gotten worse recently.
Debian was a complete dick on my old ppc g4. It sort of put me off. The was going to try FreeBSD but I have to persuade the wife to let me buy a g5 yet as they're large, noisy and entirely unnecessary. I just want one to play with and go ooh and aah and stuff :)

I did the same with old SPARC kit a number of years ago too.
I'm glad they listened, and modified.

One thing that should be heartening to Jetbrains is that people like their products enough to really care about licensing. Its betters than having everyone just quietly walk away to another product.
Frozen so they wouldn't move around, and a very sharp saw.
All government-run company funding programs are flawed for one simple reason: the bureaucracy is unfit to judge early-stage companies.* The only protection the bureaucracy has is layers of rules and lengthy application processes. These barriers naturally increase over time as various bad actors game the system.

* Later-stage / mature companies can be evaluated on financial statements.
I assume there is no difference between being forced to reveal a phone password and being forced to reveal a password to some other system such as a PC, encrypted container or website?
Don't forget the NSL system of secret court orders...
Yeah, the folks behind ctrl-cut are pretty darn clever. I'm sure they'll get it running for Glowforge as soon as they get one in their hands. ;)
Neurotic Neurons: An Interactive Explanation [video]
Direct link to changelog: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.1.0/CHANGELOG....
I always liked the mathy symbols used in The Five Doctors (for more see: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67524/can-gallifrey... )
Watsi launches 5-day matching campaign to celebrate $5M for 5K patients
It runs anonymous search and returns the results from their servers proxied. It offers an actual VPN if i am not mistaken, as a paid service.
I've been watching Elixir (and Phoenix Framework) as well. In addition to lightweight processes, the functional style, immutability, pattern matching and Rubyish syntax are appealing too.
What would happen if all the affected consumers demanded the full purchase price returned to them and returned their used cars? It seems clear that they would win, because they were fraudulent sales. But that would bankrupt VW, right?
An Open Letter to the New United Airlines CEO
Very much a personal opinion from someone coding for 15 years+. I'm new to Elixir but I found it to be a joyful language to work with so far. Java is a language you code in to pay the bills. Go is not bad at all but while I've heard people remark Go is fun, it hasn't been that fun for me. A bit of ugly syntax here and there. Python is awesome but I'm tired of the v2/v3 crap and frankly don't think it is the right tool for large, multi-person code bases (e.g. Openstack). Elixir has been truly enjoyable for me. If you are a jaded dev who used to love languages, give Elixir a try. I hope you get the same joy that I am getting from it because it has an ineffable quality about it.

[edited]
Gryffin: a large scale web security scanning platform from Yahoo
Creator here, a bit more info:

- the demo is played in real-time (so emails are sent and received throughout the day)

- each character in the game has their own email address and PGP key pair

- you can play using PGP but it's completely optional

- I'm using mailgun/ec2/dynamodb on the backend

- keybase pgp for the encryption/decryption (https://keybase.io/kbpgp)

If you like the idea, I'm currently running a Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1928653683/top-secret-a...

I'm happy to answer any questions. Enjoy!
The SR&ED complaint is not all the experience I've had. Received 3 successful grants in a row now, all prepared by a 3rd party consultancy. Payment is always fast. The first year we applied we were required to submit some extra documentation to support our claim. This amounted to submitting our git commit logs verbatim. They were happy with that.

You don't have to submit hour-by-hour breakdowns either. You submit what % of an engineers time was spent on SR&ED work and what the engineer's salary is. That's it.

I imagine it might have to do with which tax centre you're dealing with. Maybe the ones in BC are tougher than the ones here in Toronto/Ontario?
You miss the point. Bitcoin is not necessarily income. It's simply a chain of integers bound through certain mathematical operations.
SRED has become more restrictive in the past few years. Legitimate technology companies are having their SRED applications denied (although its debatable whether their work involved Scientific Research and Experimental Development).
Earlier post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10170089

430 points & 495 comments (many not very nice)

Now everyone is quiet? How about some love here. This is awesome. MS is going with an "All your data is belonging to us" model; we all complain; nothing changes. Out of the blue, Google shuts down another service; we all complain; nothing changes.

JetBrains, good on you. Way more than you had to do, and did it with class. Three cheers for JetBrains!
Amazing the amount effort they put into their products - even Google didn't want to compete with them and instead built Android studio on top.
I wonder if this will have an effect on Europe's appetite for diesel cars in general going forward. I know they're much more popular over there than here in the US.
It says “enhanced colour view of Pluto” in the article.
oh man, I'd get killed because it'd be pretty obvious when I start mouthing a 12-digit pin to try and figure out what it is backwards.....
Literally in the link he posted, if you look at the 3 month pricing chart, the low point is $209 and the high point is $309. This isn't speculation or guessing, those are some pretty huge swings in such a short amount of time the data quantitatively shows.

I wouldn't want my salary to have that kind of volatility.
>Therefore, any high ranking man in a different department that slept with me was de facto barring me from ever working under him.

He was? And here I thought that such actions required agreement on both parts to take place (without there being a crime committed).
Maybe they would compete on:

>>the speed, quality of their optimization, static analysis, supported platforms

if the C++ committee wasn't that "prolific" about adding yet new ways to do the same thing to the language. It sucks a lot of resources to implement that monstrosity and every 3 years or so there is a new set of toys to play with.
85 years ago, we didn't even definitively know that Pluto was out there.
There's definitely a personality aspect to how folks perceive lonely vs not lonely that's completely independent of how many people are actually around you. I'm the opposite of you- I can see good friends and go out every day of the week, but the moment I'm not currently engaged: lonely
It's brutal, my company does SR&ED every year and it ties up all of the directors and our development lead for at least 3 months. The executives push it because all they see is the tax credits, but don't see the ridiculous amount of man hours that go into it.
Ask HN: YC Fellowship first impressions?
The YC Fellowship was announced this July (to recap: 8 week remote program with $12,000 for a team to bring an idea to a startup)[1][2]. It generated quite a bit of discussion at the time[3] on HN as well. This first round of the program is supposed to run from mid-September to mid-November.

Now that it is underway, what are people's first impression with the program? Both on the side of teams who got the fellowship and on YC's side since it should be different from what you have done before!

Consider this as checking in on behalf of the community to see how things are going at the first few steps (selection, onboarding, maybe after the first week in the program?). I'm sure there will be a lot to learn at the end, but it feels as the process itself is very valuable. So any comments from the people involved is very appreciated! (I couldn't join this time due to the "full time" requirements, but hope to do it in the future)

[1]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship

[2]: http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917334

Disclaimer: this is a repost of an earlier attempt which died due to wrong timing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10270575)
Great news for those that had an issue with the plan!

I was fine with paying the monthly fee but am happy the company listened.
This was some excellent information from Microsoft themselves.

Geoff Chappell has been uncovering various various Microsoft compiler and linker (plus other bintools) hidden command-line options and environments (like _CL, _CL_, and _LINK, _LINK_) - http://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/msvc/cl/index.htm?tx=23
Our system has the same thing. I can see how this would be a useful feature across other devices/technology – If I sign in this way, do this, etc.
For us, the biggest problem was the sales cycle. For a $30k project we were looking at a ~10 month sales cycle. With normal clients, we could have closed a $30k sale in six weeks.
That's not hard. At the time of arrest, suspect was observed using Facebook. Here are the correlating logs from Facebook. After unlocking suspect's device using provided code, no Facebook login credentials were present, thus proving that the suspect used the erase code and not the usual code.
I actually wonder if there is a limit on the size of the A pillar in cars. The car I drive right now seems like it has a larger A pillar than the (super old) car I had before, presumably for safety. But it's almost caused me to get into several accidents as I am almost completely blind when slighting left. Just the other day I nearly hit a pedestrian who was crossing against the light. I slowed down for the turn but had the green light, and the pedestrian was crossing the street at just the right speed to stay in the blind spot of my driver's side A pillar. If I hadn't moved my head to double check, I would have run them over. I've never had this issue on any other car, but it's a big problem for me right now.

So imagine that blocking a good section of your forward vision, and a helmet blocking anything to the sides... motorcycles have very small blind spots as the rider can swivel anywhere with no cage blocking them. Helmets are a minor contributor. But cars don't have that luxury.
Here's a link to my MBA performance: http://imgur.com/2UVFmIU

Bought Nov 2013, now has over 250 charge cycles and is still at 90% of original capacity.
I don't think it's clear that they would win. The cars will be reprogrammed to meet EPA rules, and then they will have less power and use more fuel. The will be worth X on the resale market. Two weeks ago they were worth Y, where X < Y. The damages owners might be entitled to are probably Y-X, not Y.