skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar problem with a free service I am releasing in the coming weeks. I just asked a guy that writes a newsletter about startups. He suggested I go where the users are of that niche. Maybe you could try Betalist ? Finding people in that niche on twitter would also help. Connect with them then send a few PMs as ask for their feedback.
Thanks for sharing - I don't know why they wouldn't link it.
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Increase the max heap settings in eclipse.ini (I have mine at 4gb). Correctly configured, no other IDE touches Eclipse for speed.
I don't think that is a fair characterization--though I'll readily agree that it is a common one in the anti-union propaganda we've been swimming in for the last few decades.

While it's true, in a general sense, that management and workers are all working toward a common goal, only one side in that partnerships holds all the power in that relationship, and it isn't the workers. Unions are a natural response to that imbalance of power.

Chalking this guy's bad attitude up to union involvement is an unwarranted anti-union slur, nothing more.
"As for the effort, the average person can do a whole lot more than they think."

Sure, the average person can do a lot more than they think but most average people won't do that lot-more unless something fairly extreme compels them and that doesn't especially likely in any future moving forward.

"But compare an hour on a bike, vs an hour in traffic. It might be a wash."

One get fit enough to ride two hours/day on a bike everyday, sure. But I don't think one can get fit enough to not be tired after the experience. I recall years ago talking to a professional bike messenger friend - I asked her if she got used to it after a while. Her answer was that she got used to the experience but that she just always felt tired.

Most people wouldn't want that because it would mean life after work wouldn't exist.
Is this the same company who about a year ago was copping a lot of flack because one of the founders was jetting back and forth between US and Europe first class every week to make sure he got / kept his United Global Services membership while they were laying off staff?
PPC Debian runs just fine on my old Mac Mini. I could replace the thing, but it just keeps chugging on.
I love Bitstring Syntax in Elixir and Erlang. Similar feature is coming for Rust[1].

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/346
Women entrepreneurs with Harvard degrees are landing the most VC money
Almost no laptops are "made for Linux". For example, the last time I looked, System76 just sold rebranded Clevo laptops. So while you might be able to make the argument that System76 does more Linux testing than the likes of HP or Dell, trying to make the claim that System76's laptops are "made for Linux" is incorrect. I'm pretty sure that Clevo's are made for Windows.

They do the same thing you or I do before ordering a laptop we intend to throw Linux on: do some research first to find one that is mostly compatible, and then tweak the hell out of it until it mostly works. They just take the extra step of then selling the laptop. However, I can tell you from personal experience that System76 Linux laptops are far from perfect Linux experiences.
I haven't dug around my browser config or the Extensions store in awhile. Does anyone happen to know if IE/Chrome/Firefox can be configured to not accept cookies from non-HTTPS sites?
Atlanta has started doing that by greatly widening bridges over the Downtown Connector, so they include parks. Example: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7768753,-84.3909918,3a,75y,4...
This is the entire point of projects to put freeways in tunnels.
They are relevant if you take them for what they are: examples that explains, in a general way, why FB has large codebase. Because when something doesn't fits their needs they will write their own version.

So I guess with iOS they wrote/rewrote some part of the system functionnalities to better fit their needs.
Of course, all content served by sandstorm.io – from software downloads to our blog – is served strictly over HTTPS (with HSTS).

What HSTS? You're telling people to use curl!
> Is there currently human technology that does anything similar to this?

Steganography. Not "background", in the sense that images are generally considered useful, but it is hiding information in a place that a casual onlooker would not think to look.

> Encryption is applied on the data layers not to hide that something is being transmitted, but what is being transmitted.

That's exactly why this encryption would be strong. Initially, no one thinks to look for signals that don't look like signals.
It's not great that when you stop paying monthly, your product reverts to version it was 1 year ago. I feel like that's a bit underhanded.
I actually moved to a paid model for launchticker.com and didn't look back, and 99% of the money I've ever made in this life is from being an angel investor (in marketplaces mainly... no ads!).

however, the Ad blocking companies are a bit of a fraud, as they're blocking ads then allowing certain advertisers to buy their way back in! Like an extortion racket.

However, you should read the whole piece, because I do clearly put in there that it's folks right to do what they want on their desktops/mobile phones.

The issue really is the overall approach of apple saying "we're going to impose our distaste for advertising on the world by not only enabling, but endorsing/encouraging this stuff."

It's certainly a juicy topic for discussion.
Very cool. Any plans to support other languages/packages management systems?
Don't say no for them.

If you want it and you think it makes sense for you, then apply. They are perfectly capable of saying no for themselves.
I don't think you can argue that self-driving cars killed PRT, when we are still building brand new subways and light rail.

I think anything new/innovative loses in the sound byte war. I remember ~2 years ago, the election for mayor of Honolulu hinged on the candidates' stances on building a railroad vs. expanding the existing bus system (rail won). I think if either of them were arguing for PRT, you couldn't explain it to voters in the sound bytes summaries the news gives us.
"man in the middle can do nasty thing, here is a castle of vulnerabilities we built on top of already having pwnd the communication channel"

related http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/08/59235... "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway"
Yep, I lost an interview about ten years ago in part because I had not encountered the magic term "duck typing" yet. Never mind that I had be making file-like and string-io objects in Python for years by that time.

Don't get me started, tech interviewers are so bad...
Well the ones in the video actually had the road elevated rather than have a wooded overpass... it seems like that makes more sense longterm.
The work being done by the SG

https://isocpp.org/std/status

Filesystems, networking, concurrency, ....

Sadly databases died out apparently.
I agree! I tried to sign up for a malaria vaccine trial. Not because I need the money (I'm a software developer!), but because I see their fliers often in Seattle. I've got a background in biology so being infected with malaria doesn't freak me out. It simply seemed like a societally positive thing for me to do. And of course, I'd have an easy excuse not to donate blood ever again in my life. :)
A Developer’s Journey into Linux Containers
Show HN: Lens Battle – Make comparing lenses easier (with leaflet.js)
yeah... and their solution is basically making a native universal app executable which internally do the exact same bash commands, and the app executable will be downloaded via HTTPS, so it isn't different in any measurable way, yet adds much more support and compiling costs that may break some installs and yield the actual installation script unauditable.

you can't argue with these idiots. > /dev/null
I believe Aristoteles said something on those lines a long time ago. I don't see this flipping anything on its head. The conventional function-driven thought of the human being, as if everyone had to perform a duty, and to make the world better - and, even if they had to, what exactly makes the world better? For the sheep, a world without eagles would be better - but the eagles aren't bad, they just have to eat.

Or, maybe, I just didn't understand what he meant =]
In Undertale, you can choose to kill monsters or understand them
Question to the devs: you mentioned [0] that you eventually hope to auto-upgrade peoples' app code for package BC breaks. My initial thought was that this would be the logical conclusion for a service like this, but my next thought was realizing how much magic it would take.

But, apparently you are magical. ;-) What can you tell us about your planned approach to automating this? Seems like a massive undertaking.

[0] https://twitter.com/janl/status/647406012018872320
curl supports HSTS, lady.
Give up or buck up. The founders’ dilemma
Ask HN: Outside perspective on my reprimand
I’m trying to get an outside perspective on what happened to me. A few day ago I decided to kill time some at work before I headed to a meetup by playing a video game on my work computer.

Today my manager pulls me to a private office to warn me that the CIO and a few VP’s saw me playing and was bothered by it. As you can guess this is a corporate company. I not really sure how I should react.

I like my work and coworkers, but I just can’t shake the feeling this might be the beginning of end. Any good work I’ve done went right out the window. Should I revise my resume and move on or should I take it as just a verbal warning and not stress it.
you mean half of code compiled with __cdecl, other half __stdcall, some calls as pascal... oh, that's cute..

and 32/64bit..
Reading anything from them always reminds me of TempleOS. There are some hilarious gems if you skim it, like "Urbit is highly intolerant of computation error, for obvious reasons, and should be run in an EMP shielded data center on ECC memory."
solution: Deploy HSTS on top-level domain

yeah easy for you to say
What’s new at Litmus
You're correct to make the distinction, but when it comes to law enforcement, both rights and abilities originate in the same place: legislation.

The law gives police the right to enter your premises if they have a valid search warrant. But it also gives them the rams, guns, body armor, etc.--the ability to exercise that right.

From a practical perspective, lawmakers try to address both rights and abilities when crafting legislation that enforces laws. I think it's really unlikely that politicians would say "here's the right, but the ability is your problem." No, they'll write a law that gets the effect they want, even if means granting powers that seem ridiculous to us. There is no shortage of things that have the force of law today despite seeming ridiculous to us.

I am worried about backdoors. They are being seriously considered at the highest levels of government.
Investigation on Android – Possible Monopoly by Google
I'm way over Google taking away the 140th largest site in USA with 10m in revenue from me.... :-)

I mean, they are targeting everyone for extinction, from Yelp to content sites to comparison shopping. They used partnerships to build their business... literally meeting with all of us startups 10+ years ago and saying "let's win together!" and then they double crossed all of us, studied our traffic and moved us 600 pixels down the page.

Its a great lesson for folks: never build your business inside of someone else's.... unless you have a really good idea of how you can pull and Aliens-like move and eat the host!
this is a very good system, now I wish Adobe did the same: it would definitely not be feasible to give you a full license for PS+LR after a year of $10/mo however they could easily do something like

- every software has a 'price', your monthly subscription gives you credits, which you can redeem for 'permanent' versions of the software you want at the same version as when you started subscribing (so downgrade, same as here)

- if you own a previous version of the software (say you own full CS6) then you get a discount so that after a year of monthly subscriptions you get a perpetual license for the version when you started the subscription (making it the same as if you had bought a boxed upgrade)

this kind of model I think would make it a lot more palatable for people to get onboard with SAAS as you always have the choice of keeping to pay to be with the latest and greatest or stopping to pay and staying with a previous version if it works for you.

The only issue I see is that there has to be really good forwards compatibility between the versions, because if I am subscribing and am on V2 and save my project, then end the subscription and get a permanent V1, I should be able to open my V2-saved-work without issues.
Of course self-driving cars are the necessary future, but it will drastically increase ridership as it becomes so much more convenient than the alternatives (including being sober/awake enough to drive). Over time I suspect that even the most efficient car system will result in traffic sucking just as much today, except with the option to watch tv instead of the road.
Inside the Legal Challenge to Chicago's 9 Percent Netflix Tax
Another great argument for using signed cookies.
We had to use the vendor compilers, so no fun.

This was the only time period I used C instead of C++ at work.

However I do confess, the situation for C++ support was even worse, so although I am not fan of C, the decision made sense from business point of view.
Very confusing transition, but https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox/ is really useful to figure out what you will pay.

I think it works out in the end. For me, initial cost would be $250 for the initial two years, $149 for the third year. So I would pay $50 more over three years (and every year onwards) to have access to ALL their products. I think this is a good step. I've previously been in the awkward spot where I chose between PyCharm and PhpStorm because otherwise I'd have to pay in full for both and didn't want the swiss knife IDE.

Thanks, Jetbrains!
I'm doing a lot voice searches recently. It's just easier and feels more natural. It's amazing how accurate Google voice recognition is. I'm non-native English speakers and sometimes I'm not even sure if I pronounced something correct but it gets it!
Has anyone ever used NewLisp for something interesting? Would you mind talking about your experience? NewLisp, despite the name, is actually quite old at this point, and its release cycle has slowed down a bit over the years. I'm assuming it landed so high on the front page because people are interested, so some real-life stories would be helpful.

(I have a real-life story that concludes with "so I got fed up and rewrote the thing in Python", but I'm not all convinced that the problem wasn't with me.)
http://picolisp.com/
I agree it we would be better off overall with the ability to choose whether or not we wanted to see content if it requires ads, as that would make the choice clear to many people who I think it isn't clear for now. Ideally, I think we would be well served by a choice where we could choose to see an ad, or choose to pony up a small amount from a list of services that escrow these small amounts for us (Google Contributor for example) with the cost clearly defined, and the option to forego seeing the content entirely. Being able to set defaults for this on browser and per-site basis would make this really smooth.
John Carmack's VR Script Live Coding Session at Oculus Connect [video]
I once had a 60 day contract take a year and a half to get signed after I won it. We had to be ready each and every day of that year and a half to start the work...
Great, now can we please have Select All for our Google Voice inbox so those of us who forward our texts and calls to Gmail don't have a Google Voice page that says "Inbox (8821)"?
I end up punishing the batteries in my stuff with 100% -> 0% -> 100% cycles frequently and don't feel bad about it. The battery exists to conform to my needs, not the other way round! I'm not going to use my stuff in patterns I find inconvenient just to baby an inanimate object.
Why? What's hard about HSTS? Although they don't include subdomains.
And this is why were out of ipv4 addresses
And for every way you zoom it, the hockey stick moment will be in a different point. A completely different point if you try completely different views.

Just try it.
I thought that the way you solve this in the states is by setting up an LLC and copyrighting under your LLC all of the code you write during hours you are not working for the other company. Doesn't that provide adequate additional protection? The strict IP agreements I've signed usually exclude work done for other companies.
If you sign a contract that makes all your ideas the property of the company you work for, that is a problem. But I suggest pushing back on that contract - ask them to take out those clauses. If they say no, you then get to decide if it is a deal-breaker for you or not. But I suspect most of the time, they will work with you.
Its true, but as long as you aren't chasing the next billion and you have a solid product, SBIRs aren't a bad deal and you can win sub contracts from the larger companies and agencies.
Elixir 1.1 Released
This model works perfectly fine in higher education, as does the idea that if you treat employees as people to be invested in and cut some slack when their life doesn't align perfectly with your plans, they reward you with creativity, energy, and loyalty. I like Elon Musk and the work that he does, but chewing out an employee for skipping out on work to witness their child's birth is more than enough reason to never work for a person like that.
OP here: some of the misalignments are caused by distortions and slight camera movement. Those are the hardest to control and require repeated try. The Sigma lens is also overly heavy that pointed the camera down-ward a little. Will try to do better in the next round of lenses.
I don't think it's possible to make things secure for people who don't care, except by disallowing third-party software entirely. Deciding who you trust is fundamental.
This type of system would seem to have the same failure modes that complex baggage handling systems have. [1]

They are both moving baggage (passengers) on demand between two points. I seem to remember seeing an article indicating that the failures Denver was having (all the empty pods end up at one spot) was visible in experiment, but I can't find it now.

[1] http://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/DIABaggage.pdf
[2] http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/630.pdf
There's also the fact that your business needs to be built to handle long term contemplative projects. Stereotypical Silicon Valley startups are built for fast, reckless growth which cannot and will not happen with a government contract.
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There is to me. I patently reject the notion that information is property. And a lot of others do as well, at least to some extent.

Do you really believe that up until this week, "Happy Birthday" was someones 'property' ? Do you really believe that posting the ETA for city busses is a patentable innovation ?

Just because some legal thug perverts the definition of words (such as 'property' ) in the lawbooks does not change the way I regard them. Just like back when the books said that a black man was 3/5ths of a human being. Just because it says that in a book doesn't make it correct.
To be successful, loading and unloading would probably need to occur outside the normal flow of traffic.
No, e-book sales are not falling, despite what publishers say
Why It Took Us Two Months to Rebrand ChallengePost to Devpost
Some contracts have a clause where you work exclusively for this employer.
Then why do we have an official concurrency module? If there is "no single solution fully addressing every use case", why do we have one official solution? Which the main post criticises? If you are correct that there is no single solution, then surely there should be no single solution put forward as official?

Yet I believe your premise is incorrect in the first place. Why has Golang, by most commentators' comments, "got concurrency right". Is that true? Tell me. If it is, why can't Python get concurrency right also? If it's not true, why is there an official solution, being criticised before our eyes?

On this case, I will quote you: "I suspect you don't really know what you are talking about...".
Police do know about this and can (hypothetically) check to see if there is another encrypted volume inside. Also didn't Truecrypt shut down because they had some huge security vulnerability.
Plus, it would be an easy way to incriminate. Drop an encrypted usb in the belongings of the person, and use that as an excuse for putting them in jail. Hell, it would be a lot more convenient than the War On Drugs.
> But for the duration of your employment, all your ideas belong to them.

Only in certain states, and I only if you sign such a contract. Did the author actually read his contract and say: "Please remove this part"?

I know California and Washington both have state laws limiting what companies can do in terms of taking ownership of your "outside" work.
Yes, but if they enforce that, they might fire you but they won't be able to take your IP away. Not if they exclude the IP you produce for other companies as part of the IP agreement.
I think this ruling marks the recognition that the information processing performed by the devices we carry has, in a legal sense, "merged" with the thoughts we carry in our heads, and are now worthy of the same fifth amendment protections.

I'm in favor, but for some reason this also makes me a little worried.
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project (general info), http://visiblehuman.epfl.ch/index.php ('virtual an atomic construction kit'), https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/getting_data.html (source data, with sample pictures)

If you sign the necessary license, you can download the data for free.
Comscore actually pegs latest U.S. market share at 51% for Android and 44% for iOS. http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Re...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute...
Since it's inevitably brought up every time this topic arises:

This is one of the reasons why California is still such a popular place to do business because the law explicitly nullifies those provisions in contracts.

See California Labor Code Sec. 2870

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
I think you'll find for large tech giants(like referenced here) they won't budge unless you're Carmack or someone high profile.
This is a great article. You don't usually think about all the engineering tasks behind a company rebranding.