skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the chrome extension and when im on the site i can open a drop down menu with everything running on the site. I look for tag managers, ad exchanges, retargeting tags, data reseller tags, ad tech tags, etc... With one glance i can usually tell how sophisticated of a media buyer they are and if they seem eager to experiment with new ad offerings. (i.e. lots of small and obscure ad services or expensive data+programmatic exchanges like chango, etc...)
Please don't post this as if you wrote it, unless you actually wrote it. If you're quoting it, please make clear it's a quote.
Awesome, now I can define JSON changes with XML.
Mobirise Bootstrap Theme Generator v2.0 is out!
Is there any external WYSIWYG HTML editors which I do not need to add the extra Javascript inside (except Dreamweaver)?
http://mobirise.com

What's new in v2.0:

* Form blocks with email notifications without any server-side integration. Just type your email in parameters and get submissions instantly.

* Menu block redesigned. Now menu can have buttons, larger logo, be sticky, and collapsed.

* Slider supports autoplay.

* Smooth scroll added.

* Massive bug fixes.

* Mobirise.com site updated.
Title is a false editorialization. Two new rooms are suspected, have not been found. It's been widely reported for more than a month now and nothing has changed.

From the article: "Egyptian officials plan to use radar equipment to test Mr Reeves' theory that Nefertiti's remains were placed in one of them."

See also (mid-August) HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071576
The point is atomicity doesn't work like this on x86, ARM and most architectures. It's the right conclusion from the wrong analysis. The difference in speed will be the time consumed by managing a packed bitmap, not due to the atomicity being any faster.
These things are not mutually exclusive.

Markdown embraces HTML, and so a WYSIWYG mode based around HTML is compatible with Markdown.

Markdown's weaknesses for table design, image insertion, and complex layouts is all handled by HTML and WYSIWYG tools that edit that directly.

That would have solved the Git scenario, and the Confluence scenario, whilst having a single highly predictable markup across all of their platforms.

The problem really stems not from these problems being addressed per product as if they existed independently of all other products. But that's a terrible approach, as few people buy just Confluence without JIRA or Stash, people buy Atlassian because a consistent suite should work better than many myriad tools that don't quite know how to interop. Atlassian's strength is the consistent and integrated approach, so the UX should be focused on strengthening that.
Brightwheel is hiring a senior full stack engineer
His business stops and someone else fills the void left by the company.
RINSE | San Francisco, CA and Santa Monica, CA | Full Time

Rinse is a technology-enabled dry cleaning and laundry delivery service. We've grown at double-digit month-over-month rates for two years now, and our customers love us!
We have a number of open positions:

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2) We're also hiring a Senior Operations Associate to lead our service delivery team (including our drivers and logistics staff). We pride ourselves in operational excellence to support an amazing customer experience, and this role will help our business continue to scale through strong management, process development, and dedication to our customers.

3) Rinse continues to search for qualified Senior Software Engineers. We're primarily a Django / Python shop with a fair amount of javascript/HTML5 thrown in. We're building tools for our customers, our drivers, our internal staff, and our vendors. It's a "target rich" environment with plenty of opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on the business! We're solving problems as varied as demand forecasting, route optimization, QR tagging for inventory control, and a suite of mobile apps for our customers and staff.

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Do we have an ES7 compiler to ES6 that can handle these new features? Whilst I prefer cljs, sometimes the weight of clojurescript output and tooling can be a little offputting for smaller tasks, but callbacks/promises etc.. are rarely enjoyed
PICO-8
Location: Russia

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: WEB, JavaScript, html5, canvas, Backbone, React, Angular, browserify, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, es6, es2015, data visualization, TDD, BDD

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/lavrton, http://lavrton.github.io/portfolio/, I can give you pdf version via email.

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Since 2012 I'm developing web applications. So I really comfortable with web ecosystem. Javascript is almost native language for me. Also I have good math and computer science background.
> They run your code in a try/catch block and store the error away, and you have to remember yourself to manually throw it later.

The compiler probably does that for you, honoring catch blocks. It does in C#, I see no reason why it wouldn't in ES7.

So, async/await is actually less likely to eat exceptions.
Who doesn't notice a huge deletion in one changeset? This seems to be a convenient excuse. The SEC report.

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2015/34-76029.pdf
DataCamp also did TechStars NYC.

There are also successful companies that were bootstrapped, e.g. TheInternGroup.
Google is your friend.
Scandal says “yes” because it couldn't say no
1. Make a JIRA plug-in that turns JIRA into Fogbugz

2. Profit
"My issue with getting better at vim is that I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable moving around text, copying/pasting, and everything I would normally do with a mouse."

exactly why I use Vim this way. On DEC VT-100 terminals this was the only way you could work and I must say I sometimes cheat and add the necessary bash commands to make it work on my console.
But it's still "just IE", right? Right guys?

Seriously though. I think that argument is losing steam every time I do testing with Edge. It gets updated. It feels different.

Unless somebody were to tell me both IE and Edge belong to the same browser family, I wouldn't be and to tell.

I'd say it's fair to call it a new browser.
I don't even necessarily need my client to mark files as read only on my local machine. A system that just lets me query who has the lock on a certain file, and lets me get the lock on it if noone has, is miles ahead of shouting/email.

A remote-only locking system should be pretty easy to implement, e.g by just throwing in "filename.userid.lock" into the filesystem next to the file in question.
I have seen this phenomena before, it seems that they take into account more things that just how upvoted/downvoted it was, like the posting user karma, how much the answers were upvoted or the answering users karma.

It makes sense, sometimes a really stupid comment (not implying this was the case) can sprawl a really interesting discussion. I often look at the bottom of the comments for hidden goodies.
Does it matter? When an Aussie says "this was built by an Australian", they're really saying "Australia, the underdog nation, produced something that would normally be associated with 'them out there' and we should be 'proud' of it" .. in order for that congratulation to work, Australia has to be an underdog nation, and by association, Australians too.

It reeks of jingoism every time we see an article in an Australian media organization about Australians 'making it on the world stage', and just induces cringe, imho. (Disclaimer: Australian living in Europe) I've never seen any positive response to this kind of pitch: its always "oh, those Australians think they're so poor, and congratulate themselves at the drop of a hat" .. I think its one of those activities that doesn't have the desired effect, at all ..
> But it might also help when the machine is performing a service which requires very little CPU time but moves huge amounts of data. Like serving video. Are the big video servers still x86 machines, or does Netflix now use custom hardware?

Netflix is using x86 for their video servers. They're running FreeBSD, and they've published recently[1] about moving TLS session crypto into the kernel so they can serve their videos with TLS without as much of a performance loss. The pdf mentions they were able to get 40 Gbps out of their machines with TLS disabled; with TLS enabled, they were only able to get close to 10 Gbps. CPU is E5-2650L (Sandy Bridge), serving from SSD, equipped with quad port 10g nic.

[1] https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf
Sideplayer™: Watch YouTube while you browse the web
I've seen stream-like constructs done with c# async and await and to me it even looked elegant.

Could you expand on in what way you think async and await is insufficient with regards to streams? I'm genuinely curious.
And that's enough to get someone that almost never comments to post an alert? I hope it's at least a little more interesting than that.
True. I just figured it was unnecessarily conservative. He said, "Overheads would be significant," which I don't think is actually true. I agree with the general principle that it's a lot of money.
Are you currently accepting applications for Winter internships? i.e Jan-Apr 2016
Stating measurable and verifiable facts = boasting. Faking achievements in credits or weak articles = career management. Nothing like reverse psychology.
I'm heavy Dart with dart2js user. Dart has await/async from few releases

It is really a relief when it comes to multiple AJAX/UI dependant logic eg.

if(await showDialog("get coffe ?") == "yes"){

results = await getCoffeFromServer();

}
else {
...
}
How drones deal with latency
That sentence construction certainly implied otherwise. Even disregarding the part about starting salaries, the implication that programmers were treated as "typists" circa year 2000 is preposterous. This is around the height of the first dot.com boom and tales of extravagant programmer salaries was already legend. Starting his argument with such a patently absurd claim just discredits everything else he says later on.
It's a joke, consistent with Matt Levine's writing style. See for example the image and caption for his article on Panda Express: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-24/panda-expre...
Is a "race to the bottom" supposed to be a bad thing? It's called competition.
Does/will this a) have a companion safari extension for OS X and b) sync it's settings via iCloud?
The comment was on the preposterous claim that programmers were treated as "typists" around the year 2000. It's as if dot.com boom has just been collectively erased from all the downvoters' memories.
So a "lucky" guy benefits from "society's success"?

Is it really how you see things?

That's the very definition of envy to me.
From the article: "Most of these acquisitions appear to be “acquihire”-type deals, and the terms are undisclosed."

"Only about 1% of Startup Chile companies have completed a Series A (or greater). For these companies, the average time from founding to A round is 2.25 years. Three companies have reached B (SaferTaxi, Cabify, Opendoor), and Cabify reached C. It’s worth noting both of these companies are taxi-on-demand."

"< 1% of it’s companies have achieved a liquidity event."

The success that isn't a cab company, Opendoor, is basically an AirBnB copy.
Uber is moving into Chile and seems to be beating SaferTaxi.

That's disappointing.
I'm in Australia, and this is exactly the case. Unfortunately 99% of the emails are from off-shore providers that don't give a damn about these rules. I've setup Thunderbird rules that manage to filter out most of them without me seeing them.
Yea, the browser based web keeps losing market share. First to mobile apps, now to dedicated document readers. Both performance problems. But the slow document problem is not very technical, mostly politics. There's no mechanism for enforcing requirements across a wild west of bloat.

Flash's demise was for similar reasons. Bloat caused by over eager developers gained it a reputation for slow loading times and unusable websites. In this case the usable web is punished too.
The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world
A poetic vision of Paris’ crumbling suburban high rises
Why you can't get 4K Netflix and Amazon on a PC or Mac
Wow, what a find. Thanks! Also, ugh.

We've changed the URL from http://mashable.com/2015/09/27/univac-bible/, which I think dalke has shown has plagiarized this excellent 1955 article. It's pretty sickening to think of what else these websites must be ripping off without attribution.

I've marked this subthread off-topic because hopefully the thread can be about the extraordinary details of the original article. But props to dalke for an extraordinary bit of research.
> the typical brightness of streetlamps outdoors in most cities, humans are using photopic rather than scotopic vision

Becase they would be useless otherwise. Take a 650nm led and a 500nm led and try turning them down slowly. The 650nm one will just go off with very limited, if any, dark adaptation. You will be able to see the led glowing, but the room won't seem to be illuminated. With the 500nm light, there will be a wide range to which the eye can adapt easily.

>The cause of the nearsightedness epidemic (e.g. in East Asia) is children not going outside in the sun during the day. The details of the lamps they use at night (indoors or outdoors) are irrelevant to that.

The evidence for light chromaticity seems to be more convincing. It's supported by animal models and it provides a plausible mechanism. The light intensity on the other hand is suggested by nothing but weak correlation, which could be bacause children who spend more time outside are on average exposed to less yellow light.

You can have a rising/setting sun in your peripheral vision without it feeling unpleasent, the lights are either way too bright, poorly constructed or there is something wrong with your eyes. (a cataract maybe?)
Can planes take off from a treadmill?
Starfruit: Which Came First, the Hiccups or Kidney Failure?
HIghs and lows balance.

life is pointless.

little low, little high. Prison.
Modafinil more effectively induces wakefulness in orexin-null mice than wildtype
Why is it disappointing?
And relatedly, what is the point in the existence of multiple markets, if not that you can choose which market to trade on for your own technical–logistic reasons?
Interviewed (YC S15) is hiring engineer #1 to join three founding engineers
San Francisco - ONSITE - https://interviewed.com

We're Interviewed (YC S15) and we build job simulations.

We're taking the parts of hiring that work for developers and applying it to non-technical jobs. We know that resumes don't predict who will be a great hire. Instead, the way to identify the best candidate is to let them work on real-world problems in their native habitat. We think the same thing is true for customer service, sales, marketing, and lots of other roles. That's what we do…

Here are some of the engineering challenges on our roadmap:

- Reduce latency for transcription of audio files to near real-time

- Design sophisticated UIs using React + Flux or Backbone to let our customers build their own simulations (imagine Wufoo on steroids)

- Chat bots (text and voice) that simulate complex customer interactions and are tailored for different roles

- NLP and machine learning algorithms to analyze emails, chats and voice recordings, score them across a variety of dimensions and predict who the best candidates are

- Video streaming and analysis

https://angel.co/teaminterviewed/jobs/91351-senior-engineer-...
One mans consumer is anothers employee.

Races to bottom only benefit the independently wealth in the long run.
> I can put together a list of footprints for various pieces of server software.

Yes, you can do it. But it doesn't mean that someone will pay for that. People don't pay money just because your technical solution is challenging, they don't care about it. The only thing the users care is whether it gives something (e.g. saves time, provides entertainment, etc).
Relevant: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/28/408295800/the-water-knife-cuts...
T-Mobile Hacked: Data of 15M People in Danger
My mentor used to say that no big change happens when you age, you have the same thoughts and desires as you did when you were a child and you wouldn't remember you were old if various body parts didn't hurt periodically.
Contentful https://www.contentful.com (Berlin, Germany, VISA assistance offered) is a content management platform for web applications, mobile apps and connected devices.

It allows you to create, edit & manage content in the cloud and publish it anywhere via API.

We are hiring for the following full time positions:

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30 years a sysadmin
Another great read by same the author, one I wish I had given all my trainees to read: 18 cardinal rules of system administration - http://www.itworld.com/article/2987063/careers/18-cardinal-r...
Competition is good. We need _more_ competition between governments, not a cartel.
If a government is more efficient and can lower taxes, than others are incentivised to be competitive and more efficient as well, or risk losing their revenue sources to other more efficient states.
> Yes, you can do it. But it doesn't mean that someone will pay for that

Apparently people are paying $1.2M/mo for that, so actually it kind of does mean that people will pay for it.
I remember hearing about this 5 years ago when it was first announced, with the $99 price point. I thought it was the perfect device for me as I was starting college and would work well for taking CS and math notes. Glad it finally shipped but boy does it feel like a dated.
Regarding performance, I've noticed this weird attitude of some people that when I say, hey, I know how to make our mobile web faster, the answer is "users don't care" / "low prio". Those same people say, yeah, we need a native app, it will be so much more smooth, performant and everything!
A more efficient government catering to the needs of the citizens is a good thing for everybody. Only competition can ensure that.
Url changed from http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/01/vigila..., which points to this.
Chile is so awesome that I'm seriously consider moving there.
The contrast with neighboring countries is also astounding.
In that case, why would anyone remove money from a corporate entity? All those who could afford it would just act through corporate avatars. I think this already happens to some degree.
In addition to that, is the paid advertising being geotargeted enough that it is only reaching people in those cities? If not, that would definitely explain a lot of the bounces from the advertising click-throughs. (Though in my experience, high bounce rates from search advertising can be common anyway.)
Countries like Ireland and Luxembourg are doing pretty well. So why is it wrong what they are doing ?

Also: once there is a minimum tax level it will only go up. And there will be a lot of governments pushing for that.

What the world really need is a mechanism to prevent governments from overspending. Now there is none.
My last few Android phones have wiped themselves before allowing me in a state where I could flash a modified version of android.
Paypal and Instagram were staggeringly successful acquisitions.
Where Should I Work in Big Data?
I've been in all these situations.

The key is to over communicate. When I'm managing a project like that in a situation like that I send an email similar to this:

As it currently stands our team will not make the deadline. In order to meet our priorities, I would like to redefine "feature A" to exclude "component Z". This means we will have to do manual work around X. The following alternatives are available: (A) change the deadline, (B) move feature A to next release, (C) remove some other feature". In the absence of any other guidance I'll direct the team to follow the plan above. Happy to discuss further.

I've always found this is a pretty effective strategy. Big companies aren't often dumb, you just need to know how to operate in them.
Mailchimp allows direct import of email addresses, rather than requiring a new opt-in through their platform as some similar services do. Direct list import = spam = more revenue for MailChimp.
Indeed, there are many wrong ways to go about doing things. That doesn't mean there aren't also correct ways, and companies who do them that way. In many cases, big projects at large companies require a date. This is how you accomplish that goal.
The Sage Strategies of Agile Families
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844042
This page: http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m... has even more on Pac-Man ghost behavior (and many fewer ads).
Tricky encryption can stump quantum computers
> Out of the box, it's ugly, but -frankly- who cares? We're all programmers here

Uhh, humans? ;)

I find a better-looking tool to be more pleasant to work with, and Redmine was not-as-painful-but-almost as JIRA for me, for the experience being so poor.
No-Bake Energy Bites
Data Breach Affects as Many as 15M T-Mobile Consumers
> I'm not sure what Cisco uses.

Probably PowerPC, though I hear Freescale's testing out ARM cores.

http://www.freescale.com/applications/networking:IFNWNTWRKNG...
NSA shifts the encryption of gov and mil data to quantum-resistant schemes
No, increasing competition for labor is good for everybody in the long run.
>The world needs a WTO type organisation to set minimum tax benchmarks in key areas.

Nope. There's no reason for countries to meddle with the tax rates in their neighbors.
By the way, in your specific example, "ct(" is not necessarily the most efficient, because most of the time a function name will be a nice alphanumeric string; hence you can use "ciw" which will work anywhere in the string, not only at the beginning.
Soliloquy algorithm [pdf]