skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you need a spyware or something, nor need to inject something. You don't need to hack your way in, just buy the access to advertiser's trackers.
Adopt and Perish: The CIO’s Cloud Dilemma
Don't believe all of the sordid descriptions of what life in the US is like. That narrative is currently en vogue, and some news outlets with an agenda (or a demographic to please) are pushing it rather aggressively, but it's not really accurate. Americans give 10% of GDP to private social charities. That dwarfs all Europeans countries. We have a preference for voluntary and private charity. Europeans prefer compulsory and centralized.
It sounds to me like sales is future-selling, or selling dev time when you actually don't have the time to be sold. I would advise having clear discussions with sales and management levels, to identify the goals of your team and the company.

If the best thing for the company is to do this 1-off consulting work (from what I gather, that's what it is), then you may be surprised to find that's what you're doing exclusively. If the best thing is to improve the core product offering (my vote), then you should not do these 1-offs at all.

It all starts with clear communication between departments. I would say it's less about your team, and more about what your team is tasked to do against your will.
Good point but...? I don't understand the point of your comment. If the editors at the large publication chose the title does that assuage some of GP's concern that people will "start to confuse real paranoia with informed caution"? If the editors did chose the title AND the author used the term paranoia five times in the article how does that change GP's concern that people will start to confuse real paranoia with informed caution?
In that case, all the American companies have to do is make the robots in China but have the factories that use those robots in the U.S :p
It's not that bad.. typically you use a 32.768kHz ("watch") crystal then divide by 15 to get one second. You can do it with two chips (a bunch of solutions, one is two 7468).
Also, if your team and you aren't bought into the timelines, you won't hit them. Buy-in across the entire team is very important.
"[can't claim ...] property owner is adding value to a property"

The property's mere continued existence is adding that value.

"Do you now understand what I mean when I say "$CURRENT_LANDLORD has done nothing to improve the value of their property."?"

Sure (in a hands-getting-dirty sense), and it is unfortunate. On the other hand, the landlord is a commercial beast. Come to think of it, if stuck with suppressed income, it's hard to see much incentive (never mind available $) to improve the property on an ongoing basis. This too can be yet another unintended consequence of rent control.
I find your viewpoint a bit strange. You acknowledge the problems your coworker faces, but instead of thinking of how to fix what is obviously a systemic problem, your solution is basically, "suck it up."
Driver Activity Anticipation Using Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf]
There does seem to be considerable distaste for the suburbs on regular display in large parts of the media

Yes, this is eternal.

Meanwhile, the people who actually buy and live in these houses continue to want the things they've always wanted -- an affordable dwelling with space for the children to play, along with room for a cookout and maybe a small garden, in a safe neighborhood, with decent schools.

Conformance with the latest theories of architectural aesthetics isn't even on their lists, much less at the top of it.
Off the top of my head:

-- Trivial pointing; no need for active pointing stabilization (aside from thermal drifts).

-- If you can do it on the earth-facing side of the moon, you can do it on the dark side of the moon, escaping stray light from the earth.

-- You can watch one target for a very long time. Earth-orbiting telescopes have to be very careful about keeping the earth out of the frame. Even geosynchronous systems will point near the earth (for some azimuths) once a day. This will come near the earth and sun once a month (each).

-- No need to maintain orbit. Can't hit anything, either.

-- It's really cool.

Edit: Here's the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3

-- You can look at Earth trivially.

-- The UV imaging system is one of many instruments on the lander. Why not get a free ride to a great vantage point?
I like the thrust of your argument, but from my perspective in Singapore/Asia, that's not quite what I see.

Big corporates are aggressively moving to dominate technology niches, while still dominating their existing verticals.

* All the banks have strong deal/shopping apps

* Property developers are continuing to build ever larger malls while investing in Amazon-like marketplaces (see Matahari Mall)

* Every big corporate is investing in external startups or growing internal startups and innovation divisions

* Practically all the big startup successes in Singapore, Indonesia and China are owned, often quite directly, by well-connected families or the state

Everyone's aggressively responding to the tech upstarts and trying to control their own turf.

The US-educated scions of well-connected families are especially responsible for techologising their behemoth family businesses and launching modern apps. New local players will have difficulty competing with old money's new generation of leaders.

In other words, what I see here in Asia is the entrenchment of old money. The market is saturated with new entrants, but the leaders are those who are backed by old money, simply because of the firepower that those connections give them. I think this is fundamentally different from the situation in the Valley, where more disinterested VCs (rather than old money) back the new horses.

My assessment is from the gut rather than statistical, so I'd love to be given an alternative view.
I'll admit I was slow enough to check if AGS had a 32,768Hz oscillator: crystals are a common usage of that number. Then, I realized I was overthinking it, it's HN, and you're probably a programmer. How would you interpret that number? Confirmation with the calculator leads to my final, hopefully-correct answer.

"Should have been $32,768."

No, it should be $37,200 because Ms Hamilton only accepts unsigned integers on her checks. Insists you pay her rather than the other way around. :P
Dell Will Issue a Lot of Not-Quite-Stock to Pay for EMC
Too late for the game. Power should do this way earlier. The Linux community was booming around PowerPC a few years back and now all the brains left to work on either ARM or x86. Without that community support(Power does not really run Windows), the chip is just a piece of cold hardware even though it can shine spotty in the spec.

One of Power's biggest user is probably a licensee in China, who replaced its crypto logic and use it for their own needs, but that's far from enough to compete against Xeon.
Don't be ridiculous. Tin-foil hats amplify exactly the frequencies used by the US government and large multinationals for GPS and mobile phone tracking: https://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csa...
Aiming for the middle may turn out to be a losing strategy, since they're going to be competing/fighting on two fronts, both at the lower and at the upper ends of the market. The other magazines just have to push one way if they need to and have free space on the other.

I get the feeling that the magazine will die along or even before Heff does.
344 sq ft is enough for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2-2j9e4co
Please do not editorialize the titles of stories you submit to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Also, this story was posted recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367363.)
> there's plenty of Scala and even some Clojure. But there's also a move towards newer platforms like Node and Go. And there's even been a rediscovery of platforms like Ruby and Python when the performance penalty doesn't come into play.

I won't say what you're saying isn't real, but it is happening on a completely different scale than the size of the Java ecosystem. Even on the JVM, what you see as "plenty of Scala" doesn't even amount to 5% -- not that it matters, but it's just an example of why I think your view is skewed.

The size of the Go ecosystem is hardly 1% of that of the JVM (rough estimate), and while Node.js/Python are "a thing" (and are the only languages/platforms of those you mentioned that are used to a substantial amount outside of startups), they are still tiny compared to the use of the JVM. Even in Silicon Valley (which is in itself a very small portion of the software world), the large "webby" application companies (with the notable exception of Facebook) are JVM shops: Amazon, Google, eBay, Twitter, Netflix are either entirely JVM or predominantly JVM, and even Facebook is making growing use of the Java.

Most of the shifts you're seeing is among non-JVM technologies. It's mostly Pythonists that switch to Go and Rubyists that switch to Elixir/Node.js, etc.. The JVM was never the biggest player in the "fast application development" arena -- at the beginning there was VB, and then Perl, and then Python/Ruby and so forth. I see no signs that there is greater movement away from the JVM -- mostly among those who realize they're better served by the "fast dev" platforms even at the cost of performance -- than towards it -- by those realizing they need the best the industry can offer in terms of performance/monitorability/tooling even at the cost of slower development.
Title is misleading -- this isn't by Amazon.
Show HN: An Optionated Integration Tests Framework for Golang Web Apps
I think Optimzely's drag and drop software is great but I think Qubit (which is in occupying a similar space) has a data analytics platform that far out weighs Optimizely. If anyone is interested in the actual data aspect of personalization then Qubit's discover software is incredible.
I assume this was a case of "we're sending a probe to the moon, what else can we put on it?" rather than "we want to put a telescope on the moon, let's send it on a probe".

In principle having a telescope on the Moon gives you a longer continuous period of observation (and a longer period of inability to observe) for a single object, when compared to a telescope in geosynchronous orbit. Roughly speaking, the continuously obserable stretches for an object on the celestial equator would be ~28x longer for a telescope on the far side of the moon (of course, this particular telescope+probe is on the near side). This is just that the Moon takes ~28x longer to go around the Earth's center of mass, compared to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit.

Thinking about future applicatoins, if humans ever put a base on the Moon, a telescope on the surface would be far easier to maintain/upgrade than one in orbit. So, it is potentially worth testing small telescopes there now to determine their performance in that environment/location.
tl;dr: There is no tl;dr (although skimming will be rewarded), it's very complicated. Heck, even if you don't agree with all the author's judgments about what aren't reasons, they still have to be considered.
REN: Human-friendly data notation
Taking the Recruiter Out of Tech Recruiting
There's about $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loans. $1 trillion of that is in federal student loans.
Aurous (Popcorn Time for Music) Sued by the Majors Three Days After Debut
Boeing Has Developed the Lightest Metal Ever
1. This doesn't change versus a satellite in geosynchronous lunar orbit.

2. If you are on the dark side of the moon you can't transmit imaging back to earth for significant periods of time. Spacecraft computers need to be primitive as crap to deal with radiation and probably aren't packing gigabytes of storage outside the Van Allen belt. Also, I don't think stray light from Earth would conceivably be a problem except when the terminus is near the axis of the telescope.

3. Also true of satellites in geosynchronous lunar orbit.

4. I think this is more than outweighed by the environmental conditions.

5. Agreed. And on further consideration cost is probably a concern. eg China is sending a moon probe, would you rather have a telescope on the surface of the moon or none at all. A telescope in hand beats one two in the bush, and all.
The Feds go after people who just walk away with the money. They do not, and should not, go after people who fail to achieve the objective -- that would defeat the point of crowdfunding.
Just software development in general. I started programming to get my math homework done faster.
I suspect the real reason you lost is due to the aluminum track rails and eddy currents. You'd need a way to switch the thing off almost immediately.
> So what is Angular then

Angular is Adobe Flex Builder reborn. In fact it's created by the same guy
https://github.com/duncan-bayne/emacs-setup/wiki
Also interesting:
“Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interdisciplinary Needs”
http://www.tilsonfunds.com/MungerUCSBspeech.pdf
Most of them. You can't simply test in an uncontrolled environment because then you introduce variables that distort your test results. Sometimes to the point of rendering them meaningless.

So you end up doing both: most of the testing under controlled laboratory conditions, and the rest in the "real world" with "real users."
You need good hammering specialists, though. The trick is to recognize that's who you are, and team up with domain experts you really click with. It just really helps to be both if you want to be a lone leader who comes up with visionary ideas.
Having benchmarks for different storage models : Relational/Document/Graph/Object/XML, would be a better solution.
Find videos from conferences with technologies you are interested in. Watch any / all talks from that conference. Take note of company behind each interesting talk.

You know that the company is trying to make a difference with their community. You are gifted a topic to discuss during an interview.

You can also use the companies that host local meet ups.
This article is not particularly useful. I like space and space tech, but this article just declares something to exist and doesn't go into any interesting details. I might as well read a press release from the chinese space agency.
Right, I read the article too.

Weather Underground has thousands of crowdsourced weather stations scattered all over the world with lots of sensors, including barometers, anemometers, hygrometers, rain-gauges, etc.
What's the deal with all the Forbes links redirecting to welcome? How do I stop this?

I tried checking the "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page" box in Firefox, but it doesn't appear to be stopping it.

Presumably too many people are starting to use things like "Google Sent Me".
Everybody (to within experimental error) has a drivers license.
Note sure this is a good justification, but it's the only claimed advantage I could find in their main paper:

> 2) Unlike space-based observations, the Moon provides a
large stable platform for maintaining astronomical instruments in permanently stable configurations. The rotation
angular velocity of the Moon is about 0.55″/s, which is
about 27 times slower than the Earth. The slow rotation
allows long term monitoring without interruption for as long
as about 10 days.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-011-4255-7
This is a much older fight in NYC than Uber. They're probably involved in a good number of the cars in question in recent years, but a back-and-forth over to what extent to tolerate vs. crack down on unlicensed taxi services has been going on for decades. The general category is often called by the somewhat racist term "gypsy cabs".
Uber wasn't explicitly mentioned, but it just sounds like the TLC is overly trigger happy in seizing cars, presumably because of the uptake in services like Lyft and Uber who in the TLC's eyes are skirting around the law.
you don't belong here
Well, having already a working process, speeding it up will be easier. In nature, you don't really have dedicated nanoassemblers that do only structure scaffoldings with no other considerations - they have to support a whole organism. So when, for instance, growing a skeleton, you need it to go slow enough that the more complex parts like veins and nervous system can keep up. But if we needed biology to grow us a particular object, we can learn how to put the relevant process on overdrive and ditch the rest.

Also, even if the initial version of nanotech worked as fast as tree grows, you could still put a lot of products in parallel, so for most intent and purposes, after few months of waiting, you'll be getting new copies daily. We do that a lot with traditional manufacturing today.

> But, you know, it takes billions-of-years evolved plantlife about 20 years...

Well, evolution is really stupid and really slow. Having brains, we can now iterate many orders of magnitude faster, so I wouldn't worry. Comparing things to evolution is comparing to the simplest and dumbest possible process imaginable that still works.
This paper brings back many great memories -- it's one of those that I can remember the cafe I was in when I first read it -- and Ryan has done an excellent job capturing its importance and influence. Speaking personally, the influence Bonwick's work had is substantial: it was in part as a result of being inspired by this paper that I ended up working with Jeff for the next decade on systems software.

In terms of follow-on work, Ryan mentioned the later libumem work[1], but it's also worth mentioning Robert Mustacchi's work in 2012 on per-thread caching in libumem[2]. And speaking for myself, I am indebted to the slab allocator for my work on postmortem object type identification[3] and on postmortem memory leak detection; both techniques very much relied upon the implementation of the slab allocator for their efficacy.

Thanks to Ryan for bringing broader attention to a terrific systems paper -- and truly one that I personally love!

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix01/full_papers/bon...

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2012/07/16/per-thread-caching-in-...

[3] http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0309037v1.pdf
Would like to see - Titan with Cassandra backend here.
Druva already something similar called Cloud Cache.
Excerpt: Metadata is managed directly on the cloud for snapshot consistency and global
deduplication across all enterprise endpoints.

http://www.druva.com/documents/Druva-CloudCache-Datasheet.pd...
Brain's activity map makes stable 'fingerprint'
You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This comment in another part of the thread put it well. Do you have a response to the argument below?

"If that happens, the web as we know it would cease to exist. Without a legal recourse to stop plagiarism and stolen content, people who are actually creating new content stop completely and move into other areas of work. Websites that produce original and unique content close up shop. Instead you're left with a bunch of low-quality rip off sites that have nothing original of their own. Then it the entire web stagnates over the years as very few new things get added to the net as a whole. And that's just the effect on the internet, that doesn't take into account real world publishing.

I wish people would consider all of the consequences of these things before making statements like that. I haven't even begun to consider the consequences of eliminating copyright completely and just from what I can come up with off the top of my head makes it a non-starter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384178
‘Rewilding’ process could soon return wolves to Scotland
They say they don't burn anything. From their FAQ:

Does it produce a smell?

No. Because we're not actually burning the hair, it doesn't produce a burnt hair smell.

Which sounds interesting, if it is not burning then what? Just melting?
Facebook use bittorrent as part of their deployment process, they exploit rack and cluster affinity to improve performance [1].

[1] https://facebook.com//download/1411324735760067/devops.pdf
Yeah, until we find out they've had a secret colony on the moon for two years, saying their probe's telescope still works and isn't that interesting is kinda a silly article to be the #1 article.
Sorry about that, corporate proxy weirdness. It's working fine via my phone.
I have heard this theory from several folks on Wall Street. It is an intriguing lens to look at their behavior with.
If you see `compliance' anywhere that's an even stronger hint.
I agree with this (see: my post below). It's probably a case of "we're sending a probe, would you like to put a telescope on it or have nothing at all". I edited that I mean geosynchronous lunar orbit in particular.

If the target is in the plane of the ecliptic then the period of observation is probably not a full 28 days - for roughly half of that period a target would be eclipsed by the moon, plus some change for the Earth. I have no idea the precise time this would be better or worse than the Earth given the Moon's lack of magnetosphere or atmosphere pushing the drag down and decreasing the orbital radius vs the smaller angular view of the moon and so on. It's still probably longer than the Earth's when comparing the radii equivalently, I'd think. It's 28x and change for sure, but with significant confounding factors.

Counterpoint: the Moon has near-trivial gravity, so getting to lunar orbit isn't much of a problem. Assuming we had a moonbase, we could service lunar-orbital telescopes very easily. Remember, lunar orbit was attained by the Apollo LEM, compared to a S-V to get off the terrestrial surface. The rocket equation is a bitch, and strong gravity wells suck ass.
I used to work in a company involved in building CAE software and solvers. I can see value in what you seem to be doing but I couldn't figure out what. I should apologize that I didn't spend enough time but a short description would be nice. It seems like you are targeting very broad set of problems. It's usually hard to communicate that way.
Right, hadn't really thoughtof like this. The cost-benefit thing is a great analysis (pun intended)!
The safe maker wouldn't be liable, the owner of the safe would be. If there's a warrant for the contents of the safe, but the owner refuses to open it up, then the owner is guilty of whatever law requires you to cooperate with the warrant. Isn't that enough?
The link at the bottom links to their arXiv preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01435

Plenty of goodies there.
Disclaimer: Eden is a sales rep ("client services") at Qubit.
Can we just ban submissions from sites like this?
ad block. It makes the page completely blank if you have it enabled
most men have a mother. Many have wives, sisters, daughters, aunts, female coworkers, and so on.

By listening to them, we can learn what sorts of things they experience, and perhaps learn not to do things to other women that we know would bother our mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc.
Unfortunately I don't think I've seen a "tiny" design that's wheelchair accessible.
And how many transistors does that translate to?
A pretty neat way to sort table using jQuery with a pseudo column
Show HN: Jugglr: Be smart, instantly. Pandora for bite-sized knowledge
It certainly isn't because you were on their blog and removed "blog." as https://optimizely.com doesn't load. (HTTP only, which does a redirect to https://www.)
geosynchronous lunar orbit is basically just a satellite sitting at the same distance from the earth. It's so far away from the moon that it's basically pointless to put something there unless your are observing the surface of the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L4_diagram.svg
This is Forbes signalling to me that they no longer wish to be relevant to me.