skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take the low-road, publicly engage in character attacks on ex-employees, do not refute the "brutal workplace" charge and remind people of "Amazon makes employees cry at their desks" two months after the article has been published.

AKA what NOT to do!
Make Your Day More Productive and Less Stressful
Edgar Allan Poe and cryptography
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10420360.
I don't think it makes that much sense w.r.t stream events:

1. most of the analytics/event-stream processing will be done on the backend anyway

2. If you are picky enough you can do functional programming in js. Reative.js is decent library for processing streams of events.

What screams to use something more haskell-like, is their example of 'Trys', i.e:

class GraphQuery extends Query {
static parse(object: any): Try<GraphQuery> {
return TimeRange.parse(object.over).flatMap((timeRange: TimeRange) => {
return Filter.parse(object.where).flatMap((filter: Option<Filter>) => {
return GroupBy.parse(object.by).flatMap((groupBy: Option<GroupBy>) => {
return new Success(new GraphQuery(
filter,
groupBy,
timeRange
));
});
});
});
}
}

should look like something like:

parse : Any -> Try GraphQuery
parse object = do
timeRange <- TimeRange.parse object.over
filter <- Filter.parse object.where
groupBy <- GroupBy.parse object.by
return (createGraphQuery filter groupBy timeRange)

(haven't used haskell in quite some time, so maybe I am missing something)
Pauli's original letter postulating the existence of the netrino in 1930 [pdf]
Consumer Reports Pulls Its Recommendation on the Tesla Model S
I'd just like to point out how interesting it is to watch very important and high-profile company statements being posted to Medium vs. the respective sites.

Unless I missed it, I didn't see the NYT response on their website--I think it was JUST on Medium. That they are giving up the resulting ad revenue says a lot about how they view Medium and the discussion at hand.

This implies Medium is serving as sort of a neutral ground for both parties to plant their soapboxes. Very interesting to watch how people and companies use of Medium as various types of "platforms" evolves.
Can you name the movies that these famous cars are in?
24 Good Books to Read. Here’s What Sam Altman of Y Combinator Is Reading
ELON MUSK
Data Stream Networks and the IoT
LibreSSL is mostly a drop-in replacement for OpenSSL, while BoringSSL has removed things that some applications will depend on. OSes shouldn't/couldn't replace OpenSSL for BoringSSL (the article says as much) but could replace OpenSSL with LibreSSL (some already have).
The Science Surrounding Cryonics
This is why I know of people using phablets for the very reason of getting more done because of a bigger screen. The reverse of phablets to get work done is using several 4K screens or 'Bloomberg terminals' to do your computing. A rare sight and experience to behold
Kairos – A JavaScript time calculator for browser and Node.js
I'm with you. It'd be nice if they handed out a proper IPv6 prefix to their droplets too. The 16 addresses or whatever it is doesn't count.

Bonus points for optionally handing out a /48 as recommended so that docker containers can be allocated /64's.

We can dream.
Scientists leaving labs and heading for cubicles (2013)
Perfectly valid. If it's difficult to read, it's difficult to use.
As Consumer Reports suggests, this is totally understandable. Straight from CR:

> The Tesla wasn’t the only high-performance vehicle that fell below average in reliability. Others include the BMW X5 and 5 Series, and the Chevrolet Corvette.

> When automakers roll out new technology, be it infotainment, transmissions, or engine variations, it often has a deleterious effect on vehicle reliability. Tesla is not only the poster child for a new type of high-performance, high-mileage EV, but it also has been adding complex new variations as assembly-line updates, such as all-wheel drive this year. So it’s not surprising to see problems continue to crop up.

> Despite the problems, our data show that Tesla owner satisfaction is still very high: Ninety-seven percent of owners said they would definitely buy their car again. It appears that Tesla has been responsive to replacing faulty motors, differentials, brakes, and infotainment systems, all with a minimum of fuss to owners.

The CR article is here: http://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tesla-reliability-doesnt...

It's not easy to accidentally slip on a banana peel and buy a Tesla, so I think most owners would understand the risks of buying a brand-new car company's product loaded with brand-new tech. For some that's part of the appeal. I suspect the market is over-reacting a little.
Product Design of the Stripe Dashboard for iPhone
> Since when does search correlate to productivity?

When you're a journalist ;-)
GHCJS. That said, there's not necessarily a best choice because it depends on what type of application you're transpiling.

There's an Om-like UI project with bindings to virtual-dom https://github.com/boothead/oHm as well as various react bindings such as https://github.com/joelburget/react-haskell
How is this different from a virtual IP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_IP_address
Reasoning about generics in TypeScript isn't bad. I'm not totally sure what you meant by that. I just rewrote an API in TypeScript for Node, and I didn't spend most of my time reasoning about meta-anything. TypeScript mostly added amazing, insightful static analysis, and when I ran my code, it almost always worked perfectly at runtime. The debugger in VSCode is great, too!
Hi, my name is Nico and I'm the creator of booky. What you are describing is an all-in-one service. In germany we call that "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau" :). The aim of booky is a different one. Most of the services out there are overloaded with features. A bookmark is something simple. It's just a link with a name and maybe an icon. We want to focus on managing links and do it good. There are three things that are important to us and that I'd like to point out:

- Mobile support, Performance, Customizability

So why did I create booky.io?
I was looking for a web bookmark manager with good mobile support. I'm a frontend developer and I also have high standards in terms of site performance. Most of the services I tested tried to be the ultimate solution (which is okay, some people are looking for that), but I wanted something simpler. I got a lot of feedback from people looking for something similar, so I created booky.io.

Thanks for your feedback and have a nice day! :)
So does this make the existence of my https site public, even if I'm not linked to from anywhere?
FTA: "Now that President Obama signed into law a federal spending measure that locks the federal budget "sequester" cuts into place, a mandatory $54 billion in basic research funds will be cut across agencies in the next five years, estimates the American Association for the Advancement of Science, based in Washington.

In that case, grant success rates will probably plummet to about 10%, NIH chief Francis Collins has estimated.

"For young researchers, the sequester is just one more load on the camel's back after years of seeing fewer chances at funding," says Boston College biologist David Burgess. "Most of my graduate students are figuring on careers in industry, while the younger students are hearing horror stories about funding and may steer away from science completely.""

Relevantly, I left my academic science job 5 months ago, and won't be going back. I am in a biotech industry job now, however I may soon leave this as well-- salaries are too low for the trouble.
[She] met Alexander Grothendieck on January 2, 2012 [pdf]
There is plenty of life on this planet, yet we are still alone, in that we can't have any meaningful communication with a single other species.

What is it going to feel like when we find little cockroaches on Mars, or fish in the oceans of Europa? It's going to be profound in that we're not the only place where life has developed. It will be scientifically interesting because we will want to know how life developed differently, is there an alternative to DNA, for example. Is it non-water based, non carbon-based?

But many many people are going to have a 'meh' reaction. We have plenty of life surrounding us that we can't talk to. What's the big deal.

What if life developed on the remote planet that is 99% as sophisticated as us, like chimps for examples, but didn't make the final step to civilization because they didn't have opposable thumbs or something. They won't be able to comprehend us, or what we are.

There's a recent Onion article covering this topic:

"Nation Demands NASA Stop Holding Press Conferences Until They Discover Some Little Alien Guys"

http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-demands-nasa-stop-hol...
The Times produced their piece on both articles on today's paper[1], although I think the more interesting story is that the Washington Post - a paper Bezos owns - was just as if not more critical than the Times[2]. Even though the Times may have lost potential ad revenue by publishing their rebuttal on Medium, it actually resulted in a huge uptick in page views for the original article, and having a piece to recap the next day gave them both the last word and a more compelling story for their readers.

I think the Times made the right choice, or even a series of right choices. Amazon could learn from them.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/business/amazon-spars-with...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/10/...
Anyone else getting a paywall?
Life may have begun 300M years earlier than we thought
Ubuntu 14 worked after changing some EFI garbage in the BIOS on my 2015 Lenovo Carbon X1
view the site via google (search for the title, click on the result)
STEM Education in InternetOfThings
That is kinda expected. This is a new company after all, with new technology.

What I didn't see in the article was: how are they handling the failures?

It is one thing to have a car that's unreliable, but that you can then take to a dealer and get it back a couple of days after with everything fixed. It is another if you have to fight the company every step of the way to get it fixed or, even worse, pay for their mistakes out of your own pocket.
Every Email the NSA Got After Asking Americans for Tips on Protecting Privacy
We Like Our Drinks BIG at La Casita Gastown in Vancouver BC
Julia, as of v0.4, has deprecated this syntax [1]. I am not sure where it originally stems from, C? It makes sense from a compiler stand-point since the argument call semantics would most likely be inferred after tokenisation.

[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/28e7bd4536d06a9e13...
On the one hand, they're a new company relative to the others; they are taking many risks, and they won't perform flawlessly - so I give them a lot of slack for trying and mostly succeeding.

Also, they are very good at fixing things when they screw up.

On the other hand, their stock price is WAY over valued. Hopefully we will get gentle ratchets to bring it back down to earth, such as this.
Starting to teach web development
I didn't know that, interesting. Still though, those conversations may not have happened had Force not been trying to extort him. I haven't looked at the case in a while so thanks for bringing that up. I still think being a crooked gov. agent makes you a scumbag. I don't know enough about the law to know if an appeal is possible, but if the "murder plot" evidence was mostly based on conversations with Force and the evidence he provided to Ulbricht about a threat, it does seem a bit dodgy. If he tells RU that he is being targeted, tries to extort him, and otherwise introduces those elements into the equation it seems like it is self-serving for his extortion attempt. Also, if you have a source I am interested. Why would you keep unencrypted chat logs discussing murder on your PC?
Sure, but as the linked article emphasizes, these are humans you're talking about. I would never intentionally create a hiring process where we accept a large false-positive rate (I think you meant false positive? As in, we thought he was good, but he wasn't) with the expectation that we'll just fire the poor performers. It's inhumane.
They address this in the article.

> Tesla spokesman Ricardo Reyes said the Palo Alto automaker keeps in close communication with its customers to “proactively address issues, and quickly fix problems.”
You can have my CoffeeScript when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I've been using this for quite some time and love it. My only minor complaint is that when redirecting to a file, it'd be nice if it defaulted to "--pretty=format" instead of "--pretty=none". (I always forget to specify "--pretty=format" the first time...)
I like pure JS over CoffeeScript (and other something-to-JS solutions) because:

- Writing JS gives me a better feel for how the language actually works

- I like the line number in the JS I'm debugging to equal the line in my source code

- There's less magic to understand & deal with

- CoffeeScript automatically returns the last line of a function, and I don't always like that
Just came back to mention that two of the most well-known Mithril-based projects, Flarum.org[1] and Lichess.org[2] are open source and have mobile UIs that you can try out, so if anyone's interested in seeing non-trivial codebases that use a "lighter approach" alluded to in this article, there you go.

[1](https://github.com/flarum/flarum)

[2](https://github.com/veloce/lichobile)
You're absolutely right! I was hoping someone would point this out, since this is a much cleaner way of writing this code. This is pretty close to how it's done in Scala.

For the purposes of this article, we tried to avoid too much syntax sugar to make it more accessible. That aside, I'd love to add something like this to monapt![1].

[1] https://github.com/jiaweihli/monapt
It's possible that the severance pay is high enough to be considered reasonable compensation. Not likely, considering the apparent business practices of the bank, but possible.
While I appreciate the help, I shouldn't have to.
FT has a free registration as well, do it once, stay logged in.. Their content is pretty good all around.
That has not been my experience, but if you had a large enough engineering team, lots of churn, and bad management / development practices I could definitely see that developing into an issue.
While I'm sure someone, somewhere in the world has it, it would be an odd use case where the "heavyweightness" of the run-time configuration interface actually matters to anyone.

And, well, actually, if I had to bet, I'd bet Redis is actually lighter weight than an HTTP request, honestly. HTTP is really quite inefficient for small requests, and requires a massive pile of code to deal with endless, endless corner cases than an application-specific protocol doesn't.
ghcjs.

For something that follows the semantics of JS and produces very readable code (a la TypeScript), PureScript is really nice.
Seeing as how the battery system is primarily what makes electric cars expensive, I really wish automakers would start delivering plugin hybrids that have, say 75 - 100 mile range on battery (to keep cost down), along with a very low horsepower gas engine. (Most plugin hybrids give you about 20 - 30 miles on battery).

The way it would work: the battery would drive the front wheels, and you would use the battery for most of your driving -- but when it got down to 20% charge, the gas engine would kick in to power the back wheels. The battery could provide acceleration, and the gas engine (about 20HP?) would maintain highway speed (and trickle charge the battery when running off gas). That way, you are using electric for most of your daily driving, but won't get range anxiety.
In CoffeeScript I always do (foo bin, bar) when I need the clarity. Found it in a major style guide and I loved it.

E.g. (foo bar) and (hello world)
There is a category of car, where the buyer identifies with a group. They don't buy the car for price or service record; they buy it to join a club. The VW Beetle; the PT Cruiser; Cooper's Mini all are cars like that. It doesn't matter what resale value they have, or how often they break down. All that matters is the self-image of the person doing the buying. They go into it knowing they will like the car, no matter what. So the 97% number is entirely expected.
Dr. Lior Tamir – CEO of Accomplice
"Yes" - People who consider themselves resourceful.

"No" - People who aren't resourceful and take advantage of those who are-- making them, in a way, resourceful.
Hey if you're still paying attention to this thread I'd love to pick your brain about this topic. contact in my profile if you don't mind. Thanks.
I tried to Google them up before I posted, but I couldn't come up with specific-enough Google terms in the sea of "social". It's been on HN recently; HN being what it is, keep your eye out, it'll roll around again in the next few months.
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you about how science works.
Let's not go down that path again. All sorts of mutant variations have been designed/built. The successful hybrid is one that allows both gas and electric to contribute simultaneously on demand, so as to increase the maximum performance. While not impacting the efficiency of running on electric-only when that works.
Why is this on the front page? This is Hacker News not The View.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10415212
Amazon missed a good opportunity to say nothing at all.
May be you can funscript? http://funscript.info/
It leverages TypeScript metadata to do typed interop with JavaScript libraries through an F# type provider
The mobile site is pretty nice too, and pretty similar to the app. If you have a recent phone and are usually on fast data connections the app isn't as compelling, though I still like it a bit more.

One interface feature I like with the app is within-article navigation: if you swipe inwards from the right edge, you pull out a table of contents, and can easily jump to article sections by tapping one. This is useful enough that I find myself unintentionally trying to do it in mobile Firefox, hoping I can jump around a blog post or documentation's headings that way (I wonder if mobile FF could implement this? do enough pages use HTML headings in a semantically meaningful way?).

This is more a stylesheet choice, but the app also more aggressively collapses things other than the main article text, like infoboxes and tables. On the mobile web view I find I have to scroll down too much to get past big infoboxes and such.

On slower phones and slower data connections it's also speedier. Especially on longer pages and pages with more non-text stuff, my phone has a noticeable pause to render the page after it loads, while in the app it's nearly instant. The data transfer via the app is also low enough that it's usable even on slow connections (I'm semi-frequently on T-mobile's free global roaming, which is rate-limited to 2g speeds, ~128 kbps). Since the interface is already preloaded, all it needs to do to load an article is grab the article text through the MediaWiki API, which is usually in the range of 2-20kb. It then lazy-loads images later (which you can disable if you really want to be lean on data).
In other words, back up your exploitative labor practices with underhanded propaganda tactics. This is pretty thin gruel.

What this piece doesn't seem to consider is, who exactly are the hearts and minds Amazon is fighting for here? The informed reading public? Like NY Times readers? I'd like to believe they'd be more resistant than average to these tactics.

Or, as others have suggested in the previous thread on this subject, potential tech hires? The HN crowd? Based on the previous thread, there seems to be some sympathy for Amazon here. But again, I'd be inclined to give more credit to those among "the haters" than the author does here and would fully expect them not to be won over by these kind of mass consumer marketing tactics. (I'd still like to see that HN poll I'd suggested in previous thread.)

If they're simply trying to control the topic with a broader mass media audience, then I suspect Amazon would be best served by simply respecting the Streisand Effect.
The main point (and fairly interesting critique) of the article;

Except there’s a major problem with that utopian
view. The vision totally underestimates the true value
humans bring to the car market or the degree to
which Uber’s “urban saturation” depends on a
dedicated human element to absorb the bulk of the
capital cost and risk of public vehicle ownership, with
very little personal reward.

As Felix Oberholzer-Gee, a professor at Harvard,
tells Nautilus, if Uber can’t outsource costs and
market fluctuation risk to contractors, especially the
cost of maintaining idle fleets during off-peak hours
directly to Uber, it quickly swaps an asset-light
business model for an asset-heavy low-margin
model instead.

This is problematic because Uber’s already low-
margin business model depends heavily on being
able to overstep regulation, licensing and — most
importantly — transfer maintenance, cleaning,
insurance and market-risk exposure to drivers. It
also benefits from drivers’ ability to draw value from
vehicles in personal time.
Yeah, but do they?

As far as companies go, I have a decent level of trust on statements by Tesla. But it is still a company, and that statement has to be independently evaluated.
"Are you sure you are not just experiencing confirmation bias?"

"I did a thing" -> "Study comes out which says the thing is a good thing" does not conform to any useful definition of "confirmation bias" I can think of. (I can stretch it, but the result is not a useful definition.)
Just three data points, but my wife, my best friend, and I all do many voice searches each day. My wife and I have Android Note 4s so we are using Google Now, which is Google search with more context, and my friend uses Siri on his iPhone, which is mostly Wolfram Alpha (right?).

Getting directions, searching for a recipe, fact checking during a discusion, asking about the weather, etc. is all so easy using voice search. Slipping a few advertisements into voice query results seems doable and may be a reason why Google Now does not return more results via speech synthesis.
More off-grid, less failures. Private safety deposit box companies are excellent.

Banks aren't as discreet as private vault companies and it's not at all unlikely that a government entity would subpoena for your box contents.

Certainly a private vault company could be subpoenaed, as well, but for that to happen a prosecutorial or other undesirable entity would need to actually know you have a box there.

Set the box up, making as-few-as-humanly-possible trips to it, pay for it in cash for years in advance.

One caveat: I would use a bank vault for items like passports, documents, heirlooms, etc. Things that have no potentially-incriminating value or that government would have anyway (passports, DL copies, SS cards)
Would have been great if the pic was high enough resolution that we could have actually done computer vision on it... Kamil had to be an mTurk for a day and transcribe the book spines by hand.
The discussion of Big Endian amd64 support at 38:50 in that video is hilarious and scary.
Rise? It has been hockey sticking the moment a packet was sent out of DARPA
Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in his book Outliers, which may be a better explanation for you.

Here is an excerpt from that section: http://gladwell.com/outliers/rice-paddies-and-math-tests/