skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously, "Windows 7 is horrible compared to XP" is years behind the times. Oh I remember the good old days of "Windows XP is Playskool, give me back Windows 98!"

Wouldn't be an update year if there weren't people complaining about the latest version of Windows, forgetting everyone had the same complaints about the previous version of Windows that they love so much.
Crédit Agricole. It probably helps that we're in the provinces (the Perigord).
I'm happy to concede that the desktop Linux people don't have this issue. We should look into DNSSEC once Linux wins the desktop.
Full time • Software Engineer • wanted!
Lake Forest, CA USA or REMOTE • Saddleback Church • http://www.saddleback.com

Saddleback Church is writing the next generation of church relationship management software to manage our 14 existing and newly planned campuses. The software is responsible for managing church members, small groups, ministries, events and various other aspects of the church.

We currently have a team of four and we operate as a mini-startup inside the church. The product is a single page application (SPA) and we are using React, Flux, ES6, C# with .NET 5.0 (vNext), Postgres and Lucene. We move very fast and innovation is encouraged. We are looking for someone that has deep Javascript experience and can help us push the codebase forward. There are plenty of opportunities to get your hands dirty with Docker and the back end part of our system.

We prefer candidates that align with the vision and values of Saddleback Church.

Our stack: Linux, Postgres, Docker, .NET 5.0 (vNext), React, Lucene.

Email rafig at saddleback dot com for more details or to submit a resume.

Thanks!
Marketplace for robotics
I'm currently an visa holder, not H-1B though.

For me H1B has always been the standard option to get a work permit in US. If you have a college degree, skills and someone is willing to give you job, it's a visa to work in US few of years or longer. For many people it's pretty much the only option. In this time of global mobility, it's crazy how hard and how limited the visa options are for this purpose.

Sometimes I see people talking here about moving to Europe. In Europe, there is a similar system for foreigners to work there. You apply for a work permit, and if the company and you meet the sanity check, it usually gets granted. That's it. There is no artificial annual schedules, caps or lotteries.

Salaries Myth. Excluding those outsourcing companies, I've never saw or known anyone get hired in a startup with much less salary just because they are a non-resident alien (sample size ~100) (Obviously foreigners don't always have as good market information about costs and salaries as locals.). Also I never heard any founder say that lets hire bunch of foreigners because it's so cheap and easy. Usually the hires end up costing more since you have to pay to relocate, pay the lawyers, and a hr person to create and manage process for the employees.

I understand that lot of people want to come to US, so there needs to be some limits, but it's crazy how hard or complicated this system currently is.
In my neighborhood, the homeless root through everyones' garbage and recycling bins in search of redeemable cans. In the process they scatter trash everywhere. It more than counteracts any litter they might also pick up.
To counteract 9.8m/s^2 of downwards acceleration?
I'm pretty sure that's not in my contract with them.

But yeah, if I sold them something and promised unlimited support, they would be.
Good points, and I agree about understanding minimal simplicity and you don't need an OS and several layers of abstractions to blink a light. The post wasn't explicit (I think it is now after updating), but the intent was to demonstrate the variety of languages available on Linux based platforms that have GPIO SysFS, so assembly was never considered. It is more focused on those environments in which these HLL do have a role/place.
> I find that creating usable sounds is much faster with analog

This is a huge part of it for me too. It's so much faster to make a noise that 'sounds right', sits in a mix without excessive EQing (or sometimes any EQing), and requires very little support from additional effects units and has a natural modulation. The fact that you have to let a lot of synths 'warm up' first kinda indicates the magic that holds them together.

This also translates to the mixing, I use an analogue mixer too, and the summing of the channels 'just works'. Everything sits in the mix better and I spend less time making it work like I used to in-the-box.

That removal of technical hurdles helps keep the creative juices flowing, where previously I'd walk away from a track in frustration because I couldn't 'quite get it right'.
Oh god, HTML email. Gmail and Outlook literally make coding these things an absolute hell due to their dreadful lack of supports for any form of standard, and the author is damn well spot on about it.

Indeed, the only good thing I can say about Gmail is that they didn't try to use the Microsoft Word engine to render HTML like Outlook did. The way HTML email is set up and the table filled soup like code that's needed to use them well is about half the reason most developers fall back to things like Mailchimp templates rather than trying to make anything half decent.

It's also why it's a real shame that the old email standards project kind of got abandoned, because absolutely zero progress has been made on this front for years upon years (outside of Apple's smartphone email apps).

And yes, while plain text email does 'work', good luck convincing a company (or your boss) to go with something basic rather than the equivalent of a glossy print brochure.
One counter example to this is John Carmack which seems to still be flourishing after leaving his companies id Software and Armadillo Aerospace, and now working for Oculus/Facebook. Exceptional entrepreneurs and visionaries by definition are exceptional.
I agree with the difference between land-line and mobile providers. If a provider has the benefit of monopoly control of a wire into my house (or some other government-enforced monopoly), then net-neutrality should be part of the price they have to pay for that.

But if it's like mobile and I can switch to any other provider I want, then let the market work instead.
Big surprise: doing a scummy business practice straight out of the Comcast playbook helps you to hold on to users.

Any service which lets me sign up online but not cancel online is incredibly distasteful.
I'm curious why you put strong analytical skills in quotes. It reads like you are using a definition outside the standard one (the typical use of scare quotes). But putting that aside for a moment.

Analytical skills are simply the ability to develop new information and insights from a mix of information that is present and identifying and acquiring information that is necessary and not present.

You say "Mary went to the movies, how much did she pay?" Analyst questions is "Is there any thing special about Mary?" Interview question is "What characteristics of Mary do you consider special?"

Now if the interviewee can come back with the typical spread of movie prices (child, adult, student, senior) that is the minimum response. They get more credit if they also include matinee vs prime-time shows, they get still more credit if they test the assumption that Mary was going to a theatre that required payment, and full marks if they want to be sure that Mary does not own, or work at the theatre where the movie is being shown.

Analytical skills are, in my mind, being able to identify all of the variables that might bear on the solution of the problem, ranking them in order of how likely they are to come into play, and constructing alternatives based on the most likely combinations of variables. And doing that quickly and methodically without losing track of the variable expansions in the process.

The reason I prize those skills in an employee is that it gives them the capability to solve poorly specified problem tasks. Flipping my question around, as a manager I would much prefer to tell my employee "Give Mary money for the movie tonight." and be assured that they will expand the variable list, talk to Mary if necessary to fill in missing gaps, and then disburse the funds. But if they either freeze up unable to break down the variables into an action plan, or if they simply provide the "typical" money needed without figuring out if that will be too much or too little, then I know that managing them will take too much of my time. HTH
I know, just funnin' :) We're taking a look at it and will update the post/docs accordingly once we figure out which license means less work for us :)
Gmail, we need to talk about how you make our unpopular product unpopular even with people who want to like it. We also need to talk about how to let more junk mail into people's inboxes and maybe you could just skip the whole thing about sorting important mail out from Sears flyers?

"Journalism"
Are you saying that there should be no restrictions on foreign workers in the US? If you believe in the concept of the state, then by definition you believe that there are insiders and outsiders, and the insiders get more rights and privileges than the outsiders. If not, the state no longer exists. What are you suggesting?
That's the median income for folks over 65. Most of whom are retired. I'm not sure why you didn't post the median incomes listed right above that:

Median Income 25-44	$78,810
Median Income 45-64	$80,875
Marketing emails are not the only ones that developers want to look not broken.

To pick an instance at random: Confirmation emails for purchases made, especially if they have tickets as an attachments. If this email looks broken, customer thinks it's phishing or something, and might end up trashing it, just because styling is not supported consistently.

And I take issue with your argument of "marketing emails are bad." You may not like them, and that's fine, but there is a large part of the internet ecosystem that do like marketing emails- such as my mother who likes learning about deals/sales/coupons at her favourite outlets.
Let God be God,then you will see His power
One Month with the Steam Controller
I know this is an extreme but I like this extreme.

When I say plain text, I mean plain-text. I mean not even markdown. Just plain text. The client can choose to make links clickable if they like.

Any formatted document should come as an attachment (I'd prefer PDF). I guess it should be an attachment I expect or I probably wouldn't open it. In any case, I don't like emails with tracking. It feels forced. If you really care, send delivery and read receipt requests but I doubt we do.

Markdown should stay where it belongs. It should convert into HTML in the server, not on my client.
Chrome won't be getting updates and I'm assuming that means no security updates for the version of flash bundled with Chrome.
Java and Flash were supposed to be sandboxed, but weren't. Is there a convincing demonstration that "asm.js" is more secure? Or is it just that nobody has done a big "asm.js" exploit yet. "asm.js" exploits have been found.[1][2] There are probably others already being exploited.

[1] http://www.scip.ch/en/?vuldb.12180
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-2...
This is true, but the meaning is completely different. I'm not going to "like" a tweet about, say, refugees being slaughtered, even if I might find the read interesting.
You may be looking for https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/context which is likely to make it into stdlib in the 1.7 timeframe from what I've seen in various channels. Doesn't quite solve the global logging problem though.
The man who ate anything
Adding that data to our order emails when we sell tickets took an hour. Going through the process still haven't been completed.
The fake issue can easily be handled if employers had stringent interview guidelines.
typo: "There are two Power Supplies, each with their own wiring harness."
If you ever find yourself abandoning your side projects, then give http://sideprojectors.com a go. A plenty of people have sold and bought side projects. It's been my .. side project for awhile. :)
Thank you very much for that. That is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about: Men can be trying to be good men and make this choice. It isn't some nefarious, malicious, woman-hating choice. It's simply a hard problem to solve and the sooner we can look at in that light, the sooner we can find real solutions.
Sending unsolicited email to public addresses in order to sell something is spam. Calling it 'cold email' to make it sound like a legitimate process does not change the fact you are spamming.
Actually, it has still existed, just hidden. You could navigate to a part of the map, remove your search query. And you can save the map offline.
Enhancements to Container Engine and Container Registry
@morgante Big surprise: Someone who's never tried it from a business perspective complains about it on Hacker News. :)
They should have sold those (framed of course) to raise money for the JSON folks (expenses and such).
What math exactly would you like me to do? 16 bits gives a theoretical maximum range of 96dB while the human ear can hear over 130dB. Good headphones can handle over 100dB signal to noise.

Maybe you should save your grandiose lectures for somebody who doesn't know enough to see through it. There's no reason to assume levels will be at a "reasonable" level and there's no reason to think a high-quality portable music player should only play back 16 bits. That's absurd. Should consumer level music players stop at 16? Sure. I want better than that but if you want to listen to mp3s on your phone nobody's stopping you.

I'm left wondering how much of this anti-Pono talk is shilling on behalf of smartphone manufacturers. I need 24 bit playback in roughly the same way I need a car that does 0-60 in under 3.5 seconds - I like things that are over-engineered so I can geek out on how awesome they are. But thanks to all the killjoys we can't even get excited about the first high quality portable music player because some amateur sound engineers want to show off they once read a blog post on Shannon-Nyquist theory.
I wonder if they could put in an electric hybrid system that could give a few seconds of propulsion to slow decent in the case of losing gas power. I have no idea though if that would even make sense because it seems like it would just increase the weight with no benefit.
> they're getting paid the same or more than existing software devs.

Ha. Look at some writeups of the SoCal Edison outsourcing, for example. U.S. citizens making $95K were replaced with H1-B workers earning $60-65K, and that's generously estimating the lower salaries. Tata and Infosys might pay their workers closer to $40-50K.

https://www.google.com/search?q=socal+edison+h1b+wages
How Udacity Student Kelly Landed an Engineering Job at Google
Layoffs at HotelTonight
This seems potentially misleading without proper context, like... were "favorites" growing before, if so at what rate?
Good points, although it does have a vibration motor but only for alarms.
I grew up next to a canadian family (the Bryants) and the dad worked as a penalty box time keeper for the NHL. I played hockey with his son for years, and went to games regularly with him and his dad; he would drop us off at their seats about 15 rows behind the penalty boxes, and head down ‘work’. He’d often bring home broken sticks - like Ken Dryden’s one game. I also watched 'Hockey Night in Canada' religiously and the announcers always pronounced it the 4th way; I think this is why I pronounce it the fourth way myself, I heard it said by my friend and his dad and those classic CBC announcers more than anyone else I knew.

De-TROY-it!
Indeed, Microsoft has an office in Vancouver for the same purpose. You don't even need to produce anything in that office - after a year there an employee becomes eligible for the L-1A/B visa, which is not capped like H-1 and has an additional bonus of having the employee bound to the employer (there is no "transfer" of such a visa so to change the job the employee will have to compete in the H-1 lotto). Not every company can afford a year-long on-boarding process but if you have a pipeline of foreigners coming in it's a robust solution since you can get anybody on any salary and in a bound time.
> They said they would maintain a safer distance

And I like tofu.

Neither of those pieces of information add anything useful to the discussion.
> If you believe in the concept of the state, then by definition you believe that there are insiders and outsiders

No, that doesn't follow. In many models of "the state", the existence of outsiders is essentially a failure mode; the state seeks to be all-encompassing.

Now, if instead of the "the concept of the state", you mean "the concept of the status quo system of multiple coexisting sovereign nation-states", you'd have a point.

But I don't think anyone thinks that system is a moral ideal to strive for.
I don't think it's a failure, it's just not ubiquitous. We have huge tele-presense units in most of our offices to facilitate meetings that used to require plane rides and hotels.
Phoenix / Elixir with Elm
Alright, even with ECC and much faster DDR4 ram:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct16g4rfd4213

and motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157...
How a patent troll can ruin your day [podcast]
GMail, we need to talk. We need to talk about how substring searches do not work, 11 years after your launch. We need to talk about how you've slowly engineered out everything that was good and unique about GMail. We need to talk about how you "flattened" the style, removed colors from threaded messages, and just decided to use shades of grey everywhere. We need to talk about how difficult it is to tell one message from a forwarded message from a divider line from attachments from the next message in a thread. We need to talk about how you've decided to replace the window manager by insisting that my messages be a window inside of a browser window, but ones that adhere to no UI standards. We need to talk about how you've hidden the date of a message, and hidden the To: address, and the Subject, so that what used to be a simple tab action now requires multiple mouse-clicks.

And apparently something about HTML emails too.
obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJARrc40imk - used turbojet as the one on Tomahawk cruise missile.
Well, Stoll was correct about the governmental aspect at least. Of course, his experiences pursuing Markus Hess made that quite evident, I'd assume.
Bias List
Individual items in this list are certainly not unique, but I think that the list as a whole (with probably an addition or three) combined in the particular way that America does it is unique.
The final days of sub-400 ppm carbon dioxide
I didn't build this, but I think it's pretty cool.
The point is totally to make it more expensive for the taxpayer, so long as the right outsourcing companies get the contracts.

An in-house development team would know the domain, the managers would be much closer to the business and have more authority to make day-to-day decisions.

Plus, if the developers are permanent staff, they're aware that they will be responsible for the system once it's live.

That's much better for everyone, except the politician, whose wife has shares in IBM.
No, that's more like treating cancer with dope.
> Eventide H3000.

What an absolutely legendary machine. This is a classic example of where the plugin version can't compete with hardware of what 30 years ago? Although the plugin is still good, it just doesn't come close to a real H3000.

I actually just bought UAD emulation of the first Eventide harmoizer (H910), and it's pretty amazing. But I haven't been able to compare it to the original like I have with the H3000, so can't say how close it is to the original.
I'm not so sure. I think most of what the article says about education is spot on. We have more efficient replacements for lecturers and (maybe?) textbooks, but not teachers.
There's no trade secret here, since the drawings are published. You have the rights to build anything from the drawings, provided they aren't patented, which is another issue entirely.

Copyrights here only affect the actual drawings of the product. By default, the author is granted copyrights. That means you can't publish your own book with those drawings, for example.

But to actually build the chassis, go for it.
I don't feel targeted to be honest :)
I still hear and read people dismissing Facebook and Twitter as fads, as well as implying or saying outright that they have no actual value.

I think that their enormous popularity has demonstrated that even if these two particular services eventually die, online social networks are here to stay. We're social creatures, and in retrospect, it's obvious we would use the internet to socialize.
I suspect much of the increase is simple related to it being in the news, not that it is somehow "better".
I try to find the place I need for the feature I want to add. If I can't find it then I ask. If I don't have a feature I want to add I ask myself why I'm looking at the code.
They also had hypertext in 1969:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

It's a failure in the sense that it's not generally available or in general use. I've also used tele-presence rooms before and they're not that great. Better than Skype or Google Hangouts, but not by much.
I haven't changed how I use that button... I'd always used it as if it were "like", as do most Twitter users I know.
Wi-FM listens to FM signals to determine best times to send and receive data
Images are much less problematic for Gmail users since they started proxying them[1]. Now the sender can't tell if you opened the email by checking if the image was downloaded.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/gmail-...
I went to high school in a city called Latrobe, and while most outsiders pronounce it lah-TROBE, plenty of natives (including myself) tend to call it LAY-trobe. Interesting to see Detroit have some similar variants.

And to all the day-TWAH folk in here - better stay away from Western PA - DuBois (DOO-boys) and North Versailles (ver-sails) would drive you nuts!
Yeah, I tried to make a new account and saw the same message, that's why I edited it. A google search revealed a Reddit post from 2013 of people discussing it. Apparently that's when they closed it to non-military affiliated folks.
Serious question, anyone know the ballpark figures of thrust-to-weight based on 1000 ft/min ascent rate for fully loaded and ground level?

I'm trying to calculate maximum theoretical fuel capacity, essentially 1:1 thrust-to-weight, given it burns kerosene - 6.82 lbs/gallon at STP.

10 gallons of kerosene = 68.2 lbs is much less than the weight variation of a standard adult human, which falls roughly in the range 100 lbs - 200 lbs, so doubling the fuel capacity should be easy.

I suppose engine upgrades would also be easy. They did mention the JB-10 was in the works...

[Edit: thanks Retric, 68.2 lbs not 16 lbs]
My guess is that after saying it for the millionth time, some locals just naturally speed up their conversation by shortening it to the two-syllable version, di-TRITE.
Do you still need to be logged in with a google account in order to use the download feature?
Clojure 1.8.0-RC1 out – please test