skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing this may be related to use of iOS? I'm running Android - and can operate (i.e. play/pause forward/backward) all streaming software via the lock-screen - without having to unlock the phone.

I've tried this on: Plex, Netflix, Spotify, Google Play Music, Youtube, assorted local tv broadcasters, etc. Still have not found a single chromecast enaled app which does not let me operate it via the lockscreen.

Personally - I found my ideal device in Chromecast. It is very easy to set up and use (heck, even my girls (7, 10, 12) and my wife finds it easy to use). And the experience in using it is un-surpassed. I much prefer locating my content on my phone than on the TV via a clumsy remote and interface. It is also extremely easy to switch from, lets say, a Youtube video, to showing a Netflix movie. While the youtube movie is still playing I will be lining up the next item to play. And when friends are over we can all contribute music videos to the playlist, etc.

I'm guessing I am biased the other way around - being a linux and android user primarily - but I still can not see how anything can surpass the Chromecast experience. Nothing is even close - and I have tried them all.
An attempt to explain to the layman, how the Double Tap to Wake feature works in smartphones.
Tranquility Tech III – physically moving the EVE infrastructure
Please! I'd love to switch from Crashplan for my Linux boxes back to rsync/rsnapshot to a cloud provider of some sort.
As an example, what if the statistical analysis for a study was wrong? In that case the study may well be replicable, but the underlying claim being made by the study is still false.

At least in the context of the phrase 'science advances on funeral at a time', usually folks are talking about studies that are wrong for reasons other than replicability. (Because in general it's pretty easy to convince folks that something is false if it can't be replicated, but much more difficult to convince folks that there is some deeper methodological or epistemological issue.)
Sure, as I said in the comment before, agreeing to stick around and charge for a service then running away is clearly a dick move. Charging for something monthly and then one month decide you want to do other things, is not a dick move.

If you pay me to clean your apartment for two months but the third month I decide to do something else instead, do I have to keep cleaning your apartment?
HotelTonight Lays Off 20 Percent of Staff
The main and utilitarian argument is that it distorts the market both for salary and education.
> automatically does client-side-encryption

But server-side decryption :(

I have been looking into Backblaze every time it was mentioned on a podcast, and as far as I can tell you still cannot download your backup and then decrypt it on your own machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_se...

Such a pity. I'm still stuck with CrashPlan (yuck!) for this one reason. I've been evaluating Arq, but I'm not yet confident enough to move all my/relatives' machines over.
Inside Bond, the startup with robots that create handwritten letters
HotelTonight cuts 20 percent of its workforce
Ask HN: Who has the best development team in Silicon Valley?
Why are they the best, what do the do differently?
> The "Support the troops" movement is a perfect way for politicians to hide behind the troops to suppress any criticism.

As long as you have an American flag on your lapel, you're a patriot and above reproach.
There's not much happening in the third-party app integration space for Tumblr besides the existing share buttons. XKit, the biggest extension for Tumblr, halted development after the developer affectionately known as "the XKit guy" was publicly and falsely accused of some sort of harassment over Tumblr. A different, unrelated team has forked and resumed work on the extension.
Copyright the researcher / university, and usually the latter.
The article explicitly states that they were scaling fine with growth before the freemium event, and it was the sudden surge that was the problem.
Epic nonsense.
It's funny that you mention Java because I have always avoided learning Java. Even from afar it grosses me out as a language. I actually think comparing Go to Java is silly because a lot of motivation behind Go's design came out of avoiding what was done to Java and C++.

The point is, plenty of companies manage to create very good production software with Go, without generics. I didn't mean to rest my argument on my personal anecdote. You can look to Google, CloudFlare, SoundCloud, Dropbox, etc. for reassurance.

If you have a suggestion on how generics would fit into Go, I think the Go team would be happy to read your thoughts: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts.
Ask HN: Stay or leave
Let's say you'd like to work on some stuff of your own that you like, that makes you happy and most likely that will make your resume look good (although it won't probably pay the bills in the short term). Let's also say that you have a job that takes up a lot (like, really a lot) of your waking time -- and yes, you need to sleep quite some time in order to be fully functioning.

What would you do? Keep your job and hope for some more time to work on your weekend projects or make the leap and leave the workplace, possibly getting some money working as a contractor here and there?
>seagate is selling that crap 8T video drive

Slightly off-topic but could you go into some detail on what you think the drawbacks are for the Seagate 8TB SMR drive? I've been thinking about getting a few for large files while keeping them online-accessible, I've found it difficult to get the thoughts of grizzled IT folks on the matter :-)
(Mins involved over 6 months logging into 8 different banking websites/apps) > (Mins for me to just move my money to a bank that supports aggregators)

The banks' ship has sailed on the presentation front. They need to concentrate on strong read APIs and novel ways for authentication.
Philippines Internet pioneer Jim Ayson dies at 53
T-Mobile Stops Counting Netflix/HBO/Hulu, Other Video Streams Against Data Usage
Which makes total sense of course. However, if you're going to choose a limited set of Linux distros to support, it seems like RHEL (and thus CentOS and Fedora) would be a good choice. There are lots of companies paying money for the supported version of those distributions and are compelled by corporate security policies from upgrading various components to them at will.
Huge gain. But didn't they A/B test this before?
Being someone familiare with the matter both inside and outside of Iran (and understanding the harshness of the situation as you mentioned), its is not easy to justify Taskulu as one of the most successful startups unless you expand the scope of "most successful" to 50!
Also, as general rules of journalism dictate, having only one perspective (and here only one company to be more specific!) to talk about is not an in depth analysis of the subject as indicated in my first comment.
I would rather see this story with a less deceiving title to promote a good Iranian startup like Taskulu.
This. We could have spent an infinite amount of time making the system as robust as possible...and then burned to the ground b/c we ran out of money before we had customers. Or we could just ship something and adjust as quickly as possible. :)
Understanding Bitbucket Oauth Permissions
I feel like it isn't that hard to hook something like the BCR2000 or nanoKONTROL2 up to Pd, and then you can make labels for the knobs using paper stickers and a pen. Then you get to choose which few dozen parameters you want to have at your fingertips. And then you get a lot more tactility than an iPad. I also know a guy who drove his synth from a Wacom tablet, giving him X, Y, and pressure axes with low-latency, high-precision control, but no haptic feedback like the BCR2000 gives you.
Practically, I haven't had a problem. I remember there was an article I wanted to read, I go to my list of favorited tweets, and I find it.

Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and feel bad about.
Why not install Windows or GNU/Linux on such Mac hardware?
How about Canada ? it is way easier for a french to move there than USA, if you have a solid education.
Haskell does support an imperative style, supports it quite well even :)
In a nutshell:

- Functional programming style tends to make your programs easier to reason about, as it avoids state/mutation. This also makes testing your programs much easier, and can also make concurrency easier.

- It's a different way of thinking. Some problems are much easier to solve in a functional fashion, some are much easier in a imperative fashion.

- Functional code can increase code re-usability as it decouples data from its operations

- A lot of functional languages have very advanced type systems compared to say, Java or C++. I'm personally a big fan of static typing and after learning F# I am sorely missing its type system in C#
The author does make many compelling points. I almost want to buy the book he was pushing now.
I often would favorite tweets that I would like to reference later. An interesting article or a perspective on some event happening. I wouldn't go so far as to bookmark individual tweet pages, but clicking the favorite icon was an easy-enough way to ensure I'd be able to find what I was looking for later. Just load my favorites page and Ctrl+F.
I also use it to acknowledge a tweet that I don't want to reply to or RT.
Aye :).

I'm not a Junior btw (at 15 I was developing websites, optimising java bytecode using Bcel and writing AI - I don't mean this as bragging, I was working with way more intelligent people than I). I didn't learn much in university in respect to programming because of that...

However, that may explain something there - people will probably look at my age and assume i'm a Junior =). A natural assumption really.

The difference in social conditioning for girls is quite an interesting topic =) (in random comment to the lack in hard-science).
Honestly not being pedantic, what do you mean by "exponentially" in this case? Usually it implies a rate of growth though some people, increasingly, seem to use it just to mean "a lot".
Nvidia  Launches New GPUs for Deep Learning Applications
You seem to be making a lot of inferences that I don't see grounds for. As one example, I did not say that I was giving signals of interest to coworkers, much less on a regular basis. I only made a general observation that if a man has no desire to be personally close to me, it is easy enough to avoid any of the potential downside that might concern him by just choosing to not work closely with me. Done. It leaves me out in the cold when most men consistently do that, but that isn't his problem.

I worked for a large corporation for over 5 years. My opinions on how this works are certainly informed by those experiences. However, I currently do freelance work and my own independent projects. So, when I network now, I am not representing a company or department or whatever. I am only representing myself.

That appears to inherently come with challenges that men do not seem to have. When I try to make professional contacts, I am asking individual men to trust me as an individual. Many of them have far more reason to decline taking that bet than to accept the risks involved.

I have spent a lot of years trying to figure out how to make forward progress on this issue. Framing the problem the way I currently frame it has gotten me far better results than what I used to get. Trying to emulate what men were doing was flat out failing to get me the results I was looking for -- i.e. the kinds of results men got.

There are no doubt many factors involved in determining any particular outcome, so it is not possible to prove my hypothesis beyond a shadow of a doubt. That fact doesn't inherently make it a weaker hypothesis than the rest of them.

Thank you for commenting. I appreciate the engagement.
Clearly there are some humans behind M that are doing things that Facebook would rather entrust to humans (like making phone calls). However, the phone call only proves that this specific aspect of M is human.

In the end, though, I suppose it doesn't matter. I'm going to guess that the ultimate end-game on M is for Facebook to collect advertising/affiliate revenue from recommending things. For example, if someone asks for a Chinese restaurant, plumber, dentist, lawyer, etc. in their city, the one they suggest could be the one that paid Facebook for it. As long as these types of fees make it profitable for Facebook, it doesn't matter if the service needs to be powered by millions of humans. In fact, that would be great - it would mean millions of new jobs.

Larry Page famously told an early investor that Google wasn't yet sure how it would make money, but that search was the only situation in which people would tell a computer what they wanted, and that there had to be a way to make money from that. M is exactly the same - a way to get people to tell Facebook what they want, and it puts them in a great position to monetize it.
I think they mean monetary value... (vice educational, entertainment, etc value)
Yeah though good luck finding a pure Chrome install in China anyway. Most of it runs this repackaged monstrosity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_Secure_Browser
What's the tooling like for this ISA, anyone know? IMHO that's what will make or break this thing. If you can't output code for it from GCC or LLVM then why even bother looking at it.
I'd love to see some example code for doing this.

I'm trying to implement it in Kotlin and am curious how it would compare.
Because I really do honestly think that if you want to downvote a comment that seems low-quality... and yet you hesitate, wondering if maybe you're downvoting just because you disagree with the conclusion or dislike the author... then nine times of ten, I bet, nine times out of ten at least, it is a comment that really is low-quality.

Five years on Reddit (and a few more on HN) has proven beyond any possible doubt for me that downvotes are used "9 times out of 10" more for disagreement rather than an honest value judgement on quality.

It's simply far too easy to mentally conflate "this comment is wrong (because of my own biases)" with "this comment is low quality", especially in the midst of a heated discussion.

Speaking of biases, the author here clearly has his own. He lives in a world where groupthink/hiveminding/circlejerking (pick your favorite term, they are all synonymous) doesn't exist, where astroturfing never happens, where moderators never abuse their power, where karma is always used for its stated purpose, and where censorship isn't a documented and heinous thing.

..which is pretty hilarious when you remember this is an article about moderation apologia.
So what's your performance, public cost breakdown and where's your open sourced design available?
It contains an interesting link you would want to read later? Pinboard can import favorited tweets and automatically store them as unread bookmarks, for example.
Targets don't have to cry foul. Broken pins can be reported automatically. People on the Chrome and Mozilla security teams can monitor them. It's not like this is an abstract point: it's already happened!

I'm not sure what you're trying to say about "state actors" and HPKP. No matter what happens: the NSA will control the DNS. We all stipulate that they control CAs. DNSSEC does nothing to change this (it actually ratifies it), but HPKP does.
I would liken the whole process of 'success' as nothing more than the acquisition of accolades. If you peek beyond the veil of most institutions (financial or otherwise), there is the fabled trophy you must acquire at the end. This trophy can be anything, and the institutions are always careful to suppose "It's not about the trophy", but secretly it is.

Money is a trophy. Marriage is a trophy. Dissolve the trophy and focus on what you need instead of what you want. Most of what a person needs is fairly rudimentary and easy to attain. Be careful with validation (a basic need) because it's usually sought in the most egregious places
It's same same in the US outside of SF and NYC
This breeds mediocrity. It creates problems for both sides - USA where talent gets sidelined for less costly resources and it promotes mediocre-go-onsite culture back in countries like India - and talent gets discounted/demoralised back there too.
Language/dialect could also play a part. Humans form very large social groups that share a common language, so even if a culture comes up with a "unique" names (e.g. no special "name" words) in a local group, there will still likely be collisions with others in the wider group.

There's still a general rule to keep names unique within local groups, and it's weird to intentionally do otherwise (see Pete & Pete).

These animals might have "dialects" that only span a small number of individuals, so part of that "uniqueness" may just be dialect. I think you might see something similar in humans if you looked at small scale illiterate cultures in areas with a lot of linguistic diversity (e.g. Papua New Guinea)
I started reading the sequel this weekend, based on your recommendation. So far it's been excellent. Thank you for the suggestion!
Cultural Fit Matters When Interviewing for Tech Jobs
My credit union has an article on their FAQ on how to connect to mint :)
6% is pathetic increase and stronger sign how little people engage on the platform.

The engagement ratio of Instagram to Twitter is several orders of magnitude off.

You look are Redbull on both platforms.
Twitter they have average of 40 retweets and 150 likes/faves, plus some replies.
Instagram they have 50-80k likes and 100 to 1k comments.

Even if twitter had 1000% increase that would not help the platform where there is so little active engagement.
Adding a Qualifications Section to Your Résumé
I think also freedom is not free.

I often download a 15 or 30 day trial of some program and that sounds like a lot of time, but it can take a day or more to really evaluate something and I need to multiply that against some guess of the probability we will really adopt it. Well we have lots of tasks that have a 100% probability of "must be done" and those are more important and then the trial ends and I forget about it.

If you make somebody put some chips in the pot upfront it makes them more serious, like they not only have something to gain but also to lose.
>FUD

We're talking about decisions to adopt a language, so FUD and especially "uncertainty" is a very important factor to consider. This is not 1999 and Microsoft badmouthing Linux.

>Do all opensource projects require corporate sponsorship to be viable?

Not all of them, but a lot of them do. Especially languages. Even something like OCamL needs Jane Street and that french university a lot.

Go is not setup as even a 50-50 internal/external community. While the long tail is, well, long, the majority of commits and all of the steering is from Google devs.

>Do Python, Ruby, even Rust have corporate backers that cannot widthdraw support?

Rust has Mozilla and lots of paid programmers (all the core team for one). Without it, it would have gone nowhere.

Python and Ruby had had corporate sponsorship themselves too, but they have been far more organic (grass-roots) open source communities than Go from the start.

>Many business are using VB, C# and F#, which Microsoft owns. F# especially could be abandoned, but it continues to find new use.

Devs/Teams using F# are extremely few and far between compared to any established language such as C#, Java, etc. We're talking probably 2 orders of magnitude or more.

>Some businesses still rely on COBOL and Fortran, but those are not exactly evolving either.

Fortran is still evolving actually. Also Fortran and COBOL have been always mostly based on commercial compilers -- not community efforts, because that's how stuff worked back in the day.

And it's not like people write green projects in COBOL -- they just rely on it because they have huge important codebases that are 40-50 years old.

That's not the case with Go.
If they control the keys for .COM, they absolutely can do that.

Name an important domain, and let's see what world government controls its DNSSEC keys.
Increasing engagement of new users makes Twitter more sticky? They don't have a financial problem as much as a growth problem.

Ultimately, six percent is a significant movement and it's certainly not a bad thing for the company.
Why Sci-Fi Has So Many Catholics
Plus depreciaton on equipment. While the drives are probably long gone over 5 years, it's possible the racks could survive much longer.
Ask HN: Microbiome and Diseases
I'm a layman who is very interested in the microbes that live in our gut. I want to initiate a citizen science project to relate gut microbes to known diseases. For instance, this research ties Lupus to gut microbes http://www.hcplive.com/conference-c...obiome-seems-to-have-role-in-triggering-lupus and this research ties asthma to gut microbes http://www.health24.com/Diet-and-nu...een-gut-bacteria-asthma-and-anorexia-20151105

I'm imagining to form a company like ubiome http://ubiome.com/ .

My question is: What type of machinery ubiome or anyone who wants to identify gut microbes uses? I'm in Turkey and I want to find out if this test can be done here.

My other question is: It is possible to identify gut microbes by traditional lab methods as in a Comprehensive Stool Test without using DNA. İs this technique inferior to DNA method?

I contacted ubiome and also American Gut Project http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/ for answers to these questions but they never answered me. I wrote to several academics and they never replied either.

Thanks.
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Early stages: Imagine a tank filled with a sponge that adsorbs natural gas, allowing it to be stored at effectively higher pressures without (or with less) compression. They need to it 25-35 atmosphere-equivalent, and are at around 5; there is a lot of leakage (definitely a bad thing).
>> I see folks who are neither the best nor the brightest nor the most hard working getting to the US by gaming the system and that hurts.

All I can say is be patient. If it makes you feel any better,
Einstein wasn't able to get a job out of school. MF* Einstein.. You know what he did? He felt bad for himself! Chew on that.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Holes-Time-Warps-Commonwealth/dp... (See pages 59-61 in book preview)

The system has been gamed long before I came here in 02. And I don't think people in upper levels of Government are oblivious to it. It works for them now, so they are not going to look too closely there.

I have seen Americans from MIT driving a dinky car, while my friend who could not add two numbers own a 5 series(10 years ago, mind you). As I said, it isn't fair. As they say, keep your calm, focus and carry on.
In the early 2000s I worked for a big government contract company that had a contract with the CDC to make a website with.. wait for it... forms. Yes it was basically big complex, single page forms that wrote data into a... wait for it. Oracle database. These were the days of J2EE. They had about 30 programmers on the case. There were the architects, a lead architect, and many programmers. The contract was for about 100 million USD.

Their interview process was: "can you write computer code?.. OK great, you are hired. Come on in." I should have known something may be amiss..

The dev server took about 5 minutes to start on a souped up computer. That and several static variables hiding up high in an uber base class. These variables were of course designed to hold per session data. I tried submitting a form twice simultaneously. This crashed the server.

I left that and years later the project was I believe cancelled.

I wonder why the government does't just use a forms as a service thing?