skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This suit needs to happen in every town that allows Uber, and the Medallion holders should win the suit.

It's fucking criminal how cities have sold out the cab drivers, some of who drove for decades and invested 100k to get a medallion, which were suddenly rendered worthless when the city governments let Uber bribe them into allowing unregulated/unmonitored taxis onto city streets.
I'm in Canada and the list of reasons we can fire someone for is very short.
As a conversion optimization consultant this is interesting, but I'm not jumping to pay for the extra $150/month (at least) for this until I see a convincing case study or experiment result.

Here's a low-tech way of increasing conversions: Talk to your customers, your sales prospects, and people in your target audience. Ask them what information they look for when looking for software (or whatever you're selling), whether they're able to find it on your site, whether it's convincing, do they still have any doubts and what are they, what next step would they take if they're interested (request a demo? call someone? email someone?), etc etc.

You may find, for example, that a lot of people misunderstand something critical about your product. Or that they prefer to talk someone before signing up for a trial. Or the pricing page wasn't clear to them. Or they didn't see a certain detail about your product and assumed it doesn't have it.

If you can't talk to those people, then talk to your sales team and get this info from them... They talk to prospective users all day so they should know about their concerns and questions. If they're getting the same question frequently, put the damn answer on your homepage, pricing page, contact page, ...

An algorithm isn't going to figure these things out for you, at least not yet.

(To turn the tables, I suspect Mixpanel would get a lot more upgrades for this feature if they included a case study or test result along with this announcement.)

There are too many products out there (probably less sophisticated than Mixpanel, I admit) that promise higher conversions with super-duper intelligent timing and segmentation... And most of them fall short.
Yes. Even if the tapes had not been erased, it would have been difficult if not impossible to get it back after that amount of time.

About 5 years ago I helped a team migrate a bunch of data from ~30 year old 9-track tape reels. Obtaining and restoring hardware that was even capable of reading the reels was hard enough (we are talking spending thousands of dollars purchasing zero-warranty equipment from sketchy places on the 'net that had a few sitting in some dusty corner of their warehouse).

We also had to write our own software to read the tapes until an error occurred; reset the drive, retry reading from that spot again, and so on, and then concatenate all of the chucks together.

Most of the reels were eventually readable this way, but there still ended up being a not insignificant number that were given up on after several failed attempts.
Things like this give me feelings of inadequacy.
Why you should want a state machine, and how to implement it
Glad to see another book to learn from for free. But my problem now is that there are so many books each with somewhat different approach and content for the same ML techniques. Not necessarily bad, but I get somewhat confused when trying to apply a method.

EDIT: I guess the focus on the theory might help me.
I think you're painting a false dichotomy, though. Using Facebook as a way to keep track of your family's pictures stream doesn't prevent you from interacting with them one-on-one - in fact, it might enhance it!
Islamic State says 'Schweppes bomb' used to bring down Russian plane
Well, I suppose a "Do X from Emacs" link, while still a stale joke, is at least a respite from all the "Do X from Slack" links flooding HN at this point.
The pipeline is pretty different in ASP.NET 5 - it's shifted to a pluggable middleware system rather than a canned set of events. More info here: https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/fundamentals/middleware.html
Redirects to login, right url with information about this offer: https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-dev-esse...
Electron, iirc, is just the UI layer. Atom actually has a lot of code written to render, edit, and rerender text (they were initially using React at one layer of the process). I can't find it now, but there was a good blog post from the Atom team that discussed their efforts in detail. So I guess I'm trying to say that I believe the code handling the slow parts is predominantly unrelated to the UI layer. Also, iirc, VSCode's editor is based on Monaco (http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-browser-based-dev-to...).
Not to nitpick, but VSCode is not the same as Visual Studio
It's unproven because nobody uses it and nobody uses it because it's unproven.
> Well, KeePass.exe is signed, which prevents the malware replacing/modifying the exe

Windows doesn't require executable to be signed, strip the signature from the PE file and unless the user verifies it they're still dead in the water. Not good enough? Okay, install a new certificate for code signing the patched PE file and sign it yourself.

As for user isolation, it's a great idea but you could take advantage of this isolation with the filesystem method too simply by making the files only readable by an administrator and running a text editor or search tool as an admin so I'd still say this is not an advantage over the encrypted disk image method.

EDIT: Cleaned up.
There are a lot of state-by-state laws around homeschooling. Basically, some states make it easier than others as far as what rules apply. Some parents have to have their curriculum approved by a state board, others have mandatory checkins, and some have no requirements at all.
atrophying, we're working on a privacy page that lays out our privacy policy in user-friendly terms. Give us a couple of days to get this sorted. thanks for the input.
...the HN-reader crowd you mean? Yupp! : )
Yes, but in titles most words are capitalized. If you look on the visualstudio.com page that is the case, though they're not very consistent.
Elsevier lobbying politicians that data mining could kill patients
Off-topic, but personally what I would really like to have is for my password manager (1Password) to manage the ssh keys.
Exactly right. It goes with almost anything, if you make it, someone will end up finding a way to use it in a negative way. If everyone lived thinking X shouldn't be created because it could turn into Y then we would all be living in caves afraid of everyone else.
New layman's General Relativity introduction
The author of this is giving a talk at the next New York Emacs Meetup^1, of which I'm an organizer. We'd love to have some HN people show up.

We do record talks, so the video will be posted, although not immediately. If anyone wants to be informed when it's up, let me know (contact info in profile) and I'll tell you.

[1]: It's on December 7th. Details at http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/events/219624700...
Damn. Good work Iran!
Do employees get full benefits during that probation period? I know I wouldn't be willing to leave a secure job to be uninsured for 3 months.
OAuth for SSH? What the hell are you guys doing? No, stop. Stop. Drop it. Go back to the drawing board and learn what SSH can do apart from password and public key auth (hint: Everything from challenge-response schemes to Kerberos).
I'd love to see a list of the order in which each class was provided to the child.
It is not blindingly clear to those nations that are developing.

China has brought their coal plants online and they use 4,361,427 thousand short tons of unfiltered or carbon captured coal to the United States carbon capturing EPA mandated 924,442 thousand short tons. Compare areas that have coal plants with those which do not in China versus America [3] and you can see that our nation has it under control and China does not. [1]

Are we honestly going to another country and tell them to quit developing?

Do we have the will to force them to give up their coal fired plants for nuclear energy (which from internal announcements is set to make up only 5% of their power structure), or natural gas? What does that will look like, money, political manipulation, force?

How can you say that computer projections are more reliable now than they were before? Hurricane projections, using state of the art modeling for a shortened horizon cannot say whether a hurricane in three days will bear west or east of Florida. The validation of the computer projections of today will not be evaluated for another fifteen years, all the while, every day you can continue on with that statement, essentially: "All of the previous models had errors, but today's model is perfect."

[1] http://www.eia.gov/beta/international/

[2] I do not have a picture that correctly does this justice, there are ones that are doctored by greenpeace and others where the plant is not running at capacity. So this is not a fair comparison.

[3] http://www.ecorevolution.it/img/pho/me6.jpg
ppl sign up for this ?

So I have to relocate or stay away from my family for 3 months for some coding job. wtf. And everyday is an "interview" for 3 months where my every move will watched and analyzed?

What a strange and disrespectful way to treat people.
Listen to the two minute Q&A for the full context of the allegations. The wider context is that Elsevier has allegedly tried for years to limit researchers systematically downloading thousands of articles and data mining for insights...even with a paid subscription.
I wasn't sure what to expect from VSC, especially going into it I was worried that it would just be a MS-branded, bloated version of an already-slow Atom.

My expectations were completely wrong, though. VSC is not bloated or slow. It's well-made. There aren't really any negative MS-flavored conventions as far as I can tell. This isn't MS Office (which I guess has its place but has gone off the deep end, IMHO). It looks like it's on a path towards becoming a pretty powerful tool, more than just a text editor, and more than just a clone of Atom.

The MS branding will unfortunately keep people away that like to judge books by their cover. But that says more about their own problems and unwillingness than it does about MS.

I don't understand why we have to throw ourselves into brand "camps" and defend them to the death. It's dumb. I like Linux, I use an assortment of operating systems depending on my needs, and I don't see any reason why a decent effort/product can't be appreciated, no matter what company produces it.
There are numerous studies on mindfulness, including its physical affects on the brain. But there doesn't seem to be much definitive work on concepts such as the "mindbody" as promoted in John Sarno's The Divided Mind. It is always seductive to think that there is a simple solution, but I don't think that is reason enough to be as dismissive as this article is. There are also numerous studies on the physical impacts of stress.
Incomplete implementations of Perl 6 that are identified as pre-final releases are available right now (and have been for some time), but that's different from a general release. A "complete" release is planned for this Christmas; its a very different situation than Python 3, which has had stable releases for several years, including several feature releases after the first stable release.
Because I can do stuff like "replace a token in a file with the entire contents of another file" without fucking around trying to remember how to get echo to output content without a newline. Or trying to figure out how to get sed to do replacements with the contents of a file that might include sed's delimiter. Or researching this nonsense for 3 hours before finally just writing a touch of python to do what I needed, since the awk solution that I found and hacked at myself would only work if the included file was a single line.

Or trying to figure out how to count occurrences of characters in a file. Be careful, if grep finds zero instances, it returns a non-zero exit code, and if you have pipefail on, your script stops executing.

I love linux. I think the bash fanboys have Stockholm syndrome or are just completely confused by PowerShell. It's verbose, but it's a hell of a lot more discoverable and self-explanatory than bash has ever been for me. And I've been using bash for 5x as long.
My good sir, this is way better than Atom, trust me!
What's confusing about [1]?

I'm not on the ASP.NET team, but may be able to provide some general guidance.
Don't know this kid, or this situation, but to commenters here who seem envious, or young people who are inspired: being a child prodigy expires at age 25. Being known for your youth means that once you aren't young anymore you've lost that. If your identity is wrapped up in being precocious be ready with a second plan.
Completely agree. It's very exciting, and extremely cool but in terms of a business decision for larger technology teams, it will very much be like node.js, it's a similar thing, runs on cheap linux boxes and can do everything PHP can but it's taken time for companies to get it in where it "fits"
I did not. I just wanted to say, that we should try to educate children, because they will be allowed to vote as adults.
Isn't the Partner Network another way to get dev. softwares at a reasonable price if you meet the requirements? I always thought it was kind of the suggested path: bizspark => ms partner, but I may be wrong.

https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/index.aspx
Of mild interest, in the Sony hack: "The hack, which was launched Nov. 24, only affected computers with Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Windows software, so Sony employees using Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Macs, including many in the marketing department, had not been affected." IMHO Microsoft still have a fairly ho hum attitude. If you want to hack a company like Sony the easiest way is to target employees still using old systems like XP and they could have mopped a lot of that up by offering free upgrades to 10 when they offered them to users of 7 and 8 but nah.
AAC [1] has never been an Apple format, though in 2004 it was less ubiquitous than it is now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
>> A Single page of goatskin might be months farmer wage.

> I see your point, but applying it to the moon landing is a little far fetched.

Not at all, in the 1970's those tapes easily cost a month's of an average workers wages. It would make perfect sense to re-use them to save a bit of money, especially if you were doing it at scale and didn't realize you were about to erase the master copies.
Are they using Git SSH at all? I assumed they were using OAuth with Git HTTPS transport...
Which was caused in part by badly behaving programs (writing user data to the Program Files directory) that triggered the UAC prompt, if I'm not mistaken.
Banks and Fintech Firms’ Relationship Status: It’s Complicated
Two-factor authentication is the reason. A use case is to access code from VSTS where two-factor authentication is a forced.
This is the closest reference I could find. http://www.cnet.com/news/gates-security-is-top-priority/

I don't have Microsoft source though.
I ran the entire text of this article through XKCD's simple writer tool (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/) and it pointed out that "movement" is not among the 1000 most common English words. The word "movement" is used exactly once in this article.

So I guess this should be Theory of relativity explained using the 1000 most common English words and one additional word :)
Did you try https://dotnet.github.io/getting-started/?

Can I help with getting it running?
Can somebody talk about CRISPR and particularly business ideas around it? I read the recent New Yorker article (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-gene-hacker...), but still have a lot of questions!
And also sometimes a key id is fine because you can add some context in the key like login_welcome signup_welcome. You can also use for grouping strings belonging to the same section: login_welcome, login_callToAction
New CC0 Stock Photo Website
If you're already paying for an event plan, you get 10 thousand user profiles for free. Gives you a little bit of room to test it out without spending the extra 150/month.
Engineering Team Profile: Uber for Business
Introducing Mapbox Studio
The Wayback Machine reveals that it was posted sometime after September 2015: http://web.archive.org/web/20150921221742/http://migrateup.c...
3 Design Patterns for More Reliable and Maintainable UI Tests
Mining (And Learning) with the 21 Bitcoin Computer
Gaming the H-1B system for good
Not only is VS the best IDE ever (and each version keeps getting better, with the new profilers / test runners, etc.) but the .NET vm is very powerful, and comes without a lot of the baggage of the JVM.

I feel there is a certain distaste of .NET and c# among programmers (especially in the startup world) but I honestly don't understand it.

I use and love dynamic languages like python, js, ruby... but when it comes to performance + happiness, or low level windows hacking[0], .NET is king.

[0] I've recently been using c# for code injection and hooking third party libraries.

Some of the performance drawbacks can be avoided by falling back to inline asm via FASM, since native code is easy to call from .NET and the productivity gains from being able to quickly prototype something are huge.
I was more wondering about VSCode.
Possibly after being bitten by a brand people are leery of products under that brand name?

Disclaimer: no hate for MS nor VS. I'm sure its a fine tool. I just don't need it and probably won't use it.
President Obama and Bill Simmons: The GQ Interview
It might be a better test to target the B and C users, and leave the A users alone. According to the algorithm they should convert anyways without your intervention.
So, this is probably going to get touchy, but I think the more fundamental issue is that religion, both from epistemological and functional perspectives as a movement, is incompatible with democracy.

In the sense that one cannot simultaneously hold the following two sets of beliefs:

Religion: knowledge by authority, submission to authority, authority by appeal to ex-human grantor, otherwise ignorance until submission before authority

Democracy: knowledge by inalienable and intrinsic human nature, authority as composed of the will of individuals, pluralism as a path to better decisions for the whole society

I personally believe religion is a powerful force for good in the world. But, if we're being really honest, a lot of times that's because of the stuff we're leaving out or bending rather than the strict interpretation.
Intro Video Uses Rap Song and You Learn Nothing About the Product
I think it's more accurate to say that NGS is still in the midst of disrupting biology in general. Illumina has been consistently dropping sequencing prices for the last 7 years. Oxford Nanopore is a very promising technology as well that could completely disrupt the space.

I wouldn't say the the industry is ripe to be disrupted by software though. The cheapness of sequencing enables the development of new software for analysis, which in turn enables more sequencing.
New iOS 9 Tutorial: Custom View Controller Transitions and Storyboards
Extremely important in what sense? What are the specific benefits you see to having a rigid structure? I have a little sister who is in my estimation smart, but spends every waking moment (when not in school or finishing up homework) on her iPad playing video games and watching Youtube videos. I sometimes wonder if a little bit of prodding on the part of my parents would help her find other hobbies.

I personally feel like I suffered from my parent's laissez faire attitude.
MusicBrainz has separate concepts of "works", "recordings" and "releases" that I think should allow for some resolution of your problems. I'm not aware of any tooling that actually makes use of this level of data though -- anyone more familiar than me?
First photo of planet in making captured
Huh... Interesting. Their public pricing page doesn't mention that (or I missed it), and the account upgrade screen (when logged in) doesn't mention any pricing at all, so this wasn't clear to me. Thanks for clearing that up.

EDIT: Seems the terms are different if you're on their "badge" program. I suggest just chatting with them and asking what it would cost, if anything.
students were allowed to use Desmos-installed iPads on the Texas state assessment

Calculators too expensive so use iPads???

I still have the Casio FX82 I used and school and the HP48GX I used at college, both work perfectly and are still useful, the Casio is about 25 and the HP about 21 years old!
Sass Basics
Aspirational is great, but I would suggest you update that page to clearly identify what is currently supported versus what is aspirational. There is probably limited overlap between your target user audience and your target collaborator audience.
On the front page:

3 mentions of Visual Studio, 2 mentions of Microsoft, 1 mention of ASP.NET

Yes, yes, yes Microsoft are still bleeding edge with the software :)
As has been mentioned (repeatedly) this obviously has no use for people using SSH. Indeed, the goal of this tool is explicitly to be helpful for cloud-hosted repositories in Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online). This is helpful for teams that enforce two-factor authentication over HTTPS. The article assumes a bit of knowledge about this, but does indeed mention this:

> We ported this tool to Mac and Linux to simplify their authentication to remote Git repositories, in particular those hosted in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
(This is completely beside the point.)

> comparing two of them is conceptually pretty sensible.

Well, there are a bunch of sensible ways to do it, depending what the angle represents. You might not want to privilege any of them over the others directly in the class.

Is it a point on the unit circle? It doesn't make much sense to compare (sqrt(2), sqrt(2)) to (-1, 0).

Is it an angular distance to travel from point A to point B? Then you want 355 and -5 to both be less than 10.

Is it an amount that a screw has to be rotated? Then you can't take mods, so 720 > 360 > 0.

Do you have a robot that can only turn anticlockwise? Then maybe 5 < -10 < 355. This is the comparison implied by the implementation in TFA (self.degrees = degrees % 360), but it's pretty obscure.
Any chance of migrating and/or open sourcing WCF to Linux next? What's in the pipeline?
"Night owls" as defined by staying up late are more likely to suffer from insomnia. Groundbreaking research here.