skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a passport user I would use passport (for now) if I am heavy on the social sign in. If I were using user/password type authentication I would use this.

That being said, I want to work with the author a bit to figure out how hard it will be to either link up with passport for social or maybe even write an oauth plugin for this, but I'm not sure yet. You could look into it to! :D
Is it possible to donate to a specific VLC contributor?
No, this phenomenon is only related to the topic of terrorism in that it also receives an excessive amount of attention and irrational fear.
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Gay identical twin brothers Tedx Talk 'How shame made us Proud2Be'
GM was doing the same thing with Volt batteries even before TSLA opened up its patents. TSLA fanboys should stop crediting TSLA for every thing in EV-tech world.
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China's Bold Push into Genetically Customized Animals
Ask HN: Is there something akin to “agents”  in the software industry?
As a writer or an actor, my understanding is that you usually hire an agent who negotiates on your behalf, and you give them some percentage of what you make.

All of the job placement middlemen I've seen on the IT side of things are paid by my counterparty, and thus work against me when it comes time to negotiate.

From what I've seen, the difference between negotiating well and negotiating poorly is often quite large.

Does something like this exist for people in the "almost $200K/yr total compensation" range? Should something like this exist? What are the barriers to creating something like this?
In contrast to all the cynicism I see in other comments, this is awesome! Even if it doesn't happen to everyone, I find anyone who can manage to survive building and pursuing their passion to be inspirational. It reminds me that even if the odds aren't good, the journey can most certainly be worth quitting your job.

As I start bootstrapping my own idea off the ground it helps to see stories like this. Being able to stay motivated and optimistic looks to be a helpful component of success.
Nothing about password, but the nav banner show/hide on scroll for the page is delightful (and should be adopted by all sites post-haste IMO).
You can't upload video, but past streams can be watched independently if you allow it or published to the stream again as a repeat.

Webcam-only streams are fine.

charging money: http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/735176-subscr...
Hi, I’m the COO of Roadster. Thought it would be worth sharing a little more on our business model - and the cost structure of dealers. It’s rare that we don’t get a better deal for consumers than they can negotiate themselves. Why?

First, we work directly with the GM or fleet managers at dealers who are focused on volume sales, instead of a commissioned salesperson at the dealer. The 1.25% fee we charge dealers is actually cost neutral (or better) for the dealer as they otherwise pay their own sales people 25% - 30% of the profit on any deal in commissions. By the time we engage the dealer, we have a customer ready to buy and it’s a super efficient transaction.

Second, we negotiate to get our customers the best outcome across the whole deal, not just the upfront price. If you don’t focus on the other parts (trade-in, finance/lease terms, rebates/incentives, avoiding extra options you don’t want, etc.), you will likely have a less-than-ideal outcome. We work with customers every day where people thought they had a great price from a dealer, but we end up saving a bunch on their monthly payment.

Finally, we offer our customers transparency (we share every aspect of the deal before you make any commitment) and time savings (how much is your weekend worth?).

Happy to answer any questions about our service.
"The US is the sole holdout" is such a common phrase for things the rest of the world takes for granted.
I think Midwesterners are just too conservative for a startup scene to take root here. Venture capital, computers in general even are too new of ideas to depend on. We're used to industries springing up around us, then running away to China or California, so investing in a 10-year plan when the next market crash could destroy the industry utterly seems kind of stupid.

Besides, as the article said, $10M is more than enough to look down on your neighbors for the rest of your life, what more benefit could $10B give you?
What is your threshold for valuing academia?
So you have ferreted all the gods out of all the gaps in human knowledge? That is an amazing accomplishment!

Bases for belief are weird, even when they are not based on religion. Many mentalities are based on absolutes, it seems you have replaced god with no-god.

I don't think the anti-theist mindset is particularly useful. You cannot use facts to change someone's mind, especially where facts were not used in the first place.

Religion is a largely emotional experience to most people; denying them that experience is just hurtful, not constructive.
Google will contest Russian antitrust regulators decision
The efficacy of mass surveillance cannot be inferred from a lack of large terror attacks.
It's not that slow.
Prisons are not in fact filled with drug offenders; the majority of all inmates are incarcerated for violent crimes.

http://harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HLL104_crop...
protein (pulses)

That's a new term for me -- Wikipedia says it's another name for the English definition of legume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_(legume)
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Encouraging civility and kindness is no risk to a community that is at its best when people are civil and kind. The campaign to promote civility and eradicate meanness has been waged publicly by Dang for over 18 months and more quietly by PG and other mods for long before that. The overall volume of contributions hasn't gone down and the volume of thoughtful and substantive contributions had gone up, and for me it feels like a more safe and welcoming place in which to post thoughtful comments.

The point of the comment could have been made in a civil and thoughtful way if the commenter chose to do so, and when people do that, there is far more "learning" to be had and we all benefit.
How does it beg the question?

There is no truth being asserted in the premise causing the conclusion to be true. It's fairly clear that it was a statement from an original source, that source being trustworthy is where we would find (or not find) the information which would show the conclusion to be true, not the premise of the 'fantasy.'
> You are the one layering on the interpretation

That may be. I replaced "probably" with "perhaps".

I don't think "sanitizing" is an accurate description of what we do or call for, though I get that it's a rhetorical way of saying not to take things too far. Overmodding is definitely not the goal—undermodding is. The dream is to get it asymptotically approaching zero. That requires a self-regulating community, which requires a self-sustaining culture. Most of what we do, when not posting "please stop" and whatnot, involves figuring out how to get there.
> Europe, its ilk, and their terminals are completely irrelevant.

Not really. It's a valid comparison to figure out what the cause of the problem actually is.
what are you talking about
Exactly echos complaints about the New Zealand startup scene. The catch phrase here is "The three B" meaning Boat, Bach (holiday house) and BWM. Lots of founders sell out for just $10-$30 million which sets them up nicely but often means the startup/product gets buried inside a big company and jobs move overseas
> I think assuming that level of incompetence is a big claim.

Not really. Have you listened to the average member of Congress lately? Incompetence runs deep throughout all levels of government.
If that's so then why has there not been aa "Large Terror Attack" in the US since 9/11? Pulling off another such successful attack has been a stated major goal of Al Queda and not ISIS. Clearly something is preventing it and making it more difficult then doing it in Europe, which have suffered several attacks, with what happened in Paris being the most severe.
> France isn't a part of NATO, and hasn't been for 50 years.

France is a NATO member, and has been the whole time NATO has existed. It withdrew from some NATO structures (e.g., the integrated military command) in 1966, but rejoined the integrated military command in 2009.
Magento 2 is here
PRISM isn't a mass surveillance program.
The Executive branch has a habit of classified information getting "leaked" if it makes them look good and is about a program that is already an open-secret anyway.
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Goo.js WebGL Engine goes open-source
Edge is weird, I found out you can't launch the executable directly when I was trying to make a shortcut to it, you have to launch explorer.exe with special parameters that launch it as a child process.

I'm guessing that's one of their security measures but would love to know more about what's going on there.
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Why is that a problem for you? With golint / gocode I never have any need for extremely fast compilation. What's your setup like that you're rebuilding so often?
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GrapeCity SpreadJS is a one-of-a-kind JavaScript library that gives you versatile spreadsheet and grid views. It is really easy to implement and a new version was just released.
Yes, in some countries the idea that if you don't have a job or are low income that your children's health should suffer is considered pretty inhuman.
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It's also possible that employee productivity doesn't matter as much as the speculative price of the company's shares.

If the company's office plan looks like Google's, then surely they're going to generate earnings like Google one day. I don't think the analysis necessarily goes that much deeper than that.

We've gone from managerial pseudoscience of the early 20th century that attempted to measure and optimize productivity into full on mysticism that rests on vague notions of 'increasing opportunities for collaboration.' At least scientific management attempted to use quantitative analysis and empiricism to make employees more productive. In the new age, we just need vague slogans, beanbags, and chi consultants.
They do give you a breakdown of where your money went at the bottom of their website (when logged in): https://contributor.google.com

It would be nice if they offered to e-mail this to you once a week/month or provided more detail. Even better would be for them to show some of that information in the place of the ads you've purchased.
Naively?
Empire of Code: a space game with a mix of strategy, tactics and coding
I don't know the right answer as to how to defend against terrorism, etc. But this argument makes no sense. "They" (whoever they are) don't need a reason to play, they already have one. Choosing "not to play" is just allowing whoever they are to do whatever they want.
> Isn't the best course usually to build a solid foundation, then branch out?

Yes, and I think that is what they are doing. First build something stable. Then target a lot of platforms. Then optimize the language itself and also the build times.
Here's a Chrome extension that is useful for enforcing the Pomodoro technique. It allows you to blacklist websites and customize the work/break lengths.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-workflow/cg...
Yes, I think it is common sense. If you quit your job and launch a competing product the next day you are asking for trouble.
If you are already using PostgreSQL it makes no sense to involve Shapefiles in analysis. Instead use PostGIS.
Given that NatGeo was recently acquired by Murdoch's News Corp, I wonder how "cromulent/approved" these statistics are.

Does it help Big Sugar/Corn that fat is lumped in with sweeteners?
I wasn't addressing what should be done now, I was only correcting your straw man argument that you used to attack the parent poster.
It's called NetBSD.

build.sh cross compiles one codebase for 57(+)[0] architectures. Even for a "native" build, the tooling is the same abstraction that builds for a completely foreign target, so it's continuously well-exercised.

[0] http://www.netbsd.org/ports/
The French retaliated to a kidnapping with a bombing. I'm not saying the kidnapping was legitimate, but it reinforces the point that ISIS does not do the really grisly stuff unless they are attacked.
It would be far more effective to replace it with "public transportation" or something... except then it would be far more obvious that it doesn't work. Yes, it's a political speech, but no, it's not that vague.
Does this mean if I build an R-Shiny application, to be hosted on-site with Shiny Server, I can now include plotly charts without paying for an account with them?
A third possibility is that such queries are detected, but maintaining secrecy is judged to be a higher priority than preventing a comparatively smaller number of deaths while revealing their capabilities.
If you want to give everyone an excellent education, you first need to re-define excellent education to mean something other than "goes to school alongside the best or richest students"

so... yeah, define education.

Personally, I think that you can trace the pace of technological advancement, starting with the printing press, and you can see that technological advancement exponentially growing, not because of any sort of formal education, but because things like the printing press (and now the internet) make access to information way cheaper.

Before the printing press, if you wanted to be a scientist, you pretty much had to be born to a rich family, just to afford the books; and then you had to have the interest and intelligence to do something with those books. Now? well, being rich still helps, but a simple internet connection gives you access to more scientific knowledge than you could possibly consume in a lifetime.

So... the result of this is the advancing pace of technological advancement, and personally, I think this will continue until everyone in the world has access to all the information they could want; at that point? personally, I believe that technological advances will increase at the speed we are able to augment human brains with technology.
Nah, the reason open-plan offices are popular in Silicon Valley is that SV has embraced a modern truism that the rest of the world recoils from: most of success is luck.

Open-plan offices optimize for luck (as in, chance encounters that spark new ideas) at the expense of pessimizing known, guaranteed, solid productivity. Most people won't be as effective in heads-down, concentration-required, focused, knowledge-based work in an open-plan office. But this is irrelevant: in today's economy, if you're doing something that anyone else knows how to do or that anyone else thinks is a good idea, you're a rounding error. The only work that generates any financial return is when you do something that everybody else considers too crazy to try and it works.

Open-plan offices in startups are usually because the founders hope that enough smart people in close proximity, dedicated to working on a problem, will manage to fill in the holes in the business plan that the founder didn't get to before they raised money. Open-plan offices in big companies are usually because management hopes that employees will generate the next big idea that keeps them from becoming obsolete.

There's a lot of cargo-culting going on too, and particularly in other parts of the country, people adopt the open-plan offices without the incentive structures, openness to new ideas, and ability to bring a product to market that allows companies to capitalize on it. But that's why Silicon Valley companies do it, at least.
Yes, and the problem is that our food supply is optimized to be more addictive, because it allows everyone in the supply chain to make more money. Quite literally every commercial entity is against an individual eating filling, low-calorie foods, because it means they're spending less money on food in general. This is on top of the evolutionary forces that already make our bodies crave super-high-calorie food. It's a lot for someone to fight.

Experiment: go to Wal-Mart and try to buy maple syrup (actual maple syrup; mostly what they call syrup at Wal-Mart is literally just water, corn syrup, and dye). Now try to buy canned pears without any added sweeteners (if you find one without sugar, it has Splenda). Now try to buy a loaf of bread without any added sugar (most loaves contain brown sugar). Almost everything in almost every conventional grocery chain in the U.S. is loaded with sugars, sweeteners, and other addictive substances. Even if you try really hard to buy healthy foods at a normal grocer, you are going to have a hard time.

Not everyone with a weight problem is shoving 50 Snickers down their gullet every day, and that characterization has to stop if we're going to realistically address the issue.
You'd expect the exact methods they used to detect and catch the planners to be kept secret or only vaguely talked about. They could crow heavily about any substantial plots stopped though and trot out evidence found after the cell/whatever was rounded up without really exposing how they found the cell.
Half of the reason has been the incompetence of the terrorists. There have been a number of failed attacks in the US in the last few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...
If you give out coins exactly proportional to balance the value per coin has changed, but hasn't changed the distribution. It's like multiplying all balances by 100, it's just a unit change.
this post's url is really:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2495179,00.asp
thank you for sharing this. i have been listening to it for the past hour and it really is a brilliant piece.
Enercon:
"It comprises a battery storage system with 10 MW installed power and a capacity of
10.79 MWh"
and
"The energy is stored in a total of 3,360 lithium-ion storage modules, which are housed inside the 17 x 30 m storage building. The rechargeable cells come from the Korean battery manufacturer LG"

So similar, roughly 10 MWh in capacity.

Too bad the Daimler press release doesn't tell about the power.
I believe these & comparable services are ubiquitous all over the middle east, latin america & africa.
Currently they think they have a reason to play. If we stop playing, they aren't going to for some length of time, perhaps measured in generations. Given that "playing" means "attacking us trying to kill as many people as possible", I do not want to be in the situation where they are playing offense and we aren't playing defense.
The correct strategy I'd advise these days with my own experience being the caveat is that one should try to get as far along in a career as possible as early as possible anywhere that jobs may be and then only start to think about quality of life and all that other jazz that occurs outside these hubs once you can command the terms of your employment with any prospective employer.

It is far, far harder to get as far with the abundance of technically-lackluster non-amibitous 9-to-5 lifestyle companies that are abundant outside hubs on one's resume despite being very talented otherwise and to land one of these remote jobs for prestigious, highly ambitious coastal city companies making tons of headlines and making lots of people rich. Most of these non-ambitious culture companies are extremely caste-oriented and culturally tend to value tenure at a company or non-employment factors like veteran status to technical proficiency or even experience in management and individual contributor alike. These are the companies that people like to talk a lot about what "things used to be like" in political debates where people stayed employed for 10-20 years and employees almost have a family-like relationship to each other rather than drinking buddies relationship.

There's some merits to this kind of culture and approach to life but it's something I think only works for some people long-term and perhaps even then only at a certain stage of life and it's in your best interest to understand what kind of culture you really do want NOW and to be honest to yourself about what kind of sacrifices / trade-offs you are willing to accept.

You are pretty unlikely to go from rags-to-riches founding a tech company in Tulsa, OK as an extremely smart, ambitious person with a lot of capital (not rags anymore though, catch-22) around unfortunately unless you can cart around a small army of loyal, dedicated workers that want to keep working with you ahead of their own personal interests to oh... not live in Oklahoma (no offense to OK, just an example). It may work in industries with much longer timelines for success than tech such as restaurants perhaps, but even among ambitious chefs they tend to go to areas where they can compete and learn among the most well-regarded before opening their own restaurants.
> “It’s my hypothesis that the reason Europeans are so much more geographically aware than we Americans is that they have these maps that make their surroundings understandable and we don’t,”

Being from Oregon myself, and having spent years in Italy, I quickly realized that most people in Italy have no idea where I'm from - and it's not a small place by any means. Even the relatively small population is on par with some smaller European countries.

So I don't think it's that Europeans are 'more aware' - it's that they're more aware of Europe. I think it's pretty normal to be mostly aware of your immediate surroundings.
What the article left out..

Guess what the limiting factor of effective surveillance of Islamic terrorists is?

And I state that the CIA and NSA have known this since the early 1970s...

Ready? Its the amount of trained foreign language people that the CIA, NSA, and FBI have that happen to be skilled in largely Arabic based languages.

Now for the wrinkle how do we get those numbers increased?

Guess? The exact opposite of what republican law makers want to do that is have a fully functioning immigration system.

NSA could tomorrow sweep all communication world-wide but without concrete steps to increase foreign language people to translate any of it is such a HUGE BONDOGGLE that defies description..
Indeed, the elephant in the room is Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Both have a significant interest in the removal of the Ba'athist government from Syria, and they have both expended significant resources in achieving this goal (officially or otherwise).

Resources which Isil has benefited from handsomely, and in fact the only reason Turkey and the KSA are currently engaging Isil directly is because of the domestic threat posed by homegrown Isil cells. While the West is equally guilty of this abject laziness and callousness, Turkey and the KSA have contributed far more to the global jihadi movement than any other organization since Isil announced independence in June 2014.
Somebody I work with has 2x27 inch 4k monitors and when they are in 4k mode you can't even read code because the text is so small.

I would recommend getting 2x22 inch monitors. I work better with 22 inch monitors because my eyes don't have to dart around the screen all time time to keep track of things. Different strokes, but I personally think 27 inch monitors for coding is ridiculous and anti-productive.