skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with most of your criticism, I actually find them visualizing new features a good thing.

Right now the Firefox dev team is preparing to axe Panorama/Tab-groups[1], one of those superior Firefox-only features, because supposedly only 1% of the users are using it.

That sounds reasonable, until you ask "Has the feature been marketed at all?". When the answer is no, even 1% seems like high adaptation and axing suddenly sounds less like the right answer.

Why didn't they market this feature more? It's absolute genius, and allows an efficient keyboard-only driven browsing experience with almost countless tabs, and it's correspondingly bonkers to be removing it.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal
You're right. I think there was a startup on here that had done a clinical study of some formula of theirs with many specific microbes.

In my case, I used a probiotic that contains only Lactobacillus GG (15B cells) and saw improvement after a course of antibiotics. My doctor recommended that when I asked, but said that it wasn't a prescription, just that he'd heard good reports from his patients.

For myself, I took them regularly for a couple weeks afterwards, then sporadically after that as constant usage doesn't appear to be required, at least for me.
Why are academic papers without code being accepted?
No, the management was completely suspended. 10 board members and 2 CEOs were suspended or resigned over this.

The new CEO and board just want to collect evidence whom of the board gave the order (and thereby can be sued in court for damages)
The title of this piece should be "check out this cool trick I learned." Then it could have been a quarter the length and wouldn't have had to have been couched with all the motherly scolding.
That's the same thing they did here. I asked for a brand that other patients had reported success with and ended up with capsules containing 15B cells of Lactobacillus GG.
Tipsy, chrome extension for tips to publishers
There are 'promotions', but they're basically entirely disconnected from day-to-day work. I'm a 2; the lead is a 4, my boss is a 6 (all in the technical track). There's a separate management track, which has very similar salaries to technical ones (maybe 10-15% higher), which leave you with plenty of time to do technical tasks (management tasks account for 10-50% of a person's time, depending on the level of management), and I assume there is a tier where they don't disclose the salary structure for "executives" (major organizational leads). I'll get promoted to a 3 at some point in the next year or two; then I'll be a 3 for a really long time (with annual raises), and eventually get bumped to a 4.
it's bullshit. if you gave him an edible he'd be higher than a kite, just like every other person on earth.
Venture Confidential – Ep. #1 Feat. Sunil Nagaraj of Bessemer Venture Partners
Fancy speaking at Fintech VS Banks, can we create real rivals“ SF Nov 16?
My friend has organised a meetup

http://www.meetup.com/We-Are-Fintech-San-Francisco/events/223392843/

with 200 people coming and we've had a couple of speakers pull out and would be most grateful if someone up on the subject fancies speaking for a few minutes or sitting on a panel.

Do email zee.west at gmail.com (my friend who is organising) if you have any interest. Cheers, Tim
I think you're wildly underestimating how much "core knowledge" there is in the entire field of computing. You can be a absolute master of several disciplines and still need help when stepping outside that area.

In my experience, this sort of attitude leads to things like people saying "What the hell? Your resume said you knew Linux!" when you fail to know every single quirk of the specific unpopular distro that they're using. Don't be that guy.
Pretty much this, yeah. We do have some intermediate tiers, but they don't really effect your work duties.
Is Usability on Mobile Getting Worse?
So they can charge you another $8/month for a cable box! (Not kidding, that's what Cox did to me)
>"the employees snuck this by us. We had no idea. Absolutely no clue whatsoever. Pinkie swear."

That's how I read the headline. Good thing I wasn't in mid sip when I read it[1]. You can imagine what would happen to an engineer that tried to bring that up. I swear you can smell that dynamic at a company within fifteen minutes of walking in the door.

[1] Seriously this sort of stuff happens, the board members should be banned from serving on a board of directors again.
Not sure what a Microsoft product placement is doing in the context of a story about an open-source browser and being portrayed as the glimpse of hope. But the new IExplorer (sorry, Edge) only runs on Windows 10, being the least supported browser in the history of browsers. And is proprietary too, running on top of Microsoft's iOS-wannabe, with a market share so poor that Microsoft resorts to branding gimmicks and is planning to force upgrades down on people's throats just to make their numbers look good.
See inside the R2-D2 plane everyone wants to ride
Nice. Does that isolate private browsing sessions from each other?
That’s exactly why 2 CEOs resigned and 10 top managers were suspended.

This amnesty seems to be – from what I get from the media – something the new CEO wants to be able to collect evidence against his predecessors.
See also http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1431
Ask HN: Who will be computing legends in 30 years?
By legends I mean people like Dennis Ritchie or Ken Thompson or Vint Cerf.

In 2045, will we regard for instance John Carmack with the same reverence? Or maybe someone like Palmer Luckey, or Zuckerberg?

Interested to hear what names you can come up with.
Notepad? Sounds like your machine is already infested with malware ;-)
But if I look around I put so incredibly much trust in total strangers all the time that compared to say ordering a pizza (where the cook could put anything in the food they wanted), driving on the highway (where anybody could swerve any moment if they wanted) and simply walking down the street (where that old lady on the left of me could pull a knife and stab me any time they wanted) that you have to wonder if the downsides weigh up against the upsides of simply trusting the website you get the information from and getting on with your life

But in all of the scenarios you just mentioned:

1) It's immediately obvious something's very wrong. (Assuming pizza contains poison.)

2) It's very likely the perpetrator will get caught.

3) No one else is left with control over your resources

Trusting a script from a website to the point where you execute it in your terminal could result in someone controlling a rootkit on your machine, without you ever knowing, with little chance of a savvy perpetrator getting caught, and with all of your operating system tools subsequently lying to you about any information you could use to detect the event.

That said, I've trusted such scripts and "gotten on with my life" on several occasions.
Social networks sounds like a likely application though.

Consider "Graph A is Alice's network of friends; B is Bob's. Do they know exactly and only the same people?"

That might be slightly contrived. But it could be used to indicate how introverted a certain community is!
The argument was more about criminal behavior than arrests. People on the Reefer Madness end of the political spectrum seem to think that pot will make people crazy like PCP, or do-anything-for-a-fix addicts like crack, heroin or meth.

It's the same kind of people who argue against transgender rights because "men will be allowed in the ladies room!"
https://xkcd.com/1168/

Had to be done.
the simple B&W photo of drinking fountains in the Jim Crow South is particularly striking.
Ask HN: Isn't VR an indirect competitor for the self driving car?
What's the benefit of streamlining the process of moving our carcasses when our senses can eventually travel for free at the speed of light? Yeah we need a distribution network to move inanimate objects, or for the occasional vacation, but for us consumers/workers don't we primarily drive today to connect our senses anyway. #firstworldcommuteproblems
Isn't the first place you would go to the Oracle manual? I use stack overflow all the time these days (documentation pages before that existed), not quite cutting and pasting but close enough.
> VW has a good relationship with its workers

Such a good relationship that none of them felt safe coming forward in the first place AND they were the first ones VW threw under the bus...
Not burned in the sense that I executed some hidden commands in the terminal, but I've tried pasting snippets of text in IRC and ended up pasting several lines of text that absolutely did not select.

While this may not be a huge issue in practice, I have no idea what motivates the inclusion of functionality that manipulates the clipboard in the browser. I don't really think that the analogies of anyone swerving on the highway or someone poisoning your pizza apply. It's more like your seat belts were deliberately removed, or someone put arsenic right next to the pizza box just in case anyone would want to poison you.
What does UNIX have to do with cats (or do you mean the `cat` utility)?

Anyway, while it's easy to snark at this, that doesn't seem particularly worthwhile. As, for example, https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3721#issuecomment-1552... shows, it's perfectly possible to disapprove of this idea and to explain why civilly.
cabbage: 250 calories per kg
radish: 160 cal per kg

That's not enough calories to sustain sedentary life in nice weather. It is, however, enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, and enough of several other vitamins to keep you from other deficiencies. You still need 1-2 thousand calories from some other source.
Well, I had a look at their website.

It takes twenty seconds to load. (I timed it.) And all that delay is deliberate; it's stupid animations and scrolly things, all of them unskippable. Once it's loaded you now have a different stupid scrolly thing which is almost impossible to navig...

Oh god. It's flash. The whole site is one huge flash page! What is this, the 1990s?

If their marketing and PR department is so utterly out-of-touch that they think this is a good idea, I shudder to think what the engineering's like!
Odd, my own anecdata is that I took Lactobasillus GG after antibiotics and saw great improvement. But I only seem to need to take it sporadically as a boost after first taking it daily for some weeks on the theory that this would help get a culture established and the rest would be occasional maintenance.

Obviously, it's not at all scientific, so I have no idea what might work for others.
Don't get the downvotes. Sinus infections are a serious quality of life issue for some of us. I've had them drag on for weeks, then after a day of antibiotics, I feel like a new man.
Looks like a great release! Can't wait to get this installed and going on our system. We use getAll almost everywhere, so that's going to be a very, very welcome improvement.

Awesome to see Rethink continue to mature quickly and nicely.
It certainly wasn't Germany or Russia...

North Stream allows Russia to excuse the military presence on Baltic Sea (to protect the pipe but also cut of aid to Nato allies over the sea).

Therefore finding anything that shows threat to the pipe is in favor of Russia.

Of course this might have multiple levels. It was planted by US/UK, Russia strengthens military presence close to Sweden, Sweden moves closer to the Nato alliance.

I am no expert in this area but I think that your understanding is a bit too simplistic.
In regards to the statement that, "no one, and certainly no one in science, has figured out how to patch the leaky pipeline." I think YC/Sam Altman might be able to address that leaky pipeline with the YC Research initiative, especially because they will be funding researchers do research without the things this article mentions (ie. high stakes of tenure, internal politics, etc.)
Well, they already promised (a) to refit all the cars without performance losses, (b) pay all fees and fines the car owners might face, (c) offer every single of their models as electric by 2020.

Now, if the German government is going to make the cars exempt from the 0.26 € per kWh electricity tax, they will be cheaper than gas, too.
Not much different that what happened at GM except that it led directly to over a hundred deaths, yet what happens? Less than a billion dollar fine and a few people lost their jobs. The same claim you make of VW can be made here, but as usual the case involves far less than the top but instead the middle where someone likely needed to deliver something and did. How many were involved is the question and how they were able to keep it hidden will be interesting to find out.
Graph Isomorphism is indeed not used much in these field. Subgraph isomorphism (and variants of it) are very useful, and surprisingly (well, suprising to me), the techniques for solving graph isomorphism and subgraph isomorphism are entirely different.

On practical use of graph isomorphism is finding symmetries in programs -- (basically) build an AST, and then run graph isomorphism on that.

Also, the algorithms used for graph isomorphism are used (with modification) to solve a large range of group theory problems, including group intersection, so this might help with a large range of other group theory problems.
Always with the predictable knee-jerk responses. I'm neither a racist nor a xenophobe. I don't hate people because of their origins or race, nor to I not like foreigners. You are surely not going to like hearing ths, but immigrants are essentially moochers on one hand, and traitors on the other. Moochers on both ends because if they were educated for essentially free in, e.g., Europe and come to the USA they both mooched off their source country and then they come to the USA to mooch off what the USA and Americans built. Traitors because they mooched off their country to get an education and are now putting their labor, knowledge, and skill to use for a different country or society instead of building up the country they came from and still hold on to even when they are in the USA.

The humongous forest that pro immigrant people can't see for all the trees is that immigration is a core driver and reason for many of not only America's problems, but also the lack of source countries from gaining any traction. All the way from sapping out pressure for social change by motivated people leaving for places where they can mooch over the fight that was already won by others, to extracting the skill and knowledge to do the thing that the do from their society. What pro immigration types don't quite get is that immigration to the USA is like kryptonite or more like a witch that sucks the life force out of the source countries and societies.

You may and probably confuse what I said with xenophobia and hatred and are angry because I am not saying your favorite thing, but reality is that I am right, whether you or others realize it. I'm fine with that, but it needs to be said. The point is not about "go back to where you came from" it's "why didn't you put your energy, drive, knowledge, and skill towards your own country and society and instead went to make the rich, richer and the powerful more powerful" Don't complain about America's actions and policies around the world if you are going to support our life force driven economic, political, and military engine.
Over the last several years, I've tried out pretty much all of them. For smaller environments, the cost of most of the commercial (hosted) monitoring systems is just too damn high. I've currently got a pretty extensive Opsview deployment keeping an eye on everything for me but I'm about to begin setting up Zabbix to replace it.

None of them will do everything you want, so I'm going with one that will meet 90% of my needs OOTB and will allow me to take care of the other 10% myself.
there was a decidedly sexist article overnight (1AM-ish PST) which I (apparently among many others) flagged... and it was gone within a couple of minutes!
In case anyone is interested, they're going to do a live stream on youtube about this release in a couple of hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9EnhX24HU
My Ashley Madison Sex Account Hacked: How I Told Online Blackmailers to F*&k Off
It really sucks that he can't make the second talk. It was a really good write-up and finding someone who both communicates well and can understand the material is tough.
MIG: Search through your infrastructure in real-time from the command line
And in such a scenario, it's going to get out pretty quickly that the site is compromised/dangerous.

If a perpetrator is smart, the malicious script is going to be hidden a few invocation layers deep, and will only remain up for short intervals. A naive or stupid perpetrator is going to get caught quickly. But the medium is such that a smart one can hope to evade detection.
If anyone knows the name of that startup, please do tell.
> That may be, but it ignores the fact that software was written for the express purpose of not just identifying if a test was being ran, but then taking action to change the results of the test has no real world use.

I think it depends on how general the implementation was. I could imagine real world uses for a feature to generically detect certain conditions and change parameters in response (e.g. to support different settings for highway vs city driving). If you have something general enough, then the "defeat device" could have just been a ruleset that only matched a very narrow set of conditions that usually only occurs during the tests.
I tried with the Oregon region and it failed. I changed to the N. California region and it worked.
(No comment about the GPU though.)
80M U.S. Jobs at Risk from Automation
Not the original commenter, but typically nobody feels anything their first time smoking. Sometimes, people don't even feel it a couple times after that. I'm not sure what the biological reason for that is, but it's been that way for nearly every person that I've talked to.

I've never heard of anyone not being affected by it after a couple times of smoking or eating infused foods.
Whereas I kinda assume the NSA is already using it, and that's one of the big reasons to care.
https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-websi... :-)
Blowing Off the Grid: Samsø runs on renewable energy–and makes money doing it
Clueless anti-Lisp diatribe in the very FAQ list for a language, penned by author. Charming!

Lisp has user-defined statements and operators which integrate perfectly into Lisp (look and feel built-in; aren't "second class" in any way). Invocations of these custom forms look like Lisp, just like user-defined Seed7 forms look like ... Seed7!

Infix can be supported as cleanly as you want it; it can be a hack, or not, and can certainly have user-defined operators with custom associativity or precedence.

This can be done without recompiling the underlying Lisp system or touching any of it.

Can we take, out of Seed-7, the ability to define user-defined operators, and put that capability back in the same or very similar form only by writing Seed-7 application code?
In languages with good type-checking and optional / maybe types (like Swift, Scala, Rust, Haskell, …), the null object pattern seems less useful, because the compiler makes sure you unwrap things in the right places. But the null object pattern seems really useful in languages like Ruby and Python, where attempting to use optionals tends to just replace null object errors with errors from forgetting to unwrap the value.
Uterus Transplants May Soon Help Some Infertile Women in the US Become Pregnant
Searching suggests it might be this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456128
You brough up google because you claimed that google was making money on what twitter wasn't able to and thats simply wrong.
http://www.thepacker.com/vegetables/cabbage/commodity-pricin... says that bulk price for cabbage is around $0.26-30 per pound, so your grocery store is in fact buying it wholesale cheaper than North Koreans are paying retail.

California agriculture is a scientific miracle.
It still does, as far as I'm aware. The current optimisation notice is <https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimization-notic....

For those who don't want to click a link or are using screen-readers (because yay textual content as an image!):

> Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice.
Thats normal (I think). Its one of those use "every 6 months" commands, once you get away from the usual tar -xzvf falgs.(Enough tiime to know it exists but too long to remember the actulay syntax).
First, the US government has no power. Yes, they stole the passport of a VW manager[1], but VW since decided to instantly get all their people out of the US. But practically, since that, they have zero power.

Second, the German government is the largest external shareholder of VW[2] – so you can assume that this action was made under acceptance of the government.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/sueddeutsche-us...

[2] Well, the largest shareholder of VW is Porsche Group. The largest shareholder of that is VW. It’s complicated. Effectively, most of it belongs to the Porsche/Piech family and the German government.
Ah, same as "LTS" then. Thanks.
I'd go with tiling pentagons myself [0] Type 15 is a personal favorite.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling
Lets remember that this piece of news is from BBC.
It just seems like a nonprofit supported by participating universities might be better than charging authors. If Universities were paying $250k/yr for a subscription the old way why cant they pay $100k/yr to be a member of the nonprofit open-access version?

Or, some kind of hybrid system where its free to non-affiliated readers but universities are expected to pay subscription on honor system and at fair price rather than Elsevier pricing.
For those who have really difficult time to understand this... I find http://news.sciencemag.org/math/2015/11/mathematician-claims... opens a small door. I still have tons of questions, probably due to my failure of completing my complexity class in undergraduate.
Well, in contrast to GM, VW already suspended top managers, and the CEO instantly resigned.

That’s already a good sign.
I'd like to restore the state appointment of Senators, preserve the House and add a third house, consisting of representatives chosen by sortition from the states, with representation allocated by (federal taxes paid - federal dollars spent), and with the odds of each citizen's selection proportional to the amount he pays in taxes. Legislation would need to pass all three houses.

It'll never happen, of course.
Except that every help forum about the more idiosyncratic OSS tools is full of text you need to copy and paste from a website into a terminal. It's virtually the main workflow.

I mean, even venerable Git is well-known for having this workflow:

http://m.xkcd.org/1597/

not to mention tar

https://m.xkcd.com/1168/

... I wonder how many "google-oriented development" OSS tools has xkcd made a comic about?
Installing Sentry in Docker
I love the pragmatic way you view stuff Jaques, it really show experience and a lack of vunerabiity to hype to me.
I love the pragmatic way you view stuff Jaques, it really demonstrates experience and a lack of vunerabiity to hype to me.